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District

Tuen Mun

Original

Polling Station

3. Corridor of Oi

Yung House Shopping Arcade,

Yau Oi Estate

Polling Station Designated after Merger

Islamic Primary School,

Yau Oi Estate

Yuen Long

4. Pak U Middle

School (old

Yau Kung School, Ha Tsuen

site),

Hung Shui

Kiu

Tai Po

5. Tai Po Public

School, Kwong Fuk Estate

Kwong Fuk Community Hall, Kwong Fuk Estate

Reasons for Merger

Experience in the September DB elections reveals that the polling station at the Corridor of the Shopping Arcade was unsatisfactory. The polling station for the neighbouring DBC at Islamic Primary School is situated nearby within the same housing estate. Its floor area is sufficiently large to cope with the size of the electorate after the

merger.

Pak U Middle School is to be redeveloped and cannot be used as polling station. No suitable alternative can be located in the vicinity. The 900 electors originally assigned to that polling station have thus been transferred to Yau Kung School, Ha Tsuen, another polling station in the same DBC.

There was a complaint at the 1994 DB elections that the choice of the original polling station was unsatisfactory as it could be misconstrued to be associated with one interested party in the elections. The neighbouring polling

station at the Community Hall is situated nearby in

the same housing estate. Its floor area is