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Hong Kong's 1st "Patriots Only" Elections Record Lowest-Ever Turnout
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Previously, the lowest turnout rate since the city's handover to China was 35.82 per cent, recorded in 1999.
Hong Kong's first "patriots only" district council elections saw a turnout of 27.5 per cent, the government said Monday, a record-low number for a race that had shut out all opposition candidates.
The city last held district council elections at the peak of huge, sometimes violent, democracy protests in 2019, recording a historic-high 71 per cent turnout that delivered a landslide victory for the democracy camp.
But a clampdown on dissent -- aided by a sweeping national security law imposed by Beijing -- has included a drive by authorities to weed out from public office anyone deemed politically disloyal after the protests.
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