Elections for the Assembleia Legislativa were held in Macau on September 25 2005.

Results

Direct Election Results (by ticket number)

Ballot no.	Party name	Votes	% of valid votes	Seats
1	Por Macau	892	0.71	0
2	UNVM	448	0.36	0
3	ANMD	23472	18.80	2
4	AAD	654	0.52	0
5	NJM	3060	2.45	0
6	UO	457	0.37	0
7	UPP	11985	9.60	2
8	UBM	8517	6.82	1
9	AMD	11642	9.33	1
10	ADBSM	4356	3.49	0
11	AVM	1973	1.58	0
12	UTJM	922	0.74	0
13	CODEM	6079	4.87	1
14	UPD	16588	13.29	2
15	AACPP	2941	2.36	0
16	NE	9973	7.99	1
17	ADDC	191	0.15	0
18	ACUM	20695	16.58	2
	Valid votes	124845
	Invalid votes	3325
	Blank votes	660

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.

Election method

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 Macao CCAC received 93 complaints.

Source

• http://full.mingpaonews.com/20050926/gob1.htm

External links

• Official site
• Official Election Results - Legislative Council 2005
• Official Election Results - Legislative Council 2005