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Gary Fan Kwok-wai of the Neo Democrats (centre) wins a seat in the New Territories East constituency. Photo: Edward Wong

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Published: 11:27pm, 9 Sep 2012Updated: 7:53pm, 10 Sep 2012

Updated 2.24pm

Pan-democrats win 3 new district council functional constituency seats

The 'super seat' candidates. Photo: Felix Wong

Pan-democrat candidates have won three of the five new district council (second) functional constituency seats in the Legislative Council election, official vote results confirmed on Monday.

The pro-government camp only managed to win two seats, after Democratic Party chairman Albert Ho Chun-yan beat DAB vice chairman Lau Kong-wah by a narrow margin to win the last of the five so-called “super lawmaker” seats.

Fellow Democratic Party member James To Kun-sun achieved the highest number of votes among the seven candidates, with 316,468 votes.

Another candidate from the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress Starry Lee Wai-king ranked second with 277,143 votes.

Chan Yuen-han (centre) wins a seat in the District Council (second) functional constituency. Photo: K.Y. Cheng

The third seat goes to the Association for Democracy and People’s Livelihood Frederick Fung Kin-kee, a pan-democrat, who won 262,172 votes. The Hong Kong Federation of Trade Union’s Chan Yuen-han, from the pro-government camp, won the fourth seat with 246,196 votes.