The Insurance functional constituency (Chinese: 保險界功能界別) is a functional constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong first created in 1998. Being of the functional constituencies with fewest electorates, the constituency is restricted to only 126 insurers as of 2021.[1] It corresponds to the Insurance Subsector in the Election Committee.
| Insurance 保險界 | |
|---|---|
| Functional constituency for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong | |
| Country |  Hong Kong |
| Electorate | 126 (2021)[1] |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 1998 |
| Number of members | One |
| Member(s) | Chan Kin-por (Nonpartisan) |
A similar Financing, Insurance, Real Estate and Business Services functional constituency was created for the 1995 election by Governor Chris Patten with a much larger electorate base of total 171,534 eligible voters.
Return members edit
| Election | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Bernard Charnwut Chan | Nonpartisan | |
| 2000 | |||
| 2004 | Nonpartisan→Alliance | ||
| 2008 | Chan Kin-por | Nonpartisan | |
| 2012 | |||
| 2016 | |||
| 2021 | |||
Electoral results edit
Instant-runoff voting system is used from 1998 to 2021. Since 2021, first-past-the-post voting system is in use.
2020s edit
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nonpartisan | Chan Kin-por | 65 | 73.03 | ||
| Nonpartisan | Chen Zhaonan | 24 | 26.97 | ||
| Majority | 41 | 46.06 | |||
| Total valid votes | 89 | 100.00 | |||
| Rejected ballots | 1 | ||||
| Turnout | 90 | 78.26 | |||
| Registered electors | 126 | ||||
| Nonpartisan hold | Swing | ||||
2010s edit
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nonpartisan | Chan Kin-por | Unopposed | |||
| Registered electors | 134 | ||||
| Nonpartisan hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nonpartisan | Chan Kin-por | Unopposed | |||
| Registered electors | 135 | ||||
| Nonpartisan hold | Swing | ||||
2000s edit
[2]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nonpartisan | Chan Kin-por | 52 | 45.61 | ||
| Nonpartisan | Choi Chung-fu | 42 | 36.84 | ||
| Nonpartisan | Chun Chi-yuk | 20 | 17.55 | ||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Nonpartisan | Chan Kin-por | 60 | 52.63 | ||
| Nonpartisan | Choi Chung-fu | 52 | 45.61 | ||
| Turnout | 113 | 78.47 | |||
| Registered electors | 144 | ||||
| Nonpartisan hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nonpartisan | Bernard Charnwut Chan | Unopposed | |||
| Registered electors | 161 | ||||
| Nonpartisan hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nonpartisan | Bernard Charnwut Chan | Unopposed | |||
| Registered electors | 181 | ||||
| Nonpartisan hold | Swing | ||||
1990s edit
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nonpartisan | Bernard Charnwut Chan | ||||
| Liberal | Chan Yim-kwong | ||||
| Nonpartisan | Alex Wong Po-hang | ||||
| Nonpartisan | Steven Lau Hon-keung | ||||
| Two-party-preferred result | |||||
| Nonpartisan | Bernard Charnwut Chan | 94 | 53.11 | ||
| Liberal | Chan Yim-kwong | 83 | 48.69 | ||
| Turnout | 185 | 95.85 | |||
| Registered electors | 193 | ||||
| Nonpartisan win (new seat) | |||||
References edit
- ^ a b "Voter Registration Statistics : Functional Constituency". Voter Registration.
- ^ "Election Result". Electoral Affairs Commission. Archived from the original on 13 September 2012. Retrieved 2 April 2012.
- ^ "2004 Legislative Council Election - Election Results". Archived from the original on 17 July 2012. Retrieved 20 November 2012.
- ^ "Legislative Council Elections Results". Archived from the original on 29 August 2012. Retrieved 20 November 2012.