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1875年的大會堂,也就是舉行香港史上第一次選舉的地方,維基百科圖片
雖然當年的制度上未成熟,選民基礎亦因未有完整公民制度而過窄,但公民選舉自1888年至今已有超過一百三十年歷史。其實嚴格來說,選舉還可以追溯到1883年起立法局其中一個非官守議席由太平紳士投票選出,或是1872年起東華醫院的董事局成員由醫院成員選舉產生。因此,再說香港在英治時期沒有舉行過選舉,是不正確的。香港的選舉制度,更是由1888年起逐年改善,變得越來越嚴謹,選民基礎亦逐漸擴大,使選舉的代表性更高,市民對市政的影響力亦更大。//
參考資料/延伸閱讀:
GA 1888, №232, Rules Made by the Governor in Council, 31st May 1888
GA 1888, №244, Government Notification, 4th June 1888
GA 1888, №264, Government Notification, 16th June 1888
GA 1891, №242, Government Notification, 28th May 1891
GA 1895, №161, Government Notification, 20th April 1895
SP1896, Paper Respecting the Reconstitution of the Sanitary Board, Letter from Joesph Chamberlain to Sir William Robinson, 6th November 1896
1881 Ordinance №24, The Public Health Ordinance, 1887
George Endacott, Government and people in Hong Kong, 1841–1962: A Constitutional History. HKU Press, 1964
Steve Tsang, Governing Hong Kong: Administrative Officers from the Nineteenth Century to the Handover to China, 1862–1997. HKU Press, 2007
劉潤和,《香港市議會史,1883–1999》,康文署,2002