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Constitution and Administration

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Geographical Constituencies

All eligible persons aged 18 or above have the right to be registered as electors and to vote in the geographical constituency elections, which are held on the basis of universal suffrage. There are currently about 3.47 million registered electors.

The HKSAR is divided into five geographical constituencies, with each returning five to nine seats in the fifth-term of the Legislative Council. Electors choose lists of candidates, using the List Voting System which operates under the Largest Remainder formula, a form of proportional representation.

Any permanent resident of the HKSAR who is a Chinese citizen with no right of abode in any foreign country may stand for election in any geographical constituency, provided that he or she is a registered elector, has attained the age of 21, and has ordinarily resided in Hong Kong for the preceding three years.

Functional Constituencies

For the fifth-term Legislative Council, the functional constituencies are: (1) Heung Yee Kuk1 ; (2) agriculture and fisheries; (3) insurance; (4) transport; (5) education; (6) legal; (7) accountancy; (8) medical; (9) health services; (10) engineering; (11) architectural, surveying and planning; (12) labour; (13) social welfare; (14) real estate and construction; (15) tourism; (16) commercial (first); (17) commercial (second); (18) industrial (first); (19) industrial (second); (20) finance; (21) financial services; (22) sports, performing arts, culture and publication; (23) import and export; (24) textiles and garment; (25) wholesale and retail; (26) information technology; (27) catering; (28) District Council (first) and (29) District Council (second). The labour functional constituency returns three Legislative Council members and the District Council (second) functional constituency returns five Legislative Council members, while the other 27 functional constituencies return one member each.

The five seats of the District Council (second) functional constituency are returned with the whole of Hong Kong as a single constituency in accordance with the proportional representation list system. Candidates must be elected District Council members who are nominated by no less than 15 other elected District Council members; whereas electors are registered geographical constituency electors who are not registered in other functional constituencies.

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Heung Yee Kuk is a statutory advisory body on New Territories affairs.

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