Regional Council (constituency)

Regional Council
Former Functional constituency
for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Former constituency
Created 1986
Abolished 2000
Number of members One
Replaced by Catering

The Regional Council was an election college created in 1986 and became one of the functional constituencies between 1991 and 2000 for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, until the Urban Council and Regional Council were abolished in 1999 and replaced by Information Technology and Catering. The constituency is composed of all members of the Regional Council.

Legislative Council members

ElectionMemberParty
1986 by-election Lau Wong-fat Nonpartisan
1988 Cheung Yan-lung PHKS
1991 Gilbert Leung FSHK
1993 by-election Alfred Tso LDF
1995 Ngan Kam-chuen DAB
Not represented in the Provisional Legislative Council (1996–98)
1998 Tang Siu-tong Progressive Alliance
2000 Constituency abolished

Election results

1990s

Regional Council by-election 1998[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Alliance Tang Siu-tong 28 56.0 +6.0
Independent Chiang Lai-wan 22 44.0 -4.0
DAB Ngan Kam-chuen 0
Progressive Alliance hold Swing
Hong Kong legislative election, 1998: Regional Council[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Alliance Tang Siu-tong 25 50.0
Independent Chiang Lai-wan 24 48.0
DAB Ngan Kam-chuen 0 -53.8
Progressive Alliance win (new seat)
Hong Kong legislative election, 1995: Regional Council[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DAB Ngan Kam-chuen 21 53.8
Democratic Alan Tam King-wah 16 41.0
DAB gain from LDF Swing
Regional Council by-election, 1993[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
LDF Alfred Tso Shiu-wai 17 51.5
Independent Yeung Fook-kwong 6 18.2
United Democrats Chow Yick-hay 5 15.2 -26.5
Independent Lau Kong-wah 5 15.2
LDF gain from FSHK Swing
Hong Kong legislative election, 1991: Regional Council[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
FSHK Gilbert Leung Kam-ho 20 55.6
United Democrats Chow Yick-hay 15 41.7
FSHK Daniel Lam Wai-keung 10 27.8
Independent Chow Chun-wing 5 13.9
FSHK hold Swing

1980s

Hong Kong legislative election, 1988: Regional Council[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PHKS Cheung Yan-lung 19 52.8
Nonpartisan Tang Kwok-yung 13 36.1
HKAS Choy Kan-pui 8 22.2
PHKS gain from Nonpartisan Swing
Regional Council by-election 1986[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nonpartisan Lau Wong-fat uncontested
Nonpartisan win (new seat)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Li, Pang-kwong. "香港選舉資料庫". 嶺南大學公共管治研究部. Retrieved 3 April 2013.