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The Democratic Party leadership election was held on 13 December 1998 for the leadership including chairman two vice-chairman posts and 27 members of the 3rd Central Committee of the Democratic Party in Hong Kong. Founding Chairman Martin Lee Chu-ming was re-elected uncontestedly for the third consecutive term. The election was marked by a coup d’etat by the Young Turks faction whose candidate Lau Chin-shek defeated the incumbent Vice-Chairman Anthony Cheung Bing-leung.
