Macanese legislative election, 2005

2001 ←

25 September 2005

→ 2009

29 seats in the Legislative Assembly

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	António Ng	Chan Meng Kam
Party	AMN	ACUM
Alliance	Pro-democratic	Pro-establishment
Leader's seat	Macau (Direct)	Macau (Direct)
Last election	2 seats, 20.95%	new party
Seats won	2	2
Seat change	0	2
Popular vote	23,472	20,695
Percentage	18.80%	16.58%

	Third party	Fourth party
		UPP
Leader	Kwan Tsui Hang	Leong Heng Teng
Party	UPD	UPP
Alliance	Pro-establishment	Pro-establishment
Leader's seat	Macau (Direct)	Macau (Direct)
Last election	2 seats, 16.04	2seats, 13.92
Seats won	2	2
Seat change	0	0
Popular vote	16,588	11,985
Percentage	13.29%	9.60%

President before election

Susana Chou
OMKC

Elected President

Susana Chou
OMKC

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

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:

7 seats are appointed by the Chief Executive.

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.

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.

Voting System: Closed party-list proportional representation with the Highest averages method.

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