Hong Kong Island (1998–2004 constituency)
- Hong Kong Island (1998–2004 constituency)
Hong Kong Island is a constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.
Overview
The constituency covers all the four districts on the Hong Kong Island, namely, Central and Western, Eastern, Southern and Wan Chai.
Demographics
Current members
Members of the council currently representing this constituency are:
The two mainstream tickets of the pro-democracy camp intended to translate their support into four seats, with the slogan "1+1=4", provided that their supporters would have cast their votes evenly to the two tickets. Pre-election polls showed, nevertheless, that the Eu-Ho ticket had far more supporters, causing the Democratic Party to request all supporters of the camp to vote instead for their ticket just two weeks before the election.
It turned out that the Democratic Party drew too many votes from the Eu-Ho ticket, causing Cyd Ho defeat by DAB's Choy So Yuk, by a slim margin of 815 votes (or 0.23% of all valid votes). Should the Democratic Party drew around 1900 more votes from the Eu-Ho ticket, the third-rank candidate on their list would have defeated Choy.
When the results were announced in the morning of the following day, Martin Lee said before cameras "I'd rather lose with dignity than win like this", [ [http://daga.dhs.org/daga/readingroom/newsclips/2004/hk2007/40914scmp02.htm "South China Morning Post", 14th September, 2004] ] on the "unexpected" defeat of Cyd Ho.
2000 byelection
2000 election
1998 election
See also
* list of constituencies of Hong Kong
* predecessors to the constituency:
** 1995
** * Island Central
** * Island East
** * Island South
** * Island West
**1991
***Island East
***Island West
References
* [http://www.legco.gov.hk/english/index.htm ]
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