The Registration & Electoral Office has mailed poll cards to about 4.13 million registered electors to inform them of where they should cast their votes for the 2025 Legislative Council General Election to be held tomorrow.
The office said that in response to the Electoral Affairs Commission’s earlier announcement to extend the polling hours for this election, the previous polling hours stated in the poll cards and other relevant documents it had already sent out are no longer valid, therefore another notice was sent to all Hong Kong electors stating the new polling hours, ie from 7.30am to 11.30pm.
Due to the Tai Po fire, adjustments have been made to three polling stations in the district. Affected electors need to relocate from their original polling stations to the reallocated polling stations for casting their votes.
Electors may also check relevant voting information by logging into the Online Voter Information Enquiry System.
There are over 4.13 million geographical constituency (GC) electors across the city. The office will set up 612 ordinary polling stations. GC and functional constituency (FC) electors may go to the ordinary polling station allocated to them and cast their votes for the candidates of their GCs and FCs at the same time.
About 1,500 electors of the Election Committee constituency (ECC) can cast their votes for all relevant constituencies at the polling station at the Convention & Exhibition Centre.
On polling day, the polling hours for the Ordinary Polling Stations, the ECC polling station, the three dedicated polling stations set up at police stations and the Near Boundary Polling Stations (NBPSs) will be from 7.30am to 11.30pm. For the dedicated polling stations set up at penal institutions, for security reasons, the polling hours will be from 9am to 4pm. For the designated polling stations and outreach polling stations for residential care homes under the pilot arrangements, their polling hours are from 8.30am to 9.30pm, and from 8.30am to 6.30pm respectively.
Regarding the voting procedures, most ordinary polling stations will make use of the Electronic Poll Register (EPR) System to issue ballot papers.
Electors will be instructed by polling staff to the issuing desks after they enter the polling station. The elector must show their original valid Hong Kong identity card which staff will scan with an EPR tablet. Electors may then enter the voting compartment upon collection of the ballot papers after verification of information on an EPR tablet.
GC electors must affix the chop provided at the polling station to mark a single ‘tick’ in the circle opposite the name of the candidate of their choice on the ballot paper by themselves, and then insert the unfolded ballot paper into the blue ballot box with the marked side facing down.
As for FCs, electors must mark the ballot paper using the black pen provided at the polling station to fill in the oval on the ballot paper opposite the names of the candidates of their choice by themselves, and then insert the unfolded ballot paper into the red ballot box with the marked side facing down.
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