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| New faces emerge as veteran politicians step down in Hong Kong legislative election |
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| Friday, September 9, 2016 |
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| The Hong Kong legislative election was held on Sunday, with a record-breaking turnout of around 2 million voters and turnout rate of 58%. |
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| The results show the anti-establishment camp successfully maintained a majority in the geographical constituencies' seats thus veto power to any members' bills, and also a minority larger than a third to veto any bills featuring major political reforms. |
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| Young and new faces emerged in the new council members, as veteran politicians stepped down in both the anti-establishment and pro-Beijing campus. |
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| Election Results |
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| Eddie Chu received the largest vote in any geographical constituency |
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| In the New Territories West geographical constituency, nonpartisan pan-democrat Eddie Chu was elected with 84,121 votes, the most given to any list in the geographical constituencies. |
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| Other anti-establishment candidates elected in this district were localist camp's Cheng Chung-tai of Civic Passion, pan-democracy camp's Kwok Ka-ki and Andrew Wan of respectively Civic Party and the Democratic Party. |
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| The pro-Beijing camp candidates elected were New People Party's Michael Tien, DAB's Ben Chan and Leung Che-cheung, FTU's Alice Mak and pro-establishment nonpartisan Junius Ho. |
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| Two pan-democratic veteran politicians Lee Cheuk-yan of the Labour Party and Frederick Fung of ADPL were defeated in this constituency, with Junius Ho defeating Lee Cheuk-yan by around five thousand votes. |
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| Michael Tien of NPP |
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| DAB's Elizabeth Quat |
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| In the New Territories East geographical constituency, pan-democracy camp councillors Alvin Yeung from the Civic Party, Fernando Cheung of the Labour Party, Raymond Chan of People Power, and Leung Kwok-hung of LSD were successfully elected. |
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| Pan-democrat Lam Cheuk-ting from the Democratic Party and localist group Youngspiration's Baggio Leung were successfully elected newcomers. |
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| For the Pro-Beijing camp, Elizabeth Quat of DAB was elected with 58,825 votes, the highest in the constituency. |
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| Other pro-Beijing candidates elected in this constituency were Gary Chan of DAB and Eunice Yung of New People's Party. |
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| Pan-democrat Gary Fan of the Neo Democrats failed to get re-elected in this constituency, and resigned from his leadership in his party due to its election defeat. |
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| Alvin Yeung of Civic Party |
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| New People Party's Regina Ip |
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| In the Hong Kong Island geographical constituency, pro-Beijing New People Party's Regina Ip was re-elected with 60,760 votes. |
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| Other pro-Beijing elected were FTU's Kwok Wai-keung and DAB's Horace Cheung. |
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| Demosisto's Nathan Law earned a surprise victory as second place in the constituency with 50,818 votes, and becomes the youngest Legislative Council member in Hong Kong's history. |
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| The other two anti-establishment camp elects were Hui Chi-fung from the Democratic Party and Tanya Chan of the Civic Party, both considered to be in the pan-democracy camp. |
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| Pan-democrat veteran Cyd Ho from the Labour Party lost her seat in this constituency. |
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| Nathan Law of Demosisto |
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| Ann Chiang of DAB |
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| In the Kowloon West geographical constituency, pro-Beijing councillors Ann Chiang of DAB and Priscilla Leung of BPA were successfully re-elected, as well as pan-democratic councillors Claudia Mo of the Civic Party and Wong Pik-wan of the Democratic Party. |
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| The rest of the candidates elected in this constituency were young and relatively new activists from the localist camp, Lau Siu-lai and Youngspiration's Yau Wai-ching. |
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| Yau Wai-ching defeated another localist camp candidate, veteran politician Raymond Wong of the Proletariat Political Institute, by 424 votes. |
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| Claudia Mo of Civic Party |
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| Wong Kwok-kin of FTU |
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| In the Kowloon East geographical constituency, pro-Beijing district councillor Wilson Or was elected with 51,516 votes, the highest in this constituency. |
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| Nonpartisan Paul Tse and Wong Kwok-kin of the FTU were successfully re-elected. |
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| Pan-democracy camp councillor Wu Chi-wai of the Democratic Party was elected. |
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| Civic Party's Jeremy Tam was elected for the first time. |
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| Localist group Civic Passion's Wong Yeung-tat was defeated in this district, and resigned his leadership in Civic Passion. |
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| Wu Chi-wai of the Democratic Party |
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| Leung Yiu-chung of NWSC; from file, 2008. |
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| In the District Council (Second) functional constituency, commonly know as 'Super District Council' seats, pan-democracy camp's Kwong Chun-yu of the Democratic Party received 491,667 votes, the highest in this constituency. |
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| Other pan-democrats elected were Leung Yiu-chung of NWSC and James To of the Democratic Party. |
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| Pro-Beijing DAB's Starry Lee and Holden Chow were successfully elected in this constituency, while pro-Beijing veteran politician Wong Kwok-hing of FTU was defeated by 10,694 votes by James To. |
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| DAB's Starry Lee; from file, 2015. |
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| In traditional functional constituencies, the pan-democracy camp gained a seat from the pro-Beijing camp. |
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| Shiu Ka-chun of the Social Welfare constituency defeated their opponents, hence the pan-democrats' seats in the functional constituencies increased from 9 to 10. |
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| Also, an independent who does not claim to belong to either camp, Edward Yiu of the Architectural, Surveying, Planning and Landscape constituency, defeated his opponents and was elected. |
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| The turnout of this election was the highest in the history of Legislative Council elections, with around 2 million voters voted and a turnout rate of 58%. |
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| At a polling station in Taikoo of the Hong Kong Island constituency, after the polls closed at 22:30, with the long queues outside the station the last ballot there was cast at 2:30 the next day, four hours after the last person was allowed to join the queue. |
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| The previous general legislative election in Hong Kong was before the 2014 protests. |
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| The election elects 70 members of the Legislative Council. |