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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1994

BEC CHAIRMAN SATISFIED WITH VOTER TURNOUT

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DISTRICT

BOARD ELECTIONS

THE VOTER TURNOUT AT THIS YEAR'S TOTALLED 693,283 OR 33.1 PER CENT OF THE REGISTERED ELECTORATE.

DISTRICT THE 1991 WITH THIS COMPARED FAVOURABLY ELECTIONS, WHICH HAD A 32.5 PER CENT VOTER TURNOUT, ACCORDING TO CHAIRMAN OF THE BOUNDARY AND ELECTION COMMISSION, MR JUSTICE WOO.

BOARD THE

ELECTORAL SYSTEM GETS CONFIDENCE BOOST: SHA

1994 DISTRICT BOARD ELECTIONS IN THE ELECTORAL

SYSTEM,

THE HIGH VOTER TURNOUT IN THE

THE SHOWS HONG KONG PEOPLE'S CONFIDENCE SECRETARY FOR HOME AFFAIRS, MR MICHAEL SUEN, SAID LAST (SUNDAY) NIGHT.

IN

SPEAKING TO THE MEDIA AFTER A VISIT TO THE COUNTING STATION

THE ENCOURAGING KWUN TONG, MR SUEN ALSO SAID HE WAS SATISFIED WITH RESPONSE FROM THE ELECTORATE.

AT THE

SHA TIN

COUNTING

STATION,

THE SECRETARY FOR TURNOUT CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS, MR NICHOLAS NG, ATTRIBUTED THE RECORD

PEOPLE'S ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN THE POLLS.

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