Election Committee
The pro-democracy camp had fielded 156 candidates in the EC membership contest, and they had initially expected to win 72 seats. The democrats actually won 114 seats, from 137 candidates. There were in addition about twenty pro-democracy LegCo members who are ex officio members of the EC who were expected to back Leong, assuring Leong of the 100 nominations needed.
All pro-democracy candidates in Accountancy, Education, Engineering, Health services, Higher education, IT and Legal won; the pro-democracy Legal candidates won all the seats in their sector.
Read more about this topic: Hong Kong Chief Executive Election, 2007
Famous quotes containing the words election and/or committee:
“Last evening attended Croghan Lodge International Order of Odd Fellows. Election of officers. Chosen Noble Grand. These social organizations have a number of good results. All who attend are educated in self-government. This in a marked way. They bind society together. The well-to-do and the poor should be brought together as much as possible. The separation into classes—castes—is our danger. It is the danger of all civilizations.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“A committee is an animal with four back legs.”
—John le Carré (b. 1931)