The 2016 Election Committee subsector elections were held on 11 December 2016 for 1,034 of the 1,200 members of the Election Committee (EC) which is responsible for electing the Chief Executive of Hong Kong (CE) in the 2017 election.

Although incumbent Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying announced, two days before the election, that he would not be standing, the pro-democrats, whose campaign theme was opposition to Leung serving a second term, won a record quarter of the seats on the EC under the banner of "Democrats 300+" on a nearly 20 per cent surge in turnout over 2011.

Background The pro-democracy camp pocketed 205 seats in the 1,200-strong Election Committee and nominated Albert Ho of the Democratic Party to run against Leung Chun-ying and Henry Tang in 2012. The main goal for the pro-democrats in this election was to grab more than 300 seats to increase the chance of blocking the incumbent Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying to re-elected. In order to do that, the camp tended not to send a candidate in the election and become a "kingmaker" by boosting the chance for an alternative establishment candidate.

The six pro-democrats elected to the Legislative Council in functional constituencies in September, including Edward Yiu who took the seat in the traditional pro-Beijing sector and Leung Chun-ying's stronghold Architectural, Surveying, Planning and Landscape, formed an alliance called the Professionals Guild to coordinate candidates to contest in the Election Committee election. The victory in the Legislative Council functional constituencies encouraged the pro-democrats to take a more progressive strategy in the professional sector, in which the pro-democrats traditionally had more advantages. The pro-democrat professionals and activists also formed a loose coalition called "Democrats 300+" hoping to snatch over 300 seats in the committee.

Some 300 candidates had also voiced opposition towards Leung Chun-ying re-election. Only 189 out of 305 of those who nominated Leung in 2012 sought to join the Election Committee this year. On 9 December, two days before the election, Leung announced he would not seek re-election, citing family reasons.

Composition The Election Committee consisted of 1,034 members elected from 35 subsectors, 60 members nominated by the Religious subsector and 106 ex officio members. (Hong Kong deputies from the National People's Congress and Legislative Council of Hong Kong members). As the term of office commenced on 1 February 2016, the 1,200 member Election Committee was formed by 38 Election Committee Subsectors:

Heung Yee Kuk (26) Agriculture and Fisheries (60) Insurance (18) Transport (18) Education (30) Legal (30) Accountancy (30) Medical (30) Health Services (30) Engineering (30) Architectural, Surveying and Planning (30) Labour (60) Social Welfare (60) Real Estate and Construction (18) Tourism (18) Commercial (First) (18) Commercial (Second) (18) Industrial (First) (18) Industrial (Second) (18) Finance (18) Financial Services (18) Sports, Performing Arts, Culture and Publication (60) Import and Export (18) Textiles and Garment (18) Wholesale and Retail (18) Information Technology (30) Higher Education (30) Hotel (17) Catering (17) Chinese Medicine (30) Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (51) Employers' Federation of HK (16) HK and Kowloon District Councils (57) New Territories District Councils (60) HK Chinese Enterprises Association (16) National People's Congress (36) Legislative Council (70) Religious (60)

Note: Figures in brackets denotes the number of members.

Number of members nominated by the six designated bodies of the religious subsector: Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong (10 members) Chinese Muslim Cultural and Fraternal Association (10 members) Hong Kong Christian Council (10 members) The Hong Kong Taoist Association (10 members) The Confucian Academy (10 members) The Hong Kong Buddhist Association (10 members)

Nominations The nomination period was from 8 to 14 November 2016. A total number of 1,539 nominations were validated, while ten nominations were ruled invalid by the Returning Officers which included the former Chinese University of Hong Kong Students' Union president Tommy Cheung Sau-yin who led the seven-member "Student United 2017" and six members of the pro-democratic "Progressive Engineering" due to their "insufficient connection" with the Higher Education and Engineering subsectors.

One nomination from the 18-member Import and Export subsector was also invalidated, which made the number of the nominated candidates of the Import and Export subsector one less than the number of seats allocated to it. Since there was no provision in the Chief Executive Election Ordinance which allowed a by-election to fill the remaining seat, the seat would be vacant.

Among the 1,539 candidates, 300 of those were returned uncontested and voting for the 12 subsectors and the Sports sub-subsector would not be held. For the six designated bodies of the religious subsector, four of them were uncontested. The Returning Officer arranged lots drawing for the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Christian Council in order to decide members of the Election Committee among the nominees.

Election results Results by subsector Statistics are generated from the official election website: Sector Sub-sector Registeredvoters Candidates Elected Votes Turnout I Catering 5,530 17 17 uncontested I Commercial (First) 1,045 19 18 605 60.20 I Commercial (Second) 1,460 18 18 uncontested I Employers' Federation of Hong Kong 139 16 16 uncontested I Finance 122 18 18 uncontested I Financial Services 622 33 18 440 74.45 I Hong Kong Chinese Enterprises Association 308 16 16 uncontested I Hotel 120 19 17 102 85.00 I Import and Export 1,379 17* 17* uncontested I Industrial (First) 542 18 18 uncontested I Industrial (Second) 764 18 18 uncontested I Insurance 131 29 18 94 78.33 I Real Estate and Construction 706 18 18 uncontested I Textiles and Garment 2,330 18 18 uncontested I Tourism 1,298 25 18 724 59.20 I Transport 195 24 18 159 82.81 I Wholesale and Retail 6,706 21 18 2,118 32.45 I Sub-total for First Sector 23,397 344 299 4,242 41.93 II Accountancy 26,001 62 30 12,296 47.29 II Architectural, Surveying and Planning 7,370 92 30 4,634 62.88 II Chinese Medicine 6,143 55 30 2,615 42.57 II Education 80,643 56 30 33,688 41.77 II Engineering 9,405 58 30 5,506 58.54 II Health Services 37,387 94 30 13,154 35.18 II Higher Education 7,497 65 30 3,850 51.35 II Information Technology 12,109 59 30 7,605 62.93 II Legal 6,769 37 30 3,664 54.13 II Medical 11,189 85 30 6,121 54.71 II Sub-total for Second Sector 204,513 663 300 93,133 45.54 III Agriculture and Fisheries 154 60 60 uncontested III Labour 668 69 60 471 74.76 III Religious N/A 60 60 no election III Social Welfare 14,130 104 60 7,826 55.44 III Sports, Performing Arts, Culture and Publication 2,909 85 60 1,650 75.69 III Sub-total for Third Sector 17,861 378 300 9,947 58.59 IV National People's Congress N/A 36 36 ex officio IV Legislative Council N/A 70 70 ex officio IV Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference 91 51 51 uncontested IV Heung Yee Kuk 147 35 26 133 90.48 IV Hong Kong and Kowloon District Councils 208 66 57 199 95.67 IV New Territories District Councils 223 62 60 187 83.86 IV Sub-total for Fourth Sector 669 320 300 519 77.58 TOTAL 246,440 1,705 1,199 107,841 46.53 Note: *One nomination from the 18-member Import and Export subsector was invalidated, which made the number of the nominated candidates of the Import and Export subsector one less than the number of seats allocated to it. Since there was no provision in the Chief Executive Election Ordinance which allowed a by-election to fill the remaining seat, the seat would be vacant.

Results by affiliation

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| 48 || 48 | 54 || 53 |- | width=1px style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" |Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions

| 35 || 33 | 11 || 11 | 46 || 44 |- | width=1px style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" |Liberal Party | 12 || 11

| 2 || 2 | 14 || 13 |- | width=1px style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" |Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong | 2 || 2

| 8 || 8 | 10 || 10 |- | width=1px style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" |New People's Party | 1 || 1

| 9 || 8 | 10 || 9 |- | width=1px style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" |Federation of Hong Kong and Kowloon Labour Unions

| 8 || 8 | 1 || 1 | 9 || 9 |- | width=1px style="background-color:#FFFFFF" | | style="text-align:left;" | ABC.P.A

| 5 || 4

| 5 || 4 |- | width=1px style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" | New Territories Association of Societies

| 2 || 2 | 2 || 2 |- | width=1px style="background-color:#144F84" | | style="text-align:left;" | Chinese Association of Hong Kong & Macao Studies | 1 || 1

| 1 || 1 |- | width=1px style="background-color: #3A3B72" | | style="text-align:left;" | V18 Accountants

| 18 || 0

| 18 || 0 |- | width=1px style="background-color:#aca4b7" | | style="text-align:left;" | Gov.ALPS

| 11 || 0

| 11 || 0 |- | width=1px style="background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Education Convergence

| 5 || 0

| 5 || 0 |- | width=1px style="background-color:#E75433" | | style="text-align:left;" | Your Vote Counts

| 4 || 0

| 4 || 0 |- | width=1px style="background-color:#D61E2F" | | style="text-align:left;" | Hong Kong Securities & Futures Employees Union | 1 || 0

| 1 || 0 |- | width=1px style="background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Hong Kong Women Teachers' Organization

| 1 || 0

| 1 || 0 |- | width=1px style="background-color:#047BC1" | | style="text-align:left;" | Win Win Hong Kong Accountants

| 1 || 0

| 1 || 0 |- | width=1px style="background-color:" | | style="text-align:left;" | Pro-Beijing Independent | 319 || 279 | 301 || 53 | 156 || 137 | 123 || 114 | 898 || 581 |- style="background-color:Pink" | colspan=3 style="text-align:left;" | Total for pro-Beijing camp || 342 || 299 || 345 || 57 || 199 || 178 || 204 || 194 || 1,091 || 726 |- |style="background-color:Moccasin" rowspan="18" | | width=1px style="background-color:#901582" | | style="text-align:left;" | Health Professionals for Democracy 30

| 29 || 29

| 29 || 29 |- | width=1px style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" |Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union

| 23 || 23

| 23 || 23 |- | width=1px style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" |Hong Kong Social Workers' General Union

| 20 || 20

| 20 || 20 |- | width=1px style="background-color: #F4835C" | | style="text-align:left;" | Doctors for Democracy

| 19 || 19

| 19 || 19 |-