Social Welfare
社會福利界
Functional constituency
for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Country Hong Kong
Electorate13,974 (2021)[1]
Current constituency
Created1985
Number of membersOne
Member(s)Tik Chi-yuen (Third Side)

The Social Welfare functional constituency (Chinese: 社會福利界功能界別), formerly called Social Services, is a functional constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. The constituency was first created as one of the original 12 functional constituency seats for the first ever Legislative Council election in 1985.

It is one of the functional constituencies with the most electorates. As of 2021, there were 13,974 registered voters, including all the social workers registered under the Social Workers Registration Ordinance (Cap. 505). It had also been one of the few functional constituencies held by the pro-democrats before 2021.

Return members

Social Services (1988–1995)

ElectionMemberParty
1985 Hui Yin-fat Nonpartisan
1988
1991

Social Welfare (1995–present)

ElectionMemberParty
1995 Law Chi-kwong Democratic
Not represented in PLC (1997–98)
1998 Law Chi-kwong Democratic
2000
2004 Fernando Cheung Nonpartisan→Civic
2008 Cheung Kwok-che SWGU/ADPL→Labour/SWGU
2012 Labour/SWGU
2016 Shiu Ka-chun Independent
2021 Tik Chi-yuen Third Side

Electoral results

2020s

2021 Legislative Council election: Social Welfare
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Third Side Tik Chi-yuen 1,400 56.73
DAB Chu Lai-ling 872 35.33
Nonpartisan Yip Cham-kai 196 7.94
Majority 528 21.40
Total valid votes 2,468 100.00
Rejected ballots 245
Turnout 2,713 19.41
Registered electors 13,974
Third Side gain from Independent Swing

2010s

[2]

2016 Legislative Council election: Social Welfare
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Shiu Ka-chun 4,603 40.79
Nonpartisan Yip Kin-chung 3,858 34.19
Nonpartisan Kwan Yui-huen 1,255 11.12
Nonpartisan Tsang Kin-chiu 1,011 8.96
Nonpartisan Wong Sing-chi 557 4.94
Majority 745 6.60
Total valid votes 11,284 100.00
Rejected ballots 280
Turnout 11,564 83.65
Registered electors 13,824

[3]

2012 Legislative Council election: 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

[4]

2008 Legislative Council election: 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
SWGU gain from Civic Swing

[5]

2004 Legislative Council election: 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
Majority 64 0.77
Total valid votes 8,365 100.00
Rejected ballots 181
Turnout 8,546 82.13
Registered electors 10,405
Nonpartisan gain from Democratic Swing

[6]

2000 Legislative Council election: Social Welfare
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Law Chi-kwong 3,061 65.93
Nonpartisan Leung Yuet-ming 1,582 34.07
Majority 1,479 31.86
Total valid votes 4,643 100.00
Rejected ballots 522
Turnout 5,165 65.73
Registered electors 7,858
Democratic hold Swing

1990s

[6]

1998 Legislative Council election: Social Welfare
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Law Chi-kwong Unopposed
Democratic hold Swing
1995 Legislative Council election: Social Welfare
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Law Chi-kwong 1,115 64.08
Nonpartisan Chow Wing-sang 625 35.92
Majority 490 28.16
Total valid votes 1,740 100.00
Turnout 612 29.39
Registered electors 2,082
Democratic gain from Nonpartisan Swing
1991 Legislative Council election: Social Services
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nonpartisan Hui Yin-fat Unopposed
Registered electors 181
Nonpartisan hold Swing

1980s

1988 Legislative Council election: Social Services
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nonpartisan Hui Yin-fat Unopposed
Nonpartisan hold Swing
1985 Legislative Council election: Social Services
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nonpartisan Hui Yin-fat 76 54.68
Nonpartisan Mak Hoi-wah 41 29.50
Nonpartisan Chan Sau-han 22 15.83
Majority 35 25.18
Total valid votes 139 100.00
Nonpartisan win (new seat)

References

  1. ↑ "Voter Registration Statistics : Functional Constituency". Voter Registration.
  2. ↑ 2016 Legislative Council Election
  3. ↑ 2012 Legislative Council Election
  4. ↑ 2008 Legislative Council Election
  5. ↑ 2004 Legislative Council Election – Election Results Archived 17 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  6. 1 2 Legislative Council Elections Results Archived 29 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine
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