The nomination period for the 2025 Legislative Council General Election, which began on October 24, ended at 5pm today (November 6). The Returning Officers for the 10 geographical constituencies, the 28 functional constituencies and the Election Committee constituency received a total of 161 nomination forms by the close of nominations.

     The number of nomination forms received for each geographical constituency is as follows:
 

Geographical constituency	No. of nomination forms received today	Cumulative total
Hong Kong Island East	0	5
Hong Kong Island West	0	5
Kowloon East	0	5
Kowloon West	0	5
Kowloon Central	0	6
New Territories South East	0	5
New Territories North	0	5
New Territories North West	0	5
New Territories South West	0	5
New Territories North East	0	5
Total	0	51

     The number of nomination forms received for each functional constituency is as follows:
 

Functional constituency	No. of nomination forms received today	Cumulative total
Heung Yee Kuk	0	2
Agriculture and fisheries	0	2
Insurance	0	2
Transport	0	2
Education	0	2
Legal	0	2
Accountancy	0	2
Medical and health services	0	2
Engineering	0	2
Architectural, surveying, planning and landscape	0	2
Labour	0	5
Social welfare	0	3
Real estate and construction	0	2
Tourism	0	2
Commercial (first)	0	2
Commercial (second)	0	2
Commercial (third)	0	2
Industrial (first)	0	2
Industrial (second)	0	2
Finance	0	2
Financial services	0	2
Sports, performing arts, culture and publication	0	2
Import and export	0	2
Textiles and garment	0	2
Wholesale and retail	0	2
Technology and innovation	0	2
Catering	0	2
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region deputies to the National People's Congress, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and representatives of relevant national organisations	0	2
Total	0	60

     The cumulative total number of nomination forms received for the Election Committee constituency is 50. No nomination form was received today for the Election Committee constituency.

     Particulars of the nominated persons have been uploaded to the election website (www.elections.gov.hk).

     The Returning Officers will determine the order of names of candidates for their respective constituencies to appear on ballot papers and the allocation of the designated spots for the display of election advertisements by drawing of lots at the Kowloon Park Sports Centre on November 7 (Friday). The Candidate Eligibility Review Committee will, within 14 days after the close of nominations, publish in the Gazette a notice of validly nominated candidates for each constituency. If there is a contested election for a geographical constituency, a functional constituency or the Election Committee constituency, a poll for that constituency will be held on December 7, and the candidate numbers for the candidates concerned to be printed on ballot papers will also be published in the above Gazette notices.

Ends/Thursday, November 6, 2025
Issued at HKT 19:40

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