Their support has risen since 2000 vote, poll finds
Pro-democracy supporters in the Hong Kong Island constituency outnumber those of the pro-Beijing camp, a new survey has found.
The study also showed backing for the pro-democracy camp had risen by about 10 percentage points, to 60 per cent, compared with votes cast in the 2000 Legco election. The figure excludes undecided voters.
The survey had a 3.3 per cent margin for error.
Li Pang-kwong, director of Lingnan University's public governance programme, which conducted the survey, said only 37 per cent of the 908 respondents polled this week planned to vote for pro-government and pro-Beijing candidates.
The study, commissioned by the Hong Kong Development Forum, showed 84 per cent of respondents said they would vote in the election. Forty-four per cent had either not yet decided who they would vote for, or refused to reveal their voting intentions.
