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Legal (constituency)

FieldValue
typeFunctional
nameLegal
法律界
year1985
parl_nameLegislative Council of Hong Kong
memberNicholas Chan (Liberal)
region
elects_howmanyOne
electorate6,328

法律界

The Legal functional constituency () is a functional constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. It was one of the 12 original functional constituency seats created for the first ever Legislative Council election in 1985.

As of 2021, there were 7,549 registered voters, including the members of the Law Society of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Bar Association, and the officers in the government's judicial departments. It was one of the few strongholds of the pro-democracy camp in functional constituencies, having been held by pro-democrats since 1995, was held by Civic Party's Dennis Kwok until he was disqualified from his office in 2020. Following electoral overhaul, the seat was controlled by the pro-Beijing camp for the first time.

Composition

The Legal functional constituency is composed of—

  • members of The Law Society of Hong Kong entitled to vote at general meetings of the Society; and
  • members of the Hong Kong Bar Association entitled to vote at general meetings of the Association; and
  • legal officers within the meaning of the Legal Officers Ordinance (); and
  • persons appointed under section 3 of the Legal Aid Ordinance (; and
  • persons deemed to be legal officers for the purpose of the Legal Officers Ordinance () by section 75(3) of the Bankruptcy Ordinance () or section 3(3) of the Director of Intellectual Property (Establishment) Ordinance (); and
  • the Legal Adviser of the Legislative Council Secretariat and his or her assistants who are in the full-time employment of The Legislative Council Commission and are barristers or solicitors as defined in the Legal Practitioners Ordinance ().

Return members

ElectionMemberParty
Independent (politician)}}"1985Martin Lee
Independent (politician)}}"1988
Independent (politician)}}"1991Simon Ip
Independent (politician)}}"1995Margaret Ng
Not represented in the PLC (1997–1998)
Independent (politician)}}"1998Margaret Ng
Independent (politician)}}"2000
Independent (politician)}}"2004Independent→Civic
Civic Party}}"2008Civic
Civic Party}}"2012Dennis Kwok
Civic Party}}"2016
Independent politician}}"2021Ambrose Lam
Liberal Party (Hong Kong)}}"2025Nicholas Chan

Electoral results

2020s

|reg. electors = 6,328

|reg. electors = 7,549

2010s

|reg. electors = 6,773

|reg. electors = 6,482

2000s

|reg. electors = 6,111

|reg. electors = 5,073

|reg. electors = 4,152

1990s

|reg. electors = 3,539

|reg. electors = 1,942

|reg. electors = 1,240

1980s

References

References

  1. "Hong Kong's pro-democracy legislators to resign en masse".
  2. "Cap. 542 Legislative Council Ordinance". Hong Kong e-Legislation.
  3. "2016 Legislative Council Election". Government of Hong Kong.
  4. "2008 Legislative Council Election". Government of Hong Kong.
  5. "2008 Legislative Council Election". Government of Hong Kong.
  6. (7 September 2004). "2004 Legislative Council Election – Election Results". Government of Hong Kong.
  7. "Legislative Council Elections Results". Government of Hong Kong.
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