Those who will choose next HK chief are elected

All of the members of the Election Committee that will choose the next chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region were elected on Sunday and Monday.

Around 1,200 newly elected members in 38 subsectors will vote for Hong Kong's next chief executive in March.

The election of committee members began on Sunday. Fung Wah, chairman of the Electoral Affairs Commission of Hong Kong, said around 107,000 registered voters - who are representatives of the SAR's districts - cast votes, putting the turnout at 46 percent.

The seats in 13 of the 38 subsectors were not contested, since the number of valid candidates in those subsectors did not exceed the number of allocated committee seats, the Electoral Affairs Commission said.

In the other 25 subsectors, 1,239 candidates ran for 733 seats.

According to the Hong Kong Basic Law, the chief executive is to be elected by a broadly representative Election Committee and appointed by the central government.

The committee members come from four main sectors, including 300 from the industrial, commercial and financial fields, 300 from among professionals and 300 from the labor, social services, religious and other fields.

Additionally, 300 were chosen from among members of the Legislative Council, members of district councils, representatives of the Heung Yee Kuk advisory body, Hong Kong deputies to the National People's Congress and Hong Kong members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.