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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

22 December 1983

For WRITTEN ANSWER on

Text of Question:-

Head of HKD

Please submit

a draft Answer

& Background

to Parliamentary Unit

before Noon

WEDNESDAY 21 DECEMBER

Mr Alex Carlile (Montgomery): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonealth Affairs, what is the total electorate of Hong Kong for the purposes of urgan council elections; and how many electors actually voted at the most recent election.

Mr Richard Luce

708,119 registered electors in Hong Kong are resident in the

urban area and are therefore eligible to vote in Urban Council

127,206 (22.4%) voted in the most recent election

elections.

in March 1983.

Johan /

Ruha