Heung Yee Kuk (constituency)
| Heung Yee Kuk 鄕議局 | |
|---|---|
| Functional constituency for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong | |
| Country |  Hong Kong |
| Electorate | 161 (2021)[1] |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1991 |
| Number of members | One |
| Member(s) | Kenneth Lau (BPA) |
| Heung Yee Kuk | |||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 鄕議局功能界別 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 鄕议局功能界别 | ||||||||||||
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The Heung Yee Kuk functional constituency, formerly called the Rural functional constituency, is a functional constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong first created in 1991. The constituency is composed of the chairman and vice chairmen of the Heung Yee Kuk and the ex officio, special and co-opted councillors of the full Council of the Kuk.[2] One of the functional constituencies with the fewest electorates, it had only 155 registered voters in 2020.[3] It corresponds to the Heung Yee Kuk Subsector in the Election Committee.
Since the 2016 Legislative Council election, it has been represented by the chairman of the Kuk, Kenneth Lau, succeeding his father, former longtime Kuk chairman Lau Wong-fat who held the seat from 1991 to 2004 and from 2008 until he stepped down in 2016 due to his absence from the office because of ill health. Lau Wong-fat's tenure was interrupted when he represented the District Council functional constituency from 2004 to 2008 while Kuk vice chairman Lam Wai-keung took the seat in his place. No actual election has been held since its creation as all candidates have been uncontested.
Return Members
[edit]Rural (1991–1997)
[edit]| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Lau Wong-fat | FSHK→Liberal | |
| 1995 | Liberal | ||
Heung Yee Kuk (1997–present)
[edit]| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Lau Wong-fat | Liberal | |
| 2000 | |||
| 2004 | Daniel Lam | Nonpartisan | |
| 2008 | Lau Wong-fat | Liberal→Independent→Economic Synergy | |
| 2012 | Economic Synergy→BPA | ||
| 2016 | Kenneth Lau | BPA | |
| 2021 | |||
Electoral Results
[edit]Instant-runoff voting system was used from 1998 to 2021. Since 2021, first-past-the-post voting system is in use.
2020s
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BPA | Kenneth Lau Ip-keung | 119 | 77.27 | ||
| BPA | Mok Kam-kwai | 35 | 22.72 | ||
| Majority | 84 | 54.55 | |||
| Total valid votes | 154 | 100.00 | |||
| Rejected ballots | 0 | ||||
| Turnout | 154 | 95.65 | |||
| Registered electors | 161 | ||||
| BPA hold | Swing | ||||
2010s
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BPA | Kenneth Lau Ip-keung | Unopposed | |||
| Registered electors | 147 | ||||
| BPA hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economic Synergy | Lau Wong-fat | Unopposed | |||
| Registered electors | 147 | ||||
| Economic Synergy hold | Swing | ||||
2000s
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | Lau Wong-fat | Unopposed | |||
| Registered electors | 157 | ||||
| Liberal gain from Nonpartisan | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nonpartisan | Lam Wai-keung | Unopposed | |||
| Registered electors | 149 | ||||
| Nonpartisan gain from Nonpartisan | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | Lau Wong-fat | Unopposed | |||
| Registered electors | 148 | ||||
| Nonpartisan hold | Swing | ||||
1990s
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nonpartisan | Lau Wong-fat | Unopposed | |||
| Registered electors | 132 | ||||
| Nonpartisan hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nonpartisan | Lau Wong-fat | Unopposed | |||
| Registered electors | 125 | ||||
| Nonpartisan hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FSHK | Lau Wong-fat | Unopposed | |||
| Registered electors | 112 | ||||
| FSHK win (new seat) | |||||
References
[edit]- ^ "Voter Registration Statistics : Functional Constituency". Voter Registration.
- ^ "Hong Kong e-Legislation". Hong Kong e-Legislation.
- ^ "Voter Registration Statistics : Functional Constituency". Voter Registration.
- ^ 2008 Legislative Council Election[permanent dead link]
- ^ 2004 Legislative Council Election – Election Results Archived 2012-07-17 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Legislative Council Elections Results Archived 2012-08-29 at the Wayback Machine