WSJ reports “[Hong Kong] Voters swept away dozens of establishment and pro-China candidates vying for 452 district council seats and handed a majority to the city’s pro-democracy camp—the first time opposition parties have won control of a political body in Hong Kong. The councils are low-level entities that typically handle neighborhood issues, but the elections are the only ones in Hong Kong to offer universal suffrage, and that gave them outsize importance as a statement of the public’s attitudes.”

“By noon on Monday, opposition candidates had won 390 seats, local broadcaster Radio Television Hong Kong reported, more than triple what they had in 2015. The camp also took a majority in at least 17 of the 18 district councils. All were previously under pro-establishment control.”