Legislative Council Election｜Four non-incorporated people got insufficient votes

The voter turnout of this Legislative Council election plummeted. The non-organizational faction was wiped out in direct elections in the region, and the votes were even thrown away by the establishment. Among them, the election of Kowloon East, the independent Hu Jianhua, the democratic thinking Chen Jinxiong, and the new thinking of the Northwest New Territories Huang Junlang and Tseng Liwen in the north of the New Territories received less than 3% of the total votes and were confiscated with a deposit of 50,000 yuan, involving a total of 200,000 yuan.

In Kowloon East, the two major winners in the election, Tang Jiabiao and the DAB Yan Wenyu received 65,036 votes and 64,275 votes respectively; Chinese medicine practitioner Li Jiaxin received 12,049 votes, while Chen Jinxiong and Hu Jianhua received 2,999 votes and 3,090 votes respectively. The votes, Chen and Hu, each accounted for less than 3% of the total votes.

In the North New Territories direct elections, Liu Guoxun from the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong received 70,584 votes, and Hong Kong’s new direction Zhang Xinyu received 28,986 votes; rural affiliation Shen Haojie received 17,839 votes; Zeng Liwen received only 3,498 votes.

In the Northwest New Territories constituency, Zhou Hao Ting received 93,195 votes and became the "vote king" this year; Tian Beichen received 40,009 votes; Huang Junlang only got 4,066 votes, which also accounted for less than 3% of the total votes.

According to the Legislative Council (Election Deposits and Signatories Required for Nominations) Regulations, candidates for local direct elections are required to pay an election deposit of $50,000. If the candidate fails to obtain 3% of the valid votes in the election , The deposit will be confiscated and transferred to the government’s general revenue. In other words, the deposits of 4 people will make a total of 200,000 yuan in the warehouse.

If the candidate gets the votes, the election deposit will be returned to the candidate.

Regarding the loss of the election and the forfeiture of the security deposit, Huang Junlang said that he would face it frankly and respect the choices of voters. He and his team will reflect on how to explain the concept of new thinking to the public. At the same time, the government and society should reflect on the fact that there are not many democratic parties participating in the election this time. The problem of low turnout.

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