How to understand the landslide in Hong Kong’s latest local election

Sunday was a day with full of surprise for us in Hong Kong. I was woken up by the news reporting literally queues everywhere outside the polling stations: people were so feared about a rumour comes true, so everyone rushed to vote as early as possible.

Fear against CCP trigger monstrous turnout

Rumours are pretty much all around in Hong Kong, especially these few turbulent months. The rumour circulating before the election was, the SAR regime may shut down voting stations at any time. If voting hours were longer than 3 hours, the results would be valid and final.

The SARG clarified very soon, but people tend believe Jim Hacker’s wisdom, rather than an official denial. They started queuing even before the polling stations opened nevertheless.

The crowds brought another shock by lunch time. Monstrous turnout, 30.98% at 12:30, it’s even more than twice of last election in 2015.

That lead us into a weird place. Rules of thumb tell us, early voters in town are mostly Pro-Peking & high turn out favours to anti government candidates. Who are these voters actually? Rubber stamping zombies for the communist party or real angry voters?