Leung Chun-ying, 57, a self-made Hong Kong-born surveyor with deep China connections and former property consultant has been elected as the new chief executive of Hong Kong) wins poll of 1,200 Hong Kong notables to become semi-autonomous Chinese territory's new chief executive.
Leung Chun-ying had been considered the favourite to win Sunday's vote after securing the support of the semi-autonomous territory's main pro-Beijing party.
Hundreds of pro-democracy activists packed the streets around the harbourside convention centre where the committee meeting was taking place, shouting slogans demanding "direct elections".
Some activists see the poll as an elitist process and have been protesting the vote, as just 1,200 Hong Kong business, labour and political leaders were eligible to vote in the election of the city's next leader, which had prompted the hardest fought campaign since the handover to Chinese rule in 1997.
The vast majority of Hong Kong's seven million residents have no right to vote in the "small circle" poll, according to the One Country, Two Systems arrangement by which China rules the former British colony.
Leung:
"Every resident has their own view about the election. I will try my best to get rid of people's negative perception about this election"
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