Functional constituency (Hong Kong)

Eligible voters in a functional constituency may include natural persons as well as other designated legal entities such as organisations and corporations.

In 2021, the National People's Congress initiated a decision to change the electoral rule in Hong Kong.

[3] Four of the FC legislators – mostly those returned in fiercely contested elections – are aligned with the parties which support universal suffrage; two are independent and the rest (24) are pro-government.

On 26 April 2004, the NPCSC published[4] its decision that: Any change...shall conform to principles such as being compatible with the social, economic, political development of Hong Kong, being conducive to the balanced participation of all sectors and groups.In 2021, the Government published details of the electoral base of the functional constituencies as follows: Pro-democracy supporters criticise the functional constituency system for giving a minority too much power and influence.

For example, in 1998, Sino Group chairman Robert Ng and companies he controlled held roughly 3-4% of the votes in the real estate constituency, according to an analysis by the Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor; they described this as being equivalent in voting power to 15,940 people in a geographical constituency.

[6][7] In some functional constituencies, the entire body of eligible voters comprises legal entities that are not natural persons.

It was proposed that the five additional Legco seats for the district council constituencies will be elected by proportional representation instead of block voting.