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CLOSE TUSSLES IN ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTING ******
VOTING IN ALL ELECTORAL COLLEGE CONSTITUENCIES
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GEOGRAPHICAL AND THE URBAN COUNCIL -- CONCLUDED AT ABOUT 5 PM TODAY (THURSDAY), AFTER SOME CLOSE TUSSLES WHICH REQUIRED SEVERAL POLLS TO DETERMINE WHO WOULD BE SITTING IN THE NEW LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ON OCTOBER 30.
WHILE SEVEN CANDIDATES IN THE DISTRICT BOARD GEOGRAPHICAL CONSTITUENCIES WERE ELECTED BY EARLY AFTERNOON, IT TOOK THE REST OF THE TIME FOR THE OTHER THREE TO BE DETERMINED FROM THE POLLING.
ONE SHORT OF THE MAXIMUM · WERE TAKEN IN THE VOTING FOR THE HONG KONG ISLAND (EAST) CONSTITUENCY, WITH MR LEE YU-TAI FINALLY GAINING HIS SEAT IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
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IN THE OTHER TWO REMAINING CONSTITUENCIES, MR ANDREW WONG WANG-FAT OF THE NEW TERRITORIES (EAST) AND MR TAI CHIN-WAH OF THE NEW TERRITORIES (WEST) WERE BOTH ELECTED AFTER FOUR POLLS WERE TAKEN.
IN THE URBAN COUNCIL ELECTION, MR HILTON CHEONG-LEEN, THE CHAIRMAN, WAS ELECTED, GAINING 16 VOTES AGAINST THE 13 FOR MRS ELSIE ELLIOTT TU.
COMMENTING EARLIER IN THE AFTERNOON ON THE DISTRICT BOARD CONSTITUENCIES ELECTIONS, THE SECRETARY FOR DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION, MR DONALD LIAO, SAID HE WAS PLEASED AT THE ALMOST 100 PER CENT TURN-OUT RATE FOR THE POLLS, WHICH WERE +HIGHLY COMPETITIVE+.
THE DIFFERENT PROFESSIONS AND BACKGROUNDS OF THE CANDIDATES, HE SAID, INDICATED THERE WAS NO DOMINATION OF A PARTICULAR SECTOR OF THE COMMUNITY.
+THIS MEANS THERE WILL BE A BALANCED REPRESENTATION IN THE NEW LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL FROM THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE,+ HE SAID.
THE ELECTIONS MARKED AN IMPORTANT STEP FOR THE DISTRICT BOARDS, AS THEY REPRESENTED THE VIEWS OF THE GRASSROOTS LEVEL, HE SAID.
FOLLOWING ARE RESULTS OF THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE ELECTIONS:
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