1999 Hong Kong local elections

1999 Hong Kong local elections

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All Elected Constituencies 390 (of the 519) seats in all 18 Districts Councils
Registered	2,832,524 15.60%
Turnout	816,503 (35.82%) 2.71pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Martin Lee Tsang Yok-sing Frederick Fung Party Democratic DAB ADPL Alliance Pro-democracy Pro-Beijing Pro-democracy Last election 75 seats, 23.01% 37 seats, 11.82% 29 seats, 6.95% Seats won 86 83 19 Seat change 13 27 1 Popular vote 201,461 190,792 38,119 Percentage 24.85% 23.53% 4.70% Swing 1.69pp 11.82pp 2.25pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Ambrose Lau James Tien Lau Kong-wah Party HKPA Liberal Civil Force Alliance Pro-Beijing Pro-Beijing Pro-Beijing Last election 12 seats, 4.19% 18 seats, 7.39% 10 seats, 1.77% Seats won 16 15 11 Seat change 1 2 2 Popular vote 23,168 27,718 19,633 Percentage 2.86% 3.42% 2.42% Swing 1.33pp 3.98pp 0.65pp   Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party   Leader Yum Sin-ling Emily Lau Leung Yiu-chung Party 123DA Frontier NWSC Alliance Pro-democracy Pro-democracy Pro-democracy Last election 5 seats, 2.01% New party 1 seat, 0.13% Seats won 6 4 2 Seat change 1 Popular vote 11,396 9,388 3,295 Percentage 1.41% 1.16% 0.41% Swing 0.60pp N/A 0.28pp
Map of the winning party by constituency

The 1999 Hong Kong District Council elections were held on 28 November 1999 for all 18 districts of Hong Kong, for 390 members from directly elected constituencies out of total 519 council members. It was the first District Council election after the handover of Hong Kong in 1997, replacing the existing Provisional District Councils appointed by Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa.

The pro-Beijing camp scored fairly well in the election, with the flagship pro-Beijing party, the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB), improved its performance in catching up with the Democratic Party, the largest pro-democracy party. The Democratic Party sustained its political momentum by securing 24.9 per cent of the votes as compared to 22.8 per cent in 1994. The DAB and the Democratic Party became the largest parties in the District Councils, while DAB captured 83 seats out of 176 candidates, the Democratic Party captured 86 out of 173 candidates. The pro-grassroots pro-democracy party, the Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood (ADPL), appeared to lose some popular support from 7 per cent of the total vote in 1994 to 4.7 per cent in 1999.

Overall, the pro-democracy forces failed to enhance their influence and outperform the pro-Beijing camp.^[1] After the election, Tung Chee-hwa reintroduced appointed members to the District Councils, appointing 102 pro-government members to prevent the pro-democracy camp from dominating the councils.