Election for Legislative Council General Election to start on October 24
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The election duration for the 2025 Legislative Council General Election will range from October 24 (Friday) to November 6 (Thursday).
The Legislative Council General Election will be hung on December 7. An overall of 90 members, with 20 from geographical constituencies, 30 from practical constituencies and 40 from the Election Committee constituency, will be returned. The Registration and Electoral Office (REO) provided pertinent gazette notifications and published appropriate info to the election site (www.elections.gov.hk) today (October 3).
“To run for a seat in a geographical constituency, a functional constituency or the Election Committee constituency, a nominated person must be a registered geographical constituency elector aged 21 or above. He or she must also have ordinarily resided in Hong Kong for three years immediately preceding the date of his or her nomination, and must be a Chinese citizen who is a Hong Kong permanent resident with no right of abode in a foreign country,” a representative for the REO stated.
Candidature in 12 practical constituencies is open to Hong Kong long-term homeowners who are not Chinese residents or who have the right of house in a foreign nation. These constituencies are legal; accountancy; engineering; architectural, surveying, preparing and landscape; realty and building and construction; tourist; commercial (very first); commercial (very first); financing; monetary services; import and export; and insurance coverage.
“A nominated person for the functional constituency election must be a registered elector for, or have a substantial connection with, the relevant functional constituency. For the Election Committee constituency election, a nominated person needs not be a member of the Election Committee,” the spokesperson stated.
Information on the eligibility to be chosen as a prospect and disqualification from being chosen as a prospect and from being chosen as a Member, along with the requirements to be abided by individuals chosen as prospects, are set out in areas 37, 39 and 40 respectively of the Legislative Council Ordinance (Cap. 542).
For the geographical constituency election, each chosen individual requires to be subscribed by a minimum of 100 however not more than 200 signed up electors of the constituency worried, and an elector might subscribe just one election of the geographical constituency in the capability as an elector in regard of his/her own geographical constituency. Each chosen individual for the geographical constituency election need to likewise be subscribed by a minimum of 10 however not more than 20 members of the Election Committee, which need to consist of a minimum of 2 however not more than 4 members from each of the 5 sectors of the Election Committee. A member of the Election Committee might subscribe just one election type of the geographical constituency election in his/her capability as a member of the Election Committee.
Each chosen individual for the practical constituency election need to be subscribed by a minimum of 10 however not more than 20 signed up electors of the constituency worried and an elector might subscribe any variety of election forms approximately the variety of seats in his/her practical constituency. Each chosen individual for the practical constituency election should likewise be subscribed by a minimum of 10 however not more than 20 members of the Election Committee, which should consist of a minimum of 2 however not more than 4 members from each of the 5 sectors of the Election Committee. A member of the Election Committee might subscribe just one election type of the practical constituency election in his/her capability as a member of the Election Committee.
For the Election Committee constituency election, each chosen individual needs to be subscribed by a minimum of 10 however not more than 20 members of the Election Committee, which should consist of a minimum of 2 however not more than 4 members from each of the 5 sectors of the Election Committee. A member of the Election Committee might subscribe just one election kind of the Election Committee constituency election.
The Electoral Affairs Commission has actually selected Returning Officers for the 10 geographical constituencies, 28 practical constituencies and the Election Committee constituency to get election types and to manage other electoral matters. Notifications for the election and the visit of Returning Officers, with their workplace addresses, were likewise gazetted today and published to the election site.
The election kinds might be gotten throughout regular company hours from 9am to 5pm on Mondays to Fridays and from 9am to twelve noon on Saturdays (other than public vacations) starting today at the 2 workplaces of the REO (8/F, Treasury Building, 3 Tonkin Street West, Cheung Sha Wan, Kowloon, and Unit 2301-03, 23/F, Millennium City 6, 392 Kwun Tong Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon), or at the workplaces of the Returning Officers of the pertinent constituencies. The election types might likewise be gotten from any of the District Offices throughout their operation hours, or downloaded from the election site.
A chosen individual should send the finished election type and an election deposit personally to the particular Returning Officer throughout the abovementioned normal service hours (other than public vacations) within the election duration. A deposit of $50,000 requirements to be paid by each chosen individual for the geographical constituency election. Each chosen individual for the practical constituency election or the Election Committee constituency election needs to pay an election deposit of $25,000. The representative advised those chosen individuals that they might think about lodging the election deposit by Faster Payment System (FPS) freshly presented this year (however attention must be paid to the transfer limitation setting of the appropriate account), or by money and cashier orders to prevent any problems emerging from a cheque not being honoured.
“The nominated persons are advised to submit their nomination forms as early as possible to allow time to correct mistakes, if any, in the forms before the nomination deadline,” the representative included.
Individually, the chosen individuals must, in accordance with the requirements of the Candidate Eligibility Review Committee (CERC), total and return the Eligibility Review Supplementary Information Form (SIF). The SIF is dispersed together with the election types and can be downloaded from the election site. Chosen individuals ought to put the finished SIF in a different and sealed envelope and hand it personally together with the election type to the workplace of the Returning Officer within the election duration for onward transmission to the CERC Secretariat. Chosen individuals can likewise send the finished SIF to the CERC Secretariat straight as quickly as possible however no behind 5pm on November 6 through any of the following ways:
- e-mail to cerc_secretariat@cerc.gov.hk;
- fax to 2505 0673; or
- go back to the drop-in box of the CERC Secretariat at the entryway on 2/F, East Wing, Central Government Offices, 2 Tim Mei Avenue, Tamar, Hong Kong.
Copies of the election types are readily available for public assessment at the workplaces of the Returning Officers throughout regular company hours after the start of the election duration. Members of the general public might likewise examine copies of all election kinds of the practical constituency elections and the Election Committee constituency election at the REO workplace in Kwun Tong.
For queries, please call the election hotline on 2891 1001.