Regional Council (constituency)

Regional Council
Former Functional constituency for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Former constituency
Created	1986
Abolished	2000
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Catering District Council

The Regional Council was an electoral college created in 1986^{[ clarification needed ]} and became one of the functional constituencies between 1991 and 2000 for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, until the Urban Council and the Regional Council themselves were abolished in 1999 and the constituencies replaced by District Council and Catering in the 2000 LegCo election. The constituency was composed of all^{[ clarify ]} members of the Regional Council.

Legislative Council members

Election		Member	Party
	1986 by-election	Lau Wong-fat	Nonpartisan
	1988	Cheung Yan-lung	PHKS
	1991	Gilbert Leung	Nonpartisan
	1993 by-election	Alfred Tso	LDF
	1995	Ngan Kam-chuen	DAB
Not represented in the Provisional Legislative Council (1996–98)
	1998	Tang Siu-tong	Progressive Alliance
	2000	Constituency abolished

Election results

1990s

1998 Regional Council by-election ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	HKPA	Tang Siu-tong	28	56.0	+6.0
	Independent	Chiang Lai-wan	22	44.0	−4.0
	DAB	Ngan Kam-chuen	0
	HKPA hold		Swing

1998 Legislative Council election: Regional Council ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	HKPA	Tang Siu-tong	25	51.02
	Independent	Chiang Lai-wan	24	48.98
	DAB	Ngan Kam-chuen	0		−56.76
Majority			1	2.04
Total valid votes			49	100.00
Rejected ballots			1
Turnout			50	100.00
Registered electors			50
	HKPA win (new seat)

1995 Legislative Council election: Regional Council ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DAB	Ngan Kam-chuen	21	56.76
	Democratic	Alan Tam King-wah	16	43.24
Majority			5	13.52
Total valid votes			37	100.00
Rejected ballots			2
Turnout			39	100.00
Registered electors			39
	DAB gain from LDF		Swing

1993 Regional Council by-election ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDF	Alfred Tso Shiu-wai	17	51.5
	Independent	Yeung Fuk-kwong	6	18.2
	United Democrats	Chow Yick-hay	5	15.2	−26.5
	Independent	Lau Kong-wah	5	15.2
	LDF gain from FSHK		Swing

1991 Legislative Council election: Regional Council ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nonpartisan	Gilbert Leung Kam-ho	20	40.00
	United Democrats	Chow Yick-hay	15	30.00
	FSHK	Daniel Lam Wai-keung	10	20.00
	Independent	Chow Chun-wing	5	10.00
Majority			5	10.00
Turnout			36	100.00
Registered electors			36
	Nonpartisan gain from FSHK		Swing

1980s

1988 Legislative Council election: Regional Council ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PHKS	Cheung Yan-lung	19	52.8
	Nonpartisan	Tang Kwok-yung	13	36.1
	HKAS	Choy Kan-pui	8	22.2
	PHKS gain from Nonpartisan		Swing

1986 Regional Council by-election ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nonpartisan	Lau Wong-fat	Unopposed
	Nonpartisan win (new seat)

References

1. 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 3 April 2013.