Pro-democracy camp takes record quarter of seats on Election Committee that will choose Hong Kong’s leader
Group led by Occupy Central co-founders seizes all the seats in the higher education subsector, while big wins also seen in legal, IT, health, welfare and architectural subsectors
The city’s democratic camp has seized a record quarter of the seats in the committee that will go on to pick Hong Kong’s next leader in March.
A group led by Occupy Central co-founders has taken all the seats in the higher education subsector, one of six subsectors in which pro-democracy candidates won all the seats.
Pan-democratic candidates also won landslide victories in the accountancy and architectural subsectors, and secured at least half of the seats in the engineering and medical subsectors.
Clean sweeps were seen in the legal, education, higher education, health services, IT and welfare subsectors.
But business sectors such as hotels, tourism and commerce continued to be dominated by pro-establishment forces and tycoons.
The higher education subsector saw Academics in Support of Democracy, led by Benny Tai Yiu-ting and Chan Kin-man, take all 30 seats, up from 24 in the last election in 2011.