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Up to 1.45 am on December 11, 14,677 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              891                

2     Shi Kai-biu                          115     

3     Tse Wai-chun, Paul                   343     

4     Lo Ching-cheung, Simon                95     

5     Chung Shu-kun, Christopher         4,693     

6     Eu Yuet-mee, Audrey                8,540      

End/Monday, December 11, 2000

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