Shanghai's Voters at City Polls During Day In sizzling heat, Shanghai's registered voters went yesterday to the polls in China's first popular election to return twenty delegates for the forthcoming National People's Congress.
People from four corners of the city began to appear shortly before nine o'clock in the morning at the election booths which were scattered in 139 different places all over the Shanghai area, Polling was especially heavy in the morning when the weather was less hot.
Eighty candidates ran for the twenty seats available. These ing cluded eight delegates-at-large, feu delegates for the Farmers' Association, four delegates from the Labour Union, and four delegates from the General Chamber of Commerce and various trade associations.
Despite the voters' lack of: previous experience, polling before all booths was conducted with the utmost smoothness and precision. Mr. O. E* Yui, Acting Mayor of Greater Shanghai, and Mr. Wu Kai-hsien, member of the standing committee of the Party Headquarters of Greater Shanghai, were busy all day long paying personal visits to the booths in supervising over the polling.
The booths will be officially opened at the City Government to-morrow morning, when the results will be made knowi
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