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"MORNING VOTER TURNOUT SATISFACTORY'

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THE MORNING VOTER TURNOUT IN THE URBAN COUNCIL AND REGIONAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS HAD BEEN SATISFACTORY, SECRETARY FOR DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION, MR DONALD LIAO, SAID TODAY.

HE SAID THAT COMPARED TO THE 1983 URBAN COUNCIL ELECTIONS, IN THE FIRST FIVE HOURS OF VOTING THE NUMBER OF ELECTORS TURNING UP AT THE POLLS HAD DOUBLED.

+THIS IS INDEED ENCOURAGING AND I HOPE MORE ELECTORS WILL VOTE LATER IN THE DAY,+ HE SAID.

MEANWHILE, THE DEPUTY REGIONAL SECRETARY FOR HONG KONG AND KOWLOON, MR T.H. CHAU, SAID THAT UP TILL 12.30 PM, A TOTAL OF 85 223 ÉLECTORS HAD CAST THEIR VOTES IN THE URBAN COUNCIL AND REGIONAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS.

+THIS REPRESENTED 6.3 PER CENT OF THE TOTAL NUMBER OF ELIGIBLE VOTERS, HE SAID.

SPEAKING AT A PRESS BRIEFING, MR CHAU SAID THE HIGHEST VOTER TURNOUT RATE TERRITORY-WIDE WAS IN KWUN TONG WEST, WHERE 5 449 VOTERS, OR 6.5 PER CENT OF THE DISTRICT'S ELECTORATE, CAST THE IR BALLOTS. IT WAS ALSO THE HIGHEST VOTER TURNOUT IN THE URBAN AREAS.

THE HIGHEST TURNOUT RATE IN PERCENTAGE TERMS WAS IN THE ›LANDS DISTRICT WHICH WAS 17.2 PER CENT.

FOR THE URBAN COUNCIL, 47 533 VOTERS CAST THEIR BALLOTS, REPRESENTING A TURNOUT RATE OF FIVE PER CENT, WHILE IN THE REGIONAL COUNCIL AREA, 37 690 ELECTORS VOTED, REPRESENTING NINE PER CENT OF THE REGION'S ELECTORATE.

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LIAO EXPRESSES SATISFACTION WITH TURNOUT

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THE SECRETARY FOR DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION, MR DONALD LIAO, EXPRESSED SATISFACTION OVER THE VOTER TURNOUT 11 HOURS INTO THE URBAN COUNCIL AND REGIONAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS.

MR LIAO SAID THAT AT 6.30 PM, THE VOTER TURNOUT WAS 11.7 PER CENT IN THE URBAN COUNCIL ELECTION, COMPARED TO 10 PER CENT AT THE SAME TIME IN 1983. WHILE IN ABSOLUTE NUMBERS, IT WAS UP FROM 57 126 TO 110 296 VOTES CAST.

/THE TOTAL

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