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Single Seat Single Vote

Criticism

No balanced representation.

Constituencies too small.

Answer

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Avoids coat tail effect.

Fair, simple to administer, easily understood by

electors from MC and DB elections.

Functional constituencies ensure broad representation

in LegCo.

Size of constituencies will average 300,000, very much

larger than DBs (17,000) and MCs (100,000).

Functional Constituencies

Criticism

9 new functional constituencies a surrogate for more geographical constituencies.

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