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.

They disliked the Meeting Point faction's more compromising stand towards the Communist government, and their pro-middle-class and pro-laissez-faire positions.

[4] Martin Lee was re-elected uncontestedly Chairman for the third consecutive term, while Lau Chin-shek supported by Young Turks' ousted the former Meeting Point's Anthony Cheung.

The party leaders, so called the "Mainstreamers", including the "triumvirate", Yeung Sum, Cheung Man-kwong and Lee Wing-tat who did not sense there was a coup until the last days, were alarmed.

[4] In the debate on the Minimum Wage legislation in the following year, the Mainstreamers were much organised and defeated the Young Turks' motion.