Vote-counting is about to begin at several polling stations in constituencies across #HongKong.
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Pro-democracy barrister Lau Wai-chung has beaten the incumbent Liberal Party’s Dominic Lee in the wealthy Yau Yat Tsuen constituency of Sham Shui Po. Photo: InMedia.pic.twitter.com/56nPSwdOdx
Democrat Paul Zimmerman has retained his seat in Pokfulam.
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The final voter turnout for the 2019 District Council election has been estimated at 71.2 percent, with just under 3 million casting their votes. Photo: May James / HKFP.pic.twitter.com/jZPfL2Aoo9
Several more pro-democracy victories are reported in Wanchai, and InMedia estimates that the local council will have a pro-democracy majority, as in 2003-07. However, pro-Beijing legislator Paul Tse has narrowly retained his seat.
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Democratic Party candidate Li Shee-lin is victorious in Wah Fu South, a constituency where the pro-democracy camp lost by a mere three votes in 2015.
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Chinese medicine practitioner Kwan Ka-lun has taken a traditionally pro-Beijing seat in Whampoa East, which later legislator Yau Wai-ching failed to take back in 2015.
Former journalist Lee Ka-Wai has also won in the traditionally pro-Beijing Fu Sun constituency of Tuen Mun.
Veteran democrat “Bull” Tsang has also beaten the pro-Beijing Li Chun-chau in Chai Wan, reversing the results of the 2015 election.
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NowTV reports that pro-democracy protest organiser Jimmy Sham — targeted twice in hit-and-run attacks — has won in Lek Yuen, Shatin. The district has previously been discriminated against for an apparently high mainland immigrant population.
Pro-Beijing legislator Vincent Cheng has lost his Nam Cheong North seat in the Sham Shui Po District Council to the pro-democracy camp.
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Democrat Ken Tsang — famous for being beaten by police during Occupy — has retaken Ma Tau Wai, Kowloon City after the traditionally pro-democracy constituency was seized by the pro-Beijing camp for four years.
JUST IN: Pro-Beijing legislator Junius Ho has conceded defeat to democrat Lo Chun-yu in Tuen Mun’s Lok Tsui constituency.pic.twitter.com/THq8Is9lWL
At HKU, newcomer democrat and former HKU student council member Camille Yam has beaten Stephen Chan — who has been in his seat for 28 years.
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