{"id":12072,"date":"2018-02-27T15:17:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T07:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/?p=12072"},"modified":"2018-02-27T22:26:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T14:26:23","slug":"legco-election-2018-election-buzzwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/2018\/02\/legco-election-2018-election-buzzwords\/","title":{"rendered":"Legco By-Election 2018 &#8211; Election Buzzwords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap2 dropcap\">Y<\/span>ou may have come across some confusing buzzwords in the news about the upcoming Legislative Council By-election on March 11. Here are some of them explained:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12076\" src=\"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/27972192_1730829056956287_1303519104396263015_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/27972192_1730829056956287_1303519104396263015_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/27972192_1730829056956287_1303519104396263015_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/27972192_1730829056956287_1303519104396263015_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/27972192_1730829056956287_1303519104396263015_n-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/27972192_1730829056956287_1303519104396263015_n-696x696.jpg 696w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/27972192_1730829056956287_1303519104396263015_n-420x420.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12077\" src=\"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28166258_1733961209976405_5406850370762927303_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28166258_1733961209976405_5406850370762927303_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28166258_1733961209976405_5406850370762927303_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28166258_1733961209976405_5406850370762927303_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28166258_1733961209976405_5406850370762927303_n-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28166258_1733961209976405_5406850370762927303_n-696x696.jpg 696w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28166258_1733961209976405_5406850370762927303_n-420x420.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12075\" src=\"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28468525_1736399083065951_3939912888973222778_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28468525_1736399083065951_3939912888973222778_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28468525_1736399083065951_3939912888973222778_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28468525_1736399083065951_3939912888973222778_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28468525_1736399083065951_3939912888973222778_n-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28468525_1736399083065951_3939912888973222778_n-696x696.jpg 696w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28468525_1736399083065951_3939912888973222778_n-420x420.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12078\" src=\"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28379237_1738337939538732_657983046132226767_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28379237_1738337939538732_657983046132226767_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28379237_1738337939538732_657983046132226767_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28379237_1738337939538732_657983046132226767_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28379237_1738337939538732_657983046132226767_n-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28379237_1738337939538732_657983046132226767_n-696x696.jpg 696w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/28379237_1738337939538732_657983046132226767_n-420x420.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does &#8220;DQ&#8221; refer to? Who is a Returning Officer? Varsity explains some common buzzwords seen in media coverage about the upcoming Legislative Council By-elecion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[938],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legislative-council-by-elections-2018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12072"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12081,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12072\/revisions\/12081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}