Hong Kong sends 'humiliating' message to Chinese leadership with refusal to vote

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52% : None of it worked, and the final turnout figures represent an extraordinary decline from the record 71 per cent who voted at the last local council election in 2019, which came at the height of the protest movement and handed landslide victories to pro-democracy candidates in a show of public defiance.
51% : Prof Burns says that as well as sending a message of public dissatisfaction, the turnout figures could shake Beijing's confidence in its officials in Hong Kong, with a reckoning likely to follow.
45% : Please try again later{{ /verifyErrors }}After years of unprecedented crackdowns on opposition and dissent in Hong Kong through arrests, prosecutions and sweeping overhauls of the law, the city of 7.5 million people has spoken out in defiance: by refusing to cast their votes in a deeply compromised election under the new system.
44% : Various incentives to vote were offered including free transportation and fairground-style entertainment, and voting was even extended on Sunday evening for an extra two hours with the government blaming "system failure" earlier in the day for preventing people from voting.
41% : [More than] 70 per cent of voters chose not to participate," emeritus Professor John Burns, of Hong Kong University's department of politics and public administration, told The Independent.

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