2006 Hong Kong Election Committee Subsector elections


The 2006 Election Committee subsector elections were held from 7.30 am to 10.30 pm on 10 December 2006 in order to elect 664 members of Election Committee. The Election Committee was responsible for electing the Hong Kong SAR Chief Executive in 2007 Chief Executive Election.

Background

In 2002, Tung Chee-hwa who failed from favour with many Hong Kong people was elected as Chief Executive of Hong Kong in the 2002 poll which the pro-democracy camp boycotted. This time, however, the pro-democracy decided to take part in the Chief Executive election in an attempt to force candidates to care more about the people's livelihood and prevent Donald Tsang reelected uncontested. After discussion, the camp decided that Alan Leong would run as a representative of the camp. As a result, the camp tried hard to gain at least 100 representatives of theirs to get the nomination threshold to enter the race.

Election methods

The General qualifications for candidature are a registered geographical constituency elector; and a registered voter of the concerned subsector or has a substantial connection with that subsector. 5 subscribers are required for nomination of the concerned subsector.

Composition

The 800-member Election Committee was composed of 664 members elected from 35 subsectors; 40 members nominated by the religious subsector; and 96 ex-officio members. The 38 subsectors are listed as follows:
  1. Heung Yee Kuk
  2. Agriculture and Fisheries
  3. Insurance
  4. Transport
  5. Education
  6. Legal
  7. Accountancy
  8. Medical
  9. Health Services
  10. Engineering
  11. Architectural, Surveying and Planning
  12. Labour
  13. Social Welfare
  14. Real Estate and Construction
  15. Tourism
  16. Commercial
  17. Commercial
  18. Industrial
  19. Industrial
  20. Finance
  21. Financial Services
  22. Sports, Performing Arts, Culture and Publication
  23. Import and Export
  24. Textiles and Garment
  25. Wholesale and Retail
  26. Information Technology
  27. Higher Education
  28. Hotel
  29. Catering
  30. Chinese Medicine
  31. Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
  32. Employers' Federation of HK
  33. HK and Kowloon District Councils
  34. New Territories District Councils
  35. HK Chinese Enterprises Association
  36. National People's Congress
  37. Legislative Council
  38. Religious

    Results

This election is considered as a "decisive victory" by the pro-democracy camp. Out of the 137 candidates, 114 candidates won, together with the 20 ex-officio members of the Legislative Council, there was enough number of nominees required for Alan Leong to be nominated in 2007 election.

Results by subsector

Statistics are generated from the :

Results by political party