"Certainly they're going to win a majority of the votes, an overwhelming majority of the votes, but they're not going to win a majority of the seats," because of a complex system of constituencies heavily weighted in favor of pro-government candidates, said Michael DeGolyer, a Hong Kong Baptist University pollster.
In a system of proportional representation in large constituencies, fewer than ten of them will probably get seats.
Mr Narayan also argues for a system of proportional representation to break the link between constituency and candidate.
Matters changed when communism turned into a system of states as well as parties, for states have different constraints, a different constituency and different tasks.
Single Transferable Vote A system of preferential voting by which voters use numbers to list candidates in order of preference to elect several members in multi-member constituencies.
In essence, Mr Tung proposes that, though 20 of the 60 seats are to be chosen by proportional representation and universal suffrage, fully half the seats will be assigned to industry groups under the iniquitous system of functional constituencies.
It is propped up by an electoral system of two-member constituencies, devised by Pinochet as one of several measures to ensure that the right, then a minority, would maintain a veto over change.
But Hong Kong has a complex system of multiple-seat geographic constituencies, in which voters choose slates of candidates.
We explored the performance assessment framework and system of each constituency, the embeddedness of performance data in management and policy processes, and the interrelationships between the frameworks.
When Aberhart decided to run Social Credit candidates in the 1935 provincial election, he adopted an unusual system of candidate nomination: each constituency would nominate three or four candidates, with a committee headed by Aberhart deciding which one would actually run.
