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    In Hong Kong elections, the message is clear. The next step may not be.

    Nov 25, 2019 4 minutes
    A Hong Kong voter waiting for results at a counting station holds up her phone as she monitors election results across Hong Kong on Nov. 25, 2019. The election saw historically high turnout and was widely viewed as an endorsement of the democratic aspirations of Hong Kong's electorate.

    The Hong Kong vote-counting room was still packed with public observers at nearly 3:00 a.m. on Monday, when election officials named Fergus Leung the victor in the Kwun Lung district council race, eliciting celebratory cheers from the energized crowd.

    Mr. Leung, a first-time candidate and university student, defeated an incumbent from a pro-Beijing party in a pattern repeated across Hong Kong in Sunday’s local elections, in which unprecedented numbers of Hong Kong voters rejected the pro-Beijing establishment and handed a landslide win to democrats.

    “It’s a milestone in Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement,” Mr. Leung said of the election, which drew a historically high voter registration of 4.1 million people and record turnout of 71%. Many view the election, which unfolded peacefully, as a

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