Financing, Insurance, Real Estate and Business Services (constituency)

The Financing, Insurance, Real Estate and Business Services functional constituency was in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong first created in 1995 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 171,534 eligible voters worked in the services sector related to finance, insurance, real estate and business in Hong Kong.

Financing, Insurance, Real Estate and Business Services
金融、保險、地產及商業服務界
Former Functional constituency
for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Electorate171,534[1]
Former constituency
Created1995
Abolished1997
Number of membersOne
Member(s)Andrew Cheng (Democratic)
Replaced byInsurance

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

A similar Insurance functional constituency was created for the 1998 election by the HKSAR government with a much narrow electorate base which restricted to only less than 200 insurers.[2]

Councillors represented

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Election Member Party
1995 Andrew Cheng Democratic
1997 Legislative Council dissolved

Election results

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1995 Legislative Council election: Financing, Insurance, Real Estate and Business Services[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Andrew Cheng Kar-foo 25,658 39.68
DAB Fung Chi-kin 18,674 28.88
Independent Chan Yuk-cheung 10,514 16.26
Liberal Chan Yim-kwong 5,771 8.92
LDF Ng Kam-chun 2,348 3.63
Independent Chan Tung-ngok 1,699 2.63
Majority 6,984 10.80
Total valid votes 64,664 100.00
Rejected ballots 4,142
Turnout 68,806 40.11
Registered electors 171,534
Democratic win (new seat)

References

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  1. ^ a b Li, Pang-kwong. "香港選舉資料庫". 嶺南大學公共管治研究部. Archived from the original on 6 November 2003. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
  2. ^ http://clic.org.hk/hk/legis/en/ord/542/s20c.html[permanent dead link]