Provisional Legislative Council
The four sectors are subdivided into 38 subsectors. Members from 35 of the subsectors were returned by election and three subsectors do not require election: the National People's Congress subsector and the Provisional Legislative Council subsector since the Hong Kong deputies to the National People's Congress and the members of the Provisional Legislative Council are "ex-officio" members of the Election Committee, and the Religious subsector's EC members were returned by way of nomination.