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Dennis Wong

Alberto Lucas López

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INFOGRAPHIC: The district elections

Exercise your right: Four good reasons to care about the district council elections in Hong Kong today 

District council campaigns, such as this one in Whampoa in Kowloon, come to a head with Sunday’s polls. Photo: AFP

The much-derided goose statue project in Sham Tseng in the New Territories led to calls for better accounting of how public money was being spent. Photo: May Tse

The elections are the first since the Occupy Movement last year, for which sentiments remain strong as seen in this one-year anniversary gathering in the city. Photo: AFP

Lawmaker Starry Lee Wai-king at a Legco meeting this year. Photo: Edward Wong

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Hong Kong voters go to the polls tomorrow for the first time since the 2014 Occupy protests. There are 431 seats up for grabs in 18 district councils but 68 are uncontested, leaving 363 representatives to be chosen by voters. The elections are seen as a key test of voters’ sentiment after the unsettling pro-democracy demonstrations
