Finance (constituency)
| Finance 金融界 | |
|---|---|
| Functional constituency for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong | |
| Region | Hong Kong |
| Electorate | 91 |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1985 |
| Number of members | One |
| Member | Chan Chun-ying (Independent) |
| Finance | |||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 金融界功能界別 | ||||||||
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The Finance functional constituency, formerly called the Financial functional constituency between 1985 and 1991, is a functional constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong first created in 1985. It was one of the 12 original functional constituency seats created for the first ever Legislative Council election in 1985 and was divided into Finance and Financial Services in 1991. It has the fewest electorates among all constituencies, composing of 114 banks and deposit-taking companies as corporate electors.[1]
Since its creation, it had held by David Li, chairman of the Bank of East Asia, uncontestedly with the exception of 2000 Legislative Council election which was the only election held in the constituency. Li retired from the office in 2012 and was replaced by Ng Leung-sing. Since 2016 until now, it has been represented by Chan Chun-ying, the former board secretary of the state-owned Bank of China (Hong Kong).[2]
Return members
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | David Li | Independent | |
| 1988 | |||
| 1991 | |||
| 1995 | |||
| Not represented in the PLC (1997–1998) | |||
| 1998 | David Li | Independent | |
| 2000 | |||
| 2004 | |||
| 2008 | |||
| 2012 | Ng Leung-sing | Independent | |
| 2016 | Chan Chun-ying | Independent | |
| 2021 | |||
| 2025 | |||
Electoral Results
2020s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Chan Chun-ying | 42 | 56.00 | −19.00 | |
| Independent | Ip Tsz-kin | 33 | 44.00 | ||
| Majority | 9 | 12.00 | |||
| Total valid votes | 75 | 100.00 | |||
| Rejected ballots | 1 | ||||
| Turnout | 76 | 83.52 | +10.89 | ||
| Registered electors | 91 | ||||
| Independent hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Chan Chun-ying | 51 | 75.00 | ||
| Independent | Owens Chan Chi-fai | 17 | 25.00 | ||
| Majority | 34 | 50.00 | |||
| Total valid votes | 68 | 100.00 | |||
| Rejected ballots | 1 | ||||
| Turnout | 69 | 72.63 | |||
| Registered electors | 95 | ||||
| Independent hold | Swing | ||||
2010s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Chan Chun-ying | Unopposed | |||
| Registered electors | 125 | ||||
| Independent gain from Independent | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Ng Leung-sing | Unopposed | |||
| Registered electors | 128 | ||||
| Independent hold | Swing | ||||
2000s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | David Li Kwok-po | Unopposed | |||
| Registered electors | 140 | ||||
| Independent hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | David Li Kwok-po | Unopposed | |||
| Registered electors | 154 | ||||
| Independent hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | David Li Kwok-po | 89 | 73.55 | ||
| Independent | Kung Lin-cheng | 32 | 26.45 | ||
| Majority | 57 | 47.10 | |||
| Total valid votes | 121 | 100.00 | |||
| Rejected ballots | 2 | ||||
| Turnout | 123 | 86.01 | |||
| Registered electors | 143 | ||||
| Independent hold | Swing | ||||
1990s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | David Li Kwok-po | Unopposed | |||
| Registered electors | 207 | ||||
| Independent hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | David Li Kwok-po | Unopposed | |||
| Registered electors | 246 | ||||
| Independent hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | David Li Kwok-po | Unopposed | |||
| Registered electors | 234 | ||||
| Independent hold | Swing | ||||
1980s
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | David Li Kwok-po | Unopposed | |||
| Independent hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | David Li Kwok-po | Unopposed | |||
| Independent win (new seat) | |||||
References
- ^ "Voter Registration Statistics : Functional Constituency". Voter Registration.
- ^ "Change of Deputy Chief Executive and Company Secretary" (PDF). BOC Hong Kong (Holdings). 20 January 2011.
- ^ "2008 Legislative Council Election". Elections.gov.hk. Retrieved 20 November 2012.
- ^ "2004 Legislative Council Election". Elections.gov.hk. Archived from the original on 17 July 2012. Retrieved 20 November 2012.
- ^ a b "2000 Legislative Council Election". Elections.gov.hk. Archived from the original on 29 August 2012. Retrieved 20 November 2012.