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.