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Functional constituency
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A functional constituency, in Politics of Hong Kong|Hong Kong politics, refers to professional and special interest groups involved in the electoral process.
In Hong Kong, since 1998 only 24 of the 60 legislative Council of Hong Kong|legislative council seats are directly elected by the people (geographic constituency|geographic constituencies), with 30 elected by functional constituencies and 6 by an 800 member election committee. Beginning with the Hong Kong Legislative Council election, 2004|2004 Hong Kong LegCo election, the number of directly elected seats was increased to 30 while the election committee was abolished.
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