30 June 2014 Last updated at 02:15 ET
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A total of 792,808 voters took part in an unofficial referendum on universal suffrage in Hong Kong, organisers said.
The 10-day poll was held by protest group Occupy Central.
Campaigners want the public to be able to elect Hong Kong’s leader, the chief executive. The Hong Kong government says the vote has no legal standing.
About 42% of voters backed a proposal allowing the public, a nominating committee, and political parties to name candidates for the top job.
Beijing has pledged that the Hong Kong public can directly choose its chief executive in the 2017 election, but only from a list of candidates selected by a nominating committee.
Activists fear China will use the committee to screen out candidates it disapproves of.
Occupy Central organised the vote for the public to decide which of three proposals – all of which involve allowing citizens to directly nominate candidates – to present to the Beijing government.
The winning proposal, put forth by the Alliance for True Democracy, allows candidates to be nominated by 35,000 registered voters, or by any political party which secured at least 5% of the vote in the last election for Hong Kong’s legislative committee.
The proposal also allows a nominating committee to name candidates, and the formation of this committee should be “as democratic as it can be”, reported the South China Morning Post.
