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its

encouragement

of civic education both

in schools

and outside. In

1985

it

set

up

Committee

for the

Promotion of Civic Education, under the chairmanship of

a Legislative Councillor. Community interest in civic

affairs is developing and may be expected to develop

further through these efforts.

Voting Systems for Legislative Council Elections

71.

Consideration of alternative voting systems is

a complex subject, on which there

was a limited public

response

to the

Green Paper.

Those

who did comment

generally favoured the adoption of

elimination" voting system for

a "preferential

both

functional

constituency and electoral college elections to the

Legislative Council.

72.

As explained in the Green Paper, this system

has advantages over the "preferential addition" system

used in the 1985 functional constituency elections,

because it gives greater weight to higher preferences

than to lower ones and does not carry the risk that the

candidate with the

the fewest first preference votes might

win the

nevertheless

election.

advantage over

1985 electoral college elections in

also has an

in the the repeated ballot system used

that it involves

It

only

round one

of voting.

The

"preferential

elimination" system will therefore be adopted in the

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