Turnout tops 70 per cent in Hong Kong local polls: election commission

The turnout in Hong Kong's district council polls topped 70 per cent, the city's Election Affairs Commission said early Monday, smashing records after months of protests drove an unprecedented number of voters to the polls.

Some 2.94 million people voted out of 4.13 million citizens registered for the local election held on Sunday, well over the 47 per cent turnout for the last poll in 2015 which was itself a record since the elections were established in 1999.