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Election Committee (constituency)

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Electorate
  
800

Founded
  
1995

Abolished
  
2004

Number of members
  
Six (2000–04) Ten (1995–97; 1998–2000)

Member(s)
  
Last members: Rita Fan (Nonpartisan) Ambrose Lau (PA) Yeung Yiu-chung (DAB) Ng Leung-sing (Nonpartisan) David Chu (PA) Ma Fung-kwok (NCF)

Created
  
Hong Kong legislative election, 1995

Election Committee (ECC) was a former constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.

The constituency was composed of all 800 members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong. The 800 members contained 664 nominated from the sectors of the economy, 40 from the religious organisations, and 96 ex officio members who were Hong Kong deputies to the National People's Congress and Legislative Council members. Besides the members of the Legislative Council, the 800 members Election Committee also elected the Chief Executive of Hong Kong every five years.

Prior to the handover, the electorate of the ECC consisted of all the elected District Board members who had been elected in the 1994 DB ordinary elections under the Governor Chris Patten's electoral reform passed in 1994. Single Transferable Vote system was used in the 1995 election.

Plurality-at-large voting system was used in 1998 and 2000.

History

The elected candidates are shown in bold.

References

Election Committee (constituency) Wikipedia


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