Final registers of electors published
The 1998 final registers of voters and electors for the Election Committee subsector elections in April and the Legislative Council election in May are published today (Friday).
The geographical constituencies' register shows that the size of the electorate now stands at 2.795 million, which represents an increase of 264,000 from 2.531 million in 1997.
"That means about 70 per cent of the potential electors may go to the polls on May 24," a spokesman for the Registration and Electoral Office said.
The distribution of electors in the five geographical constituencies is:
| Hong Kong Island | 596,244 |
| Kowloon West | 411,466 |
| Kowloon East | 483,876 |
| New Territories West | 708,444 |
| New Territories East | 595,341 |
During the exercise to compile the provisional and the final registers, about 345,000 records of electors were updated.
The electorate of the 28 functional constituencies totals 138,984, representing about 60 per cent of the potential electors. A total of 127,075 of them are individuals while the remaining 11,909 are corporate electors. A total of 10,083 authorised representatives have been appointed.
As for the 35 Election Committee subsectors, more than 143,000 voters have been registered. This represents a registration rate of about 59 per cent. Among them, about 131,000 are individuals and the remaining 12,000 are corporate voters. More than 10,000 authorised representatives have been appointed.
The spokesman said that 188 claims and objections regarding entries on the provisional registers of electors had been lodged during the appeal period when the registers were open for public inspection last month.
The Revising Officers have ruled in favour of 45 but rejected the appeals from 143 appellants, he added.
The final register for the geographical constituencies is available for inspection during office hours at:
The final registers for the functional constituencies and the Election Committee subsectors are placed at:
Any person who wishes to inspect the registers is required to fill in a form and show his identity card. A registered elector may call hotline 2891 1001 to check his own registration particulars.
