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FOLLOWING FROM BRAY ON URBAN COUNCIL ELECTIONS
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A RECORD NUMBER OF 127,303 VOTERS TURNED OUT AT THE UC ELECTIONS, REPRESENTING 22.4 PER CENT OF THE TOTAL REGISTERED
ELECTORS IN THE 12 CONSTITUENCIES.
2. THE TURNOUT IS 20 TIMES THAT OF THE LAST UC ELECTIONS HELD IN
MARCH 1981 WHEN 6,195 OR 18 PER CENT OF THE 34,381 REGISTERED
ELECTORS CAST THEIR VOTES.
3. THE LARGEST TURNOUT RATE IN PERCENTAGE TERMS WAS RECORDED IN SHAM SHUI PO WITH 26.7 PER CENT OF THE ELECTORATE VOTING, FOLLOWED
BY WONG TAI SIN WITH 26 PER CENT AND SOUTHERN WITH 23.2 PER CENT.
THE LEAST ENTHUSIASTIC DISTRICT WAS MONG KOK WITH ONLY 15 PER CENT
OF THE ELECTORATE VOTING.
ABOUT 55 PER CENT OF THE 127,303 VOTERS CAME OUT TO VOTE AFTER 7 P.M. THIS PATTERN OF HEAVY TURNOUT IN THE EVENING WAS SIMILAR
TO THAT OF THE LAST URBAN DB ELECTIONS.
AMONG THOSE WHO VOTED WERE 56 BLIND AND 123 HANDICAPPED
PEOPLE.
THE DREAKDOWN OF VOTER TURNOUT IS AS FOLLOWS:-
DISTRICTS
SHAM SHUI PO
EASTERN
KOWLOON CITY
KWUN TONG
WONG TAI SIN
CENTRAL AND WESTERN
SOUTHERN
YAU MA TEI
MONC KOK
NUMBER OF VOTES (PERCENTAGE IN BRACKET)
23,315 (26.7 PER CENT)
20,766 (20.4 PER CENT)
17,780 (22 PER CENT) 16,013 (21.3 PER CENT) 13,193 (26 PER CENT) 11,389 (22.7 PER CENT) 11,317 (23.2 PER CENT)
7,122 (22.7 PER CENT) 6,403 (15 PER CENT)
3 INCUMBENT URBAN COUNCILLORS, HILTON CHEONG-LEEN, ELSIE ELLIOTT AND AUGUSTINE CHUNG SAI-KIT WERE RC-ELECTED UNOPPOSED IN WAN CHAI, KWUN TONG WEST AND WONG TAI SIN SOUTH RESPECTIVELY.
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