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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1991

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ELECTORS URGED TO CAST THEIR VOTES IN LEGCO ELECTIONS

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MICHAEL SUEN,

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MR SECRETARY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS, TODAY (WEDNESDAY) APPEALS TO ELECTORS OF ALL CONTESTED CONSTITUENCIES TO FIND TIME TO VOTE FOR THEIR REPRESENTATIVES TO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TOMORROW.

MR SUEN ALSO CALLS ON ALL INDIVIDUAL ELECTORS OF FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES, TOGETHER WITH THE 1.9 MILLION ELECTORS ON THE GENERAL IN THE DIRECT ROLL, ΤΟ KEEP UP THEIR EFFORTS AND TURN OUT TO VOTE FLECTIONS ON SUNDAY.

FIRM

SPEAKING AT A PRESS CONFERENCE ON THE LEGCO ELECTIONS, MR SUEN

DEMONSTRATE THEIR SAID

VOTE THROUGH

CASTING, ELECTORS COULD SUPPORT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TERRITORY'S POLITICAL SYSTEM.

TOMORROW,

28 CANDIDATES WOULD VIE FOR THE NINE SEATS FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES. ANOTHER 12 CANDIDATES HAD ALREADY UNCONTESTED TO THE REMAINING 12 SEATS.

IN THE RETURNED

AS FOR THE DIRECT ELECTIONS ON SUNDAY, 54 CANDIDATES WOULD FOR 18 SEATS IN NINE GEOGRAPHICAL CONSTITUENCIES.

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THERE WOULD BE 35 POLLING STATIONS FOR TOMORROW'S CONSTITUENCY ELECTIONS WHICH WOULD BE OPENED TO 48,000 VOTERS.

SINCE THE ELECTORATE OF THE REGIONAL COUNCIL SMALL, VOTING WOULD TAKE PLACE FROM 2.30 PM TO 3.30 PM.

WAS RELATIVELY

POLLING FOR THE OTHER FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES WOULD LAST FOR 15 HOURS FROM 7.30 AM TO 10.30 PM.

THE VOTE COUNTING WOULD BE CARRIED OUT CENTRALLY IN THE QUEEN

OF THE STADIUM WITH THE EXCEPTION

REGIONAL ELIZABETH

WHICH

AT COUNTING WOULD' TAKE PLACE FOR CONSTITUENCY STATION AFTER THE POLLING.

THE

COUNCIL POLLING

"IT IS THEREFORE LIKELY THAT THE ELECTION RESULTS REGIONAL COUNCIL CONSTITUENCY CAN BE ANNOUNCED BEFORE 5 PM MR SUEN SAID.

OF THE TOMORROW,

PREFERENTIAL

ELIMINATION

AS FOR THE OTHER CONSTITUENCIES, HE SAID THE RESULTS WOULD

4 BEFORE THE MIDNIGHT ON THURSDAY TO AROUND FROM

ANNOUNCED FRIDAY.

VOTING SYSTEM, WHICH WAS FROM THE "FIRST-PAST-THE-POST" SYSTEM USED FOR THE DIRECT HAD BEEN ADOPTED FOR FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCY ELECTIONS.

VOTERS WERE REQUIRED TO INDICATE THEIR ORDER OF PREFERENCE FOR THE CANDIDATES BY WRITING DOWN ARABIC NUMERALS ON THE BALLOT PAPERS.

THEY HAD TO FILL IN THEIR FIRST CHOICE, AND THEN THEY MIGHT AS THEY WISH CHOOSE OTHER CANDIDATES IN ORDER OF PREFERENCE.

BE

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ON

DIFFERENT ELECTIONS,

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