Voters in Kowloon East are least political, and most social-issue oriented. Across all four constituencies, unemployment is a singularly most important issue of concern. The tables at the end of this report have presented the reasons why voters within different GCs chose their favourite candidates. It should, however, be noted such analyses do not include undecided voters, and do not show the relative strength of different candidates. Rather, they reveal the rationale of why people supported certain candidates.
Past performance is the second most often cited reason, while party background is the third.
Liu Sing-lee, on the other hand, impresses his supporters mainly with his past performance and political background. The two candidates have therefore very different attractions. In Kowloon East, Szeto Wah has attracted his supporters mainly by his past performance and to a lesser extent, his party background. Elsie Tu, on the other hand, has attracted supporters almost exclusively by her past performance. Tam Yiu- chung, on the other hand, has attracted supporters mainly by his past performance.