TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1985
SPECIAL KUK COUNCILLORS ELECTED *****
SEVEN SPECIAL COUNCILLORS WERE ELECTED TODAY (TUESDAY) TO SERVE THE HEUNG YEE KUK'S ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN.
TWENTY-FIVE NOMINATIONS HAD BEEN RECEIVED FOR THE ELECTION OF 21 SPECIAL COUNCILLORS FOR THE THREE ELECTORAL DISTRICTS OF TAI PO (INCLUDING SHA TIN AND NORTH), YUEN LONG (INCLUDING TUEN MUN) AND SOUTHERN (COMPRISING KWAI CHÚNG AND TSING YI, TSUEN WAN, SAI KUNG AND ISLANDS), EACH WITH SEVEN SEATS.
HOWEVER, SPECIAL COUNCILLORS FOR TAI PO AND YUEN LONG WERE RETURNED UNOPPOSED, LEAVING 11 CANDIDATES TO VIE FOR THE SEVEN SEATS IN TODAY'S SOUTHERN ELECTION.
THE REGIONAL SECRETARY FOR THE NEW TERRITORIES, DR JAMES HAYES, WAS THE RETURNING OFFICER FOR THE ELECTION, WHICH WAS HELD BY SECRET BALLOT AT THE HEUNG YEE KUK'S OFFICE IN KOWLOON TONG.
THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES FOR THE SOUTHERN ELECTORAL DISTRICT ELECTION ARE:
MR KHÔNG KWOK-KAM
MR CHAN MUK-SANG
MR NG TO-PO
MR LUNG KWOK-FAI
MR KWOK TAM-FUK
MR YUEN WAI
MR LEUNG CHOI-FUK
( 34 VOTES)
( 34 VOTES)
( 25 VOTES)
22 VOTES)
( 22 VOTES)
( 22 VOTES)
( 22 VOTES)
THE ELECTORATE COMPRISED THE CHAIRMEN AND VICE-CHAIRMEN OF RURAL COMMITTEES AND UNOFFICIAL JUSTICES OF THE PEACE IN THE NEW TERRITORIES.
THE NEW SPECIAL COUNCILLORS WILL SERVE THE KUK'S 26TH TERM FOR THREE YEARS, FROM JUNE 1.
ELECTION OF THE KUK CHAIRMAN, TWO VICE-CHAIRMEN AND 15 ORDINARY MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FOR THE NEW TERM WILL BE HELD ON TUESDAY, MAY 28.
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