of protests often with violence you've often been there during that what has today been like charlotte hanna today has remained peaceful there have been riot police at all of the polling stations here across hong kong ensuring that it remains calm we have been hearing messages from protesters activists urging others to remain peaceful today they were afraid of anything provoking the government to the suspend or council these district council elections so it has remained peaceful here but in a testament to some of the violence that preceded this vote we're at the polling station in the constituency of jimmy shan he's a pro democracy activist who has been attacked twice in the build up to these district council elections most recently very severely injured so this is an election that has seen a number of candidates both pro step michelin and pro democracy coming under attack our correspondent some pill in hong kong reporting on pivotal local elections for us thanks very much. well romanian vote is a call saying that ballots in a 2nd round of presidential elections amid allegations of corruptio