More than 2.94 million people voted in Hong Kong's District Council Ordinary Election and the turnout rate was about 71.2 percent, said Barnabas Fung, chairman of the Electoral Affairs Commission of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), after the polls closed on Sunday night.

When asked about the disturbing behaviors of certain pro-democracy voters that may infringe on the fairness of the election, Fung told CGTN that the individual cases will not "affect the integrity of the election."

The commission has received over 6,540 election complaints, Fung said. 1,875 complaints were related to voting arrangements such as long lines and change of polling stations, 1,184 complaints were related to election advertisement and 505 complaints were about canvassing activities. 

No one was given any priority in the voting process, he stressed. 

The first ballot box was opened in Kowloon Tong Government Primary School, marking the official start of vote counting across all polling stations in Hong Kong .

All polling stations closed around 10:30 p.m. local time, with both the voter turnout rate and the number of voters reaching a record high. 

The results will be announced in the early hours of Monday local time.

The Hong Kong district council elections, held every four years, are in the spotlight in 2019 since escalating violent protests have almost paralyzed the Asian financial hub.

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This year's election is met with unprecedented fanfare as people from across the political spectrum started hitting the polls early in the day, more than doubling 2015's turnout rate in the first three hours of voting. 

By 9:30 p.m., more than 2.8 million voters had cast their ballots, meaning 69.04 percent of all registered voters had participated – 22 percentage points higher when compared to the same time in 2015, when the last election was held. By the end of the night, the voter turnout was set at 71 percent, according to official sources.