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District
Tuen Mun
Original
Polling Station
3. Corridor of Oi
Yung House Shopping Arcade,
Yau Oi Estate
Polling Station Designated after Merger
Islamic Primary School,
Yau Oi Estate
Yuen Long
4. Pak U Middle
School (old
Yau Kung School, Ha Tsuen
site),
Hung Shui
Kiu
Tai Po
5. Tai Po Public
School, Kwong Fuk Estate
Kwong Fuk Community Hall, Kwong Fuk Estate
Reasons for Merger
Experience in the September DB elections reveals that the polling station at the Corridor of the Shopping Arcade was unsatisfactory. The polling station for the neighbouring DBC at Islamic Primary School is situated nearby within the same housing estate. Its floor area is sufficiently large to cope with the size of the electorate after the
merger.
Pak U Middle School is to be redeveloped and cannot be used as polling station. No suitable alternative can be located in the vicinity. The 900 electors originally assigned to that polling station have thus been transferred to Yau Kung School, Ha Tsuen, another polling station in the same DBC.
There was a complaint at the 1994 DB elections that the choice of the original polling station was unsatisfactory as it could be misconstrued to be associated with one interested party in the elections. The neighbouring polling
station at the Community Hall is situated nearby in
the same housing estate. Its floor area is