Agriculture, Fisheries, Mining, Energy and Construction (constituency)

Agriculture, Fisheries, Mining, Energy and Construction
漁農、礦產、能源及建造界
Former Functional Constituency
for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Electorate 75,174 [1]
Former constituency
Created 1995
Abolished 1997
Number of members One
Member(s) Tsang Kin-shing (Democratic)

The Agriculture, Fisheries, Mining, Energy and Construction functional constituency was in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong first created for the 1995 LegCo Election 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, energy and construction sectors.

The Constituency was abolished with the colonial Legislative Council dissolved after the transfer of the sovereignty in 1997.

A similar Agriculture and Fisheries functional constituency was created for the 1998 election by the HKSAR government with a much narrow electorate base which only consists of agriculture and fisheries organisations.

Councillors represented

ElectionMemberParty
1995 Tsang Kin-shing Democratic
1997 Legislative Council dissolved

Election results

Hong Kong legislative election, 1995: Agriculture, Fisheries, Mining, Energy and Construction[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Tsang Kin-shing 11,592 37.8
DAB Poon To-chuen 7,493 24.5
Independent Ho Sai-chu 5,366 17.5
NHKA Tong Yat-chu 3,871 12.6
Democratic win (new seat)

References

  1. 1 2 Li, Pang-kwong. "香港選舉資料庫". 嶺南大學公共管治研究部. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
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