a historical record of 44 percent, in total of 1.06 millions voters cast their vote in the election. in result, yeung yiu-chung, lau kong-wah and ip kwok-him were all defeated by the pro-democrats while choy so-yuk retained her seat with narrow margin. the pro-democracy flagship party democratic party became the clear winner by winning the most number of 95 seats. cyd ho's civic act-up which was established after the july 1 protest also captured three seats in the wan chai district council and was able to control the council for the first time with the other independent councillors. only 62 of the 206 dab candidates were elected, which became the worst defeat in dab's history. tsang yok-sing took responsibility for the electoral setback and resigned his chairman post. he claimed that the defeat was due to the dab's unfortunate "tung loyalist" public image.