2021 Macanese legislative election

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2021 Macanese legislative election
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  2017 12 September 20212025 

13 of the 33 seats in the Legislative Assembly
Turnout42.38% (Decrease2.svg14.84 pp)
PartyLeader%Seats+/–
Pro-Beijing parties
ACUM Si Ka Lon 20.143+2
UPD Ho Sut Heng 17.9920
UGM Ian Soi Kun 12.7320
UNIPRO Leong Hong Sai 11.432+1
AGMM Wong Kit Cheng 10.782+1
Pro-democracy parties
NE José Pereira Coutinho 13.802+1
Unaffiliated parties
Sinergia Ron Lam U tou 6.641+1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
President beforePresident after
Ko Hoi In
OMKC
Ko Hoi In
OMKC

Legislative elections were held in Macau on 12 September 2021. This legislative election will return 33 members of the Legislative Assembly of Macau, with 14 directly elected by all electorates, 12 indirectly elected by special interest groups and 7 appointed by the Chief Executive 15 days after the announcement of the election results.

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The voter turnout rate for the 2021 Legislative Assembly direct election stood at 42 per cent after polls closed, the lowest rate reported since the establishment of the Macau Special Administrative Region in 1999. [1]

Mass disqualification

The Electoral Affairs Commission for this legislative election unprecedentedly disqualified some 21 candidates who intended to contest in the direct elections. As a result of those 21 hopefuls having been barred from running, five candidate lists consequently became unqualified due to the electoral requirement of a minimum of 4 contenders in each list. [2] [3]

All pro-democracy candidates, except José Pereira Coutinho's candidate list, [4] were barred from running in the election. The mass disqualification created shock as Macau has been seen as "obedient" to the Chinese government, while disqualifying election candidates, which had happened in Hong Kong before, was believed to be unlikely in Macau. [5]

Results

The turnout of the election was only 42.38%, marking the lowest since the 1988 election. The mass disqualification was said to be the reason of residents not voting, but officials claimed the weather and pandemic as main factors instead. [6] The number of invalid and blank ballots broke record, with some writing "trashed election", "democracy", name of disqualified candidate Antonio Ng, or foul languages. [7]

Pro-democracy camp won 2 seats only out of 33, whilst the remaining were under the control of pro-government and pro-Beijing parties and politicians as expected.

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Macau United Citizens Association 26,59920.143+2
Union for Development 23,76117.9920
Macau-Guangdong Union 16,81312.7320
Union for Promoting Progress 15,10211.432+1
Alliance for a Happy Home 14,23210.782+1
Pro-Beijing camp 11+2
New Hope 18,23213.802+1
Pro-democracy camp 2–2
Synergy Power 8,7646.641+1
Civil Watch 3,7292.820–1
Strength of Dialogue1,4331.090New
Collective Energy of Macau9180.700New
Powers of Political Thought8340.6300
Ou Mun Kong I7780.5900
Platform for Young People5420.410New
Alliance for the Promotion of the Basic Law of Macao3340.250New
Unaffiliated10
Functional constituencies and appointees
Macau Union of Employers Interests40
Macau Union of Professional Interests3+1
Excellent Culture and Sport Union20
Federation of Employees Associations20
Association for the Promotion of Social Services and Education10
Chief Executive appointees 70
Total132,071100.00330
Valid votes132,07196.21
Invalid votes2,0671.51
Blank votes3,1412.29
Total votes137,279100.00
Registered voters/turnout323,90742.38
Source: Boletim Oficial

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