Hong Kong Chief Executive Election, 2007
An election was held on 25 March 2007 to select the Chief Executive of Hong Kong at AsiaWorld-Expo. The third Chief Executive term began on 1 July 2007. The CE was selected by an 800-member Election Committee (EC) (which represented about 0.01% of Hong Kong's population).
This was the first CE Election in which there was more than one candidate, as Alan Leong (梁家傑), a member of the Civic Party, ran against the incumbent, Donald Tsang (曾蔭權), who was finishing the Tung Chee Hwa's second term in 2005. It has been said that the competitive nature of this election, with debates held between the candidates, changed Hong Kong's political culture.
Donald Tsang was re-elected with 649 votes to Alan Leong's 123. There were also 5 invalid votes.
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