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A voter is besieged outside a polling station Sunday by supporters of candidates in Hong Kong's municipal elections. China suffered a blow to its prestige when a fierce critic of the mainland government unseated a Beijing-backed former missionary in Hong Kong's next-to-last election under British rule. Szeto Wah's win over Elsie Tu showed Hong Kong's Democrats are holding their ground against pro-China politicians as China's takeover of Hong Kong approaches in 1997. Szeto, 64, helped found the Democratic Party, the colony's largest pro-democracy faction.