China Daily reports increased competition and diversity in December’s LegCo election…
Authorities had received a total of 161 nominations of aspirants vying for one of 90 seats in the upcoming legislature poll in Hong Kong on Dec 7, as the two-week nomination period drew to a close at 5 pm on Thursday.
The nominations, over 20 percent of which are for women — higher than in the last poll — set the stage for contested races across all constituencies, with officials renewing calls to the public to cast their votes.
Following the close of nominations, Legislative Council President Andrew Leung Kwan-yuen said that the candidates are of high quality and that all seats are contested. He urged the public to exercise their right to vote, emphasizing that “every vote counts”.
…senior officials, including Secretary for Justice Paul Lam Ting-kwok, Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development Algernon Yau Ying-wah, Secretary for the Civil Service Ingrid Yeung Ho Poi-yan, and Secretary for Home and Youth Affairs Alice Mak Mei-kuen, have also been mobilizing legal, business, local, and minority communities through meetings and street outreaches to vote for capable and patriotic legislators and help shape Hong Kong’s future.
The Standard has a list. Not many familiar names – Starry Lee, Holden Chow in the geographical seats. Priscilla, Junius, Rock and Doctor Elizabeth down in the Election Committee bunch.
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Perhaps it’s time to stop referring to LegCo “elections”. The word election suggests a process more meaningful than a puppet show.
all seats are contested
That’s clever mathematics. Surely for all 90 seats to be contested don’t you have to have 180 nominations minimum?
Oh! silly me. I’d forgotten the CE election where one candidate was enough for a hard-fought contest.
Wow, what are the odds that in the single-seat FCs, there would be exactly 2 candidates for each seat – except for plucky Social Welfare where there are 3. Bless those little socialist workers. This is so much better than the old days when the electors in sectors like textiles or finance (typically less than 100 companies after eliminating fellow subsidiaries) would just decide who represents them first, resulting in an uncontested nomination and saving the electors the trouble of getting out of bed on a Sunday morning. And in 2021 there was a certain amount of chaos when 4 people ran for Accountancy, 5 for Education, 5 for medical and so on. Thankfully we have progressed from chaos to order and people have made the right decisions for our country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Hong_Kong_legislative_election