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 (Chinese: 社會福利界), 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. It has been one of the few functional constituencies where were the strongholds of the pro-democrats, held by Shiu Ka-chun.

Return Members

Election		Member	Party
	1985	Hui Yin-fat

Election		Member	Party
	1995	Law Chi-kwong	Democratic
Not represented in Provisional Legislative Council (1997–98)
	1998	Law Chi-kwong	Democratic
	2004	Fernando Cheung Chiu-hung	Nonpartisan
	2006	Fernando Cheung Chiu-hung	Civic
	2008	Cheung Kwok-che	SWGU/ADPL
	2011	Cheung Kwok-che	Labour/SWGU
	2016	Shiu Ka-chun	Independent

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Hong Kong legislative election, 2016: 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

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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

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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
	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
	Candidate	Votes	%
Democratic	Law Chi-kwong	3061	65.93
Nonpartisan	Leung Yuet-ming	1582	34.07
Democratic hold		Swing

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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
	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

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

2012–2016 ← Hong Kong Legislative Council constituencies 2016–2020 → 2020–2024

Geographical Constituencies	Hong Kong Island Kowloon West Kowloon East New Territories West New Territories East

Functional Constituencies	Heung Yee Kuk Agriculture and Fisheries Insurance Transport Education Legal Accountancy Medical Health Services Engineering Architectural, Surveying, Planning and Landscape Labour Social Welfare Real Estate and Construction Tourism Commercial (First) Commercial (Second) Industrial (First) Industrial (Second) Finance Financial Services Sports, Performing Arts, Culture and Publication Import and Export Textiles and Garment Wholesale and Retail Information Technology Catering District Council (First) District Council (Second)

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