Social Welfare (constituency)
Social Welfare 社會福利界 | |
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Functional Constituency for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong | |
Country | Hong Kong |
Electorate | 13,935 (2020)[1] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1985 |
Number of members | One |
Member(s) | Vacant |
The Social Welfare functional constituency (Chinese: 社會福利界功能界別), formerly called Social Services, is a functional constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. The constituency was first created as one of the original 12 functional constituency seats for the first ever Legislative Council election in 1985.
It is one of the functional constituencies with the most electorates. As of 2020, there were 13,935 registered voters, including all the social workers registered under the Social Workers Registration Ordinance (Cap. 505). It has also been one of the few functional constituencies held by the pro-democrats, represented by Shiu Ka-chun until he resigned en masse with other pro-democracy legislators in protest to the Beijing's disqualification of four opposition legislators.[2]
Return members[]
Social Services (1988–1995)[]
Election | Member | Party | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1985 | Hui Yin-fat | Nonpartisan | 76 | 54.68 | |
1988 | N/A | ||||
1991 | N/A |
Social Welfare (1995–present)[]
Election | Member | Party | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1995 | Law Chi-kwong | Democratic | 1,115 | 64.08 | |
Not represented in Provisional Legislative Council (1997–98) | |||||
1998 | Law Chi-kwong | Democratic | N/A | ||
2000 | 3,061 | 65.93 | |||
2004 | Fernando Cheung Chiu-hung | Nonpartisan→Civic | 3,263 | 39.01 | |
2008 | Cheung Kwok-che | SWGU/ADPL→Labour | 5,334 | 66.04 | |
2012 | Labour/SWGU | 9,078 | 89.08 | ||
2016 | Shiu Ka-chun | Independent | 4,603 | 40.79 |
Electoral results[]
2010s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Shiu Ka-chun | 4,603 | 40.79 | ||
Nonpartisan | Yip Kin-chung | 3,858 | 34.19 | ||
Nonpartisan | Kwan Yui-huen | 1,255 | 11.12 | ||
Nonpartisan | Tsang Kin-chiu | 1,011 | 8.96 | ||
Nonpartisan | Wong Sing-chi | 557 | 4.94 | ||
Majority | 745 | 6.60 | |||
Total valid votes | 11,284 | 100.00 | |||
Rejected ballots | 280 | ||||
Turnout | 11,564 | 83.65 | |||
Registered electors | 13,824 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
SWGU (Labour) | Cheung Kwok-che | 9,078 | 89.08 | +23.04 | |
Nonpartisan | Chan Yee-fei | 1,113 | 10.92 | ||
Majority | 6,335 | 78.16 | |||
Total valid votes | 10,191 | 100.00 | |||
Rejected ballots | 748 | ||||
Turnout | 10,939 | 77.62 | |||
Registered electors | 14,093 |
2000s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
SWGU | Cheung Kwok-che | 5,334 | 66.04 | +27.80 | |
Democratic | Tik Chi-yuen | 2,743 | 33.96 | ||
Majority | 2,591 | 32.08 | |||
Total valid votes | 8,077 | 100.00 | |||
Rejected ballots | 507 | ||||
Turnout | 8,584 | 68.57 | |||
Registered electors | 12,519 | ||||
SWGU gain from Civic | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nonpartisan | Cheung Chiu-hung | 3,263 | 39.01 | ||
SWGU | Cheung Kwok-che | 3,199 | 38.24 | ||
Nonpartisan | Christine Fong Meng-sang | 1,903 | 22.75 | ||
Majority | 64 | 0.77 | |||
Total valid votes | 8,365 | 100.00 | |||
Rejected ballots | 181 | ||||
Turnout | 8,546 | 82.13 | |||
Registered electors | 10,405 | ||||
Nonpartisan gain from Democratic | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Law Chi-kwong | 3,061 | 65.93 | ||
Nonpartisan | Leung Yuet-ming | 1,582 | 34.07 | ||
Majority | 1,479 | 31.86 | |||
Total valid votes | 4,643 | 100.00 | |||
Rejected ballots | 522 | ||||
Turnout | 5,165 | 65.73 | |||
Registered electors | 7,858 | ||||
Democratic hold | Swing |
1990s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Law Chi-kwong | Uncontested | |||
Democratic hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | Law Chi-kwong | 1,115 | 64.08 | ||
Nonpartisan | Chow Wing-sang | 625 | 35.92 | ||
Majority | 490 | 28.16 | |||
Total valid votes | 1,740 | 100.00 | |||
Turnout | 612 | 29.39 | |||
Registered electors | 2,082 | ||||
Democratic gain from Nonpartisan | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nonpartisan | Hui Yin-fat | Uncontested | |||
Registered electors | 181 | ||||
Nonpartisan hold | Swing |
1980s[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nonpartisan | Hui Yin-fat | Uncontested | |||
Nonpartisan hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nonpartisan | Hui Yin-fat | 76 | 54.68 | ||
Nonpartisan | Mak Hoi-wah | 41 | 29.50 | ||
Nonpartisan | Chan Sau-han | 22 | 15.83 | ||
Majority | 35 | 25.18 | |||
Total valid votes | 139 | 100.00 | |||
Nonpartisan win (new seat) |
References[]
- ^ "Voter Registration Statistics : Functional Constituency". Voter Registration.
- ^ "'Death sentence' for Hong Kong democracy: NGOs, activists & gov'ts react as democrats unseated from legislature". Hong Kong Free Press. 12 November 2020.
- ^ 2016 Legislative Council Election
- ^ 2012 Legislative Council Election
- ^ 2008 Legislative Council Election
- ^ 2004 Legislative Council Election – Election Results Archived 17 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Jump up to: a b Legislative Council Elections Results Archived 29 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- Constituencies of Hong Kong
- Constituencies of Hong Kong Legislative Council
- Functional constituencies (Hong Kong)
- 1985 establishments in Hong Kong
- Constituencies established in 1985