The Election Committee constituency (ECC; ) is a
constituency in the elections for the
Legislative Council of Hong Kong
The Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (LegCo) is the unicameral legislature of Hong Kong. It sits under China's " one country, two systems" constitutional arrangement, and is the power centre of Hong Kon ...
. It was first created in 1995, re-created with a different composition in 1998 until it was abolished in 2004, and created for the third time in the
2021 electoral overhaul. It is the single largest constituency, taking 40 out of the 90 seats in the Legislative Council.
The Election Committee constituency was one of the three sectors designed in the
Basic Law of Hong Kong next to the directly elected
geographical constituencies and the indirectly elected
functional constituencies in the early SAR period. With the last
British Governor Chris Patten's
electoral reform, the ECC was composed of all elected
District Board members who had been
elected in 1994. The
Single Transferable Vote
Single transferable vote (STV) is a multi-winner electoral system in which voters cast a single vote in the form of a ranked-choice ballot. Voters have the option to rank candidates, and their vote may be transferred according to alternate p ...
system was used in the
1995 election.
After the
handover of Hong Kong, the ECC was allocated 10 seats out of the total 60 seats in the SAR Legislative Council, comprising all members of the
Election Committee which also elected the
Chief Executive every five years. The size of the constituency reduced to six seats in 2000 and was entirely abolished and replaced by the directly elected geographical constituency seats in the
2004 election. The
plurality-at-large voting
Plurality block voting, also known as plurality-at-large voting, block vote or block voting (BV) is a non-proportional voting system for electing representatives in multi-winner elections. Each voter may cast as many votes as the number of sea ...
system was used in 1998 and 2000.
In the 2021 electoral overhaul, the Election Committee constituency was reintroduced, taking 40 of the 90 seats, almost half, of the Legislative Council with plurality-at-large voting system. The electorate is composed of all newly expanded 1,500 members in the Election Committee.
Returning members
1995–1997
1998–2004
2021–2025
Election results
The elected candidates are shown in bold.
2020s
2000s
1990s
Single transferable vote
Single transferable vote (STV) is a multi-winner electoral system in which voters cast a single vote in the form of a ranked-choice ballot. Voters have the option to rank candidates, and their vote may be transferred according to alternate p ...
was used in the 1995 election.
Report on the 1995 Legislative General Election, Boundary and Election Commission
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References
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