Voting Systems

Real democracy? It's all about a sense of proportion

27 Dec 2010

You can always rely on the Americans to do the right thing, Winston Churchill was famously quoted as saying, once they have exhausted every other possibility.

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'Super-lawmakers' to wield enormous power

15 Nov 2010

Cheered on by thousands of supporters at the polling stations, the five candidates are proclaimed winners of the new super-district council seats in the legislature.

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Tougher choices for voters in 2012

8 Jul 2010

Choosing whom to vote for may become a lot more complex in the 2012 Legislative Council elections, but it seems unlikely major changes will take place.

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Fresh faces

7 Jun 2008

Political parties in Hong Kong still have a short history. Their leadership successions have, so far, been intra-generational. From the early elections in the mid-1980s through to today, a...

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Divide then conquer

11 Mar 2008

The political parties are finalising their lineup of candidates for the Legislative Council election in September.

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The cost of split votes

7 Aug 2004

Although campaigning for next month's Legislative Council election has only just got underway, there are already calls for a review of the proportional representation system for the geographical...

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Opinion

Alex Lo

Whistle-blowing vital in a democracy

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Hu Shuli

China's reform blueprint must address key challenges

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Voting system

Is Hong Kong's voting system fair to all? The party-list proportional voting system will be used in September's Legco elections. Introduced in 1998, it replaced a first-past-the-post system....

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Complex voting system requires review

The first week of the election campaign has been dominated not by the issues but by tactics and strategies. For this, we have our complicated voting system to blame. With political reform now on...

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Students are left off ballot papers in Beijing

Independents defiant after the district election commission fails to approve them

Students running in Beijing's district congress elections will not be included on the official...

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Letters

Jobless recovery

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Unfair

Danny Gittings, with his usual bias ('Inside Track' column, Sunday Morning Post, August 27), is quite wrong to say that introducing proportional representation was gerrymandering.

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Candidate profiles on the Web

Voters can access colour pictures and the platforms of election candidates via the Internet.

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