Social Welfare (constituency)

Social Welfare 社會福利界
Functional Constituency for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Electorate	12,519 (2008)[1]
Current constituency
Created	1985
Number of members	One
Member(s)	Cheung Kwok-che (Labour)

The Social Welfare, formerly called Social Services, is a functional constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong first created in 1985. Electors include all the registered social workers.

Return Members

Social Services (1988–95)

Election		Member	Party
	1985	Hui Yin-fat

Social Welfare (1995 to present)

Election		Member	Party
	1995	Law Chi-kwong	Democratic
Not represented in the Provisional Legislative Council (1997–98)
	1998	Law Chi-kwong	Democratic
	2004	Fernando Cheung Chiu-hung	Nonpartisan
	2006		Civic
	2008	Cheung Kwok-che	SWGU/ADPL
	2011		Labour/SWGU

Electoral Results

2010s

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Hong Kong legislative election, 2012: Social Welfare
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SWGU (Labour)	Cheung Kwok-che	9,078	89.08	+23.04
	Nonpartisan	Chan Yee-fei	1,113	10.92
Majority			6,335	78.16
Total valid votes			10,191	100.00
Rejected ballots			748
Turnout			10,939	77.62
Registered electors			14,093

2000s

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Hong Kong legislative election, 2008: Social Welfare
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SWGU	Cheung Kwok-che	5,334	66.04	+27.80
	Democratic	Tik Chi-yuen	2,743	33.96
Majority			2,591	32.08
Total valid votes			8,077	100.00
Rejected ballots			507
Turnout			8,584	68.57
Registered electors			12,519

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Hong Kong legislative election, 2004: Social Welfare
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nonpartisan	Cheung Chiu-hung	3,263	39.01
	SWGU	Cheung Kwok-che	3,199	38.24
	Nonpartisan	Christine Fong Meng-sang	1,903	22.75
	Nonpartisan gain from Democratic		Swing

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Hong Kong legislative election, 2000: Social Welfare
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Law Chi-kwong	3061	65.93
	Nonpartisan	Leung Yuet-ming	1582	34.07
	Democratic hold		Swing

1990s

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Hong Kong legislative election, 1998: Social Welfare
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Law Chi-kwong	uncontested
	Democratic win (new seat)

Hong Kong legislative election, 1995: Social Welfare
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Law Chi-kwong	1,115
	Nonpartisan	Chow Wing-sang	625
	Democratic gain from Nonpartisan		Swing

Hong Kong legislative election, 1991: Social Services
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nonpartisan	Hui Yin-fat	uncontested
	Nonpartisan hold		Swing

1980s

Hong Kong legislative election, 1988: Social Services
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nonpartisan	Hui Yin-fat	uncontested
	Nonpartisan hold		Swing

Hong Kong legislative election, 1985: Social Services
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nonpartisan	Hui Yin-fat	76
	Nonpartisan	Mak Hoi-wah	41
	Nonpartisan	Chan Sau-han	22
Turnout			141	97.2
	Nonpartisan win (new seat)

References

1. 2008 Legislative Council Election
2. 2012 Legislative Council Election
3. 2008 Legislative Council Election
4. 2004 Legislative Council Election - Election Results
5. Legislative Council Elections Results