Eligibility Requirements for Electors
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Registers of electors for Village Representative
Elections are compiled annually.
If you have not registered as an elector and wish to have your name
entered in this year's registers,
please submit your application on or before 16 July.

Eligibility Requirements for Electors

A person who meets the requirements will be eligible to be registered as an elector in the Indigenous Inhabitant Representative and/or the Resident Representative election respectively:

Eligibility Requirements for an Elector in Indigenous Inhabitant Representative Election Eligibility Requirements for an Elector in Resident Representative Election
  • aged 18 or above;
  • an *indigenous inhabitant of the Indigenous/Composite Indigenous Village, or a spouse of an indigenous inhabitant of the Village; and
  • holds a recognized identity document.
  • aged 18 or above;
  • a resident of the Existing Village;
  • a Hong Kong permanent resident; and
  • a #resident of the Village for the 3 years immediately before the date of application for registration

*Indigenous Inhabitant

in relation to an Indigenous Village that existed in 1898 (whether or not the name the Village now has is the same name it had in 1898) means:

(i) a person who was in 1898 a resident of the Village; or
(ii) a person who is descended through the male line from a person mentioned in (i)

#Resident

in relation to an Existing Village, means a person whose principal residential address is in the Village. A principal residential address means the address of the dwelling place at which a person resides and which constitutes the person's sole or main home.