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THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1989

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THE 20 ELECTED 11 UC AND 9 RC) WILL JOIN SEVEN OTHERS (4 UC AND 3 RC) WHO WERE UNCONTESTED TO SERVE FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS. OF THE SEVEN, ONLY MR CHOW YICK-HAY OF KWA1 CHUNG EAST IN THE RC ELECTION, IS A NEWCOMER.

OF

WEST MR LAU KONG-WAH, WHO RAN IN THE SHA TIN

CONSTITUENCY

MAN THE REGIONAL COUNCIL, RECEIVED THE MOST VOTES AT 10,271, WHILE MR

URBAN SAI-CHEONG GOT THE MOST BALLOTS IN THE

COUNCIL ELECTION WITH 8,312 IN THE NORTH POINT CONSTITUENCY.

FIVE INCUMBENT MEMBERS OF THE REGIONAL COUNCIL RETAINED SEATS WHILE TWO ARE DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS AND TWO ARE NEWCOMERS.

THEIR

SEVEN INCUMBENT MEMBERS OF THE URBAN COUNCIL WERE RE-ELECTED WHILE FOUR DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS WERE VOTED INTO THE COUNCIL.

THOSE ELECTED INCLUDED SOCIAL ACADEMICS AND A HERBALIST.

WORKERS, BUSINESSMEN, LAWYERS,

THE AGES OF THOSE ELECTED TO THE REGIONAL COUNCIL RANGED FROM 30 TO 43, WHILE THOSE IN THE URBAN COUNCIL RANGED FROM 28 TO 67.

THE FIRST CONSTITUENCY TO RETURN VOTES WAS MONG KOK AT 12.20 AM (

THE (FRIDAY) WHILE THE LAST VOTES COUNTED WAS AT 4.50 AM FOR SHAM SHUI PO WEST SEAT.

SCA APPEALS TO ELECTORS

THE SECRETARY FOR

CONSTITUTIONAL

MR AFFAIRS.

MICHAEL

SUEN, THEIR VOTES IN

THIS (THURSDAY) MORNING APPEALED TO ELECTORS TO CAST TODAY'S URBAN AND REGIONAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS.

ELECTIONS PRESS SPEAKING TO THE PRESS DURING HIS VISIT TO THE

"I HOPE THAT CENTRE AT THE CITY HALL EXHIBITION HALL, MR SUEN SAID:

BY GOING то THE ELECTORS WILL DISCHARGE THEIR CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY POLLING STATIONS. I ALSO APPEAL TO THOSE WHO ARE AT WORK TO CAST THEIR VOTES AFTER WORK.

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AM, MR ADDING THAT

ASKED TO COMMENT ON THE VOTER TURNOUT RATE AS AT 10.30 SUEN SAID IT WAS TOO EARLY FOR HIM TO MAKE AN ASSESSMENT, HE HOPED THE RATE WOULD INCREASE AS THE DAY PROGRESSED.

VISITED

STATIONS POLLING MR SUEN SAID HE HAD

CHAI AND HAD OBSERVED THAT MOST OF NORTH POINT AND HAPPY VALLEY, VOTERS AT THOSE STATIONS WERE ELDERLY PERSONS.

IN

WAN,

THE

WORK,

"THIS IS NOT SURPRISING BECAUSE HE NOTED.

THE YOUNGER PERSONS ARE

AT

VIN ANSWER