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Hong Kong: protests prompt huge turnout for local elections

Hong Kong: protests prompt huge turnout for local elections

Residents stand in long queues to have their say in polls expected to be a proxy referendum on pro-democracy campaign

Hong Kong residents have turned out in unprecedented numbers for local elections that many in the city are treating as a proxy referendum on months of anti-government protests.

Hour-long queues stretched outside many polling stations and by early afternoon more than 1.5 million people had voted, exceeding the total ballots cast in the 2015 elections.

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