Portal:Politics/Selected article/2007, week 33

The 2007 Hong Kong Chief Executive election was held on 25 March 2007 to select the Chief Executive of Hong Kong. It was a "small circle election" which took place at the AsiaWorld-Expo convention centre in which only the 800 member Election Committee (EC) could vote. The EC is elected by 3% of the population in Hong Kong, and the result was a foregone conclusion.

As the first contested election for the office brought on by the successful nomination of a credible democratic challenger, Alan Leong (梁家傑), against the incumbent, Donald Tsang (曾蔭權), by creating a new election culture. Two debates were held between the candidates before the election marked a new page in the history of Hong Kong.

Outgoing Chief Executive Donald Tsang was re-elected with 649 votes to the pro-democracy candidate Alan Leong's 123. There were also 5 invalid votes.