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 697 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
Electorate697 (2021)[1]
Current constituency
Created1985
Number of membersThree
Member(s)Chau Siu-chung (FLU)
Kwok Wai-keung (FTU)
Dennis Leung (FTU)

The constituency composed of two seats when it first created by in 1985 as two of the 12 original functional constituency seats. It was 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), both pro-Beijing.

Return members

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1985–1997 (2 seats)

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Election Member Party Member Party
1985 Pang Chun-hoi TUC Tam Yiu-chung FTU
1988
1991
1995 Lee Kai-ming FLU Cheng Yiu-tong FTU

1998–present (3 seats)

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Election Member Party Member Party Member 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
2021 Chau Siu-chung FLU Kwok Wai-keung FTU Dennis Leung FTU

Electoral results

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The plurality-at-large voting system is used and the elected candidates are shown in bold.

2020s

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2021 Legislative Council election: Labour
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
FTU Kwok Wai-keung 398
FTU Dennis Leung Tsz-wing 373
FLU Chau Siu-chung 371
Nonpartisan Lee Kwong-yu 116
Total valid votes
Rejected ballots
Turnout 488 73.72
Registered electors 697
FTU hold Swing
FTU hold Swing
FLU hold Swing

2010s

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2016 Legislative Council election: Labour
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
FLU Poon Siu-ping Unopposed
FTU Ho Kai-ming Unopposed
FTU Luk Chung-hung Unopposed
Registered electors 668
FLU hold Swing
FTU hold Swing
FTU hold Swing
2012 Legislative Council election: Labour
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
FTU Kwok Wai-keung Unopposed
FTU Tang Ka-piu Unopposed
FLU Poon Siu-ping Unopposed
Registered electors 646
FTU hold Swing
FTU hold Swing
FLU hold Swing

2000s

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2008 Legislative Council election: Labour
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nonpartisan (FLU) Li Fung-ying Unopposed
FTU Ip Wai-ming Unopposed
FTU Pan Pey-chyou Unopposed
Registered electors 596
FLU hold Swing
FTU hold Swing
FTU hold Swing
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2004 Legislative Council 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
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2000 Legislative Council 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

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1998 Legislative Council 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 Legislative Council 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
Turnout 1,080 91.60
Registered electors 1,179
FTU hold Swing
FLU gain from TUC Swing
1991 Legislative Council election: Labour
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
TUC Pang Chun-hoi Unopposed
FTU Tam Yiu-chung Unopposed
Registered electors 378
TUC hold Swing
FTU hold Swing

1980s

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1988 Legislative Council election: Labour
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
TUC Pang Chun-hoi Unopposed
FTU Tam Yiu-chung Unopposed
TUC hold Swing
FTU hold Swing
1985 Legislative Council election: Labour
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
TUC Pang Chun-hoi Unopposed
FTU Tam Yiu-chung Unopposed
TUC hold Swing
FTU hold Swing

References

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  1. ^ "Voter Registration Statistics : Functional Constituency". Voter Registration.
  2. ^ "Voter Registration Statistics : Functional Constituency". Voter Registration.
  3. ^ "2004 Legislative Council Election - Election Results". Archived from the original on 17 July 2012. Retrieved 20 November 2012.
  4. ^ "Legislative Council Elections Results". Archived from the original on 29 August 2012. Retrieved 20 November 2012.