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Macanese legislative election, 2005
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29 seats in the Legislative Assembly
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader António Ng Chan Meng Kam
Party Prosperous Democratic Macau Association ACUM
Alliance Pro-democratic 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 Steady0 Increase2
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 Steady0 Steady0
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.

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.[citation needed]

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.

Results

Politics and government of Macau
Laws
Executive
  • Principal offices
  • Government Laboratory
Legislature
  • Political camps:
Judiciary
  • Tribunal de Segunda Instância
  • Tribunal Judicial de Base
  • Tribunal Administrativo
Districts
Elections
Foreign relations
Documents

Consular missions in Macau

Macau–China relations

Related topics

Template:Macau legislative election, 2005

Candidates lists and results

Template:Macanese legislative election, 2005 comprehensive

Sources

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