Pundits predicted a rough day at the polls for pan-democratic candidates, and things turned ugly for some rivals who engaged in face-to-face yelling and scuffles.
In Mei Foo, Civic Party campaigners were drowned out by hecklers angry about the party's stance on the right of abode for foreign domestic helpers and helping to delay the building of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge.
The Democratic Party, attacked throughout the campaign by the radical People Power group, faced an aggressive confrontation from well-known radical Edward Yum Liang-hsien in Wong Tai Sin.
He is nicknamed 'Victoria Park brother' for his habit of shouting loudly during weekly forums held in the Causeway Bay park.
In Mei Foo, the Civic Party's attempt to pull candidates back from landslide defeats turned into chaos when party leader Alan Leong Kah-kit arrived to help rally supporters.
His speeches were continually interrupted by heckling from Wong Tat-tung, the candidate from the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB), and Wong's supporters.