The poll may be over but Hong Kong still must tackle voter apathy as reflected in the low turnout in the municipal-level election on Sunday as it can hurt the legitimacy of the “patriots-only” district councils, observers said.
Despite officials’ strenuous efforts to get people to vote, many insisted they were not too troubled by the turnout of 27.54 per cent, or about 1.2 million residents, especially when compared with the historic high of 71.2 per cent in 2019 during the height of the anti-government protests.
