The Financing, Insurance, Real Estate and Business Services 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 171,534 eligible voters worked in the services sector related to finance, insurance, real estate and business in Hong Kong.
| Financing, Insurance, Real Estate and Business Services 金融、保險、地產及商業服務界 | |
|---|---|
| Former Functional constituency for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong | |
| Electorate | 171,534[1] |
| Former constituency | |
| Created | 1995 |
| Abolished | 1997 |
| Number of members | One |
| Member(s) | Andrew Cheng (Democratic) |
| Replaced by | Insurance |
The constituency was abolished with the colonial Legislative Council dissolved after the transfer of the sovereignty in 1997.
A similar Insurance functional constituency was created for the 1998 election by the HKSAR government with a much narrow electorate base which restricted to only less than 200 insurers.[2]
Councillors represented
edit| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Andrew Cheng | Democratic | |
| 1997 | Legislative Council dissolved | ||
Election results
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Andrew Cheng Kar-foo | 25,658 | 39.68 | ||
| DAB | Fung Chi-kin | 18,674 | 28.88 | ||
| Independent | Chan Yuk-cheung | 10,514 | 16.26 | ||
| Liberal | Chan Yim-kwong | 5,771 | 8.92 | ||
| LDF | Ng Kam-chun | 2,348 | 3.63 | ||
| Independent | Chan Tung-ngok | 1,699 | 2.63 | ||
| Majority | 6,984 | 10.80 | |||
| Total valid votes | 64,664 | 100.00 | |||
| Rejected ballots | 4,142 | ||||
| Turnout | 68,806 | 40.11 | |||
| Registered electors | 171,534 | ||||
| Democratic win (new seat) | |||||
References
edit- ^ a b 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.
- ^ http://clic.org.hk/hk/legis/en/ord/542/s20c.html[permanent dead link]