Election Results

[cookie09]

Apart from being livid that the SCMP website invariably does not display on my work desktop, it's interesting to see the Democrats losing so heavily.

Are they just being seen as a one-topic party without connection to people's real life, or what is going on?

[Gatts]

Apart from being livid that the SCMP website invariably does not display on my work desktop, it's interesting to see the Democrats losing so heavily.

Are they just being seen as a one-topic party without connection to people's real life, or what is going on?

Yet Pro-Democrats had 60+% of the popular vote, only in HK...

[bryant.english]

lol..........

[ewankho]

Audrey Eu didn't win?

[Mat]

Pressure may ease on Hong Kong leader after early poll results | Reuters

" But deep divisions across pro-democracy political parties and the lack of a broad, co-ordinated strategy seem to have allowed better mobilized pro-Beijing, pro-establishment parties to hold their ground despite the tide of discontent."

"Lee said the national education controversy and anti-China sentiment helped get more people out to vote but thought those votes were not being distributed in an effective way."

"Hong Kong, which returned to China in 1997 after more than 150 years of British rule, enjoys a high degree of autonomy. But Beijing has resisted public pressure for full democracy and has kept strong influence in politics, the media and education"

I always said the Albert and Co got it wrong since day one: Universal Suffrage is NOT a political platform it's just ONE proposal...They never really go deep in other aspects that could bring them voters:
- Education
- Employment
- Health Care
.....

It's good, they will learn.

HK is really at the very beginning of it's political life, it's very interesting.

[bookblogger]

It's a shame, the Democratic Party has suffered from being moderate and doing a deal with the government on electoral reform. They have really been punished by the more radical People Power.

[Mat]

no BB it's "Democracy".

The people of HK have voted.

[bookblogger]

Yes, no regrets, the new Legco will be interesting for sure.

[Gatts]

no BB it's "Democracy".

The people of HK have voted.

A large part of the elderly populace have voted in what's a more loose interpretation of democracy, I'd call DAB-cracy.

http://hk.dv.nextmedia.com/actionnew...12477/20000886

[Gruntfuttock]

Sadly I decided not to cast my votes this time. A review of the material I could find for those contenders that made it available in English didn't turn up any with what I would regard as a coherent, well thought out set of policies on how to improve this town that we (those of us who have a vote) call home. They essentially all consisted of populist sloganeering without any evidence of any understanding or analysis of costs, benefits, or indeed much intellectual thought at all. And I couldn't work up any enthusiasm for "best of a bad bunch" tactical voting.