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Hong Kong elected a total of 90 new lawmakers on Sunday under Beijing’s revamped rules, which ensured that the city’s Legislative Council is stacked with “patriots.”
While the polls saw a historic low turnout of around 1.3 million people – or 30.2 per cent of registered voters – Chief Executive Carrie Lam defended the elected candidates as “broadly representative,” and said the composition of the expanded legislature was “quite good.”
Chief Executive Carrie Lam cast her ballot at the Raimondi College poling station. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP.Members of the League of Social Democrats, including Chan Po-ying, led a four-person protest near Raimondi College as the chief executive cast her ballot. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP.A polling station at the Hennessy Road Government Primary School in Wan Chai. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP.A supporter asked New People’s Party chief Regina Ip to sign an autograph on his back. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP.Election poster and dried fruits on sale Photo: Kyle Lam. Free bus rides on election day. Photo: Kelly Ho/HKFP.Masses of passengers passed through MTR turnstiles freely as train rides have been made free on election day. Photo: Candice Chau/HKFP. Hundreds of people queued up for buses in Causeway Bay as bus rides were free on election day. Photo: Candice Chau/HKFP. A polling station in Tai Koo. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP.Stanley Ng Chau-pei, head of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions, is canvassing in Siu Sai wan. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP.DAB volunteers canvassing for Edward Leung. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP.DAB candidate Lau Kwok-fun was canvassing in Fanling on Sunday afternoon. Photo: Kelly Ho/HKFP.Legislative candidate Lau Chan Hok-fung (centre) and pro-Beijing heavyweight Ip Kwok-him (right) in Kennedy Town. Photo: Kelly Ho/HKFP. Chairperson of the Electoral Affairs Commission Justice Barnabas Fung and Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Erick Tsang opening the first ballot box in Hong Kong’s first “patriots-only” legislative race on December 19, 2021. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. Candidates in the Election Committee constituency in Hong Kong’s first “patriots-only” Legislative Council election. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. Candidates in the Election Committee constituency in Hong Kong’s first “patriots-only” Legislative Council election. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. Bill Tang from the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP.
“Frankly, I have discussed it with my family and taken into consideration of my age – which is over 70 – and I’ve decided not to run for the eighth-term Legco,” Andrew Leung said on Monday.
Local media reported on Tuesday that 72 seats across 22 sectors will be uncontested, with nominees expected to be automatically elected after passing a national security vetting.
Ex-student leader Jacky So received a suspended two-month jail term in December 2022 after sharing a social media post by self-exiled former lawmaker Ted Hui, calling on voters to cast invalid or blank ballots in the “patriots-only” Legislative Council election in 2021.
A total of 142,400 electors were provisionally removed from the register “due to death and as a result of other inquiry processes” in the 2024 voting cycle.
