2020年上旬，不少民主派同埋本土派人士已公開表示有意出戰   。當時，香港大學法律系副教授戴耀廷喺回覆《香港蘋果日報》查詢時透露，民主派陣營未考慮就區一議席舉行初選，同埋即使多人參選，議席落入建制派嘅機會亦唔大，他仲話民主派在區議會（第一）功能界別「有絕對優勢」，相信選舉唔會破壞團結 。另外，香港中文大學政治與行政學系高級講師蔡子強認為，選舉期間難免會有互相攻擊、批評嘅畫面出現，擔心黨同伐異嘅情緒會擴散到不同界別，令部份民主派有機會獲勝嘅界別無法協調單一候選人，直接影響民主派立法會議席過半嘅戰略目標 。因此，蔡建議舉辦初選解決分歧，並指民主派應就整場立法會選舉成立「初選委員會」，討論初選安排，透過初選畀選民選出候選人，增加選民嘅參與，他亦相信呢個做法符合選民嘅期望 。
In early 2020, a number of pro-democracy and localists have publicly expressed their intention to run. At that time, Associate Professor of the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong, Tai Yiu-ting, revealed in response to an enquiry from the Hong Kong Apple Daily that the pro-democracy camp had not considered holding a primary election for the District One seat, and that even if a large number of people were to run for the election, the chances of the seat falling to the pro-establishment faction were not very high. In addition, Choi Tsz-keung, a senior lecturer at the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, believes that there will inevitably be images of mutual attacks and criticism during the election period, and he is worried that the sentiment of party unity and disagreement will spread to different sectors, making it impossible for some pro-democracy sectors to coordinate a single candidate, which will directly affect the strategic goal of a majority of the pro-democracy Legislative Council. Therefore, Choi suggested holding a primary election to resolve differences, and said that the pro-democracy faction should set up a "primary election committee" for the entire Legislative Council election to discuss the primary election arrangement, and select candidates for voters through the primary election, so as to increase voters' participation, and he also believes that this approach is in line with voters' expectations.