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Hong Kong Legislative Council elected
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-09-13 12:59

Hong Kong's third term 60- member Legislative Council was elected, the Electoral Affairs Commission announced Monday morning.

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Voters queue up to cast their ballot outside a polling center in Hong Kong September 12, 2004. [Reuters]

Thirty members were returned by functional constituencies and another 30 by geographical constituencies through direct elections.

Over 1.78 million electors cast their ballots on Sunday and the turnout rate reached 55.6 percent.

The turnout rate for the last LegCo elections in 2000 was 43.57 per cent.

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Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa casts his ballot in Hong Kong September 12, 2004. [Reuters]

A total of 35 lists of 88 candidates ran for 30 LegCo seats in five geographical constituencies and another 60 candidates vied for 19 seats in 17 functional constituencies. For 11 other functional constituencies, the candidates were returned uncontested.

This is the first time that half of the LegCo's 60 seats have been returned by direct election, giving rise to the most democratically elected legislature in the history of Hong Kong. The number of directly elected seats was 24 in the last legislature.

Secretary for Constitutional Affairs Stephen Lam said the election set two records - the number of registered voters rose to 3.2 million and the 159 candidates standing in the election hit an historic high.

As expected, voter turnout picked up in both geographical and functional constituencies in the afternoon.



 
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