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INDEX

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( MAR 1983

No

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268047 HOWARD G

72669 HAB HX

9 MARCH 1983

HAB 23/83

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note for Lel Belohad before his meety/lunch with the Swemo kmerrow

FOR HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, SIR EDWARD YOUDE, KCMG, MBE FROM D C BRAY HAB

FOLLOWING FROM BRAY ON URBAN COUNCIL ELECTIONS

A RE CORD NUMBER OF 127,303 VOTERS TURNED OUT AT THE UC ELECTIONS, REPRESENTING 22.4 PER CENT OF THE TOTAL REGISTERED

ELECTORS IN THE 12 CONSTITUENCIES.

THE TURNOUT IS 20 TIMES THAT OF THE LAST UC ELECTIONS HELD IN MARCH 1981 WHEN 6,195 OR 18 PER CENT OF THE 34,381 REGISTERED ELECTORS CAST THEIR VOTES.

THE LARGEST TURNOUT RATE IN PERCENTAGE TERMS WAS RECORDED IN SHAM SHUI PO WITH 26.7 PER CENT OF THE ELECTORATE VOTING, FOLLOWED BY WONG TAI SIN WITH 26 PER CENT AND SOUTHERN WITH 23.2 PER CENT. THE LEAST ENTHUSIASTIC DISTRICT WAS MONG KOK WITH ONLY 15 PER CENT OF THE ELECTORATE VOTING.

ABOUT 55 PER CENT OF THE 127,303 VOTERS CAME OUT TO VOTE AFTER 7 P.M. THIS PATTERN OF HEAVY TURNOUT IN THE EVENING WAS SIMILAR TO THAT OF THE LAST URBAN DB ELECTIONS.

PEOPLE.

AMONG THOSE WHO VOTED WERE 56 BLIND AND 123 HANDICAPPED

THE BREAKDOWN OF VOTER TURNOUT IS AS FOLLOWS:-

18/3

DISTRICTS

SHAM SHUI PO

EASTERN

KOWLOON CITY

KWUN TONG

NUMBER OF VOTES (PERCENTAGE IN BRACKET)

23,315 (26.7 PER CENT)

20,766 (20.4 PER CENT)

17,780 (22 PER CENT)

16,013 (21.3 PER CENT)

WONG TAI SIN

13,193 (26 PER CENT)

CENTRAL AND WESTERN

11,389 (22.7 PER CENT)

SOUT HE RN

11,317 (23.2 PER CENT)

YAU MA TEI

7,12. (2.7 PER CENT)