Queues outside polling stations, 4 September 2016. Vincent Yu/AP/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.
The queues to cast ballots still stretched out into the early hours of the morning, following a record voter turnout of 2.2 million people. And after the elections on 4 September, Hong Kong woke up to a drastically reshaped Legislative Council (the city-state’s principal law-making institution). Many that emerged victorious are not only fresh faces, but also remarkably young ones; the median age in the Legislative Council has dropped from 60 to 52. Nathan Law Kwun-chung, now the city’s youngest ever lawmaker, is a mere 23-years-old.
