Hong Kong Legislative Council polls: voters change the city’s political landscape
Hongkongers choose a new breed of localists and younger faces for the Legislative Council, taking politics and governance of the city into uncharted waters
Hong Kong’s voters have signalled a strong demand for political change and a say in the city’s future, installing in the legislature a new generation of activists who cut their teeth on the 2014 Occupy protests, and sidelining veteran pan-democrats who disappointed them.
As the results of Sunday’s Legislative Council elections, some of them down to wire, were announced on Monday, it was clear that a more fractured legislature, with new faces raring to challenge the old order, was ready to shape the next four years of politics.
Six localists were among those voted into office in the first general election since the mass protests of two years ago.
The biggest winner was social and political activist Eddie Chu Hoi-dick, crowned the “king of votes” with 84,000.