2005 Macanese legislative election

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Members elected

12 of the 29 seats in the Legislative Assembly

Party Leader % Seats +/– Pro-Beijing parties ACUM Chan Meng Kam 16.57 2 New UPD Kwan Tsui Hang 13.29 2 0 UNIPRO Leong Heng Teng 9.60 2 0 AMD Leong On-kei 9.32 1 New UBM Fong Chi-keong 6.83 1 New CODEM David Chow 4.87 1 0 Pro-democracy parties ANMD Antonio Ng 18.81 2 0 NE José Pereira Coutinho 7.99 1 0 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. President before President after Susana Chou OMKC Susana Chou OMKC

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Legislative elections were held in Macau on 25 September 2005.

Electoral system

Twelve candidates are elected directly using the highest averages method on party lists with divisors of 1,2,4,8 etc. There are 18 party lists, the highest ever, with a total of 125 candidates, also the highest ever. 5 of the lists are related to gambling.

10 candidates are elected by the functional constituencies. The seats are distributed like the directly elected seats. There is one list for each category. There are:

• 4 seats for employers
• 2 seats for labour
• 2 seats for special interests and
• 2 seats for charity, culture, education and sport

7 seats are appointed by the Chief Executive.

Related events

A candidate (汪長南) was bashed on the head. Police arrested 3 suspects. A reporter was beaten up while investigating a possibly corrupt candidate. The Commission Against Corruption received 93 complaints.^{[citation needed]}

Even with a typhoon signal no. 3 issued, the turnout for the direct election was a historic 58.39%. 128,830 people voted out of 220,653. The turnout for the functional constituencies was 61.95%. 2704 people voted.

Results

Geographical constituencies

Functional constituencies (10 seats)

Nominated Members (7 seats)

Members appointed by the Chief Executive Edmund Ho Hau Wah

• Lei Pui Lam
• Sam Chan Io
• Tsui Wai Kwan
• "José" Chui Sai Peng
• Philip Xavier
• Ieong Tou Hong
• Lao Pun Lap