Hotels and Catering (constituency)
| Hotels and Catering 酒店及飲食界 | |
|---|---|
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Former Functional Constituency for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong | |
| Electorate | 69,592 [1] |
| Former constituency | |
| Created | 1995 |
| Abolished | 1997 |
| Number of members | One |
| Member(s) | Chan Wing-chan (DAB) |
The Hotels and Catering functional constituency was 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 of 75,174 eligible voters worked related to the agriculture, fisheries, mining, hotel and catering sectors.
The constituency was abolished with the colonial Legislative Council dissolved after the transfer of the sovereignty in 1997.
A similar Catering functional constituency was created for the 2000 election by the HKSAR government with a much narrow electorate base which only consists of is composed of holders of food business licences.
Councillors represented
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Chan Wing-chan | DAB | |
| 1997 | Legislative Council dissolved | ||
Election results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DAB | Chan Wing-chan | 5,614 | 28.1 | ||
| Kowloon City Observers | Chiang Sai-cheong | 5,176 | 25.9 | ||
| Liberal | Tommy Cheung Yu-yan | 3,991 | 20.0 | ||
| Independent | Li Hon-shing | 3,393 | 17.0 | ||
| DAB win (new seat) | |||||
References
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