Hong Kong residents turned out in unprecedented numbers, with more than 1.5 million people at polling booths exceeding the total ballots cast in the 2015 elections, for local elections that many in the city are treating as a proxy referendum on months of anti-government protests. A last-minute surge in registration added nearly 400,000 voters, most of them young, to the rolls, and a wave of novice pro-democracy candidates meant that for the first time in Hong Kong’s history every seat was contested.

(Comment: The results will be announced on November 26 morning. The huge turnout, triggered by the anti-China protests, is likely to see many District Councils being won by pro-democracy parties.)