{"id":39928,"date":"2021-12-19T16:25:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T07:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/19\/police-deployed-at-polling-stations-as-hong-kong-votes-in-overhauled-patriots-election"},"modified":"2021-12-20T09:19:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T00:19:31","slug":"police-deployed-at-polling-stations-as-hong-kong-votes-in-overhauled-patriots-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39928","title":{"rendered":"Hongkongers snub \u2018patriots\u2019 election with lowest turnout in three decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only 30% of registered voters cast their ballots for lawmakers in Sunday\u2019s poll<\/p>\n<p>Hongkongers have snubbed a legislature poll taking place under new \u201cpatriots only\u201d rules imposed by China, with the lowest turnout since residents started electing lawmakers three decades ago, according to official figures released on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Only 30%, or 1,350,680 of the 4,472,863 registered voters, cast their ballots for city lawmakers in Sunday\u2019s election, Hong Kong\u2019s top election official, Barnabas Fung, told reporters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/19\/police-deployed-at-polling-stations-as-hong-kong-votes-in-overhauled-patriots-election\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only 30% of registered voters cast their ballots for lawmakers in Sunday\u2019s pollHongkongers have snubbed a legislature poll taking place under new \u201cpatriots only\u201d rules imposed by China, with the lowest turnout since residents started electing lawmakers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39928"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39951,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39928\/revisions\/39951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}