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Tung Casts His Vote in By-Election of Legislative Council
The Chief Executive Tung Chee Hwa attended the by-election of Legislative Council Hong Kong Island Sunday, December 10.
Tung said, "there was some reference to the fact that the turnout rate is somewhat lower, but this is the same everywhere when you are in a by-election."
"If you haven't voted, you had better get on with it," he said after casting his vote at the Hong Kong Park Indoor Games Hall for the 2000 Legislative Council Hong Kong Island Geographical Constituency By-election.
The government actually has done a lot which spent 3.7 million HK dollars (in promotion on this, Tung said.
By 5:30 p.m., a total of 135,497 of the 627,147 registered electors voted in the Legislative Council Hong Kong Island by-election, representing a turnout of 21.61 per cent.
A total of 94 polling stations were all open at 7.30 am Sunday morning for more than 627,000 registered electors of Hong Kong Island to cast their vote in the Legislative Council Hong Kong Island by-election.
The Electoral Affairs Commission urged all registered electors to exercise their right to vote before polling ends at 10.30 p.m. tonight.
Commission Chairman Justice Woo Kwok-hing as well as Commission members Norman Leung Nai-pang and Dr Elizabeth Shing Shiu-ching cast their vote earlier this morning before they started their journey to inspect polling activities throughout Hong Kong Island.
In the by-election, six candidates are contesting a Legislative Council seat.
"Although this is a small-scale election to fill one Legislative Council seat, there is no let-up in our efforts. Every procedure has been conducted in accordance with the law and all electioneering activities are regulated by our Guidelines," Justice Woo said.
Justice Woo reminded electors to read carefully their poll card to find out whether their designated polling station was different from that in the general election in September.
About 90 per cent of the electors may vote at the same place as in September. Only about 10 per cent of the electors have been allocated to nine new polling stations.
Thirty complaints about breaches of the Guidelines were received up to Saturday and the Commission will continue to receive complaints in the next 45 days.
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