Textiles and Garment (constituency)

Textiles and Garment
紡織及製衣界
Functional constituency
for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Electorate 3,710 (2008)[1]
Current constituency
Created 1995
Number of members One
Member(s) Chung Kwok-pan (Liberal)

The Textiles and Garment functional constituency is 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 60,568 eligible voters related to the textile and garment industry. It was abolished with the colonial Legislative Council and dissolved after the transfer of the sovereignty in 1997.

The constituency was recreated for the 1998 Legislative Council election unless its electorate base has been narrowed which is composed of Textiles and Garment associations only.[2]

Current composition

The textiles and garment functional constituency is composed of-

Return Members

ElectionMemberParty
1995 Leung Yiu-chung NWSC
1996 Frontier/NWSC
Not represented in the Provisional Legislative Council (1997–98)
1998 Sophie Leung Lau Yau-fun Liberal
2008 Independent
2009 Economic Synergy
2012 Felix Chung Kwok-pan Liberal

Electoral Results

2010s

[3]
Hong Kong legislative election, 2012: Textiles and Garment
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Chung Kwok-pan 1,076 56.07 +19.91
Nonpartisan Henry Tan 843 43.93
Liberal hold Swing

2000s

[4]
Hong Kong legislative election, 2008: Textiles and Garment
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Sophie Leung Lau Yau-fun 1,255 63.84
Nonpartisan Chung Kwok-pan 711 36.16
Liberal hold Swing
[5]
Hong Kong legislative election, 2004: Textiles and Garment
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Sophie Leung Lau Yau-fun 1,816 77.94
Nonpartisan Kwan Kam-yuen 514 22.06
Liberal hold Swing
[6]
Hong Kong legislative election, 2000: Textiles and Garment
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Sophie Leung Lau Yau-fun uncontested
Liberal hold Swing

1990s

[6]
Hong Kong legislative election, 1998: Textiles and Garment
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Sophie Leung Lau Yau-fun uncontested
Liberal hold Swing
Hong Kong legislative election, 1995: Textiles and Garment
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
NWSC Leung Yiu-chung 10,472 45.3
FTU Chan Kwok-keung 5,116 22.1
Kowloon City Observers Ng Ching-man 2,957 12.8
LDF Chan Ming-kit 2,638 11.4
NWSC win (new seat)

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