Live coverage: Hong Kong heads out to the polls for Legco elections

Updated 10.24pm - Civic Party candidate reports voting irregularities | Voter turnout at 48.19pc, or 1,670,381 voters, up from 2008 | Kwok rallies for Audrey Eu | C.Y. votes, says he's happy to see end of protest | Andrew To and ‘Long Hair’ clash with Paul Tse

Hong Kong voters cast their ballots on Sunday, as campaigners made their final push to elect Legislative Council candidates to functional and geographical consituencies across the city. Polls close at 10.30pm, but before then SCMP reporters check in with: Chief Executive C.Y. Leung, who says he's happy to see the end of the national education protest; “Long Hair” Leung Kwok-hung, who clashed with this opponent; and ...

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Campaign posters in Kowloon East, where two candidates from the pan-democratic camp hit back at smear campaigns. Photo: Dickson Lee

Published: 10:44am, 9 Sep 2012Updated: 10:23pm, 9 Sep 2012

Updated 10.24pm

Civic Party candidate reports voting irregularities

The Civic Party’s Ronny Tong Ka-wah, candidate for New Territories East, said two voters at the City One polling station in Sha Tin told him that when they went to cast their votes, they found their names already registered as “voted”. He said both have reported to the police.

He also said some voters were allowed to vote with masks on, and said the Registration and Electoral Office should follow up.

“I am very disappointed. This is challenging our corruption-free election system,” Tong said.

At 8.30pm, Tong issued a call to vote in Tseung Kwan O, with fellow party members Margaret Ng. He said the high turnover rate in the morning indicated that the pro-government election machinery is working.

“Pan-democratic supporters usually won’t vote that early in the day,” he said, adding that he is preparing for the worst, as opinion polls in the past two weeks indicated he was ranked ninth. Reporting by Simpson Cheung