Information Technology (constituency)

Information Technology
資訊科技界
Former functional constituency
for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Country Hong Kong
Electorate13,000 (2020)[1]
Former constituency
Created1998
Abolished2021
Number of membersOne
Replaced byTechnology and Innovation

The Information Technology functional constituency (Chinese: 資訊科技界功能界別) was a functional constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong until it was replaced by Technology and Innovation functional constituency with a much narrower electorate in the 2021 electoral overhaul.

Since its creation in 1998, it has been normally held by the pro-democracy camp, with the interruption from 2008 to 2012, where the seat was held by pro-Beijing Samson Tam who defeated pro-democracy candidate Charles Mok by 35 votes with the help of the Internet Professional Association (iProA), a pro-Beijing IT association. In 2012, Mok retook the seat for the pro-democrats from the pro-Beijing camp by defeating Tam. Mok resigned effective 1 December 2020 as part of the 2020 LegCo mass resignations in protest of the disqualification of four pro-democracy legislators.

  1. ^ "Voter Registration Statistics : Functional Constituency". Voter Registration.

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