Legal (constituency) explained

Type:	Functional
Legal
Year:	1985
Parl Name:	Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Member:	Ambrose Lam (Nonpartisan)
Region Label:	Country
Elects Howmany:	One
Electorate:	7,549 (2021)^[1]

The Legal functional constituency is a functional constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. It was the one of the first 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 is 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.^[2] Following electoral overhaul, the seat was controlled by the Beijing loyalist for the first time.

Composition

The Legal functional constituency is composed of—^[3]

• 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

Election		Member	Party
	1985	Martin Lee	Independent
	1988
	1991	Simon Ip	Independent
	1995	Margaret Ng	Independent
Not represented in the PLC (1997–1998)
	1998	Margaret Ng	Independent
	2000
	2004		Independent→Civic
	2008		Civic
	2012	Dennis Kwok	Civic
	2016
	2021	Ambrose Lam	Nonpartisan

Electoral results

2010s

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2000s

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1980s

Notes and References

1. Web site: Voter Registration Statistics : Functional Constituency. Voter Registration.
2. Web site: Hong Kong's pro-democracy legislators to resign en masse. 2021-03-11. www.aljazeera.com. en.
3. News: Cap. 542 Legislative Council Ordinance. Hong Kong e-Legislation.
4. Web site: 2016 Legislative Council Election. Government of Hong Kong. 12 May 2015.
5. Web site: 2008 Legislative Council Election. Government of Hong Kong. 12 May 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150518065206/http://www.elections.gov.hk/legco2008/eng/result/rs_fc_B.html. 18 May 2015. dead.
6. Web site: 2008 Legislative Council Election. Government of Hong Kong. 12 May 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150518065206/http://www.elections.gov.hk/legco2008/eng/result/rs_fc_B.html. 18 May 2015. dead.
7. Web site: 2004 Legislative Council Election – Election Results . 7 September 2004 . Government of Hong Kong . 12 May 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120717015945/http://www.elections.gov.hk/elections/legco2004/english/results/rs_fc_overall.html . 17 July 2012 .
8. Web site: Legislative Council Elections Results . Government of Hong Kong . 12 May 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120829065944/http://www.elections.gov.hk/elections/legco2000/update/result/fc_e.htm . 29 August 2012 .