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FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1988
VOTER TURNOUT WAS SATISFACTORY : LIAO
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LIAO,
VERY
THE SECRETARY FOR DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION, MR DONALD DESCRIBED THE VOTER TURNOUT RATE OF 30.3 PER CENT AS SATISFACTORY WITH MORE THAN 420,000 ELECTORS COMING OUT TO CAST THEIR BALLOTS.
MR LIAO SAID ALTHOUGH THE OVERALL FIGURE MIGHT BE CONSIDERED LOW COMPARED WITH 1985 ELECTIONS, THE ACTUAL PERCENTAGE IN SOME DISTRICTS WAS HIGH.
"IN SOME OF THE NEWLY ESTABLISHED AREAS WHERE THE POPULATION HAS INCREASED, THE ACTUAL NUMBER OF PEOPLE TURNING OUT TO VOTE WAS IN FACT GREATER, HE SAID.
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TO
THERE ARE SOME DISTRICTS WHERE THE NUMBER OF REGISTERED
ELECTORS TURNING OUT ELECTORS IS LARGER, THE ABSOLUTE NUMBER OF CAST THEIR VOTES WAS ALSO LARGER, MR LIAO SAID.
"SO THE DROP IN NUMBERS IS NOT ACROSS THE BOARD, HE ADDED.
MR LIAO SAID THE TURNOUT RATE WAS VERY SATISFACTORY
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BY
ANY
STANDARDS.
ΤΟ PEOPLE "IN HONG KONG'S CONTEXT, TO HAVE OVER 420,000 IN A DISTRICT BOARD ELECTION IS VERY SATISFACTORY, HE ADDED.
VOTE
11
KEEN COMPETITION FOR DB SEATS, SAYS CHAU
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IN THE NUMBER OF VOTES THE SMALL DIFFERENCE
CAST FOR
IN SUCCESSFUL
UNSUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES
MANY CONSTITUENCIES AND
DISTRICT BOARD REFLECTED THE KEEN COMPETITION IN YESTERDAY'S
MR T.H. ELECTIONS, THE REGIONAL SECRETARY FOR HONG KONG AND KOWLOON, CHAU, SAID AT A PRESS BRIEFING THIS (FRIDAY) MORNING.
SPEAKING
AT THE SAME
BRIEFING,
THE
DEPUTY
SECRETARY FOR LEUNG, NOTED THAT CHE KUNG MOST KEENLY CONTESTED CONSTITUENCY
MIU
DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION, MR BOWEN CONSTITUENCY IN SHA TIN WAS THE WITH A SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE WINNING BY ONLY ONE VOTE.
MR RESULTS,
NOTED CHAU
THAT
MORE ON THE POLLING INCUMBENT DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS SEEKING RE-ELECTION WERE NOT THIS TIME.
THAN
40 ELECTED
REFLECTED THIS
THE VIEW
EFFECTIVE BECAUSE
EVERY THREE
THAT YEARS
SYSTEM
WAS
THE ELECTORAL THE DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS' VOTE FOR THOSE PERFORMANCE WOULD BE REVIEWED AND ELECTORS WOULD NOT WHOSE PERFORMANCE WAS NOT CONSIDERED SATISFACTORY, HE EXPLAINED.
AMR CHÂU