Hong Kong Legislative Council byelections

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_by-election,_2010

This is a long and very dramatic issue, which ultimately may or may not have any meaning.

[Verily]

Given that their only opposition is the more radical Tertiary 2012 and a handful of irrelevant independents, sounds like it will end in a whimper. Unfortunate, but oh well.

[Torie]

So what happened?

[minionofmidas]

So what happened?

It's all in the wiki article.

Reelected with between 68 and 93 percent of the vote, on a 17 percent turnout (record turnout for regular elections is 45 percent, so this isn't quite as low as it sounds.) The proestablishment voters simply stayed home.