Labour
勞工界
Functional constituency
for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Electorate596 (2008)[1]
Current constituency
Created1985
Number of membersThree
Member(s)Poon Siu-ping (FLU)
Kwok Wai-keung (FTU)
Tang Ka-piu (FTU)

The Labour (Chinese: 勞工界) is a functional constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong first created It was one of the 12 functional constituency seats created for the 1985 Legislative Council election. It corresponds to the Education Subsector and Higher Education Subsector in the Election Committee. The constituency is composed of bodies that are trade unions of which all the voting members are employees.

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
1985 style="background-color: Template:Hong Kong and Kowloon Trades Union Council/meta/color" | Pang Chun-hoi TUC style="background-color: Template:Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions/meta/color" | Tam Yiu-chung FTU
1995 style="background-color: Template:Federation of Hong Kong and Kowloon Labour Unions/meta/color" | Lee Kai-ming FLU style="background-color: Template:Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions/meta/color" | Cheng Yiu-tong FTU

1998 to present

Election First Member First Party Second Member Second Party Third Member Third Party
1998 style="background-color: Template:Federation of Hong Kong and Kowloon Labour Unions/meta/color" | Lee Kai-ming FLU style="background-color: Template:Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong/meta/color" | Chan Wing-chan DAB style="background-color: Template:Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions/meta/color" | Chan Kwok-keung FTU
2000 rowspan=3 style="background-color: Template:Federation of Hong Kong and Kowloon Labour Unions/meta/color" | Li Fung-ying FLU style="background-color: Template:Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions/meta/color" | Leung Fu-wah FTU style="background-color: Template:Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong/meta/color" | DAB
2004 style="background-color: Template:Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions/meta/color" | Kwong Chi-kin FTU style="background-color: Template:Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions/meta/color" | Wong Kwok-hing FTU
2008 style="background-color: Template:Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions/meta/color" | Ip Wai-ming FTU style="background-color: Template:Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions/meta/color" | Pan Pey-chyou FTU
2012 style="background-color: Template:Federation of Hong Kong and Kowloon Labour Unions/meta/color" | Poon Siu-ping FLU style="background-color: Template:Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions/meta/color" | Kwok Wai-keung FTU style="background-color: Template:Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions/meta/color" | Tang Ka-piu FTU

Electoral Results

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

2010s

Hong Kong legislative election, 2012: Labour
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
FTU Kwok Wai-keung uncontested
FTU Tang Ka-piu uncontested
FLU Poon Siu-ping uncontested

2000s

[2]
Hong Kong legislative election, 2008: Labour
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nonpartisan (FLU) Li Fung-ying uncontested
FTU Ip Wai-ming uncontested
FTU Pan Pey-chyou uncontested
[3]
Hong Kong legislative election, 2004: Labour
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nonpartisan (FLU) Li Fung-ying 322
FTU Kwong Chi-kin 288
FTU (DAB) Wong Kwok-hing 278
Nonpartisan Chan Kwok-keung 105
[4]
Hong Kong legislative election, 2000: Labour
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nonpartisan (FLU) Li Fung-ying 283
Nonpartisan (FTU) Leung Fu-wah 259
DAB Chan Kwok-keung 226
TUC Leung Suet-fong 102

1990s

Hong Kong legislative election, 1998: Labour
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nonpartisan (FLU) Lee Kai-ming 212
DAB Chan Wing-chan 212
Nonpartisan (FTU) Chan Kwok-keung 204
Nonpartisan (TUC) Chan Yun-che 99
Nonpartisan Ng Yat-wah 49
Hong Kong legislative election, 1995: Labour
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
FTU Cheng Yiu-tong 684
Nonpartisan (FLU) Lee Kai-ming 533
TUC Lee Kwok-keung 262
Independent Luk Wun-cheung 109
Hong Kong legislative election, 1991: Labour
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
TUC Pang Chun-hoi uncontested
FTU Tam Yiu-chung uncontested

1980s

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

References