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Strong Pan-Democrat Result in IT Subsector

First published: 12th December 2011

The 2011 Election Committee Subsector Elections took place on 11th December and pan-democrat candidates won the most seats.

In the confusing area of Hong Kong politics, the top politician is the Chief Executive and the election for Hong Kong's third Chief Executive will take place on 25th March 2012. Instead of being directly elected, the Chief Executive is elected by 1200 people who are members of the Election Committee. The Election Committee is, itself, elected by members of the Functional Constituencies and it was these elections that occurred on 11th December. Each Functional Constituency represents an industry or special-interest group, such as Finance, Medical, Religious etc. The Information Technology Functional Constituency gets to elect 30 members of the Election Committee and there were 61 candidates standing.

Only one candidate declared affiliation with a political party (Sin Chung Kai, Democratic Party), but he was one of a twenty-strong group, IT Voice, that shared a platform of pan-democratic ideals. IT Voice also advocated appointing a Chief Information Security Officer for Hong Kong, and promoting strong information security. All twenty of the IT Voice candidates were elected. A second Group, ICT Energy, fielded twenty-four candidates, many well-known members of IT professional associations, and won eight seats.

The candidate with the most votes was Charles Mok (1466). Just six votes separated the lowest winning candidate (Witman Hung, 605) and the highest loosing candidate (Louis Ma, 599).

The full list of winners is: