Hong Kong Election Committee Subsector elections, 2016

2016 Election Committee subsector elections
Hong Kong
11 December 2016
1,034 (of the 1,200) seats in the Election Committee

The 2016 Election Committee subsector elections will be held on 11 December 2016 for the 1,034 of the 1,200 members of the Election Committee, which is responsible for electing the Chief Executive of Hong Kong (CE) in the upcoming 2017 election.

Background

The pro-democracy camp pocketed 205 seats in the 1,200-strong Election Committee and nominated Albert Ho of the Democratic Party to run against Leung Chun-ying and Henry Tang in 2012. The main goal for the pro-democrats in the election was to grab more than 300 seats to increase the chance of blocking the incumbent Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying to re-elected. In order to do that, the camp tended not to send a candidate in the election and become a "kingmaker" by boosting the chance for an alternative establishment candidate.[1]

The six pro-democrats elected to the Legislative Council in functional constituencies in September, including Edward Yiu who took the seat in the traditional pro-Beijing sector and Leung Chun-ying's stronghold Architectural, Surveying, Planning and Landscape, formed an alliance called the Professionals Guild to coordinate candidates to contest in the Election Committee election. The victory in the Legislative Council functional constituencies encouraged the pro-democrats to take a more progressive strategy in the professional sector, in which the pro-democrats traditionally had more advantages.[1] The pro-democrat professionals and activists also formed a loose coalition called "Democrats 300+" hoping to snatch over 300 seats in the committee.[2]

Some 300 candidates had also voiced opposition towards Leung Chun-ying re-election.[2] Only 189 out of 305 of those who nominated Leung in 2012 sought to join the Election Committee this year.[3]

Composition

The Election Committee consisted of 1,034 members elected from 35 subsectors, 60 members nominated by the Religious subsector and 106 ex officio members. (Hong Kong deputies from the National People's Congress and Legislative Council of Hong Kong members). As the term of office commenced on 1 February 2016, the 1,200 member Election Committee was formed by 38 Election Committee Subsectors:[4]

  1. Heung Yee Kuk (26)
  2. Agriculture and Fisheries (60)
  3. Insurance (18)
  4. Transport (18)
  5. Education (30)
  6. Legal (30)
  7. Accountancy (30)
  8. Medical (30)
  9. Health Services (30)
  10. Engineering (30)
  11. Architectural, Surveying and Planning (30)
  12. Labour (60)
  13. Social Welfare (60)
  14. Real Estate and Construction (18)
  15. Tourism (18)
  16. Commercial (First) (18)
  17. Commercial (Second) (18)
  18. Industrial (First) (18)
  19. Industrial (Second) (18)
  20. Finance (18)
  21. Financial Services (18)
  22. Sports, Performing Arts, Culture and Publication (60)
  23. Import and Export (18)
  24. Textiles and Garment (18)
  25. Wholesale and Retail (18)
  26. Information Technology (30)
  27. Higher Education (30)
  28. Hotel (17)
  29. Catering (17)
  30. Chinese Medicine (30)
  31. Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (51)
  32. Employers' Federation of HK (16)
  33. HK and Kowloon District Councils (57)
  34. New Territories District Councils (60)
  35. HK Chinese Enterprises Association (16)
  36. National People's Congress (36)
  37. Legislative Council (70)
  38. Religious (60)

Note: Figures in brackets denotes the number of members.

Number of members nominated by the six designated bodies of the religious sub-sector:

Nominations

The nomination period was from 8 to 14 November 2016. A total number of 1,539 nominations were validated, while ten nominations were ruled invalid by the Returning Officers which included the former Chinese University of Hong Kong Students' Union president Tommy Cheung Sau-yin who led the seven-member "Student United 2017" and six members of the pro-democratic "Progressive Engineering" due to their "insufficient connection" with the Higher Education and Engineering subsectors.[5]

One nomination from the 18-member Import and Export subsector was also invalidated, which made the number of the nominated candidates of the Import and Export subsector one less than the number of seats allocated to it. Since there was no provision in the Chief Executive Election Ordinance which allowed a by-election to fill the remaining seat, the seat would be vacant.[6]

Among the 1,539 candidates, 300 of those were returned uncontested and voting for the 12 subsectors and the Sports sub-subsector would not be held.[6] For the six designated bodies of the religious subsector, four of them were uncontested. The Returning Officer arranged lots drawing for the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Christian Council in order to decide members of the Election Committee among the nominees.[6]

Election results

Results by subsectors

Statistics are generated from the official election website:

Sector Sub-sector Registered
voters 		Candidates Elected Votes Turnout
I Catering 5,530 17 17 uncontested
I Commercial (First) 1,045 19
I Commercial (Second) 1,460 18 18 uncontested
I Employers' Federation of Hong Kong 139 16 16 uncontested
I Finance 122 18 18 uncontested
I Financial Services 622 33
I Hong Kong Chinese Enterprises Association 308 16 16 uncontested
I Hotel 120 19
I Import and Export 1,379 17* 17* uncontested
I Industrial (First) 542 18 18 uncontested
I Industrial (Second) 764 18 18 uncontested
I Insurance 131 29
I Real Estate and Construction 706 18 18 uncontested
I Textiles and Garment 2,330 18 18 uncontested
I Tourism 1,298 25
I Transport 195 24
I Wholesale and Retail 6,706 21
I Sub-total for First Sector 23,397 344 174
II Accountancy 26,001 62
II Architectural, Surveying and Planning 7,370 92
II Chinese Medicine 6,143 55
II Education 80,643 56
II Engineering 9,405 58
II Health Services 37,387 94
II Higher Education 7,497 65
II Information Technology 12,109 59
II Legal 6,769 37
II Medical 11,189 85
II Sub-total for Second Sector 204,513 663
III Agriculture and Fisheries 154 60 60 uncontested
III Labour 668 69
III Religious N/A 60 60 no election
III Social Welfare 14,130 104
III Sports, Performing Arts, Culture and Publication 2,909 85 15
III Sub-total for Third Sector 17,861 378 135
IV National People's Congress N/A 36 36 ex officio
IV Legislative Council N/A 70 70 ex officio
IV Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference 91 51 51 uncontested
IV Heung Yee Kuk 147 35
IV Hong Kong and Kowloon District Councils 208 66
IV New Territories District Councils 223 62
IV Sub-total for Fourth Sector 669 320 157
TOTAL 246,440 1,705 466

Note: *One nomination from the 18-member Import and Export subsector was invalidated, which made the number of the nominated candidates of the Import and Export subsector one less than the number of seats allocated to it. Since there was no provision in the Chief Executive Election Ordinance which allowed a by-election to fill the remaining seat, the seat would be vacant.

Result by affiliations

 Summary of the 11 December 2016 Election Committee Subsector election results
Affiliation 1st Sector 2nd Sector 3rd Sector 4th Sector Total
Standing Elected Standing Elected Standing Elected Standing Elected Standing Elected
Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong 6 3 - - - - 48 2 54 5
Liberal Party 12 3 - - - - 2 1 14 4
Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong 2 1 - - - - 8 10 1
Chinese Association of Hong Kong & Macao Studies 1 1 - - - - - - 1 1
Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions - - - - 35 11 46
V18 Accountants - - 18 - - - - 18
Gov.ALPS - - 11 - - - - 11
New People's Party 1 - - - - 9 10
Federation of Hong Kong and Kowloon Labour Unions - - - - 8 1 - 9
ABC.P.A - - 5 - - - - 5
Education Convergence - - 5 - - - - 5
Your Vote Counts - - 4 - - - - 4
New Territories Association of Societies - - - - - - 2 2
Hong Kong Securities & Futures Employees Union 1 - - - - - - 1
Hong Kong Social Workers and Welfare Employees Union - - - - 1 - - 1
Hong Kong Women Teachers' Organization - - 1 - - - - 1
Win Win Hong Kong Accountants - - 1 - - - - 1
Pro-Beijing Independent 319 166 300 155 75 123 48 897 289
Total for pro-Beijing camp 342 174 345 199 75 204 51 1,090 300
Health Professionals for Democracy 30 - - 29 - - - - 29
Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union - - 23 - - - - 23
Hong Kong Social Workers' General Union - - - - 21 - - 21
Democratic Party 1 13 3 2 19
Doctors for Democracy - - 19 - - - - 19
Demo-Social Front - - - - 18 - - 18
Walk Together - - - - 18 - - 18
IT Vision - - 16 - - - - 16
Civic Party - - 13 - - 2 15
Reclaiming Social Work Movement - - - - 12 - - 12
Elders' Rights - - - - 11 - - 11
Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood - - 1 - - 3 4
Democrat Professionals Hong Kong - - 4 - - - - 4
Labour Party - - 1 - - 1 2
Hearts of Accountants - - 4 - - - - 4
Professional Commons - - 3 - - - - 3
Coalition of Hong Kong Newspaper and Magazine Merchant 1 - - - - - - 1
Independent democrats - - 118 15 1 - 134
Total for Democrats 300+ 2 243 100 9 352
Students United 2017 - - 6 - - - - 6
Frontline Doctors' Union - - 3 - - - - 3
User Voice - - - - 3 - - 3
Path of Democracy - - 1 - - - - 1
Tuen Mun Community - - - - 1 - - 1
Alliance of Housing Department Staff Unions - - - - 1 - - 1
Non-aligned independent - - 65 16 1 - 82
Total 344 174 663 318 75 214 51 1,539 300

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Hong Kong's pan-democrats hope to play 'kingmaker' in election to choose city's next leader". South China Morning Post. 26 September 2016.
  2. 1 2 "More join race for election". The Standard. 15 November 2016.
  3. ↑ "CY Leung faces uphill poll battle with fewer set to back him in Hong Kong chief executive race". South China Morning Post. 14 November 2016.
  4. ↑ "2016 Election Committee subsector elections - Facts and Figures". Electoral Affairs Commission.
  5. ↑ "Four more barred from Hong Kong Election Committee bid, including student activist Tommy Cheung". South China Morning Post. 18 November 2016.
  6. 1 2 3 "1 539 validly nominated candidates for Election Committee Subsector Ordinary Elections". The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. 22 November 2016.
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