Macanese legislative election, 2009

Macanese legislative election, 2009

2005 ← 20 September 2009 → 2013

outgoing members ← → Members elected

29 seats in the Legislative Assembly   Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader António Ng Kwan Tsui Hang Chan Meng Kam Party AMN UPD ACUM Alliance Pro-democratic Pro-establishment Pro-establishment Leader's seat Macau (Direct) Macau (Direct) Macau (Direct) Last election 2 seats, 18.80% 2 seats, 13.29% 2 seats, 16.58% Seats won 3 2 2 Seat change 1 0 0 Popular vote 27,448 21,098 17,014 Percentage 19.35% 14.88% 12.00%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   MUDM Leader Angela Leong Ho Ion Sang José Pereira Coutinho Party NUDM UPP NE Alliance Pro-establishment Pro-establishment Pro-democratic Leader's seat Macau (Direct) Macau (Direct) Macau (Direct) Last election 1 seat, 9.33% 2 seats, 9.60% 1 seat, 7.99% Seats won 1 1 1 Seat change 0 1 0 Popular vote 14,099 14,044 12,908 Percentage 9.94% 9.90% 9.10%   Seventh party Eighth party   Leader Mak Soi Kun Melinda Chan Party UGM MUDAR Alliance Pro-establishment Pro-establishment Leader's seat Macau (Direct) Macau (Direct) Last election new party new party Seats won 1 1 Seat change 1 1 Popular vote 10,348 7,857 Percentage 7.30% 5.54%

President before election Susana Chou OMKC Elected President Lau Cheok Va CCCAE

Susana Chou
OMKC

Lau Cheok Va
CCCAE

Legislative elections were held in Macau on 20 September 2009. The official campaign began on 5 September, and several candidates received warnings from the Electoral Affairs Commission for having begun campaign activities beforehand.

As in 2005, there are 29 seats, only 12 of which are elected by universal suffrage under the highest averages method. The rest are "elected" by the functional "constituencies" or appointed by the Chief Executive.

This year, there are four lists advocating universal suffrage and political reforms.

In both 2001 and 2005, the New Democratic Macau Association, also referred as the democrats by local media, received the highest number of votes. Due to the divisors (1,2,4,8,...) employed in the highest averages method, they only managed to win 2 seats on both occasions (they would have achieved 3 seats had the original d'Hondt formula been used instead). Because of this, they split into two lists, namely Associação de Próspero Macau Democrático (APMD) and Associação Novo Macau Democrático (ANMD), contesting the election with the same manifesto. Similar strategies have been used by the Democratic Party of Hong Kong in the Hong Kong legislative elections, with mixed successes. APMD is led by Antonio Ng while Au Kam San leads ANMD, which means both lists have outgoing deputies (deputados) as their leading candidates.

The democrats campaign for one man one vote for the CE in 2014 (with nominations from the 300-member election committee) and direct election with public nominations in 2019. For the AL, they suggest abolishing all indirectly elected seats in 2013 and the end of appointed seats by the CE in 2017.

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