Hotels and Catering (constituency)

The Hotels and Catering functional constituency was in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong first created in 1995 as one of the nine new functional constituencies under the electoral reform carried out by the then Governor Chris Patten, in which the electorate consisted of total of 75,174 eligible voters worked related to the hotel and catering sectors.

Hotels and Catering 酒店及飲食界
Former Functional Constituency for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Electorate	69,592 [1]
Former constituency
Created	1995
Abolished	1997
Number of members	One
Member(s)	Chan Wing-chan (DAB)
Replaced by	Catering

The constituency was abolished with the colonial Legislative Council dissolved after the transfer of the sovereignty in 1997.

A similar Catering functional constituency was created for the 2000 election by the HKSAR government with a much narrow electorate base which only consists of is composed of holders of food business licences.

Councillors represented

Election		Member	Party
	1995	Chan Wing-chan	DAB
1997		Legislative Council dissolved

Election results

1995 Hong Kong legislative election: Hotels and Catering[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	DAB	Chan Wing-chan	5,614	18.67
	Independent	Chiang Sai-cheong	5,176	28.48
	Liberal	Tommy Cheung Yu-yan	3,991	30.89
	Independent	Li Hon-shing	3,393	21.96
Majority			438	2.41
Total valid votes			18,174	100.00
	DAB win (new seat)

References

1. Li, Pang-kwong. "香港選舉資料庫". 嶺南大學公共管治研究部. Archived from the original on 6 November 2003. Retrieved 24 March 2013.