Politics
Hong Kong Legislative Council election 2021

Last-minute campaigning in Hong Kong Legislative Council election

Hong Kong Legislative Council election candidates and their supporters made their final appeals to voters on election day, December 19, 2021.
 

December 19, 2021
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Voters entered polling stations to cast their ballots in the 2021 Legislative Council election.  Voting commenced at 8.30am on December 19 and in the first hour, 3.18 per cent of voters – or 142...01:50
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Voting under way in Hong Kong Legco election
December 19, 2021
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Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam cast her vote in the first election for Hong Kong's legislature under Beijing's "patriots-only" revamp of the system. Some 4.5 million people are eligible to...01:09
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Carrie Lam casts her vote in Legco election
December 19, 2021
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Hong Kong’s first Legislative Council election since Beijing overhauled the city’s electoral system is scheduled on December 19, 2021. A total of 153 candidates will run in directly elected...04:05
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December 17, 2021
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Hongkongers will head to the polls on December 19, 2021, to cast ballots in the first Legislative Council election since the central government in mainland China revamped the city’s electoral...03:35
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‘Only patriots’ in HK’s Legco election
December 15, 2021
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Hongkongers are set to vote for members of the next Legislative Council on December 19, 2021. It's the first Legco polls since Beijing revamped the city's electoral system earlier in the year. The...03:30
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Why this Legco election is different
December 8, 2021
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Since Beijing overhauled the city’s electoral system earlier this year to ensure only “patriots” govern Hong Kong, some pro-establishment veterans have decided to switch to new constituencies. New...25:22
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Hong Kong Legco election: candidates up close
December 8, 2021
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All 90 newly elected lawmakers of Hong Kong's Legislative Council took their oaths of allegiance on January 3, 2022. The new council consists of nearly a full house of pro-establishment members,...01:36
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HK Legco members sworn in
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Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Hong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam in Beijing on December 22, days after the city’s Legislative Council election. He affirmed her and her government’s work bringing...03:03
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Xi praises Lam for Legco poll
December 23, 2021
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The pro-establishment bloc in Hong Kong nearly swept all seats in the city’s Legislative Council poll held on Sunday, December 19, 2021. Only one centrist candidate won a seat in a revamped Legco,...05:34
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2021 Hong Kong Legco election
December 20, 2021
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Hong Kong Secretary for Security Chris Tang Ping-keung said some Western countries’ move to suspend their extradition agreements with the city was “a shame” as it did benefit some criminals but the...13:26
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Geopolitics has dented Hong Kong law enforcement but crooks still being caught: security chief
July 25, 2024
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July 18, 2024
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Two years after taking office as Hong Kong's chief executive, John Lee has shifted his focus from enforcing national security to improving the lives of residents and rebuilding the city's economy....26:24
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