Hotels and Catering (constituency)

Hotels and Catering
酒店及飲食界
Former Functional Constituency
for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Electorate 69,592 [1]
Former constituency
Created 1995
Abolished 1997
Number of members One
Member(s) Chan Wing-chan (DAB)

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 agriculture, fisheries, mining, hotel and catering sectors.

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
1997 Legislative Council dissolved

Election results

Hong Kong legislative election, 1995: Hotels and Catering[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
DAB Chan Wing-chan 5,614 28.1
Kowloon City Observers Chiang Sai-cheong 5,176 25.9
Liberal Tommy Cheung Yu-yan 3,991 20.0
Independent Li Hon-shing 3,393 17.0
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. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
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