BPA Wins Yau Tsim Mong Council By-election

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2019-03-25 HKT 02:31

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  • The Electoral Affairs Commission Chairman, Mr Justice Barnabas Fung Wah (second left), empties a ballot box. Photo: Courtesy of the Information Services Department

    The Electoral Affairs Commission Chairman, Mr Justice Barnabas Fung Wah (second left), empties a ballot box. Photo: Courtesy of the Information Services Department

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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