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Voter turnout plunged below 30% in Hong Kong’s first district council elections since new rules introduced under Beijing’s guidance effectively shut out all pro-democracy candidates, setting a ...
With only 1.19 million voters casting ballots and 27.5% voter turnout, the election broke the record for the lowest turnout among Hong Kong District Council elections. [69] Despite the lower than rumoured target of 30% set by Chinese authorities, [ 70 ] Tam Yiu-chung , a major pro-Beijing politician, said the turnout was in line with expectations.
From Beijing’s perspective, the low turnout demonstrates the Hong Kong government’s lack of mobilizational capacity, said Burns, from the University of Hong Kong.
The 2021 Hong Kong Legislative Council election was a general ... Despite efforts by the government to boost voter turnout by offering free transport and establishing ...
John P. Burns, emeritus professor of political science at the University of Hong Kong, tells TIME that the government’s acceptance of the low voter turnout is “disturbing.”
The 2019 Hong Kong District Council elections were held on 24 November 2019 for all 18 District Councils of Hong Kong. [2] 452 seats from all directly elected constituencies, out of the 479 seats in total, were contested. Nearly three million people voted, equivalent to 71 per cent of registered voters, an unprecedented turnout in the electoral ...
Hong Kong leader John Lee on Tuesday praised the 27.5% voter turnout in the city's weekend election, a record low since the territory returned to Chinese rule in 1997. Sunday's district council ...
Following the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests, and the landslide victory of Hong Kong's pro-democracy camp in the 2019 Hong Kong local elections, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China unilaterally passed the Hong Kong national security law and changes to Annex I and Annex II of the Hong Kong ...