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19.
There has been some criticism of the voting
arrangements at the 1985 elections.
Some social workers and
members of labour unions were unhappy at not having an
individual vote as in the case of teachers, doctors and
the Social Services and Labour constituencies
lawyers.
votes were given to
social welfare agencies and labour
unions because of the difficulty of defining qualifications
for membership of these constituencies.
The type of
preferential voting
footnote) was also
system used in the elections (see
criticised and will need to be
re-examined if the functional constituency system of
election is to be retained. This is examined in greater
detail in Chapter
Options for 1988
20.
the
Indeed,
Most of views publicly expressed continue to be in
favour of retaining functional constituencies as a system
for selecting members of the Legislative Council.
there have been calls for its expansion to include more
sectors of the community. It would clearly be impossible,
however, for functional constituencies alone to serve as the
basis for representation of all sectors of the community, if
only because of the problems of defining membership. The
specific contribution which functional constituencies can
to the further development of representative
therefore be carefully considered before
decisions are taken on which further sectors of the
community might appropriately be represented in this way.
make
government
must
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