Hong Kong Island (1998-2004 constituency)

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Hong Kong Island is a constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.

1 Overview
- 1.1 Demographics
- 1.2 Current members
2 History
3 See also
4 Reference

[edit] Overview

The constituency covers all the four districts on the Hong Kong Island, namely, Central and Western, Eastern, Southern and Wan Chai.

[edit] Demographics

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[edit] Current members

Members of the council currently representing this constituency are:

Name	Affiliation	Alignment
Choy So Yuk	Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong	pro-Beijing
Audrey Eu SC	ran as an independent, member of the Basic Law Article 45 Concern Group	pro-democracy
Rita Fan	independent	pro-Beijing
Martin Lee SC	Democratic Party	pro-democracy
Ma Lik	Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong	pro-Beijing
Dr Yeung Sum	Democratic Party	pro-democracy

[edit] History

The constituency was set up in 1998 election when the largest remainder method (with Hare quota) of the proportional representative electoral system was introduced, replacing four single-member constituencies of the 1995 election. 4, 5 and 6 members were returned from this constituency in the 1998, 2000 and 2004 elections respectively. No change of boundary had been made throughout since 1998.

[edit] 2004 election

In 2004, the population in this constituency was ?. Out of those who were eligible to register as voters (permanent residents who are over 18 of age), ? registered. ? or ?% of registered voters voted in the election, with 379,913 valid votes.

There were 16 candidates on 6 lists.

No.	Name of candidates	Affiliation	Alignment	Votes	Seats
1	Ma Lik Choi So Yuk (蔡素玉) Christopher Chung (鍾樹根) Yeung Wai Foon (楊位款) Lee Yuen Kwong (李元剛) Cheung Kwok Kwan (張國鈞)	Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong	pro-Beijing	74,659	2
2	Rita Fan	Independent	pro-Beijing	65,661	1
3	Tsang Kin Shing (Bull, 曾健成, 阿牛) Chung Chung Fai (鍾松輝, 鍾輝) Tang Chui Chung (鄧徐中)	Independents (Chung was vice president of HKCTU, but ran as an independent)	pro-democracy	5,313	0
4	Yeung Sum Martin Lee Joseph Lai (黎志強)	Democratic Party	pro-democracy	131,788	2
5	Kelvin Wong (黃錦輝)	Independent	?	2,830	0
6	Audrey Eu Cyd Ho	Independents (Eu was member of the Basic Law Article 45 Concern Group, Ho was member of Civic Act-up and The Frontier)	pro-democracy	73,844	1

List	1	2	3	4	5	6	Total
Votes	74,659	65,661	5,313	131,788	2,830	73,844	379,913
Seats							6
Hare quota							63,318
Quotas received	1.18	1.04	0.08	2.08	0.04	1.17
Automatic seats	1	1	0	2	0	1	5
Remainder	0.18	0.04	0.08	0.08	0.04	0.17
Surplus seats	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
Total seats	2	1	0	2	0	1	6

[edit] 2000 byelection

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[edit] 2000 election

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[edit] 1998 election

[edit] See also

list of constituencies of Hong Kong
predecessors to the constituency:
- 1995
  - Island Central
  - Island East
  - Island South
  - Island West
- 1991
  - Island East
  - Island West