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.

Background 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.

Composition The Election Committee consisted of 1,044 [1,034] members elected from 35 subsectors, 60 members nominated by the Religious sub-sector and 96 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:

Heung Yee Kuk (28) Agriculture and Fisheries (60) Insurance (18) Transport (18) Education (30) Legal (30) Accountancy (30) Medical (30) Health Services (30) Engineering (30) Architectural, Surveying and Planning (30) Labour (60) Social Welfare (60) Real Estate and Construction (18) Tourism (18) Commercial (First) (18) Commercial (Second) (18) Industrial (First) (18) Industrial (Second) (18) Finance (18) Financial Services (18) Sports, Performing Arts, Culture and Publication (60) Import and Export (18) Textiles and Garment (18) Wholesale and Retail (18) Information Technology (30) Higher Education (30) Hotel (17) Catering (17) Chinese Medicine (30) Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (55) Employers' Federation of HK (16) HK and Kowloon District Councils (59) New Territories District Councils (62) HK Chinese Enterprises Association (16) National People's Congress (36) Legislative Council (60) Religious (60)

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: Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong (10 members) Chinese Muslim Cultural and Fraternal Association (10 members) Hong Kong Christian Council (10 members) The Hong Kong Taoist Association (10 members) The Confucian Academy (10 members) The Hong Kong Buddhist Association (10 members)

Nominations 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).

Forums Two candidate forums were arranged for all candidates and each forum was divided into two sessions. Candidates numbered 1–21 attended the first session on 23 October 2011, whilst candidates numbered 22–42 attended the second session on 20 and 23 October 2011.

Election results

Results by subsectors Statistics are generated from the official election website: Sector Sub-sector Registeredvoters Candidates Elected Votes Turnout I Catering 7,895 34 17 1,126 14.26 I Commercial (First) 817 21 18 454 55.57 I Commercial (Second) 1,783 18 18 uncontested I Employers' Federation of Hong Kong 122 16 16 uncontested I Finance 125 18 18 uncontested I Financial Services 539 29 18 372 69.02 I Hong Kong Chinese Enterprises Association 321 16 16 uncontested I Hotel 99 19 17 75 75.76 I Import and Export 1,434 18 18 uncontested I Industrial (First) 610 18 18 uncontested I Industrial (Second) 695 18 18 uncontested I Insurance 121 19 18 90 74.38 I Real Estate and Construction 754 18 18 uncontested I Textiles and Garment 3,188 18 18 uncontested I Tourism 1,063 25 18 616 57.95 I Transport 196 21 18 157 80.10 I Wholesale and Retail 6,733 23 18 1,960 29.11 I Sub-total for First Sector 26,828 349 300 4,850 27.77 II Accountancy 24,630 65 30 7,617 30.93 II Architectural, Surveying and Planning 6,778 78 30 2,746 40.51 II Chinese Medicine 5,864 71 30 2,273 38.76 II Education 86,618 65 30 20,084 23.19 II Engineering 9,052 49 30 3,856 42.60 II Health Services 39,128 67 30 5,784 14.78 II Higher Education 9,106 46 30 2,829 31.07 II Information Technology 5,522 61 30 2,264 41.15 II Legal 6,583 66 30 2,329 35.38 II Medical 11,118 83 30 3,787 34.06 II Sub-total for Second Sector 204,399 651 300 53,569 26.21 III Agriculture and Fisheries 159 60 60 uncontested III Labour 591 78 60 432 73.10 III Religious N/A 60 60 no election III Social Welfare 14,415 164 60 6,100 42.32 III Sports, Performing Arts, Culture and Publication 2,358 60 60 uncontested III Sub-total for Third Sector 17,523 422 300 6,532 43.53 IV National People's Congress N/A 36 36 ex officio IV Legislative Council N/A 60 60 ex officio IV Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference 141 55 55 99 70.21 IV Heung Yee Kuk 147 30 28 130 88.44 IV Hong Kong and Kowloon District Councils 200 65 59 188 94.00 IV New Territories District Councils 212 66 62 197 92.92 IV Sub-total for Fourth Sector 700 312 300 614 87.71 TOTAL 249,450 1,734 1,200 65,565 27.60

Result by affiliations The election results are generated from the official election website. The political affiliations are according to the candidate's self-proclaimed affiliations shown on the election platforms, as well as from the news.Note 1: Candidates who are members of political party but do not state in their platforms may not be shown in this table, for example Elizabeth Quat in the Information Technology Subsector election who did not state her Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong membership is not counted as DAB candidate in this table.

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style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Elected |- |style="background-color:Pink" rowspan="20" | | width=1px style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" |Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong |12 |10 |2 |2 |9 |5 |61 |61 |84 |78 |- | width=1px style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" |Liberal Party |14 |13 |2 |1 |colspan=2|– |5 |5 |21 |19 |- | width=1px style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" |A16 Alliance |colspan=2|– |16 |15 |colspan=2|– |colspan=2|– |16 |15 |- | width=1px style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" |ICT Energy |colspan=2|– |24 |8 |colspan=2|– |colspan=2|– |24 |8 |- |style="background-color: "| | style="text-align:left;" | Federation of Hong Kong and Kowloon Labour Unions |colspan=2|– |colspan=2|– |10 |8 |colspan=2|– |10 |8 |- |style="background-color: "| | style="text-align:left;" | Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions |2 |1 |colspan=2|– |2 |2 |3 |3 |7 |6 |- | width=1px style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" |Civil Force |colspan=2|– |colspan=2|– |colspan=2|– |5 |5 |5 |5 |- | width=1px style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" |New Territories Association of Societies |colspan=2|– |colspan=2|– |colspan=2|– |4 |4 |4 |4 |- | width=1px style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" |Education Convergence |colspan=2|– |6 |3 |colspan=2|– |colspan=2|– |6 |3 |- | width=1px style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" |New People's Party |colspan=2|– |1 |1 |colspan=2|– |2 |2 |3 |3 |- | width=1px style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" |Action 9 |colspan=2|– |9 |2 |colspan=2|– |colspan=2|– |9 |2 |- | width=1px style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" |Your Vote Counts |colspan=2|– |6 |2 |colspan=2|– |colspan=2|– |6 |2 |- | width=1px style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" |Y5 Give Me Five |colspan=2|– |5 |2 |colspan=2|– |colspan=2|– |5 |2 |- | width=1px style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" |Hong Kong Federation of Education Workers |colspan=2|– |3 |1 |colspan=2|– |colspan=2|– |3 |1 |- | width=1px style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" |Government Disciplined Services General Union |colspan=2|– |colspan=2|– |2 |1 |colspan=2|– |2 |1 |- | width=1px style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" |Hong Kong Women Teachers' Organisation |colspan=2|– |2 |1 |colspan=2|– |colspan=2|– |2 |1 |- | width=1px style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" |New Century Forum |1 |1 |colspan=2|– |colspan=2|– |colspan=2|– |1 |1 |- | width=1px style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" |Welfare Empower Hong Kong |colspan=2|– |colspan=2|– |23 |0 |colspan=2|– |23 |0 |- | width=1px style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" |Vox Pop |colspan=2|– |12 |0 |colspan=2|– |colspan=2|– |12 |0 |- | width=1px style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" |Estimated pro-Beijing individuals and others |317 |275 |386 |131 |245 |165 |130 |124 |1,078 |695 |- style="background-color:Pink" | colspan=3 style="text-align:left;" | Total for pro-Beijing camp || 346 || 300 || 484 || 177 || 281 || 173 || 210 || 204 || 1,321 || 854 |- |style="background-color:LightGreen" rowspan="15" | | width=1px style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" |Demo-Social 60Note 2: Democratic Party's candidate in this group will be counted as the Demo-Social 60 members in this table as they state in their election platforms. |colspan=2|– |colspan=2|– |31 |29 |colspan=2|– |31 |29 |- | width=1px style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" |Hong Kong Social Workers' General Union |colspan=2|– |colspan=2|– |29 |28 |colspan=2|– |29 |28 |- | width=1px style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" |ProDem22 |colspan=2|– |22 |22 |colspan=2|– |colspan=2|– |22 |22 |- | width=1px style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" |IT Voice 2012Note 3: The group had total of 20 candidates in total but one of them, Sin Chung-kai, is counted as Democratic Party's candidate in this table as he states in his election platform. |colspan=2|– |19 |19 |colspan=2|– |colspan=2|– |19 |19 |- | width=1px style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" |Hong Kong Professional Teachers' UnionNote 4: The group had total of 25 candidates in total but 7 of them are counted as Democratic Party's candidates and one is counted as Civic Party's candidate in this table as they state in their election platforms. |colspan=2|– |17 |17 |colspan=2|– |colspan=2|– |17 |17 |-