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Up to 3.45 am on December 11, 155,943 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              10,499               

2     Shi Kai-biu                             934   

3     Tse Wai-chun, Paul                    3,779   

4     Lo Ching-cheung, Simon                  958   

5     Chung Shu-kun, Christopher           59,386

6     Eu Yuet-mee, Audrey                  80,387     

End/Monday, December 11, 2000

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