past previous records for district council elections but this is now recording the highest turnout avner action in hong kong history now both sides representatives from both sides are saying that they were claiming that is a victory saying it's evidence that their side is going to come out on top but it's too early to tell at this stage exactly what this means about the pros stablish mint and pro democracy side there are crowds now starting to gather outside this polling station where we're waiting for those results at the moment just giving a sense of just how much anticipation how much how many eyes are on the result of this election now we saw huge crowds gathering to cause the ballots earlier on today there was a huge turnout earlier on this morning people apparently concerned that if they didn't get their vote and they could be some fears that the voting might not be allowed to go ahead there had been warnings from officials that if there was violence today that the vote could be cooled off the number of people voting then started to decrease throughout the evening but we are expect