Legal (constituency)

Legal
法律界
Functional constituency
for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Country Hong Kong
Electorate7,549 (2021)[1]
Current constituency
Created1985
Number of membersOne
Member(s)Ambrose Lam (Nonpartisan)

The Legal functional constituency (Chinese: 法律界功能界別) 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 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.

  1. ^ "Voter Registration Statistics : Functional Constituency". Voter Registration.
  2. ^ "Hong Kong's pro-democracy legislators to resign en masse". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 11 March 2021.