Regional Council (constituency)

Regional Council
Former Functional Constituency for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Former constituency
Created	1986
Abolished	2000
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Catering

The Regional Council was an election college created in 1986 and became one of the functional constituencies between 1991 and 2000 for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, until the Urban Council and Regional Council were abolished in 1999 and replaced by Information Technology and Catering. The constituency is composed of all members of the Regional Council.

Legislative Council members

Election		Member	Party
	1986 by-election	Lau Wong-fat	Nonpartisan
	1988	Cheung Yan-lung	PHKS
	1991	Gilbert Leung	FSHK
	1993 by-election	Alfred Tso	LDF
	1995	Ngan Kam-chuen	DAB
Not represented in the Provisional Legislative Council (1996–98)
	1998	Tang Siu-tong	Progressive Alliance
	2000	Constituency abolished

Election results

1990s

Regional Council by-election 1998[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Alliance	Tang Siu-tong	28	56.0	+6.0
	Independent	Chiang Lai-wan	22	44.0	-4.0
	DAB	Ngan Kam-chuen	0
	Progressive Alliance hold		Swing

Hong Kong legislative election, 1998: Regional Council[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Alliance	Tang Siu-tong	25	50.0
	Independent	Chiang Lai-wan	24	48.0
	DAB	Ngan Kam-chuen	0		-53.8
	Progressive Alliance win (new seat)

Hong Kong legislative election, 1995: Regional Council[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DAB	Ngan Kam-chuen	21	53.8
	Democratic	Alan Tam King-wah	16	41.0
	DAB gain from LDF		Swing

Regional Council by-election, 1993[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDF	Alfred Tso Shiu-wai	17	51.5
	Independent	Yeung Fook-kwong	6	18.2
	United Democrats	Chow Yick-hay	5	15.2	-26.5
	Independent	Lau Kong-wah	5	15.2
	LDF gain from FSHK		Swing

Hong Kong legislative election, 1991: Regional Council[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	FSHK	Gilbert Leung Kam-ho	20	55.6
	United Democrats	Chow Yick-hay	15	41.7
	FSHK	Daniel Lam Wai-keung	10	27.8
	Independent	Chow Chun-wing	5	13.9
	FSHK hold		Swing

1980s

Hong Kong legislative election, 1988: Regional Council[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	PHKS	Cheung Yan-lung	19	52.8
	Nonpartisan	Tang Kwok-yung	13	36.1
	HKAS	Choy Kan-pui	8	22.2
	PHKS gain from Nonpartisan		Swing

Regional Council by-election 1986[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nonpartisan	Lau Wong-fat	uncontested
	Nonpartisan win (new seat)

References

1. Li, Pang-kwong. "香港選舉資料庫". 嶺南大學公共管治研究部. Retrieved 3 April 2013.