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Legislative Council Election|The latest regional overall voter turnout rate is less than 30%, which is the lowest in history

2021-12-19T15:12:30.212Z


The first Legislative Council election after the improvement of the electoral system ended at 9:30 pm. There were 1,309,601 people who voted in direct regional elections, and the turnout rate was only 29.28%, which was more than 20% less than the same time of the previous session. It is expected that the overall regional elections this year


The first Legislative Council election after the improvement of the electoral system was as of 9:30 pm. There were 1,309,601 people who voted in direct regional elections, with a turnout rate of only 29.28%, which is more than 20% less than the same time in the previous session. It is expected that the overall voter turnout rate in this regional election will be a record in history. New low.


The overall voter turnout rate of the functional constituencies was 30.9%. In the past, the voter turnout rate in the social welfare constituency of the traditional pan-democratic ballot box was only 18.3% as of 9:30 p.m., which was the lowest among all the functional constituencies.

As for the functional constituency with the highest turnout rate is the engineering sector, the turnout rate is close to 50%, making the election of Pakatan Harapan Lu Weiguo, who is running for re-election, may be undermined.


Go to the

"Hong Kong 01" 2021 Legislative Council Election thematic website

to view a complete analysis of the election situation.

As of 9:30 p.m., only three districts on Hong Kong Island East, Southwest New Territories, and Kowloon had more than 30% of the voter turnout.

Regarding the drop in voter turnout this year, Liu Zhaojia, vice chairman of the National Hong Kong and Macau Research Association, said earlier that the central government should have a more sober and objective and rational estimate of the voter turnout rate in the Legislative Council election. estimate.

And Wang Mingquan, the election commissioner who appeared to vote today, responded to the media's question of when the low turnout rate reflected that "there is no way if it is low," indicating that the rules of the game are such that voters have the right not to come out.

This election changed from 5 districts to 10 districts in the past. In the 2016 election, Hong Kong Island and New Territories East had the highest turnout rates at 60%, while the lowest turnout rate was Kowloon West, which was 58%.

Based on the recombination of the voting rates of the small constituencies into the 10 districts of this year, the turnout rates of the southeastern New Territories, the east of Hong Kong Island and the northeast of the New Territories are more than 60% higher, which are the top 3 highest among the 10 districts.

Low turnout in the social welfare sector may be unfavorable to new thinking Di Zhiyuan

Under the new electoral system, there were 210,000 voters in the functional constituencies this year, about 17,000 fewer than the previous election. The turnout rate was 30.92% as of 9:30 p.m.

Among them, the social welfare sector, which still retains individual votes, has always been a democratic vote storehouse. As of 9:30 p.m., the turnout rate was only 18.27%, which is still less than 20%. This may not be beneficial to the new thinking of non-establishment candidates Di Zhiyuan.

The engineering sector, which is also composed of individual voters and was acquired by the non-organizational system in the previous term, had a turnout rate of 47.45%, which was close to 50% higher than expected. This caused a dark surge in the election of the Pakatan Harapan Lu Weiguo, who was running for re-election, or ordered a candidate Huang Weixin is favorable.

In addition, the voter turnout rate for architecture, surveying, urban planning and garden realm was less than 40%, making the election unpredictable.

Finally, this year, an additional 40 seats were elected by the electoral committee sector, and 1,500 electoral committees voted on a "full vote" system. A total of 1,421 people voted, with a turnout rate of 98.14%.

One of the election committee members, Tung Chee-hwa, did not vote because he needed to recuperate, which prevented the voter turnout in this sector from reaching 100%.

Go to the

"Hong Kong 01" 2021 Legislative Council Election thematic website

to view a complete analysis of the election situation.

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