GREAT NEWS FROM HONG KONG!
Pro-Democracy candidates are WINNING BIG in local elections.
Pro-independence candidates have 201 seats.
Pro-Beijing have 28 seats.
Louis Vaughan Jones from the BBC is reporting on the results.
Remember that going in to these elections, pro-Beijing seats were the majority.
Results coming from the South China Morning Post newspaper.
Two thirds of the results still to come.
These are only local elections but they’re the first elections since protests started.
— Lewis Vaughan Jones (@LVaughanJones) November 24, 2019
Seems we’re now over half way through the vote count.
Pro-independence candidates have 201 seats.
Pro-Beijing have 28 seats. #HongKongElections #HongKong
— Lewis Vaughan Jones (@LVaughanJones) November 24, 2019
This story is developing…
Hat Tip Ari
UPDATE: Via the BBC — According to the figures, pro-democracy candidates have won 278 seats so far, and pro-Beijing candidates 42.
