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61 nominations received for LegCo elections
A total of 61 nominations were received today (Tuesday), the first day of nomination of candidates for the Legislative Council elections. The breakdown of nominations by constituency is as follows:
Geographical Constituency:
31
New Functional Constituency:
13
Old Functional Constituency:
15
Election Committee Constituency:
2
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10%
End/Tuesday, August 1, 1995
Final Register of Electors published
The 1995 Final Registers of Electors (FRs), in respect of the geographical constituencies (GCs), functional constituencies (FCs), and election committee constituency, (ECC) are published today.
Following the publication of the 1995 Provisional Registers of Electors (PRS) on June 21, public inspection was made available from June 21 to July 5 for electors to raise objections or claims to the Revising Officer. A total of 184 notices of objections and 69 claims were received and considered by the Revising Officer. All objections. and 65 claims were allowed. Four claims were dismissed.
Electors might also report changes of their particulars to the Registration and Electoral Office (REO) before July 5 for inclusion in the FRs. 9,000 reports for changes of particulars were received before the deadline. A total of 254,000 electors were also reallocated to 86 replaced or added polling stations for the September Legislative Council Elections. These are reported in the FRs.