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30.
Option (i) would leave the problems described in
paragraph 25 above largely unresolved. It is difficult to
see how some of the unsatisfactory aspects arising from the
constiuencies have been formed can be removed
way some
without the creation of additional constituencies.
31.
Option (ii) (a) would allow for some improvement to
the present system, to overcome the criticisms which have
been voiced, without the need to increase, greatly, the
number of electoral college seats. Option (ii)(b) would
provide still more scope for rationalisation of the present
system. One possibility would be for each District Board to
become a constituency and elect its Own member to the
Legislative Council, or for the chairman of each District
Board to automatically be given a seat on the Council.
Either method would ensure, in principle,
in principle, that each district
in the territory has equal representation on the Council,
and would eliminate the problem of inter-District Board
rivalries. To implement this option it would be necessary to
allocate an additional nine seats in the Legislative Council
to electoral college representatives.
The drawback of this
one
suggestion is that a large district such as Kwun Tong, with
a population of 660,000 people, would have
representative in the Council, the same as a small district
such as Sai Kung with a population of only 35,000 people.
ΤΟ achieve a more proportional representation with, for
example, each
constituency
electoral college member representing a
of some
250,000 people, might require the
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