Transport and Communication (constituency)

The Transport and Communication 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 113,957 eligible voters worked related to the transport and communication industry.

Transport and Communication 運輸及通訊界
Former Functional Constituency for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Electorate	109,716[1]
Former constituency
Created	1995
Abolished	1997
Number of members	One
Member(s)	Miriam Lau (Liberal)
Replaced by	Transport

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

A similar Transport functional constituency was created for the 1998 election by the HKSAR government with a much narrow electorate base in which 178 electors are only limited to transportation associations.

Councillors represented

Election		Member	Party
	1995	Miriam Lau	Liberal
1997		Legislative Council dissolved

Election results

1995 Hong Kong legislative election: Transport and Communication[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Miriam Lau Kin-yee	14,233	31.4
	FTU	Cheuk Siu-yee	12,617	27.8
	CTU	Ip Kwok-fen	12,055	26.6
	Independent	Cheng Kai-ming	2,324	5.1
	Independent	Cheung Pak-chi	2,042	4.5
Turnout			45,384
	Liberal 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.