{"id":8320,"date":"2015-11-24T02:31:28","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T18:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/?p=8320"},"modified":"2015-11-24T02:31:28","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T18:31:28","slug":"results-of-incumbent-district-councillors-in-the-2015-district-council-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/2015\/11\/results-of-incumbent-district-councillors-in-the-2015-district-council-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Results of Incumbent District Councillors in the 2015 District Council elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While district councillors\u2019 work mostly focuses on district affairs, they can also be elected as lawmakers in the Legislative Council through \u201csuper district council\u201d seats. 2015\u00a0district council election is seen as a litmus test for both the pro-democracy and pro-establishment camps one year after the Occupy Movement. It can al<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">so affect the superseats race in next year\u2019s Legislative Council election. Our graphic briefly summarises\u00a0how incumbent super district councilors fared in the\u00a0election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8321 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/12265905_994113993961134_675873800556534270_o-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"12265905_994113993961134_675873800556534270_o\" width=\"610\" height=\"610\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While district councillors\u2019 work mostly focuses on district affairs, they can also be elected as lawmakers in the Legislative Council through \u201csuper district council\u201d seats. 2015\u00a0district council election is seen as a litmus test for both the pro-democracy and pro-establishment camps one year after the Occupy Movement. It can also affect the superseats race in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[389],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8320","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\/8320","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=8320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8322,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8320\/revisions\/8322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}