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Vote counting for the Hong Kong Legislative Council election is almost full, with pro-establishment candidates heading in the right direction to bag each seat amid document low turnout within the metropolis’s first large-scale ballot below Beijing’s “patriots-only” electoral overhaul.
Greater than 1.3 million registered electors within the geographical constituencies solid ballots on Sunday, for a turnout fee of 30.2 per cent, the bottom because the metropolis’s return to Chinese language rule in 1997. The determine was far under the document excessive of 58.3 per cent within the final Legco election in 2016, although the voting interval was an hour longer that point round.
Preliminary outcomes present pro-establishment figures are ready to take every of the 90 seats within the revamped legislature following Beijing’s drastic overhaul, with all 11 centrists or non-establishment contestants dropping by broad margins.
There have been some surprises within the new Election Committee constituency. Whereas all 9 incumbents have been re-elected, businessman Allan Zeman, mainland China-affiliated Tu Haiming and bus driver Choy Wing-keung have been amongst these falling brief.
Town’s electoral authorities had anticipated vote counting to be completed round midday on Monday.
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Reporting by Chris Lau, Natalie Wong, Sammy Heung, and Jeffie Lam