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SUNDAY, MAY 5, 1991

HE ADDED THAT THE DB ELECTIONS COMPARED FAVOURABLY TURNOUT RATE FOR OTHER DEMOCRACIES.

ON THE PURPOSE OF HOLDING THE ELECTIONS ON A SUNDAY, SAID THIS WAS TO FACILITATE PEOPLE TO COME OUT AND VOTE.

PART

"AS

WITH THE

MR SUEN

IN TAKING THEMSELVES TO THE IT, HE

A HOLIDAY, THEY CAN PICK AND CHOOSE THEIR TIME IN THIS PROCESS, THEY DON'T HAVE TO CONFINE NON-WORKING HOURS OF THE DAY. THAT IS THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF NOTED. *

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MORE PEOPLE URGED TO GO TO THE POLLS

* *

MR

MICHAEL

THE SECRETARY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS, SUEN, THIS (SUNDAY) AFTERNOON URGED MORE PEOPLE TO GO TO THE POLLING BOOTHS TO MAKE THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS A GREATER SUCCESS.

FIRST

TOTAL

NINE HOURS VOTER POPULATION.

SPEAKING AT HIS SECOND PRESS BRIEFING COUNCIL ELECTIONS,

ON THE MR SUEN SAID SOME 202,862 PEOPLE VOTED OF POLLING, REPRESENTING 11.9 PER CENT

MUNICIPAL IN THE OF THE

HE SAID THIS COMPARED FAVOURABLY WITH 75,696 PEOPLE PER CENT WHO VOTED DURING THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS IN 1989.

SAME PERIOD

OR 6.3 IN THE LAST

PLEASED

"DOING A STRAIGHT COMPARISON,

WITH OURSELVES.

WE

SHOULD BE

RATHER

"BUT I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD BE COMPLACENT. I THINK THERE STILL A LOT ΤΟ BE DONE," MR SUEN SAID.

THE

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ELIGIBLE FINAL

SECRETARY TOOK THIS OPPORTUNITY TO APPEAL TO ALL VOTERS WHO DID NOT VOTE TO COME AND VOTE IN ORDER TO "MAKE THE TURNOUT RATE A GREATER SUCCESS".

SO FAR

MR SUEN SAID THE ELECTION TREND CLOSELY THE TREND THE GOVERNMENT HAD OBSERVED FOR THE DISTRICT

FOLLOWED FAIRLY ELECTIONS IN MARCH.

BOARD

TREND

"OF COURSE, THE NEXT HOUR IS GOING TO ACCORDING TO THE

BE CRUCIAL,

BECAUSE UP- OF COURSE VOTING

IN MARCH, WE SHOULD REALLY BE SEEING AN RATE. IF THAT MATERIALISES, THEN

THE PATTERN THAT WAS SET FOR SUNDAY

SWING IN THE TURNOUT WE FOLLOW VERY CLOSELY AT THE LAST DB ELECTIONS.

DONE FOR THE THINK WE

"BUT OF COURSE, THE SUNDAY ELECTIONS WAS ONLY FIRST TIME IN MARCH AND THE PATTERN WE HAVE SEEN, I DON'T CAN TAKE IT AS FIXED, HE NOTED.

IN

VOTING

HE ALSO HOPED THAT PEOPLE WOULD BE MORE ACCUSTOMED TO THE FIRST DIRECT ELECTIONS ΤΟ SEPTEMBER.

THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL IN

"I

TURNOUT MR SUEN

"I THINK WE ARE NOT TOO UNREASONABLE TO EXPECT HIGHER RATE FOR THE COMING DIRECT ELECTIONS FOR LEGCO IN SEPTEMBER, SAID.

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