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Why not proportional representation?
The effect of a PR system is to enhance the
representation of
minority interests; this is
already
achieved
by
the
functional
constituencies.
PR
would entail a
complicated voting/counting
method which the public might not readily
understand. Could therefore weaken the public's
confidence in the system, hence undermining the credibility of the electoral process.
Single-seat single-vote will make the sizes of the
constituencies very small.
constituencies
with an
of 300,000 each, very
[For examples,
in UK range from 30,000 to
Canada range from 30,000 to
We are talking about
average population
sizeable by any standard.
constituency sizes
80,000; those in
90,000.]
In the Hong Kong context, they will be much
larger than DB constituencies (average 17,000)
and those of MCs (average 100,000);
Even with a fully directly elected LegCo some
time in the future, the average population size
will still be about 100,000, which is far from being small.
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