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Legislative Council Election|Over 100 election committee nominations for non-organizational candidates including 4 celebrities and 9 CPPCC

2021-11-29T00:47:27.692Z


The Legislative Council election will be held on the 19th of next month. Of the 153 candidates admitted, 13 are of non-organizational or middle-line background. After the election reform, all candidates must be nominated by 10 election committees.


The Legislative Council election will be held on the 19th of next month. Of the 153 candidates admitted, 13 are of non-organizational or middle-line background.

After the election restructuring, all candidates must be nominated by 10 election committees, and many non-organized candidates said it was difficult to obtain nominations.


The "01 Research Institute" checked the nomination information of various candidates and found that only 133 election committees nominated non-organized candidates, including the Hong Kong People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, but the current Legislative Council members did not nominate them.

In terms of political party background, the three election committees of the Liberal Party nominated Liu Zhuoyu, Fang Longfei and Zeng Liwen respectively; the two election committees of the DAB and the AFL nominated Huang Chengzhi and Di Zhiyuan respectively.


For the list of candidates for each constituency in the Legislative Council election, please

click here to

refer to the "Hong Kong 01" election website.

Under the new electoral system, in addition to being nominated by voters in the region or sector of the election, candidates must also be nominated by 5 sectors of the Election Committee, each sector being nominated by 2 to 4 election committees, with a total of at least 10 nominations Fang has the opportunity to enter the gate, and many non-organized candidates have said that it is difficult to get nominations.

The reporter checked the nomination information of various candidates and found that most of the established candidates can be nominated by more than 10 election committees. Among the 13 non-organized and middle route candidates, only Hong Kong Island East Pan Zhuohong, New Territories Northeast Huang Weihao and Huang Chengzhi Three people received 11 nominations (note: each candidate was finally confirmed by only 10 election committee nominations), and the remaining 10 people were only nominated for the minimum 10 nominations.

133 election committees nominated non-organizational system, including 4 deputies and 9 members of the CPPCC

A total of 133 election committees nominated non-organizational and mid-line candidates, of which at least four are currently representatives of the National People’s Congress of Hong Kong, including Tan Xiangwen’s nominator Chen Manqi, and the nominee of the new thinking Huang Junlang Huang Junyu; and at least nine others. The CPPCC election committee includes former member of the guild who nominated Frederick Fung and lawyer Jian Songnian, and Hu Dingxu, who nominated Pan Zhuohong.

At present, the Election Committee can nominate one candidate from each district, functional constituency, and Election Committee sector. In this election, five Election Committee members nominate more than one non-organized candidate.

Mai Qinghuan, election committee member of the democratic thinking and legal circles, nominated party member Chen Jinxiong to run for the Kowloon East constituency, and nominated new thinking Di Zhiyuan for the social welfare sector; Li Kuangyi, the election committee member of the import and export sector, and Wu Wenjie, the election committee member of the grassroots organizations, both at the same time Nominated for democratic thinking Huang Weihao and accountant Wen Siyi.

No incumbent legislators nominated non-organized

It is worth noting that no incumbent member of the Legislative Council has nominated non-establishment candidates.

In terms of political party background, the Liberal Party has the largest number of election committees nominating non-incorporated persons: Zhuang Renming in the catering industry nominated Zeng Liwen for the election of North New Territories; Chen Xiaofeng, the election committee of the National People's Congress, nominated Liu Cheuk Yu, a member of Tsuen Wan District, for the election of Southeast New Territories; former district member Li Zhenqiang nominated Fang Longfei, a member of outlying islands. Participate in Hong Kong Island West.

The DAB Lu Wenduan nominates Huang Chengzhi, and the Labor Union election committee Zhu Yuqing nominates Di Zhiyuan.

For the list of candidates for each constituency in the Legislative Council election, please

click here to

refer to the "Hong Kong 01" election website.

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Source: hk1

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