Architecture, surveying and planning poll contest lukewarm
With just two days to go before votes are cast in the election committee ballot, campaigning in the architecture, surveying and planning sub-sector remains lukewarm, despite the fact there are twice as many candidates as seats.
Democrats are contesting the 20-seat sector for the first time but are unlikely to have a big impact as they are represented by only a few candidates.
Only one organised team, comprising 13 surveyors, is running for election in the sector, which has 5,584 individual voters. Many unaffiliated candidates running on vague platforms of promoting the profession's interests did not send out election advertisements.
Democratic Party candidate Stanley Ng Wing-fai, who was responsible for co-ordinating efforts in the sector, said four or five Civic Party allies were running, but declined to name them.
Mr Ng has made resistance to hostile 'external pressure' part of his election strategy, alluding to it in his election brochures.