Preliminary results of the Legislative Assembly Election 2013

The Electoral Affairs Committee for the Legislative Assembly Election announced the following preliminary results of the direct and indirect elections of fifth-term Legislative Assembly early this morning, shortly after the completion of vote-counting: Direct Election:
1 Nova União para Desenvolvimento de Macau (New Macau Development Union): 13,086 2 Liberais da Nova Macau (New Macau Liberals): 3,227
3 Associação de Activismo para a Democracia (Association of Macau Activism for Democracy): 923
4 Associação de Promoção de Direitos dos Cidadãos (Citizens' Rights Promotion Association): 848
5 Associação de Novo Macau Democrática (Democratic New Macau Association): 8,826
6 União Para O Desenvolvimento (Union for Development): 11,961
7 Observatório Cívico (Macau Civic Watch): 5,224
8 União de Macau-Guangdong (Macau-Guangdong Union): 16,248
9 Nova Esperança (New Hope) : 13,118
10 Associação para Promoção da Democracia, Liberdade, Direitos Humanos e Estado de Direito de Macau (Ideais de Macau) (Democracy, Liberty, Human Rights and Rule of Law Promotion Association of Macau (Macau Dream)): 1,006 11 Associação Esforço Juntos para Melhorar a Comunidade (Association of Joint Efforts to Improve the Community): 2,306
12 Aliança Pr'A Mudança (Alliance for Change): 8,755
13 Associação dos Cidadãos Unidos de Macau (Macau United Citizens Association): 26,385
14 União Promotora Para O Progresso (Progress Promotion Union): 15,816
15 Frente do Movimento Operário (Labour Movement Front): 227
16 Supervisão pela Classe Baixa (Grassroots Supervision): 368
17 Aliança da Democracia de Sociedade (Social Democratic Alliance): 179
18 Ações Inovadoras (Breakthrough Action): 1,641
19 Associação de Próspero Macau Democrático (Democratic Prosperous Macau Association): 10,986
20 Cuidados para Macau (Caring for Macau): 5323 Indirect Election:
Industrial, Commercial and Financial Sector - União dos Interesses Empresariais de Macau (Macau Union of Employers' Interests ): 701
Labour Sector - Comissão Conjunta da Candidatura das Associações de Empregados (Federation of Employees' Associations): 769
Professional Sector - União dos Interesses Profissionais de Macau (Macau Union of Professional Interests): 441
Social Services and Educational Sector - Associação de Promoção do Serviço Social e Educação (Association for Promotion of Social Services and Education): 1,327
Culture and Sport Sector - Associação União Cultural e Desportiva Excelente (Excellent Culture and Sport Union): 1,165 President of the Electoral Affairs Committee for the Legislative Assembly Election, Mr Ip Son Sang, told a press conference that there were 151,881 ballots, recording a voting rate of 55.02% for the direct election. He also revealed that there were 4,345 invalid votes and that the General Counting Committee will summon a meeting to analyse them. The Legislative Assembly is the sole legislature in the Macao Special Administrative Region. The fifth-term Legislative Assembly is composed of 33 members, 14 of whom are elected directly, 12 indirectly and seven appointed by the Chief Executive. There were 20 interests groups with a total of 145 candidates running for 14 directly-elected seats; on indirect election, there were 12 candidates from five sectors contesting 12 indirectly-elected seats in the election.