BPA Wins Yau Tsim Mong Council By-election
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2019-03-25 HKT 02:31
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Li Sze-man of the Business and Professionals Alliance has won the by-election for the Tai Nan constituency of the Yau Tsim Mong district council.
She received 1,343 votes, beating Lee Kwok-kuen of Community March, who got 1,134. Lee was backed the pro-democracy camp.
The by-election was caused by the death Chong Wing-charn last November.
Chong had been a member of Kowloon West New Dynamic, a grouping with ties to the Business and Professionals Alliance.
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