30 June 2014 Last updated at 02:15 ET<\/p>
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A total of 792,808 voters took part in an unofficial referendum on universal suffrage in Hong Kong, organisers said.<\/p>
The 10-day poll was held by protest group Occupy Central.<\/p>
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.<\/p>
About 42% of voters backed a proposal allowing the public, a nominating committee, and political parties to name candidates for the top job.<\/p>
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.<\/p>
Activists fear China will use the committee to screen out candidates it disapproves of.<\/p>
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.<\/p>
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.<\/p>
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.<\/p>