{"id":60476,"date":"2023-12-11T09:33:45","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T00:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/11\/hong-kong-election-votes-patriots-only-poll-mumbers-turnout"},"modified":"2023-12-11T09:33:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T00:33:45","slug":"record-low-turnout-as-hong-kong-votes-in-patriots-only-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60476","title":{"rendered":"Record low turnout as Hong Kong votes in \u2018patriots\u2019-only election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voters shun district election after pro-democracy candidates were prevented from running<\/p>\n<p>A \u201cpatriots only\u201d district election in Hong Kong that barred opposition democrats from the ballot sheet amid a national security crackdown had a record low voter turnout of 27.5% as many voters spurned what was seen as an undemocratic poll.<\/p>\n<p>The sharp slide in turnout since the last such election in 2019 comes after Beijing imposed a sweeping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/30\/controversial-hong-kong-national-security-law-comes-into-effect\">national security law<\/a> that has been used to clamp down on dissent, and overhauled the electoral system to shut out democrats and other liberals.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/11\/hong-kong-election-votes-patriots-only-poll-mumbers-turnout\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters shun district election after pro-democracy candidates were prevented from runningA \u201cpatriots only\u201d district election in Hong Kong that barred opposition democrats from the ballot sheet amid a national security crackdown had a record low voter tu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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-60476","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\/60476","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60477,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60476\/revisions\/60477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}