Commercial (First)

Commercial (First) 商界（第一）
Functional Constituency for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Electorate	1,040 (2008)^[1]
Current constituency
Created	1985
Number of members	One
Member(s)	Jeffrey Lam (BPA)

The Commercial (First) is a functional constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong first created in 1985. The constituency is composed of bodies that are members of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce entitled to vote at general meetings of the Chamber.^[2]

Return Members

Election		Member	Party
	1985	Thomas Clydesdale	Nonpartisan
	1988	James David McGregor	Nonpartisan
	1991	James David McGregor	Democratic Foundation
	1995	Paul Cheng Ming-fun	Independent
Not represented in the Provisional Legislative Council (1997–98)
	1998	James Tien Pei-chun	Liberal
	2004	Jeffrey Lam Kin-fung	Liberal
	2008		Independent
	2009		Economic Synergy
	2012		BPA

Electoral Results

2010s

Hong Kong legislative election, 2012: Commercial (First)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Economic Synergy	Jeffrey Lam Kin-fung	uncontested
	Economic Synergy hold		Swing

2000s

^[3]

Hong Kong legislative election, 2008: Commercial (First)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Jeffrey Lam Kin-fung	465	70.24
	Independent	Markus Joytak Shaw	197	29.76
Turnout			691	66.44
	Liberal hold		Swing

^[4]

Hong Kong legislative election, 2004: Commercial (First)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Jeffrey Lam Kin-fung	uncontested
	Liberal hold		Swing

^[5]

Hong Kong legislative election, 2000: Commercial (First)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Tien Pei-chun	uncontested
	Liberal hold		Swing

1990s

^[5]

Hong Kong legislative election, 1998: Commercial (First)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Tien Pei-chun	uncontested
	Liberal win (new seat)

Hong Kong legislative election, 1995: Commercial (First)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Paul Cheng Ming-fun	uncontested
	Independent gain from DF		Swing

Hong Kong legislative election, 1991: Commercial (First)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DF	James David McGregor	487	53.93
	BPF	Paul Cheng Ming-fun	416	46.07
Turnout
	DF hold		Swing

1980s

Hong Kong legislative election, 1988: Commercial (First)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nonpartisan	James David McGregor	478	66.95
	Nonpartisan	Ng Siu-ching	236	33.05
Turnout			716	55.4
	Nonpartisan hold		Swing

Hong Kong legislative election, 1985: Commercial (First)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nonpartisan	Thomas Clydesdale	470	59.49
	Nonpartisan	Pao Wai-nang	320	40.51
Turnout			795	63.5
	Nonpartisan win (new seat)

References

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

Geographical Constituencies	Hong Kong Island Kowloon West Kowloon East New Territories West New Territories East

Functional Constituencies	Heung Yee Kuk Agriculture and Fisheries Insurance Transport Education Legal Accountancy Medical Health Services Engineering Architectural, Surveying and Planning Labour Social Welfare Real Estate and Construction Tourism Commercial (First) Commercial (Second) Industrial (First) Industrial (Second) Finance Financial Services Sports, Performing Arts, Culture and Publication Import and Export Textiles and Garment Wholesale and Retail Information Technology Catering District Council (First) District Council (Second)

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