Members of The Legislative Council
Main article: Hong Kong legislative election, 2012Summary of Legislative Council Election, 9 September 2012
Geographical Constituencies/District Council(Second) Functional Constituency
| Constituencies | Registered electors | Turnout | Turnout (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall Geographical Constituencies | 3,466,201 | 1,83?,??? | 53.?? |
| Hong Kong Island GC | 606,678 | ?? | ?? |
| Kowloon East GC | 559,528 | ?? | ?? |
| Kowloon West GC | 437,968 | ?? | ?? |
| New Territories East GC | 874,694 | ?? | ?? |
| New Territories West GC | 987,333 | ?? | ?? |
| District Council(Second) Functional Constituency | 3,219,755 | 1,672,793 | 51.95% |
(Note: Registered electors not being a registered electors of any of the other 28 FC below will be a elector in District Council (Second). Which means, Uncontested FC's elector cannot vote in District Council (Second) FC)
Functional Constituencies (Excluding District Council(Second))
| Functional Constituencies | Registered electors | Turnout | Turnout (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 240,733 | ?? | ?? |
| Heung Yee Kuk | 147 | n/a | n/a |
| Agriculture and Fisheries | 159 | ?? | ?? |
| Insurance | 135 | n/a | n/a |
| Transport | 204 | n/a | n/a |
| Education | 92,957 | ?? | ?? |
| Legal | 6,482 | ?? | ?? |
| Accountancy | 25,174 | ?? | ?? |
| Medical | 10,888 | ?? | ?? |
| Health Services | 37,556 | ?? | ?? |
| Engineering | 9,172 | ?? | ?? |
| Architectural, Surveying and Planning | 6,781 | ?? | ?? |
| Social Welfare | 14,093 | ?? | ?? |
| Tourism | 1,319 | ?? | ?? |
| Finance | 128 | ?? | ?? |
| Financial services | 596 | ?? | ?? |
| Sports, Performing Arts, Culture and Publication | 2,586 | ?? | ?? |
| Industrial (First) | 603 | n/a | n/a |
| Industrial (Second) | 829 | n/a | n/a |
| Commercial (First) | 927 | n/a | n/a |
| Commercial (Second) | 1,749 | n/a | n/a |
| Textiles and Garment | 3,200 | ?? | ?? |
| Wholesale and Retail | 7,242 | n/a | n/a |
| Information Technology | 6,716 | ?? | ?? |
| District Council (First) | 410 | n/a | n/a |
The Legislative Council is primarily composed of Chinese citizens who are permanent residents of the HKSAR with no right of abode in any foreign country. Nevertheless, permanent residents of the HKSAR who are not of Chinese nationality or who have the right of abode in foreign countries may also be members, provided that the proportion of such members does not exceed 20% of the total membership of the Legislative Council.
Summary of Legislative Council Election, 7 September 2008
Results of Geographical Constituency Election
| Geographical constituencies | Registered electors | Turnout | Turnout (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 3,372,007 | 1,524,249 | 45.20 |
| Hong Kong Island | 627,657 | 314,870 | 50.17 |
| Kowloon East | 540,649 | 237,936 | 44.01 |
| Kowloon West | 440,335 | 207,765 | 47.18 |
| New Territories East | 820,205 | 362,959 | 44.25 |
| New Territories West | 943,161 | 400,719 | 42.49 |
Results of Functional Constituency election
| Functional Constituencies | Registered electors | Turnout | Turnout (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 212,227 | 126,819 | 59.76 |
| Insurance | 144 | 115 | 79.86 |
| Transport | 178 | 161 | 90.45 |
| Education | 90,693 | 54,315 | 59.89 |
| Legal | 6,111 | 3,872 | 63.36 |
| Accountancy | 22,276 | 13,864 | 62.24 |
| Medical | 10,606 | 6,879 | 64.86 |
| Health Services | 36,968 | 18,192 | 49.21 |
| Engineering | 8,323 | 5,537 | 66.53 |
| Architectural, Surveying and Planning | 6,147 | 3,959 | 64.41 |
| Social Welfare | 12,519 | 8,584 | 68.57 |
| Tourism | 1,261 | 909 | 72.09 |
| Commercial (First) | 1,040 | 694 | 66.73 |
| Textiles and Garment | 3,710 | 2,061 | 55.55 |
| Wholesale and Retail | 6,074 | 3,131 | 51.55 |
| Information Technology | 5,749 | 4,137 | 71.96 |
| District Council | 428 | 409 | 95.56 |
Note: Fourteen candidates in 12 FCs were returned uncontested.
Constitutional development
Following the passage by the Legislative Council a two-thirds majority of the motions put forth by the Government concerning the draft amendments to the methods for selecting the Chief Executive and forming the Legislative Council in 2012 on 24 and 25 June 2010 respectively, the Chief Executive Election (Amendment) Bill 2010 and the Legislative Council (Amendment) Bill 2010 to implement the two electoral methods for 2012 were passed on 3 and 5 March 2011 respectively. The objects of the Chief Executive Election (Amendment) Bill 2010 are to increase the number of seats for each Election Committee sector to 300, allocate the additional seats among the Election Committee subsectors and make changes in relation to District Councils and Chinese medicine subsectors and other related matters. The objects of the Legislative Council (Amendment) Bill 2010 are to enlarge the Legislative Council by adding five GC seats and creating a new District Council Functional Constituency of five seats and to make other changes related to the Legislative Council elections.
Proposed replacement mechanism for filling vacancies in the Legislative Council
In January 2010, five Council members from each of the five GCs resigned to trigger territory-wide by-elections for the purpose of instigating a so-called “referendum”. They stood in the by-elections and were all re-elected. Subsequently, the Government proposed a replacement mechanism where a vacancy arising mid-term in the Legislative Council would be filled by the first candidate who had not yet been elected in the list with the largest number of remainder votes. Some member of the public expressed concern on the proposal and stressed that the Government should have conducted a comprehensive public consultation on the proposal as the basic rights of the public would be affected. In July 2011, the Government published a consultation paper in which four options were proposed with regard to the arrangements for filling vacancies in the Legislative Council.
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