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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1994
THE
BEC CHAIRMAN SATISFIED WITH COUNTING PROCESS
BOUNDARY AND ELECTION COMMISSION CHAIRMAN, MR JUSTICE SAID THIS (MONDAY) MORNING THAT HE WAS SATISFIED WITH PROCESS AT THE 18 COUNTING STATIONS.
KWOK-HING,
WOO
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HE NOTED THAT COUNTING STARTED AS SOON AS THE BALLOT BOXES ARRIVED AT THEIR RELEVANT STATIONS AND THE LAST BALLOT BOX REACHED ITS STATION AT 1 AM.
THE EARLIEST RESULT WAS AVAILABLE AT 00.27 AM AND THE FINAL COUNTING WAS COMPLETED SHORTLY AFTER 11 AM.
MR JUSTICE WOO SAID VOTES AT ABOUT 10 PER CENT OF THE CONSTITUENCIES HAD TO BE RECOUNTED BECAUSE THE RESULTS WERE TOO CLOSE.
HE ALSO NOTED THAT 30,992 YOUNG VOTERS AGED BETWEEN 18 AND 21 HAD CAST THEIR VOTES WITH A FINAL TURNOUT RATE OF 35.09 PER CENT COMPARED WITH THE 33.1 PER CENT OF THE REGISTERED ELECTORATE.
AS TO THE ELECTION-RELATED COMPLAINTS, HE SAID A TOTAL OF 457 COMPLAINTS HAD BEEN RECEIVED, OUT OF WHICH 431 HAD BEEN RESOLVED.
VOTER TURNOUT REACHES NEW HIGH
CLOSE TO 700,000 PEOPLE HAD CAST THEIR VOTES AT THE DISTRICT BOARD ELECTIONS WHEN THE POLLS CLOSED LAST NIGHT AN INCREASE 270,000 COMPARED WITH THE PREVIOUS ELECTIONS IN 1991.
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THE FINAL TURNOUT WAS 33.1 PER CENT OF THE REGISTERED ELECTORATE AND COMPARED FAVOURABLY WITH THE 32.5 PER CENT RECORDED
THE PREVIOUS POLLS.
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THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOUNDARY AND ELECTION COMMISSION, MR JUSTICE WOO KWOK-HING, SAID HE WAS TOTALLY SATISFIED WITH THE RESULTS.
AS TO THE ELECTIONS, MR JUSTICE WOO SAID HE WAS PLEASED THEY HAD GONE OFF SMOOTHLY WITHOUT ANY MISHAPS.
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