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addition of a further four seats in the Legislative Council
bringing the total number of electoral college members to 25
compared with the present 12.
32.
The above options suggest that, while
that, while it would
undoubtedly be possible to improve the
the electoral college
system to eliminate some of the practical problems which
have emerged, it might be necessary in so doing, to increase
substantially the number of electoral college seats in the
Legislative Council. Even if these additional seats could
be absorbed, perhaps through a further increase in the
'overall size of the Council, they would significantly alter
the balance of membership in the Council as a whole. The
electoral college would still be open to the criticism that
it placed too much control in the hands of District Board
members as to whom should be elected to the Legislative
Council, and that it did not provide a means for the
majority of people in the community, who are not eligible to
vote in functional constituencies, to participate directly
in the selection of members of the Legislative Council.
33.
For these reasons it may be felt that other
approaches to providing for a system of geographically-based
representation should be tested, either in addition to or as
alternative to electoral college. Such alternatives
an
might
nevertheless allow for the retention of the two
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