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nder the new electoral framework
imposed by the National People’s
UCongress (NPC), the 2021 Election
Committee subsector ordinary elections saw
a 97 per cent decrease in registered voters.
A total of 7,891 voters registered for the
2021 Election Committee election, among
whom only 4,889 had to vote, since the rest
of the subsectors were uncontested. There
were 246,440 registered voters in the last
election held in 2016. A total of 412 candi-
dates contest 364 out of the 1,500 seat.
Electoral Affairs Commission chairman
Barnabas Fung Wah apologized for the delay
in the announcement of results and admit-
ted the process of vote counting was “unsat-
isfactory”. Fung expected all results to be an-
nounced at around 8am the next day. It took
almost 14 hours to finish counting 4,380
votes.
He explained that the problem lied with
ballot verification papers – there were hu-
Members of the Federation of Hong Kong and Kowloon Labour man errors with the frontline staff, causing
Unions (HKFLU), the third largest trade union in Hong Kong, discrepancies on the fill-in ballot paper ac-
distributed leaflets near the Immigration Tower in Wan Chai. count.
Secretary of Security Chris Tang Ping-keung arrived at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition
Centre at 4:45pm.
