{"id":12942,"date":"2018-11-07T20:00:28","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/?p=12942"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:51:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T03:51:20","slug":"legco-kowloon-west-byelection-graphics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/2018\/11\/legco-kowloon-west-byelection-graphics\/","title":{"rendered":"11.25 LegCo Kowloon West By-election – All You Need to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Legislative Council Kowloon West By-election will take place on Nov 25. Varsity<\/em> has prepared a series of graphics, explaining all you need to know for this by-election.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Kowloon West Constituency consist of three districts, namely Sham Shui Po, Kowloon City and Yau Tsim Mong District. It has the least number of Registered Electors – 487,160 – among all the constituencies.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s look at some major developments of the by-election during the past month.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The nomination period started on Oct 2, on which Labour Party\u2019s Lau Siu-lai, former ADPL member Frederick Fung Kin-kee and independent Chan Hoi-yan submitted their nominations. <\/span><\/p>\n

On Oct 12, Lee Cheuk-yan, another member from the Labour Party, submitted his nomination. Hours later, Lau Siu-lai was barred from the by-election. <\/span><\/p>\n

The nomination period came to an end on Oct 15, with two more candidates – independent Ng Dick-hay and Judy Tzeng submitting their nominations. <\/span><\/p>\n

On Oct 26, five candidates were validated and confirmed eligible to stand for the by-election.<\/span><\/p>\n

So who are these candidates and what are their political affiliations?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Who are the candidates of the Legislative Council Kowloon West By-election? What are their political affiliations? What happened during the nomination period? Take a look at Varsity’s graphics and you will find all the information you need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1072],"tags":[426,1075,423],"class_list":["post-12942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legislative-council-kowloon-west-by-election-2018","tag-by-election","tag-kowloonwest","tag-legco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12942","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=12942"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12960,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12942\/revisions\/12960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}