Composition, Methods for Returning Members and Electorates of Sub-sectors

With reference to the Gazette Notice G.N. (E.) 68 of 2026, the following are the numbers of members of the Election Committee to be elected by each of the subsectors named below –

First Sector:
Industrial, commercial and financial sectors (300 Members) 		Seats Number of ex-officio members Number of members to be nominated Number of members to be elected
1Catering 16 0 0 16
2Commercial (first) 17 0 0 17
3Commercial (second) 17 0 0 17
4Commercial (third) 17 0 0 17
5Employers' Federation of Hong Kong 15 0 0 15
6Finance 17 0 0 17
7Financial services 17 0 0 17
8Hotel 16 0 0 16
9Import and export 17 0 0 17
10Industrial (first) 17 0 0 17
11Industrial (second) 17 0 0 17
12Insurance 17 0 0 17
13Real estate and construction 17 0 0 17
14Small and medium enterprises 15 0 0 15
15Textiles and garment 17 0 0 17
16Tourism 17 0 0 17
17Transport 17 0 0 17
18Wholesale and retail 17 0 0 17
Second Sector:
The professions (300 Members) 		Seats Number of ex-officio members Number of members to be nominated Number of members to be elected
1Accountancy 30 0 15 15
2Architectural, surveying, planning and landscape 30 15 0 15
3Chinese medicine 30 0 15 15
4Education 30 16 0 14
5Engineering 30 15 0 15
6Legal 30 6 9 15
7Medical and health services 30 15 0 15
8Social welfare 30 15 0 15
9Sports, performing arts, culture and publication 30 0 15 15
10Technology and innovation 30 0 15 15
Third Sector:
Grassroots, labour, religious and other sectors (300 Members) 		Seats Number of ex-officio members Number of members to be nominated Number of members to be elected
1Agriculture and fisheries 60 0 0 60
2Associations of Chinese fellow townsmen 60 0 0 60
3Grassroots associations 60 0 0 60
4Labour 60 0 0 60
5Religious 60 0 60 0
Fourth Sector:
Members of the Legislative Council, representatives of district organisations and other organisations (300 Members) 		Seats Number of ex-officio members Number of members to be nominated Number of members to be elected
1Members of the Legislative Council 90 90 0 0
2Heung Yee Kuk 27 0 0 27
3Representatives of associations of Hong Kong residents in the Mainland 27 0 27 0
4Representatives of members of Area Committees, District Fight Crime Committees, and District Fire Safety Committees of Hong Kong and Kowloon 76 0 0 76
5Representatives of members of Area Committees, District Fight Crime Committees, and District Fire Safety Committees of the New Territories 80 0 0 80
Fifth Sector:
HKSAR deputies to the NPC, HKSAR members of the National Committee of the CPPCC and representatives of Hong Kong members of relevant national organisations (300 Members) 		Seats Number of ex-officio members Number of members to be nominated Number of members to be elected
1HKSAR deputies to the NPC and HKSAR members of the National Committee of the CPPCC* 190 190 0 0
2Representatives of Hong Kong members of relevant national organisations 110 0 0 110
Total: 1 500

* NPC deputy means a Hong Kong Special Administrative Region deputy to the National People’s Congress. CPPCC member means a Hong Kong Special Administration Region member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.

Remarks:

  1. EC subsectors will be elected by registered corporate or individual voters. Unless specified in the electoral law, a body may become a corporate voter for a subsector only if it has been operating for not less than three years after acquiring relevant qualifications for that subsector.

Methods for Returning Members

Methods Seats
(1) Ex-officio member for which no election is required

(including LegCo Members, HKSAR deputies to the NPC, HKSAR members of the National Committee of the CPPCC, Hong Kong members of the Committee for the Basic Law of the HKSAR under the NPC Standing Committee, vice-chancellors or presidents of universities or chairpersons of the board of governors or the council of universities, and persons in charge of certain statutory bodies, important advisory committees and relevant organisations in specific subsectors)		 362
(2) Nomination by eligible bodies of specific subsectors

(including all Members of the Religious Subsector and representatives of associations of Hong Kong residents in the Mainland Subsector, certain members of the Technology and innovation Subsector, Accountancy Subsector, Legal Subsector, Sports, Performing Arts, Culture and Publication Subsector, and Chinese Medicine Subsector)		 156
(3) Election by eligible corporate or individual voters of the subsectors

(Only four subsectors have individual voters, namely:
  1. Heung Yee Kuk;
  2. Representatives of members of Area Committees, District Fight Crime Committees, and District Fire Safety Committees of Hong Kong Island and Kowloon;
  3. Representatives of members of Area Committees, District Fight Crime Committees, and District Fight Crime Committees of the New Territories; and
  4. Representatives of Hong Kong members of relevant national organisations
Other subsectors will be elected by corporate voters) 		982