Labour (constituency)
The Labour functional constituency (Chinese: 勞工界功能界別) is a functional constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. It was one of the 12 functional constituency seats created for the 1985 Legislative Council election. It corresponds to the Labour Subsector in the Election Committee. The constituency is composed of 712 bodies that are trade unions of which all the voting members are employees.[2]
Labour 勞工界 | |
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Functional Constituency for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong | |
Logo of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong | |
Country | |
Electorate | 712 (2020)[1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1985 |
Number of members | Three |
Member(s) | Poon Siu-ping (FLU) Ho Kai-ming (FTU) Luk Chung-hung (FTU) |
The constituency composed of two seats when it first created by in 1985, held by the two largest labour unions at that time, the pro-Communist Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (FTU) and pro-Nationalist Hong Kong and Kowloon Trades Union Council (TUC). Since 1998, the constituency composed of three seats, two occupied by the FTU and one occupied by the Federation of Hong Kong and Kowloon Labour Unions (FLU).
Return members
1985–97
Election | First Member | First Party | Second Member | Second Party | ||
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1985 | Pang Chun-hoi | TUC | Tam Yiu-chung | FTU | ||
1995 | Lee Kai-ming | FLU | Cheng Yiu-tong | FTU |
1998 to present
Election | First Member | First Party | Second Member | Second Party | Third Member | Third Party | |||
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1998 | Lee Kai-ming | FLU | Chan Wing-chan | DAB | Chan Kwok-keung | FTU | |||
2000 | Li Fung-ying | FLU | Leung Fu-wah | FTU | DAB | ||||
2004 | Kwong Chi-kin | FTU | Wong Kwok-hing | FTU | |||||
2008 | Ip Wai-ming | FTU | Pan Pey-chyou | FTU | |||||
2012 | Poon Siu-ping | FLU | Kwok Wai-keung | FTU | Tang Ka-piu | FTU | |||
2016 | Ho Kai-ming | FTU | Luk Chung-hung | FTU | |||||
2020 | Vacant |
Electoral results
The Plurality-at-large voting system is used and the elected candidates are shown in bold.
2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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FLU | Poon Siu-ping | Uncontested | |||
FTU | Ho Kai-ming | Uncontested | |||
FTU | Luk Chung-hung | Uncontested | |||
FLU hold | Swing | ||||
FTU hold | Swing | ||||
FTU hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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FTU | Kwok Wai-keung | Uncontested | |||
FTU | Tang Ka-piu | Uncontested | |||
FLU | Poon Siu-ping | Uncontested | |||
FTU hold | Swing | ||||
FTU hold | Swing | ||||
FLU hold | Swing |
2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Nonpartisan (FLU) | Li Fung-ying | Uncontested | |||
FTU | Ip Wai-ming | Uncontested | |||
FTU | Pan Pey-chyou | Uncontested | |||
FLU hold | Swing | ||||
FTU hold | Swing | ||||
FTU hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Nonpartisan (FLU) | Li Fung-ying | 322 | 32.43 | ||
FTU | Kwong Chi-kin | 288 | 29.00 | ||
FTU (DAB) | Wong Kwok-hing | 278 | 27.80 | ||
Nonpartisan | Chan Kwok-keung | 105 | 10.57 | ||
Turnout | 461 | 88.82 | |||
Registered electors | 519 | ||||
FLU hold | Swing | ||||
FTU hold | Swing | ||||
FTU hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Nonpartisan (FLU) | Li Fung-ying | 283 | 32.53 | ||
Nonpartisan (FTU) | Leung Fu-wah | 259 | 29.77 | ||
DAB | Chan Kwok-keung | 226 | 25.98 | ||
TUC | Leung Suet-fong | 102 | 11.72 | ||
Turnout | 380 | 91.13 | |||
Registered electors | 417 | ||||
Nonpartisan gain from Nonpartisan | Swing | ||||
Nonpartisan gain from Nonpartisan | Swing | ||||
DAB hold | Swing |
1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Nonpartisan (FLU) | Lee Kai-ming | 212 | 27.32 | ||
DAB | Chan Wing-chan | 212 | 27.32 | ||
Nonpartisan (FTU) | Chan Kwok-keung | 204 | 26.29 | ||
Nonpartisan (TUC) | Chan Yun-che | 99 | 12.76 | ||
Nonpartisan | Ng Yat-wah | 49 | 6.31 | ||
Turnout | 339 | 93.91 | |||
Registered electors | 361 | ||||
Nonpartisan hold | Swing | ||||
DAB gain from Nonpartisan | Swing | ||||
Nonpartisan win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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FTU | Cheng Yiu-tong | 684 | 43.07 | ||
Nonpartisan (FLU) | Lee Kai-ming | 533 | 33.56 | ||
TUC | Lee Kwok-keung | 262 | 16.50 | ||
Independent | Luk Wun-cheung | 109 | 6.86 | ||
FTU hold | Swing | ||||
FLU gain from TUC | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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TUC | Pang Chun-hoi | Uncontested | |||
FTU | Tam Yiu-chung | Uncontested | |||
TUC hold | Swing | ||||
FTU hold | Swing |
1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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TUC | Pang Chun-hoi | Uncontested | |||
FTU | Tam Yiu-chung | Uncontested | |||
TUC hold | Swing | ||||
FTU hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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TUC | Pang Chun-hoi | Uncontested | |||
FTU | Tam Yiu-chung | Uncontested | |||
TUC hold | Swing | ||||
FTU hold | Swing |
References
- "Voter Registration Statistics : Functional Constituency". Voter Registration.
- "Voter Registration Statistics : Functional Constituency". Voter Registration.
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