You can check the names of winning councilors, there are quite some Arabic and Blacks in the east and south wards, where they root from community of large population of Arabics and Blacks.
Many Chinese are so reluctant to do any favour to Chinese candidates or other Chinese, that is not good. Networking and 共同利益 are very important to get mutual prosperity.
Don't you think lots of jobs and good positions were obtained by people in certain internal circles? When you look at lots of decisions made by City, there are many undertable interest exchanges especially at real estate, public contract awarding and business development plan.
I have a friend doing speciaty goods business, very hard to get public sector contract, one of his customer said to him,
if you can get any public sector contract for your business, you can add one "0" behind your retail price.
Chinese candidate may not get enough votes to win a ward at this moment, but if I were people in Barheaven 4 years ago, I will definitely cast a vote to that Lonely chinese to encourage him.