24 LegCo members will be returned from five geographical constituencies (GCs):
Hong Kong Island : 5 seats
(The constituency consists of 4 districts :
Central & Western, Wan Chai, Eastern, Southern)
Kowloon East : 4 seats
(The constituency consists of 2 districts :
Wong Tai Sin, Kwun Tong)
Kowloon West : 4 seats
(The constituency consists of 3 districts :
Yau Tsim Mong, Sham Shui Po, Kowloon City)
New Territories East : 5 seats
(The constituency consists of 4 districts :
North , Tai Po, Sha Tin, Sai Kung)
New Territories West : 6 seats
(The constituency consists of 5 districts :
Tsuen Wan, Tuen Mun, Yuen Long, Kwai Tsing, Islands)
Total : 24 seats
GC elections will be by universal suffrage. All the 3.06 million registered voters have the right to vote.
The List Voting System operating under the Largest Remainder Formula - a form of proportional representation voting system - will be used as in the first LegCo election in 1998.
Each voter can cast one vote in his or her constituency.
Voting is simple and easy. All a voter has to do is to choose one of the lists printed on the ballot paper and use a chop provided by polling staff to mark a tick ' ' in the circle next to it.
The List Voting System
Candidates
Contest the election in the form of lists
Candidates have to rank themselves in order of priority
The names of candidates in each list will be printed on the ballot paper in order of priority
Each list may consist of any number of candidates up to the number of seats in the relevant constituency
Electors
Choose only one of the lists of candidates as printed on the ballot paper
Mark a tick '' inside the circle next to the list of your choice with a chop provided by polling staff
Do not mark more than one tick ''
Distribution of seats under the List Voting System
Largest Remainder Formula
If :
5-seat constituency
A total of 300,000 valid votes
Then :
Each list getting 1/5 (i.e. 60,000) of the votes will get a seat
The candidate ranked first on that list will be elected
Any remaining seats will be awarded to the lists with the largest number of remaining votes
' in the circle next to it.
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