Labour (constituency)

Labour
勞工界
Labour; 勞工界
Functional constituency; for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Country	Hong Kong
Electorate	697 (2021)
Current constituency
Created	1985
Number of members	Three
Member(s)	Chau Siu-chung (FLU); Kwok Wai-keung (FTU); Dennis Leung (FTU)

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]

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

Election		Party		Party		Party
1998	Lee Kai-ming	FLU	Chan Wing-chan	DAB	Chan Kwok-keung	FTU
2000	Li Fung-ying	FLU	Leung Fu-wah	FTU	Chan Kwok-keung	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	Poon Siu-ping	FLU	Ho Kai-ming	FTU	Luk Chung-hung	FTU
2021	Chau Siu-chung	FLU	Kwok Wai-keung	FTU	Dennis Leung	FTU

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

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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

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

Labour 勞工界
Functional constituency for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Country	Hong Kong
Electorate	697 (2021)^[1]
Current constituency
Created	1985
Number of members	Three
Member(s)	Chau Siu-chung (FLU) Kwok Wai-keung (FTU) Dennis Leung (FTU)