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Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee helps to pour out votes from the ballot box at a polling station in Hong Kong on Dec. 10, 2023. Credit - Vernon Yuen—NurPhoto/Getty Images
Residents went to the polls on Sunday in Hong Kong's first district council elections since an electoral overhaul was implemented under Beijing's guidance of “patriots” administering the city ...
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Former Democratic legislator Ted Hui, who fled Hong Kong after being charged with at least nine counts related to the 2019 protests, urged pro-democracy supporters to cast protest votes in the election, in order to achieve the highest number of blank votes in the history of Hong Kong elections, and for blank votes to exceed the number of valid ...
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 ...
The 2025 Hong Kong Legislative Council election is a general election that is expected to be held in December 2025 for the 8th Legislative Council of Hong Kong.Under the new electoral system introduced in 2021, 90 seats to the Legislative Council include 20 seats of directly elected geographical constituencies (GCs), 30 seats of trade-based indirectly elected functional constituencies (FCs ...
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 ...
Hong Kong’s leader defended the rules for upcoming local elections as open and fair Tuesday after an electoral overhaul effectively barred the city’s remaining pro-democracy activists from ...