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Up to 12.45 am on December 11, 1,479 valid votes out of a total of 208,672 votes for the Legislative Council Hong Kong Island by-election have been counted. The number of votes obtained by each of the lists of candidates is:

                                      No. of votes
List       Candidate                  obtained so far
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1         Chow Kit-bing, Jennifer            70         

2         Shi Kai-biu                        12        

3         Tse Wai-chun, Paul                 15         

4         Lo Ching-cheung, Simon             13           

5         Chung Shu-kun, Christopher        394        

6         Eu Yuet-mee, Audrey               975          

End/Monday, December 11, 2000

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