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19.
Some criticism has been
College is too
narrowly based
Legislative
Council.
of
voiced that the Electoral
for producing members
It has been suggested that if
District
Board
The
directly elected members are introduced, Electoral College members should make way for them. main argument for the District Board-Electoral College members was to produce a reasonable balanced geographical distribution of members. The media and public opinion have noted that the March 1986 Urban Council and Regional
Council elections produced mainly social
educationalists.
workers
and
A basic dimension of this problem is
arithmetical: short of considerable alteration District Board Electoral College boundaries, the choice is
to have the present ten seats, or none at
latter choice would
representation only
dramatic and unsettling.
of
the
all; and
me an abolishing a type
in introduced
1985 which
may
and the
of
seem
Summary:
[Not hoody] 20. T
There are
in the table below:
several possible variations. Some appear
1985
1988
Present
Component
Position
(a)
(b)
(c)
(a)
Functional
12
16
16
16
16
Official
10
14
14
14
14
Electoral Colleges
12
12
12
12
2
Appointed
22
22
22
12
22
Directly Elected
0
10
10
10
(a)
(b)
56
64
74
64
64
no directly elected members added;
10 directly elected members added; no reductions;
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