2005 Macanese legislative election

2005 Macanese legislative election

25 September 2005
29 seats in the Legislative Assembly
Majority party Minority party   Leader António Ng Chan Meng Kam Party Prosperous Democratic Macau Association ACUM Alliance Pro-democracy camp Pro-establishment camp Leader's seat Macau (Direct) Macau (Direct) Last election 2 seats, 20.95% new party Seats won 2 2 Seat change 0 2 Popular vote 23,472 20,695 Percentage 18.80% 16.58%   Third party Fourth party   UPP Leader Kwan Tsui Hang Leong Heng Teng Party UPD UNIPRO Alliance Pro-establishment camp Pro-establishment camp Leader's seat Macau (Direct) Macau (Direct) Last election 2 seats, 16.04 2seats, 13.92 Seats won 2 2 Seat change 0 0 Popular vote 16,588 11,985 Percentage 13.29% 9.60%
President before election Susana Chou OMKC Elected President Susana Chou OMKC

Elections for the Assembleia Legislativa were held in Macau on September 25, 2005.

Election method

Twelve candidates are elected directly using the highest averages method on party lists with divisors of 1,2,4,8 etc. There are 18 party lists, the highest ever, with a total of 125 candidates, also the highest ever. 5 of the lists are related to gambling.

10 candidates are elected by the functional constituencies. The seats are distributed like the directly elected seats. There is one list for each category. There are:

• 4 seats for employers
• 2 seats for labour
• 2 seats for special interests and
• 2 seats for charity, culture, education and sport

7 seats are appointed by the Chief Executive.

Related events

A candidate (汪長南) was bashed on the head. Police arrested 3 suspects. A reporter was beaten up while investigating a possibly corrupt candidate. The Macao CCAC received 93 complaints.

Even with a typhoon signal no. 3 issued, the turnout for the direct election was a historic 58.39%. 128,830 people voted out of 220,653. The turnout for the functional constituencies was 61.95%. 2704 people voted.

Sources

• https://web.archive.org/web/20070929102419/http://full.mingpaonews.com/20050926/gob1.htm (in Chinese)

External links

• Official website (in Chinese)
• Official website (in Portuguese)
• Official results