The Election Committee election is held today (19th). After excluding ex officio seats and subsectors that have been automatically elected, voters in 13 sectors of the current Election Committee need to vote for elections, involving 4,889 voters, excluding ex-officio members of the National People’s Congress After that, a total of 364 election committees were elected.
Who are these voters?
The candidates for individual election committee elections will be mentioned below,
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sectors
Under the new electoral system, most of the electoral committee’s voter qualifications are changed to group votes, and the groups send representatives to vote; these can be subdivided into two types: "listed groups" and "eligible groups". Both can be used in the same sector. Kind of voter qualifications.
The former is listed by the government on the list of eligible organizations, and the number is determined by the government; the latter is determined by the government on the qualifications of voters, which usually requires continuous operation for more than 3 years, and the number of voters depends on the number of eligible organizations.
Take the 13 subsectors that need to vote as an example. Among them, 6 voters are eligible for "specified groups" only.
The following will analyze who can vote for election committees according to different sectors.
Social welfare sector: the only sector with non-organized candidates
The social welfare sector is one of the focus of this election committee election. There are 23 candidates competing for 12 seats. The candidates include two non-organizational candidates, namely Di Zhiyuan and Chairman of the Sai Kung District Council, Zhou Xianming, both of whom belong to Participate in the election as a representative of a social welfare organization.
Voters in this sector are mainly representatives of social welfare organizations, because general social welfare organizations can be registered as corporate voters if they are regularly funded by the SWD and continue to operate for three years.
Individually listed groups, such as the Social Workers Registration Bureau, Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, Po Leung Kuk, Yan Chai Hospital, etc., can also send representatives to vote.
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Unions and insurance companies can also vote
On the other hand, voters in the insurance and labor sectors must meet the qualification requirements of the relevant sectors, such as insurers authorized or deemed to be authorized under the Insurance Industry Ordinance, and trade unions registered under the Trade Unions Ordinance.
There are 88 and 407 corporate voters in the two sectors respectively.
Among them, 72 people from the labor sector are competing for 60 seats, which is a relatively fiercely competitive subsector.
Of the 72 candidates, 50 are from the Federation of Trade Unions, 15 from the Federation of Labor Unions, and the remaining candidates represent individual independent trade unions and civil service unions.
Professional sector: the legal sector has the least number of voters
In terms of professional sectors, voters in the construction, surveying, urban planning and landscape sectors, the legal sector, the medical and health services sector, and the technological innovation sector also need to belong to the "specified groups."
Senior Counsel, guild member Tang Jiahua, former chairman of the IPCC, and Peng Yunxi, president of the Law Society, who participated in the election for the election committee of the legal profession are all voters. There are 30 voters in the legal profession, the least among many sectors.
In addition, this year's medical and health services sector merged the past two sectors, with 24 people competing for 14 seats.
Half of the candidates are doctors, and there are also nursing staff, pharmacists, and full-time medical staff.
Voters need to be Hospital Authority Hospitals, qualified private hospitals, or representatives of listed groups, such as the Nursing Council, Auxiliary Medical Service, Approved Medical Staff Association, and the candidate for the election of the Dean of the University of Hong Kong Shenzhen Hospital, Lu Chongmao, and the former Lin Zhexuan, vice president of the Hong Kong Medical Association, and others are also among the 82 voters.
As for the science and technology innovation sector, the listed groups of voters include designated institutions such as the Smart City Alliance, Science Park, and Cyberport founded by Ge Peifan, as well as national scientific research platforms such as national key laboratories of local universities.
Education: Primary and secondary schools and kindergartens can become group voters
There are more than 1,700 voters in the education sector, mainly from all registered kindergartens, primary schools, secondary schools, universities and post-secondary institutions in Hong Kong.
This year, Zhao Zeng Xueyun, who has played independently in the education sector, is the founder of many kindergartens. He is currently the supervisor of the Lok Kei Nursery School and the chairman of the board of directors of the Zhao Zeng Xueyun Primary School of Renji Hospital.
Another 13 candidates from this sector formed a list of candidates, all of whom were principals of primary schools, primary schools or kindergartens.
District committee, anti-crime and fire prevention committee: 156 out of about 1,900
After the electoral reforms, the only subsectors where individuals can stand for election are representatives of the Hong Kong, Kowloon and New Territories Area Committees, District Fight Crime Committees, and District Fire Protection Committees.
All of the 18 districts in Hong Kong have the above three committees. There are currently about 2,490 members appointed by the government. They are all eligible to become voters in this sector, and 156 representatives have been elected to the electoral committee.
Among the candidates in this sector, there is no shortage of formed district councilors or candidates who were elected in the district council elections in 2019. For example, Ye Aodong, the former chairman of the Yau Tsim Mong District Council, was defeated by the pro-democracy veteran Chen Ziwei. Appointed as a member of the Yau Tsim Mong South Area.