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NOTE ON ARRANGEMENTS FOR LEGCO ELECTIONS:
26 SEPTEMBER 1985
1.
The purpose of the elections is to choose 24
members for the new Council:
a) 12 will be chosen by an electoral
comprising Urban Council
college (URBOO), Provisional
b)
Regional Council'
(REGCO)
and District Board
members;
and
12 will be chosen by the electorates of nine
functional constituencies.
The details are as follows.
Electoral College
2.
for
10 geographical constituencies have been created
the election.
Various candidates have been
nominated
for each of the 10: a candidate need not
reside in the constituency for which he is standing.
On election day the members of
the members of those District Boards
that comprise each of the 10 constituencies will come
together to choose a candidate on the "absolute
majority" system ie by repeated ballots until one
candidate secures an absolute majority of the votes cast. URBCO members, and REGCO members, will meet as
two separate constituencies and each choose one
candidate to represent them, thus making a total of 12
constituencies.
Functional Constituencies
3.
There are nine of these, but three of them will
each have two seats, and the remainder will have one
each,
as follows: