Lowest election turnout yet on 19 December as pro-govt candidates sweep into legislature. The 2021 legislative election turnout hit a historic low at 30.2 per cent, more than 5 points less than the previous record in 1995.
With mainstream opposition parties shunning the poll, centrists hoped they could offer voters an alternative, but the election ended in a near-total rout of non-establishment candidates.
With candidates limited to "true patriots" and the number of popularly elected seats reduced to from half to less than a quarter, Hong Kong's opposition has little hope of making inroads this Sunday when the city's residents head to the polls for the first time since the 2019 crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
With the upcoming 2021 Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo) elections, it is hard to fathom how chaotic the past few years have been with opposition lawmakers using the filibuster and other malicious tactics to paralyze the legislature and causing a large number of bills related to people s livelihoods to be blocked or delayed.