The Siege of Carrie Lam

Re:The Siege of Carrie Lam by DonaldFisk on Friday December 06, 2019 @09:17AM (#21721902)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Hong_Kong_local_elections gives a breakdown of votes cast and seats won. The reason for the discrepancy between votes cast and seats won is the first-past-the-post electoral system used.

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Re:The Siege of Carrie Lam by sjogress on Friday December 06, 2019 @09:46AM (#21722160)

Interesting, according to Wikipedia the results of the popular vote was: Pro-democrats (57.10%), Pro-Beijing (42.06%), Non-aligned others (0.83%)

Seats were divided like this: Pro-democrats (81.00%), Pro-Beijing (18.58%), Non-aligned others (0.42%)

Looks like some democratic reform is in order even if HK is able to gain universal suffrage and keep the one-country two-systems indefinitely.

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Re:The Siege of Carrie Lam by idlewords on Friday December 06, 2019 @12:06PM (#21723719)

You are recommending voting reform for Hong Kong local district elections based on having studied the issue for, what, thirty seconds?

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