Hotels and Catering (constituency)

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Hotels and Catering
酒店及飲食界
Former Functional constituency
for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Electorate69,592 [1]
Former constituency
Created 1995
Abolished1997
Number of membersOne
Member(s) Chan Wing-chan (DAB)
Replaced by Catering

The Hotels and Catering 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 of 75,174 eligible voters worked related to the hotel and catering sectors.

Contents

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

A similar Catering functional constituency was created for the 2000 election by the HKSAR government with a much narrow electorate base which only consists of is composed of holders of food business licences.

Councillors represented

ElectionMemberParty
1995 Chan Wing-chan DAB
1997Legislative Council dissolved

Election results

1995 Legislative Council election: Hotels and Catering [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DAB Chan Wing-chan 5,614 18.67
Independent Chiang Sai-cheong5,17628.48
Liberal Tommy Cheung Yu-yan 3,99130.89
Independent Li Hon-shing3,39321.96
Majority4382.41
Total valid votes18,174100.00
Rejected ballots1,616
Turnout 19,79028.44
Registered electors 69,592
DAB win (new seat)

References

  1. 1 2 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.