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According to ABC News, preliminary results show that the pro-democratic camp has gained a significant advantage, winning more than 300 seats, while the pro-Beijing establishment has won only about 41 seats.
Yesterday (November 24), more than 2.94 million voters went to the polling stations to vote. The turnout rate in the district election was about 71.2 percent, a record, significantly surpassing the last regional election held in 2015, when the turnout rate was 47.01 percent.
Traditionally, Hong Kong is not interested in the district`s partition election, but after months of political turmoil, the election is of new significance, which is seen as a barometer for the support of pro-democratic protest activities in Hong Kong for the last six months.
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As of Monday afternoon, Radio Free Asia reported that the results of the parliament election in Hong Kong had been announced. Under the anti-sending movement in Hong Kong, pan-Democrats won 343rd seats in 452direct elections, while the pro-Beijing camp won only 54 seats. All walks of life pay close attention to the follow-up reaction of Beijing.
What is the significance of the district park election?
According to the Hong Kong parliament election website, Hong Kong is currently divided into 18 districts, each with its own district parliament for a term of four years.
The region, with a vote of 452 seats, will be elected by one vote. There are also 27, of course, a total of 479 seats, of course, for the offices of the New Territories Rural Committee.
District councillor is responsible for community-level affairs, such as bus routes, garbage collection, and so on. But their influence is not limited to this.
In addition to six district councillor members who will enter the legislation meeting, the district parliament election may also have an impact on the election of the Chief Executive of Hong Kong.
The Chief Executive of Hong Kong is elected by the Election Committee. The Election Committee is composed of 1200 members, including District councillor of Hong Kong, Kowloon (57) and the New Territories (60), elected by election.
Under the Chief Executive Election Ordinance, to nominate a person for election to the Chief Executive, that person needs to obtain the signatures of at least 150 Election Committee members.
If pro-democracy is able to obtain a significant percentage of the 117 seats in Hong Kong and the New Territories, it is likely that they share other pro-democratic election members to nominate the Chief Executive.
If the pro-democratic camp won an overwhelming victory in the pro-democratic camp in the district parliament election, the increase in the number of pro-democratic seats in the election committee means or will have a direct impact on the election of the chief executive.
The district parliament election is the sixth district parliament election after the handover of Hong Kong sovereignty to Beijing, after which the establishment dominated. In the last district parliament election, pro-Democrats won only about 100 seats.
< New York Times >: chart Analysis of parliament Election results in Hong Kong
More than half of the 452 seats in Hong Kong`s local parliament elections on Sunday turned from pro-Beijing to pro-democracy. The result is an amazing symbol of support for the protest campaign that swept across Hong Kong this year.
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Turnout reached its highest level since Hong Kong began holding district parliament elections in 1999.
This is the first time there have been at least two opposing party candidates for each seat in the district parliament election. In the last election cycle (2015), 68 candidates ran without opponents. This year, a new record of 4 million registered voters was also set, of which 390000 were new registered voters.
Many district parliament candidates who have actively participated in the recent protest campaign have won, indicating that there is strong public support for the democratic movement. Some people were targeted. Others were involved in violence conflict, during protest. Some people were even arrested and was acciused.. Although most of the responsibilities of these elected officials are limited to their regions, the victory of pro-democratic candidates could give them a bigger role in future government formation. These district parliament councillor are eligible to be elected out of six seats at the legislation and control 117votes in the 1200-member Chief Executive Election Committee.
There is no doubt that the pro-democracy faction will win the "avalanche" of the establishment.
According to multi-dimensional news reports, on November 24, local time, Hong Kong 2019 district parliament general election held, the morning of the 25th, the results of 452 seats will be announced one after another. As of 2: 00 am on the 25th, the establishment had won only nine of the 104 electoral districts with known results, while the Democrats had won 95, with a winning rate of more than 90%. The Democrats were expected to win more than 400 seats.
The Chairman of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (Democratic Alliance for Betterment of Hong Kong), Ms Starry Lee, nearly beat Leung Kwok-hung by 300 votes. (HK01)
According to the Hong Kong media < Sing Tao Daily > on November 25, democratic candidates include Cen Zijie, the Convenor of the people`s Republic of China, Zhang Xiuxian, former president of middle school students, Cen Aohui, former deputy secretary-general of the Federation of students, and Yuan Jiawei, a former member of the
The heavyweight councillor includes Tian Beichen, he Junyao, Zhang Guojun, Zheng Yingshun, he Qiming, he Qiming, and Zhou Haoding`s rival Wang Jinyang, who evaluates that he has a 60% chance of winning. Zhou Haoding may not be able to secure tickets to the "Super District parliament," which includes Tian Beichen, he Junyao, Zhang Guojun, Zheng Yingshun, and he Qiming.
Li Huiqiong won only 300 votes against Liang Guoxiong. Lin Zhuoting, Xu Zhifeng, Yin Zhaojian and Kwong Junyu of the pan-democratic faction won.
As of 08:02 on the 25th, the establishment had won 40 seats, the pan-people had 342 seats and the other camps had 4 seats.
In the shadow of the anti-repair case, the atmosphere of the 24-day park elections was rare, but the turnout was a record high. In the case of a large turnout, the number of members of the formed faction camp, the People`s Union of China, the Federation of Workers and the People`s Union of China have been in a hurry, calling on the supporters to vote for the order and to stabilize the society, and not to connive the vience, the road and the destruction.
Zhou Haoding, who won only more than 100 votes against his local rival last time, solicited votes in Tung Chung South on the 24th, emphasizing his confidence in past achievements.
Zhang Guojun, the Western Ring District, who won more than 100 votes against his Democratic Party rival, distributed a leaflet on the 24th, with the words "urgent" added to the banners. Later, he was invited to canvass the Democratic Alliance for Betterment of Hong Kong (Democratic Alliance for Betterment of Hong Kong) (Democratic Alliance for Betterment of Hong Kong) (Democratic Alliance for Betterment of Hong Kong) Since serving as district councillor in 1993, Mai Meijuan, who is Weiying in Tsing Yi, has also shown that the election situation is critical and "insufficient votes." to put it bluntly, it has been the hardest since many elections.
The democratic election strategy focuses on calling on the public to turn the district parliament election into a "referendum" to express their dissatisfaction with the July 21 incident, the incompetence of the government and the current social problems. In the past, the challenge was seen as cannon fodder, and Wang Jinyang, who challenged Zhou Haoding, said he believed he had a 60% chance of winning, saying that he had not abandoned the community after 2015, that he had done something "to the ground," and that his neighborhood was not vulgar.
Chen Wenjian, the Democratic Party who challenged he Qiming of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade unions (FTU), also made it clear that he did not agree that it was hard work. He said bluntly that "Hong Kong will win once under such a social movement". He has been confident that he has served in Lam Tin for many years.
The high turnout rate of parliament in this session is rare after the reunification. Hu Zhiwei, chairman of the Democratic Party, said that the high turnout rate in the current district elections reflected the public`s desire to express their views on the future by voting, saying that the public expected to express their views on the governance of government in the SAR through votes.
Liang Jiajie, chairman of the citizen Party, said that the high turnout rate should not be taken lightly because there was an opportunity for the establishment to mobilize the lowest iron votes. It is unknown how many votes went to pan-people and expected the public to express their desire for the five major aspirations through the vote.
Democratic Alliance for Betterment of Hong Kong (Democratic Alliance for Betterment of Hong Kong) Chairman Starry Lee said that she had never seen such a high turnout in the district elections, making it difficult to predict the impact on the camp. "A lot of political issues have been operated," said Mrs Regina Ip, chairman of the New Democratic Party. "bus routes and sanitation, which were originally concerned about the region, have become political slogans," said Mrs Regina Ip, chairman of the New Democracy Party.
Cai Ziqiang, lecturer in the Department of Politics and Administration of CUHK, described it as "this election is no longer as simple as a district election." he said bluntly that the turnout rate had risen to 70%, not at 40%. It was enough to prove that the election had evolved into a political referendum. He believed that many of the more than 20% of the voters had expressed their position in "supporting a stable society" and "anti-government and anti-amendment legislation." He mentioned that the rise in parliament turnout in this session was like a tsunami. After a long period of fermentation in the social movement, the public strongly wanted to use the right to vote to express their views on the political and social situation as a whole. Nor can the election be explained by past experience whether a high turnout rate will be more beneficial to the non-institutional camp.
It is reported that the turnout rate in the district parliament election on the 24th was an unprecedented 71.2 percent, the number of voters exceeded 2.94 million, and the turnout rate in individual districts was even more than 80 percent. Both the overall turnout rate and the total number of voters reached the highest level since Hong Kong`s return to China.
This is the first large-scale election in many months since the amendment to the Anti-Fugitives Ordinance continued. The general public described this time as a "referendum." Some voters also rushed to vote before the end of the ticket station at 10.30 pm on the 24th.
Hu Xijin hopes that the election will be a turning point in ending the unrest
Hu Xijin wrote on Twitter that the Democrats had clearly won the parliament election in Hong Kong.
It is hoped that from now on, they will expand their influence within the framework of constitution and stop radical street politics. It is hoped that the election will be a turning point in ending the unrest.
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There are different opinions on the reasons for the victory of the pan-democratic camp in the parliament election in Hong Kong, The British Broadcasting Corporation:.
Hong Kong`s pan-democratic camp won a landslide victory in the district parliament election. As of 8: 45 this morning, the candidates considered to be pan-democratic had more than 350 seats out of 452 elected seats, the largest number since the handover of Hong Kong`s sovereignty. Many pan-democratic electors believe that the results reflect the strong demand from the people of Hong Kong for government to agree to the "five major demands" of the demonstration wave in recent months, while the establishment believes that district parliament mainly deals with people`s livelihood in the region, but the election results show that this work can no longer guarantee the election situation.
Many prominent establishment figures lost in the election, including he Junyao, councillor of legislation, which is seen as a "radical establishment", and Zhang Guojun and Zhou Haoding, two vice chairmen of the Democratic Alliance for Betterment of Hong Kong, Hong Kong`s largest pro-Beijing party. In addition, Tian Beichen, deputy to the National people`s Congress in Hong Kong, also failed to run for re-election.
In this election, the pan-democratic camp has won more than half of the seats in most of the 18 districts of Hong Kong. Pan-councillor is expected to become chairman of these parliament. In addition, the analysis also expects them to take full control of the 117 seats reserved for District councillor by the Election Committee, which is responsible for electing the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, and will become one of the influential groups of the 1200-member committee.
The district parliament set a number of Hong Kong election records, including about 2.9 million voters, with a turnout of 70 percent, the highest since the sovereignty handover. Pan-Democrats also won more than half of the seats in district parliament for the first time.
Cen Zijie, the convener of the "League Front" who has repeatedly opposed the amendments to the "Fugitive Offenders Regulations", won the election. During the interview, he described the result as "people`s opinion is like a mountain" and hoped that Lin Zhengyue "seized this opportunity and responded to public opinion" and implemented the "five major demands" of the protesters.
Liang Meifen, a pro-Beijing establishment FTU, believes that the dissatisfaction of voters with the administration of government is one of the reasons for the defeat of the establishment, but the unfair treatment encountered by established candidates during the election is also the reason. She also believes that the results show that the vote in Hong Kong has become a "stand first" election, rather than being based on the performance of each councillor, thus discouraging the establishment.
Chen Keqin, vice chairman of the pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for Betterment of Hong Kong (Democratic Alliance for Betterment of Hong Kong), said he noticed that someone had repeatedly lined up after the vote, creating the illusion that the waiting time was long, which deterred some voters who did not want to wait for a long time. Chen Keqin did not give a specific case, but Feng Hua, chairman of the Electoral Affairs Commission, said it was illegal to deliberately prevent others from voting if there was real evidence that action had been taken to enforce the law.
He Junyao published an article on social networking sites after the defeat of councillor, describing the election results as "abnormal", but did not explain them in detail.
