Pro-democracy parties pulled off a landslide victory in Sunday's district council elections in Hong Kong, local media reported Monday, the clearest sign yet that voters support the protests against the Beijing-backed government that have rocked the Chinese territory for almost six months.Democracy-supporting candidates took 385 of the 452 directly elected seats -- or 85 percent -- seizing a majority for the first time since the former British colony was returned to Chinese rule in 1997, according to local media outlets.In what was also the first electoral contest since mass pro-democracy de…READ FULL ARTICLE
