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Up to 4.15 am on December 11, 172,141valid 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              11,558    

2     Shi Kai-biu                          1,044    

3     Tse Wai-chun, Paul                   4,166    

4     Lo Ching-cheung, Simon               1,075     

5     Chung Shu-kun, Christopher           65,228   

6     Eu Yuet-mee, Audrey                  89,070    

End/Monday, December 11, 2000


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