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THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1989

LOW ELECTION TURNOUT UNSATISFACTORY: SCA

THE SECRETARY FOR

CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS, MR MICHAEL

SATISFACTORY" THE LOW TURNOUT

SUEN,

TONIGHT (THURSDAY) DESCRIBED AS "NOT RATE OF THE URBAN AND REGIONAL COUNCILS ELECTION.

THEIR A TOTAL OF 213,352 ELECTORS CAST 17.6 PER CENT OF THE ELECTORATE.

BALLOTS,

REPRESENTING

ON THAT. LET US MUCH THE GOVERNMENT

"I AM DISAPPOINTED, BUT WE SHOULD NOT DWELL REMEMBER THAT IN AN ELECTION THERE IS ONLY THAT CAN DO, MR SUEN SAID.

Fr

"IT ALL DEPENDS ON THE VOTERS THEMSELVES. IT'S THE MAKE THE TURNOUT.

VOTERS WHO

A HIGH TURNOUT, BUT "IF THEY COME OUT TO VOTE WE'LL GET THEY DON'T COME OUT TO VOTE, DESPITE WHAT THE GOVERNMENT MIGHT DO, TURNOUT RATE WILL REMAIN LOW," HE ADDED.

RIGHT

ELECTORS SHOULD

ΤΟ RIGHT

"TREASURE"

IF

THE

THEIR

OWN WILL BE

OUT THAT MR SUEN POINTED

EXERCISING THAT VOTE BY ΤΟ

ELECT THEIR REPRESENTATIVES TO THE VARIOUS TIERS OF GOVERNMENT, AS THERE MORE ELECTIONS TO COME.

THE ON

LOW

REASONS FOR THE HE SAID HE WOULD NOT SPECULATE TURNOUT BUT NOTED THAT THE NUMBER OF CANDIDATES STANDING FOR ELECTIONS THIS YEAR WAS MUCH LESS THAN IN THE 1986 ELECTIONS.

ON THE QUESTION OF PUBLICITY, MR SUEN SAID THE BEEN PUBLICISING THE ELECTIONS.

GOVERNMENT HAS

AWARE OF THE "I DON'T THINK ANYONE CAN SAY THAT THEY ARE NOT

OF THE ARRANGEMENTS FOR FACT THAT TODAY IS ELECTION DAY. THEY KNOW ELECTION AND PEOPLE WHO ARE REGISTERED AS VOTERS GET THEIR POLL CARDS, AND THEY KNOW WHERE TO VOTE TO EXERCISE THEIR RIGHTS,

יז

HE ADDED.

INCUMBENT MEMBERS DOMINATE UC/RC ELECTIONS

REGIONAL COUNCILS HAVE

INCUMBENT MEMBERS OF THE URBAN AND DOMINATED THE ELECTIONS WITH 12 BEING RE-ELECTED TO THEIR RESPECTIVE COUNCILS.

COUNTING OF THE 213,352 VOTES THAT HAD BEEN CAST FOR THE 46 CANDIDATES VYING FOR 20 SEATS ON THE TWO MUNICIPAL COUNCILS BEGAN AFTER THE POLLS CLOSED AT 10.30 PM TODAY (THURSDAY 1.

/THE 20 ANO