Social Welfare (constituency)

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Social Welfare 社會福利界
Functional constituency
for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Electorate	12,519 (2008)^[1]
Current constituency
Created	1985
Member(s)	Cheung Kwok-che (Labour)
Number of members	One

The Social Welfare, formerly called Social Services, is a functional constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong first created in 1985. Electors include all the registered social workers.

Return Members

Social Services (1988–95)

Election		Member	Party
	1985	Hui Yin-fat

Social Welfare (1995 to present)

Election		Member	Party
	1995	Law Chi-kwong	Democratic
Not represented in the Provisional Legislative Council (1997–98)
	1998	Law Chi-kwong	Democratic
	2004	Fernando Cheung	Nonpartisan
	2006	Fernando Cheung	Civic
	2008	Cheung Kwok-che	SWGU/ADPL
	2011	Cheung Kwok-che	Labour/SWGU

Electoral Results

2010s

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Hong Kong legislative election, 2012: Social Welfare
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SWGU (Labour)	Cheung Kwok-che	9,078	89.08	+23.04
	Nonpartisan	Chan Yee-fei	1,113	10.92
Majority			6,335	78.16

2000s

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Hong Kong legislative election, 2008: Social Welfare
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SWGU	Cheung Kwok-che	5,334	66.04	+27.80
	Democratic	Tik Chi-yuen	2,743	33.96
Turnout			8,756	69.94

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Hong Kong legislative election, 2004: Social Welfare
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nonpartisan	Cheung Chiu-hung	3,263	39.01
	SWGU	Cheung Kwok-che	3,199	38.24
	Nonpartisan	Christine Fong Meng-sang	1,903	22.75
	Nonpartisan gain from Democratic		Swing

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Hong Kong legislative election, 2000: Social Welfare
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Law Chi-kwong	3061	65.93
	Nonpartisan	Leung Yuet-ming	1582	34.07
	Democratic hold		Swing

1990s

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Hong Kong legislative election, 1998: Social Welfare
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Law Chi-kwong	uncontested
	Democratic win (new seat)

Hong Kong legislative election, 1995: Social Welfare
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Law Chi-kwong	1,115
		Chow Wing-sang	625
	Democratic gain from Nonpartisan		Swing

Hong Kong legislative election, 1991: Social Services
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Hui Yin-fat	uncontested
	Nonpartisan hold		Swing

1980s

Hong Kong legislative election, 1988: Social Services
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Hui Yin-fat	uncontested
	Nonpartisan hold		Swing

Hong Kong legislative election, 1985: Social Services
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		Hui Yin-fat	76
		Mak Hoi-wah	41
		Chan Sau-han	22
Turnout			141	97.2
	Nonpartisan win (new seat)

References

v t e 2004–2012 ← Hong Kong Legislative Council constituencies 2012–2016 → 2016–2020

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