{"id":8312,"date":"2015-11-24T02:20:14","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T18:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/?p=8312"},"modified":"2015-11-24T02:27:06","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T18:27:06","slug":"2015-district-council-polls-saw-record-high-voter-turnout-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/2015\/11\/2015-district-council-polls-saw-record-high-voter-turnout-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 District Council polls saw record-high voter turnout rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2015\u00a0District Council elections saw a record high 1.47 million people voting, with a record-breaking turnout rate of around 47%. The highest turnouts were in the Tsuen Wan, Southern and Sham Shui Po Districts, while the lowest was in Tuen Mun.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8313 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12239372_994067667299100_4650306060019977374_o-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Turnout Rate\" width=\"610\" height=\"610\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Voter turnout rate as at 9:30 p.m. &#8211; one hour before poll stations closed &#8211; have already surpassed that of the 2011 District Council election.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8315 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12291971_993840357321831_5885747491739733845_o-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"12291971_993840357321831_5885747491739733845_o\" width=\"610\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12291971_993840357321831_5885747491739733845_o-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12291971_993840357321831_5885747491739733845_o-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12291971_993840357321831_5885747491739733845_o-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12291971_993840357321831_5885747491739733845_o-144x144.jpg 144w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12291971_993840357321831_5885747491739733845_o-900x900.jpg 900w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12291971_993840357321831_5885747491739733845_o.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8318 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Past-Statistics-and-Turnout-rates-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Past Statistics and Turnout rates\" width=\"610\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Past-Statistics-and-Turnout-rates-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Past-Statistics-and-Turnout-rates-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Past-Statistics-and-Turnout-rates-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Past-Statistics-and-Turnout-rates-144x144.jpg 144w, https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Past-Statistics-and-Turnout-rates-900x900.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2015\u00a0District Council elections saw a record high 1.47 million people voting, with a record-breaking turnout rate of around 47%. The highest turnouts were in the Tsuen Wan, Southern and Sham Shui Po Districts, while the lowest was in Tuen Mun. Voter turnout rate as at 9:30 p.m. &#8211; one hour before poll stations closed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[389],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-district-council-poll-2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8312","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8312"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8319,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8312\/revisions\/8319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}