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Some 31.9 per cent of registered voters cast their ballots in Hong Kong’s Legislative Council election on Sunday, surpassing the record low turnout four years ago in a poll held just over a week after the deadly blaze in Tai Po.
While the turnout rate increased by 1.7 percentage points, the total number of registered voters who cast their ballot dropped by 33,000 compared with 2021 in the second Legco poll held under Beijing’s “patriots-only” electoral overhaul.
Vote counting was under way overnight, with the results suggesting that four incumbents lost their seats and new faces are making their way into the 90-strong legislature.
Follow our live updates from the central counting station at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai.
Here are some quick takes:
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Four incumbents, Kwok Wai-keung, Luk Chung-hung, Frankie Ngan and Edmund Wong, lost their seats
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Judy Chan of the New People’s Party has secured the Hong Kong Island West seat vacated by her party chairwoman, Regina Ip
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Olympic gold medallist Vivian Kong Man-wai has made her way to Legco
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District councillor Christine Fong has finally won a seat after five failed election bids
Reporting by Matthew Cheng, Vivian Au, Willa Wu and Jeffie Lam.