HONG KONG (AFP) -- Hong Kong's main pro-government party suffered a serious setback in the first polls since massive street protests in July, while the pro-democracy camp recorded gains, results published Monday showed.

The pro-democracy camp claimed 93 seats compared to 86 at the 1999 polls while the pro-government Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB), which backed a controversial security bill that sparked the huge July protests, slumped to just 64 seats compared to 83 at the last elections.

The elections attracted a record voter turnout and turnout rate of more than one million people, or 44.04 percent of eligible voters, casting their ballots.

The District Council election was seen as the first chance to measure the public's aspirations for democracy in the former British colony four months after the massive rallies rocked Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa's government.