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Election Committee

In accordance with the Basic Law, the Chief Executive shall be elected by an Election Committee (“EC”).  The EC is composed of 800 members from the following four sectors-

  • Industrial, commercial and financial sectors;
  • The professions;
  • Labour, social services, religious and other sectors; and
  • Members of the Legislative Council (“LegCo”), representatives of district-based organizations, Hong Kong deputies to the National People's Congress (“NPC”) and representatives of Hong Kong members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

These four sectors are in turn composed of 38 subsectors, comprising-

  • 664 members of 35 subsectors who are returned through elections;
  • 96 ex-officio members (i.e. Hong Kong deputies to the NPC and Members of the LegCo under the NPC subsector and the LegCo subsector; and
  • 40 members under the Religious subsector who are nominated by six designated bodies.