Hong Kong's is much stranger than the City of London's, from what i know.
The City does actually have one person one vote, with those votes electing local representatives in the much the same way as any other local authority. The quirk is in who the people are. Every resident has a vote. But some people who work in the City but don't live there also get a vote. Businesses are entitled to nominate some number of their employees as voters, according to their size.
This makes a lot of sense to me, given that the City has thousands of residents but hundreds of thousands of workers. Why should the place be run solely for the benefit of the residents?
If anything, this approach should be extended to other areas where there is a non-resident population much larger than the resident population. Give tourists a vote on how the City of Westminster is run!
Whereas in Hong Kong, you have this system of "functional constituencies", where there are seats in the legislative council elected by workers in specific industries:
The City does actually have one person one vote, with those votes electing local representatives in the much the same way as any other local authority. The quirk is in who the people are. Every resident has a vote. But some people who work in the City but don't live there also get a vote. Businesses are entitled to nominate some number of their employees as voters, according to their size.
This makes a lot of sense to me, given that the City has thousands of residents but hundreds of thousands of workers. Why should the place be run solely for the benefit of the residents?
If anything, this approach should be extended to other areas where there is a non-resident population much larger than the resident population. Give tourists a vote on how the City of Westminster is run!
Whereas in Hong Kong, you have this system of "functional constituencies", where there are seats in the legislative council elected by workers in specific industries:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_constituency_(Hong_...