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
Functional Constituency
for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Country Hong Kong
Electorate712 (2020)[1]
Current constituency
Created1985
Number of membersThree
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

ElectionFirst MemberFirst PartySecond MemberSecond Party
1985 Pang Chun-hoi TUC Tam Yiu-chung FTU
1995 Lee Kai-ming FLU Cheng Yiu-tong FTU

1998 to present

ElectionFirst MemberFirst PartySecond MemberSecond PartyThird MemberThird Party
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

2016 Hong Kong legislative election: Labour
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
FLU Poon Siu-ping Uncontested
FTU Ho Kai-ming Uncontested
FTU Luk Chung-hung Uncontested
FLU hold Swing
FTU hold Swing
FTU hold Swing
2012 Hong Kong legislative election: Labour
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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

2008 Hong Kong legislative election: Labour
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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

[3]

2004 Hong Kong legislative election: Labour
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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

[4]

2000 Hong Kong legislative election: Labour
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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

1998 Hong Kong legislative election: Labour
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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)
1995 Hong Kong legislative election: Labour
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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
1991 Hong Kong legislative election: Labour
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
TUC Pang Chun-hoi Uncontested
FTU Tam Yiu-chung Uncontested
TUC hold Swing
FTU hold Swing

1980s

1988 Hong Kong legislative election: Labour
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
TUC Pang Chun-hoi Uncontested
FTU Tam Yiu-chung Uncontested
TUC hold Swing
FTU hold Swing
1985 Hong Kong legislative election: Labour
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
TUC Pang Chun-hoi Uncontested
FTU Tam Yiu-chung Uncontested
TUC hold Swing
FTU hold Swing

References

  1. "Voter Registration Statistics : Functional Constituency". Voter Registration.
  2. "Voter Registration Statistics : Functional Constituency". Voter Registration.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 17 July 2012. Retrieved 20 November 2012.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 29 August 2012. Retrieved 20 November 2012.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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