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Up to 2.45 am on December 11, 63,229 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              4,738    

2     Shi Kai-biu                            426     

3     Tse Wai-chun, Paul                   1,599      

4     Lo Ching-cheung, Simon                 388      

5     Chung Shu-kun, Christopher          21,958     

6     Eu Yuet-mee, Audrey                 34,120      

End/Monday, December 11, 2000

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