Hong Kong's people turned out in force on Sunday to cast ballots in local council
elections that the city's pro-democracy movement hopes will add pressure on the Beijing-backed government to heed their demands.
Queues several hundred meters long snaked out of polling stations in the early hours of a vote for 18 district councils in which high turnout is expected to benefit democratic forces.
The government said nearly a third of the record 4.13 million citizens registered to vote had cast their ballots within five hours of polls opening, more than double the rate seen over the same timeframe during the last
election in 2015.