Labour (constituency)

Labour 勞工界
Functional constituency for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Country	Hong Kong
Electorate	697 (2021)
Current constituency
Created	1985
Number of members	Three
Member(s)	Chau Siu-chung (FLU) Kwok Wai-keung (FTU) Dennis Leung (FTU)

The Labour functional constituency (Chinese: 勞工界功能界別) is a functional constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. It was one of the 12 functional constituency seats created for the 1985 Legislative Council election. It corresponds to the Labour Subsector in the Election Committee. The constituency is composed of 697 bodies that are trade unions of which all the voting members are employees.

The constituency composed of two seats when it first created by in 1985 as two of the 12 original functional constituency seats. It was held by the two largest labour unions at that time, the pro-Communist Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (FTU) and pro-Nationalist Hong Kong and Kowloon Trades Union Council (TUC). Since 1998, the constituency composed of three seats, two occupied by the FTU and one occupied by the Federation of Hong Kong and Kowloon Labour Unions (FLU), both pro-Beijing.

Return members

1985–1997 (2 seats)

Election	Member		Party	Member		Party
1985		Pang Chun-hoi	TUC		Tam Yiu-chung	FTU
1988
1991
1995		Lee Kai-ming	FLU		Cheng Yiu-tong	FTU

1998–present (3 seats)

Election	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party
1998		Lee Kai-ming	FLU		Chan Wing-chan	DAB		Chan Kwok-keung	FTU
2000		Li Fung-ying	FLU		Leung Fu-wah	FTU			DAB
2004					Kwong Chi-kin	FTU		Wong Kwok-hing	FTU
2008					Ip Wai-ming	FTU		Pan Pey-chyou	FTU
2012		Poon Siu-ping	FLU		Kwok Wai-keung	FTU		Tang Ka-piu	FTU
2016					Ho Kai-ming	FTU		Luk Chung-hung	FTU
2021		Chau Siu-chung	FLU		Kwok Wai-keung	FTU		Dennis Leung	FTU

Electoral results

The plurality-at-large voting system is used and the elected candidates are shown in bold.

2020s

2021 Legislative Council election: Labour

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	FTU	Kwok Wai-keung	398
	FTU	Dennis Leung Tsz-wing	373
	FLU	Chau Siu-chung	371
	Nonpartisan	Lee Kwong-yu	116
Total valid votes
Rejected ballots
Turnout			488	73.72
Registered electors			697
	FTU hold		Swing
	FTU hold		Swing
	FLU hold		Swing

2010s

2016 Legislative Council election: Labour

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	FLU	Poon Siu-ping	Unopposed
	FTU	Ho Kai-ming	Unopposed
	FTU	Luk Chung-hung	Unopposed
Registered electors			668
	FLU hold		Swing
	FTU hold		Swing
	FTU hold		Swing

2012 Legislative Council election: Labour

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	FTU	Kwok Wai-keung	Unopposed
	FTU	Tang Ka-piu	Unopposed
	FLU	Poon Siu-ping	Unopposed
Registered electors			646
	FTU hold		Swing
	FTU hold		Swing
	FLU hold		Swing

2000s

2008 Legislative Council election: Labour

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nonpartisan (FLU)	Li Fung-ying	Unopposed
	FTU	Ip Wai-ming	Unopposed
	FTU	Pan Pey-chyou	Unopposed
Registered electors			596
	FLU hold		Swing
	FTU hold		Swing
	FTU hold		Swing

2004 Legislative Council election: Labour

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nonpartisan (FLU)	Li Fung-ying	322	32.43
	FTU	Kwong Chi-kin	288	29.00
	FTU (DAB)	Wong Kwok-hing	278	27.80
	Nonpartisan	Chan Kwok-keung	105	10.57
Turnout			461	88.82
Registered electors			519
	FLU hold		Swing
	FTU hold		Swing
	FTU hold		Swing

2000 Legislative Council election: Labour

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nonpartisan (FLU)	Li Fung-ying	283	32.53
	Nonpartisan (FTU)	Leung Fu-wah	259	29.77
	DAB	Chan Kwok-keung	226	25.98
	TUC	Leung Suet-fong	102	11.72
Turnout			380	91.13
Registered electors			417
	Nonpartisan gain from Nonpartisan		Swing
	Nonpartisan gain from Nonpartisan		Swing
	DAB hold		Swing

1990s

1998 Legislative Council election: Labour

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nonpartisan (FLU)	Lee Kai-ming	212	27.32
	DAB	Chan Wing-chan	212	27.32
	Nonpartisan (FTU)	Chan Kwok-keung	204	26.29
	Nonpartisan (TUC)	Chan Yun-che	99	12.76
	Nonpartisan	Ng Yat-wah	49	6.31
Turnout			339	93.91
Registered electors			361
	Nonpartisan hold		Swing
	DAB gain from Nonpartisan		Swing
	Nonpartisan win (new seat)

1995 Legislative Council election: Labour

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	FTU	Cheng Yiu-tong	684	43.07
	Nonpartisan (FLU)	Lee Kai-ming	533	33.56
	TUC	Lee Kwok-keung	262	16.50
	Independent	Luk Wun-cheung	109	6.86
Turnout			1,080	91.60
Registered electors			1,179
	FTU hold		Swing
	FLU gain from TUC		Swing

1991 Legislative Council election: Labour

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TUC	Pang Chun-hoi	Unopposed
	FTU	Tam Yiu-chung	Unopposed
Registered electors			378
	TUC hold		Swing
	FTU hold		Swing

1980s

1988 Legislative Council election: Labour

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TUC	Pang Chun-hoi	Unopposed
	FTU	Tam Yiu-chung	Unopposed
	TUC hold		Swing
	FTU hold		Swing

1985 Legislative Council election: Labour

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	TUC	Pang Chun-hoi	Unopposed
	FTU	Tam Yiu-chung	Unopposed
	TUC hold		Swing
	FTU hold		Swing