[sjogress]

> Even in the recent local elections the pro-protest candidates garnered on average less than 60% of the votes despite record turn out on their side.

I'm interested in your source for this, do you have an English language source?

I haven't seen any results per candidate, and I don't have a proper understanding of how local HK elections work, but according to SCMP:

> Among the 452 seats up for grabs, the pan-democrats were victorious in 347, the independents – many of them pro-democracy – won 45, while the pro-establishment camp had to make do with 60. [1]

Sounds like a pretty clear victory to me. If the elections are anything like my local elections such a result would be considered a landslide victory.

1: https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3039151...

[DonaldFisk]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Hong_Kong_local_elections gives a breakdown of votes cast and seats won. The reason for the discrepancy between votes cast and seats won is the first-past-the-post electoral system used.

[sjogress]

Interesting, according to Wikipedia the results of the popular vote was: Pro-democrats (57.10%), Pro-Beijing (42.06%), Non-aligned others (0.83%)

Seats were divided like this: Pro-democrats (81.00%), Pro-Beijing (18.58%), Non-aligned others (0.42%)

Looks like some democratic reform is in order even if HK is able to gain universal suffrage and keep the one-country two-systems indefinitely.

[idlewords]

You are recommending voting reform for Hong Kong local district elections based on having studied the issue for, what, thirty seconds?