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Hong Kong Election Committee Subsector elections, 2011

2011 Election Committee subsector elections
Hong Kong
2006 ←
11 December 2011 → 2016

1,044 (of the 1,200) seats in the Election Committee
Turnout 27.60% Increase0.17pp
  First party Second party
  Tam Yiu-chung.jpg Miriam Lau Kin Yee.jpg
Leader Tam Yiu-chung Miriam Lau
Party DAB Liberal
Alliance Pro-Beijing Pro-Beijing
Seats won 78 19

  Third party Fourth party
  Albert Ho 2014 cut.jpg Alan Leong 2015.jpg
Leader Albert Ho Alan Leong
Party Democratic Civic
Alliance Pan-democracy Pan-democracy
Seats won 14 13

The 2011 Election Committee subsector elections took place between 7:30 am and 10:30 pm on 11 December 2011. The Election Committee sub-sector elections are a part of the contemporary political process of Hong Kong. The election's purpose is to decide the 1,044 members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong. The resulting Election Committee is then responsible for electing the Chief Executive of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) in the 2012 Election.

The breakthrough of the electoral reform in 2010 changed the membership of the Election Committee for the first time which expanded the size of the Election Committee from 800 members to 1,200 members. Each sector were allocated 100 more seats proportionally and the 10 Special Members were elected to fill the vacancy of the 10 new ex officio members Legislative Council which was also expanded from 60 to 70 seats in the electoral reform but was to be elected in the following September election. The Special Members were 4 in the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference sub-sector and 2 in the Heung Yee Kuk, the Hong Kong and Kowloon District Councils, and the New Territories District Councils respectively.

The Election Committee consisted of 1,044 [1,034] members elected from 35 subsectors, 60 members nominated by the Religious sub-sector and 96 [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 2012, the 1,200 member Election Committee was formed by 38 Election Committee Sub-sectors:

Note: Figures in brackets denotes the number of members and figures in square brackets denotes the number of members commencing in October 2012.

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

The nomination period for the elections was between 8 and 15 November 2011 (The Hong Kong and Kowloon District Councils, and the New Territories District Councils Sub-sectors had a nomination period between 18 and 24 November 2011).


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