Election Committee race draws 1,112 nominations so far
SingTao · 2 SOURCESabout 3 hours ago5 MIN
Summary
Hong Kong’s nomination period for the 2026 Election Committee subsector ordinary election began on October 7 and runs until October 20, with polling scheduled for November 22. By October 15, the Registration and Electoral Office said it had received a cumulative 1,112 candidate nomination forms and 38 designated body nomination forms. Sing Tao reported that 30 subsectors had already become oversubscribed by that point, meaning contests are set to take place in those groups. Among the names reported as having filed nominations were Legislative Council President Andrew Leung Kwan-yuen (梁君彥) and former secretary for justice Rimsky Yuen Kwok-keung (袁國強)
Key Points
- The Registration and Electoral Office said 29 nomination forms were received on October 15, including 26 candidate forms and three designated body forms
- Of the 26 candidate forms filed that day, the Architectural, Surveying, Planning and Landscape subsector accounted for 12, while Social Welfare accounted for eight
- The three designated body nomination forms received on October 15 came from the Religious subsector and the Hong Kong members of relevant associations in the Mainland representative subsector
- Sing Tao said 30 subsectors were already oversubscribed, spanning business, professional, grassroots and labour, district-based and national bodies categories
- Reported nominees included Andrew Leung Kwan-yuen, Rimsky Yuen Kwok-keung, Allan Zeman, Kenneth Fok Kai-shan and Richard Li Tzar-kai
Why It Matters
The growing number of oversubscribed subsectors indicates that competition is emerging across a broad spread of Election Committee seats rather than only in a handful of categories. For Hong Kong readers, the pace and distribution of nominations offer an early measure of mobilisation among business, professional, labour and community-based groups before the November 22 poll.