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> Even in the recent local elections the pro-protest candidates garnered on average less than 60% of the votes despite record turn out on their side. I'm inter
by sjogress 7y ago
> Even in the recent local elections the pro-protest candidates garnered on average less than 60% of the votes despite record turn out on their side.
I'm interested in your source for this, do you have an English language source?
I haven't seen any results per candidate, and I don't have a proper understanding of how local HK elections work, but according to SCMP:
> Among the 452 seats up for grabs, the pan-democrats were victorious in 347, the independents – many of them pro-democracy – won 45, while the pro-establishment camp had to make do with 60. [1]
Sounds like a pretty clear victory to me. If the elections are anything like my local elections such a result would be considered a landslide victory.
1: https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3039151/hong-kong-elections-tsunami-disaffection-washes-over-city https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3039151...
- DonaldFisk 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Hong_Kong_local_elections https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Hong_Kong_local_elections gives a breakdown of votes cast and seats won. The reason for the discrepancy between votes cast and seats won is the first-past-the-post electoral system used.
- sjogress 7y agoInteresting, according to Wikipedia the results of the popular vote was: Pro-democrats (57.10%), Pro-Beijing (42.06%), Non-aligned others (0.83%) Seats were divided like this: Pro-democrats (81.00%), Pro-Beijing (18.58%), Non-aligned others (0.42%) Looks like some democratic reform is in order even if HK is able to gain universal suffrage and keep the one-country two-systems indefinitely.
- idlewords 7y agoYou are recommending voting reform for Hong Kong local district elections based on having studied the issue for, what, thirty seconds?