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HONG KONG: LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS
17/4.
1.
A
(16)
In
response to Mr Hum's submission of 7 April
Parliamentary Question from Mr Adley on the
Renton has asked
regarding a
local elections in Hong Kong, Mr
why there was a higher turnout in the Regional Council elections than in the Urban Council ones.
2.
The reasons for this are probably to be found in
the differences between the areas covered by the two
Councils: the new Regional Council covers the New
Territories and outlying islands, while the Urban Council
covers the two urban districts of Hong Kong Island and
Kowloon. Despite the development of several new towns,
many parts of the New Territories and the outlying islands
remain rural and (comparatively) isolated. The population
outside the new towns is more homogeneous
than in the
older urban areas, and long established patterns of
allegiance have survived: allegiances which have ensured a good turnout for the election of village representatives
in the past and may well have done so for candidates in
the RegCo elections now.
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