Education (constituency)

Education 教育界
Functional Constituency for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Electorate	88,185 (2016)[1]
Current constituency
Created	1995
Number of members	One
Member(s)	Ip Kin-yuen (PTU)
Created from	Teaching

The Education (Chinese: 教育界), formerly called Teaching (Chinese: 教學界) in the colonial period, 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 Education Subsector and Higher Education Subsector in the Election Committee.

Since 1998, It has been the functional constituency with most registered voters, including registered teachers, principals, managers of schools, full-time academic staff, members of the councils of the universities in Hong Kong and board of governors of the institutes of higher educations.^[2] Since its creation it has been held by the Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union, the largest teachers' union in Hong Kong.

Return Members

Teaching (1985-95)

Election		Member	Party
	1985	Szeto Wah	Non-partisan (PTU)
	1991	Cheung Man-kwong	PTU/United Democrats

Education (1995 to present)

Election		Member	Party
	1995	Cheung Man-kwong	PTU/Democratic
Not represented in the Provisional Legislative Council (1997–98)
	1998	Cheung Man-kwong	PTU/Democratic
	2012	Ip Kin-yuen	PTU

Electoral Results

2010s

^[3]

Hong Kong legislative election, 2016: Education

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	PTU	Ip Kin-yuen	45,984	71.69	–3.73
	Nonpartisan	Choi Yuk-lin	18,158	28.31
Majority			27,826	43.38
Total valid votes			64,142	100.00
Rejected ballots			1,821
Turnout			65,963	74.80	+4.17
Registered electors			88,185
	PTU hold		Swing

^[4]

Hong Kong legislative election, 2012: Education

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	PTU	Ip Kin-yuen	46,535	75.42	+3.81
	Nonpartisan	Ho Hon-kuen	15,170	24.58	+1.38
Majority			31,365	50.84
Total valid votes			61,705	100.00
Rejected ballots			3,773
Turnout			65,478	70.44	+10.55
Registered electors			92,957
	PTU hold		Swing

2000s

^[5]

Hong Kong legislative election, 2008: Education

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	PTU (Democratic)	Cheung Man-kwong	37,876	71.61
	Nonpartisan	Ho Hon-kuen	12,272	23.20
	Nonpartisan	Yu Yee-wah	2,746	5.19
Majority			25,604	48.41
Total valid votes			52,894	100.00
Rejected ballots			1,421
Turnout			54,315	59.89
Registered electors			90,693
	PTU hold		Swing

^[6]

Hong Kong legislative election, 2004: Education

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	PTU (Democratic)	Cheung Man-kwong	44,517	82.94
	Nonpartisan	Yu Kai-chun	9,155	17.06
	PTU hold		Swing

^[7]

Hong Kong legislative election, 2000: Education

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	PTU (Democratic)	Cheung Man-kwong	35,793	86.29
	Nonpartisan	Lee Kit-kong	5,686	13.71
	PTU hold		Swing

1990s

Hong Kong legislative election, 1998: Education

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	PTU (Democratic)	Cheung Man-kwong	34,864	86.76
	Nonpartisan	Li Sze-yuen	5319	13.24
	PTU win (new seat)

Hong Kong legislative election, 1995: Education

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	PTU (Democratic)	Cheung Man-kwong	19,558
	Nonpartisan	Leung Siu-tong	4,496
	PTU win (new seat)

Teaching (1985-95)

Hong Kong legislative election, 1991: Teaching

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	PTU (United Democrats)	Cheung Man-kwong	15,193
	FEW	Ho King-on	886
	Subsided Teachers' Association	Ng Chung-wang	836
	PTU hold		Swing

Hong Kong legislative election, 1988: Teaching

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Nonpartisan (PTU)	Szeto Wah	uncontested
	Nonpartisan hold		Swing

Hong Kong legislative election, 1985: Teaching

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Nonpartisan (PTU)	Szeto Wah	12,706
	Nonpartisan	Ip King-ping	2,655
	Civic	Ko Ka-yu	2,165
	Nonpartisan	Chan Yat-tong	577
	Nonpartisan	Wu Siu-wai	409
	Nonpartisan win (new seat)

References

1. "2016 Legislative Council Election". elections.gov.hk. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
2. "Legislative Council Ordinance - Composition of the education functional constituency".
3. "2016 LegCo Election - Election Results". elections.gov.hk. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
4. "2012 LegCo Election - Election Results". elections.gov.hk. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
5. "2008 Legislative Council Election". elections.gov.hk. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
6. "2004 Legislative Council Election - Election Results". elections.gov.hk. 7 September 2004. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
7. "Legislative Council Elections Results". elections.gov.hk. Retrieved 12 May 2015.