120 nominations received for Legco election ******************************************* A total of 10 nomination papers from 10 candidates for the Legislative Council election in May were received today (Friday) when the nomination period ended. After deducting seven withdrawals and one invalid nomination, the total number of nomination papers received totals 120, involving 167 candidates. Among the withdrawals, Mr Albert Chan Wai-yip of the New Territories West Constituency, Mr John Tse Wing-ling of the New Territories East Constituency, Mr Lam Kwok- cheong and Mr Tommy Cheung Yu-yan of the Election Committee Constituency and Mr Manuel Chan Tim-shing of the Wholesale and Retail Functional Constituency withdrew their nominations today. Mr Lo Suk-ching and Mr Chan Po-fun of the Election Committee Constituency withdrew their nominations on April 20 and April 22 respectively. But Mr Chan submitted a nomination for the Accountancy Functional Constituency. Mr John Tse Si-yin's nomination for the Information Technology Functional Constituency was invalid. The breakdown of nominations by constituency/Election Committee is: Geographical No. of nominations Cumulated No. of candidates Constituency received today total on lists Hong Kong Island 8 16 Kowloon West 5 13 Kowloon East 3 7 New Territories West 11 28 New Territories East 1 7 17 Sub-total 1 34 ¡@ 81 (Note: each nomination is submitted by one candidate or a list of candidates) Functional No. of nominations Cumulated Constituency received today total Urban Council 3 ¡@3 Regional Council ¡@3¡@ Heung Yee Kuk ¡@1 Agriculture and Fisheries ¡@2 Insurance ¡@4 Transport 2 Education 2 Legal 3 Accountancy 3 Medical 2 Health Services 1 2 Engineering 3 Architectural, Surveying and Planning 1 Labour 5 Social Welfare 1 Real Estate and Construction 2 Tourism 1 Commercial(First) 1 Commercial(Second) 1 Industrial(First) 1 Industrial(Second) 2 Finance 1 Financial Services 4 Sports, Performing Arts, Culture and Publication 2 Import and Export 1 Textiles and Garment 1 Wholesale and Retail 3 Information Technology 1 4 Sub-total 5 61 Election Committee Constituency 4 25 ------------ Grand total 10 120 End/Friday, April 24, 1998 NNNN
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