THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1988
HEALTHY TURNOUT AT DB ELECTIONS: SIR DAVID
SIR
THE CHIEF SECRETARY,
DAVID FORD, DESCRIBED HEALTHY TURNOUT, THE INCOMING FIGURES AS THE DISTRICT BOARD DREW NEARER THE POLLS CLOSING TIME THIS (THURSDAY) EVENING.
GOOD
AS A
ELECTIONS
SPEAKING TO REPORTERS AFTER VISITING THE DISTRICT BOARD WERE MANY FACTORS WHY ELECTIONS PRESS CENTRE, SIR DAVID SAID THERE THE FIGURES MIGHT HAVE CHANGED FROM THE 1985 ELECTIONS.
"I DON'T THINK WE HAVE ESTABLISHED A TREND OF VOTER TURNOUT FOR DISTRICT BOARD ELECTIONS YET.
"CERTAINLY,
I DON'T THINK ONE SHOULD REGARD THIS AS A THE WORLD DISAPPOINTING TURNOUT. FOR A DISTRICT ELECTION ANYWHERE IN
SIR DAVID SAID. THIS IS STILL A GOOD TURNOUT, AND WE'RE WELL PLEASED,"
IN REPLY TO A QUESTION, THE CHIEF SECRETARY SAID THERE WERE
ANY SORT OF REASONS TO BELIEVE THAT THE TURNOUT WAS
INDICATION WHAT PEOPLE BELIEVED ABOUT THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN HONG KONG.
"THERE ARE A VAST NUMBER OF REASONS WHY PEOPLE MAY OR TURN OUT ON THIS OCCASION.
NO
OF
MAY NOT
THIS TIME. THERE "THERE ARE A NUMBER OF INCUMBENT CANDIDATES
ALL SORTS OF REASONS ARE A NUMBER OF UNCONTESTED SEATS. THERE ARE AND I THINK THE ANALYSIS OF WHY PEOPLE VOTE AND WHY PEOPLE VERY COMPLICATED AND CAN'T BE REDUCED TO SIMPLISTIC TERMS PEOPLE FEEL ABOUT THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN SAID.
THE CHIEF SECRETARY STRESSED THAT THE VERY IMPORTANT ROLE TO PLAY IN HONG KONG.
DON'T ARE ABOUT WHAT HONG KONG," SIR DAVID
DISTRICT BOARDS HAD A
VOTER TURNOUT WAS SATISFACTORY: LIAO
THE SECRETARY FOR
DISTRICT
RATE
MR ADMINISTRATION,
DONALD
LIAO,
VOTER TURNOUT THE DESCRIBED
PER 30.3
CENT AS VERY THEIR SATISFACTORY WITH MORE THAN 420,000 ELECTORS COMING OUT TO CAST BALLOTS.
OF
1985
MIGHT BE CONSIDERED ACTUAL PERCENTAGE IN SOMB
MR LIAO SAID ALTHOUGH THE OVERALL FIGURE
THE ELECTIONS, LOW COMPARED WITH DISTRICTS WAS HIGH.
POPULATION
IN
THE WHERE "IN SOME OF THE NEWLY ESTABLISHED AREAS HAS INCREASED, THE ACTUAL NUMBER OF PEOPLE TURNING OUT TO VOTE WAS FACT GREATER, HE SAID.
I
/"THERE ARE