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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1988

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5,092 CAST VOTES IN FIRST EIGHT HOURS

IN THE FIRST BIGHT HOURS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS, FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES TURNED 6,092 VOTERS IN THE FOUR CONTESTED

MR JOHN CHAN, OUT TO CAST THEIR BALLOTS, THE DEPUTY CHIEF SECRETARY, MR SAID TODAY (THURSDAY).

SAID AT 5 PM,

SPEAKING AT A PRESS BRIEFING AT THE PRESS CENTRE, MR CHAN THAT THE TURNOUT RATE IN THE FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES, AS WAS 30.9 PER CENT.

OVERALL THIS YEAR 18

THE 1985 ELECTIONS IN "THE CORRESPONDING FIGURE IN TERMS WAS 27.9 PER CENT SO, IN OVERALL TERMS, THE RATE SLIGHTLY HIGHER THAN IN 1985.

"I WOULD SAY, HOWEVER, THERE IS BECAUSE THE 1988 AND 1995

REALLY NO DIRECT QUITE ELECTIONS INVOLVED

阳 MR CHAN ADDED. CONSTITUENCIES AND QUITE DIFFERENT VOTERS,

COMPARISON DIFFERENT

SYSTEM,

IN REPLY TO A QUESTION ON THE PREFERENTIAL ELIMINATION MR CHAN SAID WHAT HAD BEEN CHANGED WAS NOT THE VOTING SYSTEM METHOD OF COUNTING THE VOTES.

BUT THE

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THERE WAS THE CONSULTATION ON THE 1987 GREEN PAPER FOUND THAT

SYSTEM THAN ELIMINATION

THE SUPPORT FOR THE PREFERENTIAL PREFERENTIAL ADDITION SYSTEM USED IN THE 1985 ELECTIONS.

COMMENTING ON

THE

ELECTION IN

AN

ELECTORAL

COLLEGE

OF A CHAN SAID CANDIDATE WHO CHOSE NOT TO RUN IN HIS OWN CONSTITUENCY, MR

THIS PARTICULAR CANDIDATE THE VERY FACT THAT THE VOTERS HAD ELECTED SHOWED THAT THE VOTERS WERE CONFIDENT THAT HE COULD REPRESENT THEM.

CANDIDATES' ABILITY OR CONSIDERATION IS ENTIRELY

"WHETHER THE VOTERS WILL CONSIDER THE WHETHER THEY WILL TAKE OTHER FACTORS INTO UP TO INDIVIDUAL VOTERS," HE ADDED.

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