Polling stations for April elections gazetted

Friday, March 6, 1998


There are 96 polling stations designated for the Election Committee subsector elections to be held on April 2. Their locations are announced in the gazette today.

The polling hours will last from 7.30 am to 10.30 pm.

Every subsector is assigned one or more polling stations in accordance with the size of its electorate, a spokesman for the Registration and Electoral Office said.

The Education Subsector, with the biggest electorate, has 18 polling stations, he added.

Thirty-six of the polling stations are designated as special polling stations that are accessible to disabled voters.

Any voter who claims to be a person with disability may apply to the Chief Electoral Officer at least three days before the polling day for voting at a special polling station designated for his subsector.

The gazette announces that the Exhibition Hall 3 on Level 7 of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Wan Chai, will be used as the central counting station.

The subsector elections will return about 664 members of the Election Committee from 35 subsectors. They, together with members of the Provisional Legislative Council, the Hong Kong deputies to the National People's Congress and members nominated by the Religious Subsector, will form a 800-strong Election Committee.

The Election Committee will then elect 10 members of the first Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on May 24.