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1 History

Formed as a colonial legislature under the British, the first direct elections of LegCo took place in 1991.

The Legislative Council of Hong Kong has been housed in the Old Supreme Court building in Central since 1985.

The statue on the LegCo building is a replica of the one erected on the Old Bailey of London. It is the goddess of justice, Themis. It was a left-over from the former Supreme Court.

2 Organisation

The term of office is four years, except for the first term in 1998 which was 2 years.

In the 2000 LegCo election, 24 members were directly elected from geographical constituencies (GC), 6 were elected from an electoral college called the Election Committee, and 30 were elected from functional constituencies. In the next election in 2004, 30 will be directly elected and 30 will be elected from functional constituencies. The method of election after 20072007 is a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). Predicted Events January 1 Target date for the admission of Romania and Bulgaria to the European Union. March 1 USS Baltimore to be deactivated. March 19 Partial solar eclipse June NASA's M has not been specified. The Basic LawThe Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (Basic Law) serves as the constitutional document of Hong Kong. It was adopted on April 4, 1990 by the Seventh National People's Congress (NPC) of the People's states that the ultimate aim is the election of all the Legco members by universal suffrageUniversal suffrage (also general suffrage or common suffrage consists of the extension of voting privileges to all adults, without distinction as to race, sex, belief or social status. The 19th century featured movements advocating universal male suffrage (Article 68 of the Basic Law).

3 Constituencies

3.1 Geographical constituencies

The GC seats are returned by universal suffrageUniversal suffrage (also general suffrage or common suffrage consists of the extension of voting privileges to all adults, without distinction as to race, sex, belief or social status. The 19th century featured movements advocating universal male suffrage. The voting system adopted in GC is List Proportional Representation (PR) using Hare quotaThe Hare quota is a formula used to calculate the minimum number, or quota, of votes required to capture a seat in some forms of single transferable vote or largest remainder method party-list proportional representation voting systems. It is named after, which is considered to contribute to proportionality in assembly. There were 3.06 million registered voters.