+1 WOULD HOPE THAT AT THE END OF TODAY, WHEN THE ELECTIONS ARE OVER, AND WHEN THE COUNTING IS DONE THAT PEOPLE WOULD SAY THAT THIS IS A SUCCESSFUL ELECTION AND WE WILL NOW SEE HOW THE NEW LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL GETS DOWN TO WORK.
+AND GRADUALLY OVER THE NEXT FEW MONTHS, WE'LL SEE AND FORM OUR OWN JUDGEMENT ABOUT THAT.+
ASKED FOR HIS COMMENTS ON ALLEGATIONS OF UNFAIRNESS, SIR DAVID SAID THAT HE DID NOT KNOW IN WHAT WAY THEY WERE UNFAIR.
+1 SUPPOSE IT'S DIFFICULT IN ELECTIONS INVOLVING THE DISTRICT'S ELECTORAL COLLEGES TO GET THE BALANCE OF ADVANTAGE EXACTLY FAIRLY DISTRIBUTED BETWEEN ONE DISTRICT TO ANOTHER.
+AND THAT IS POSSIBLY SOMETHING WHICH COULD BE ADJUSTED IN THE FUTURE.+
'VOTER TURN-OUT TO PICK UP MOMENTUM'
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THE SECRETARY FOR ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES AND INFORMATION, MR PETER TSAO, SAID THAT HE EXPECTED THE ELECTION TURN-OUT MOMENTUM TO PICK UP IN THE EVENING WHEN TEACHERS FINISHED SCHOOL AND BUSINESS PEOPLE GOT OFF WORK.
SPEAKING TO THE PRESS AT THE QUEEN ELIZABETH STADIUM PRESS CENTRE AND COUNTING CENTRE, HE SAID: +AFTER ALL, BY DEFINITION, ALMOST ALL ELECTORS IN THE FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES ARE WORKING PEOPLE AND IT IS QUITE LIKELY THAT THEY WOULD HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL TEACHING IS OVER, UNTIL BUSINESS IS OVER BEFORE THEY GO TO VOTE.+
+1 WOULD HOPE THE FIGURES WOULD PICK UP FAIRLY RAPIDLY IN THE EVENING,+ HE SAID.
MR TSAO NOTED THAT IN SOME INDIVIDUAL COMPARTMENTS OF THE FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES THERE WERE SOME VERY HIGH FIGURES ALREADY.
BY 6 PM, 15 499 VOTERS HAD TURNED UP TO VOTE FOR CANDIDATES WHO WOULD BE SITTING IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ON OCTOBER 30.
THIS REPRESENTED 36 PER CENT OF THE 43 076 VOTERS ELIGIBLE IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS TODAY.
ANSWERING QUESTIONS BY REPORTERS, MR TSAO SAID THAT THE ELECTION IN THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE CONSTITUENCIES WAS +QUITE ENTHUSIASTIC+ AND THAT THE OVERALL TURN-OUT RATE OF 95 PER CENT WAS JUST ABOUT RIGHT, AS HE EXPECTED.
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