HONG KONG – A record 4.1-million people have registered to vote – over half of this city’s population of 7.4 million.
More than 400 councilors are due to be elected to Hong Kong’s district council as the polls started around 7:30 local time (23:30 GMT) on Sunday.
Pro-democracy protest groups hoped the vote will send a message to the Chinese government after five months of unrest.
No trouble has been reported so far.
By 11:30 just over a million people had voted (24.37%) compared to 340,048 (10.89%) within the same timescale in the last such elections in 2015. In those elections only 3.1-million people registered to vote.(BBC)
