Textiles and Garment (constituency)

Textiles and Garment 紡織及製衣界
Functional constituency for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Electorate	3,710 (2008)
Current constituency
Created	1995
Number of members	One
Member(s)	Chung Kwok-pan (Liberal)

The Textiles and Garment functional constituency is 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 60,568 eligible voters related to the textile and garment industry. It was abolished with the colonial Legislative Council and dissolved after the transfer of the sovereignty in 1997.

The constituency was recreated for the 1998 Legislative Council election unless its electorate base has been narrowed which is composed of Textiles and Garment associations only.

Current composition

The textiles and garment functional constituency is composed of-

• corporate members of the Textile Council of Hong Kong Limited
• corporate members of each of the following bodies entitled to vote at general meetings of the body;
  • The Federation of Hong Kong Cotton Weavers;
  • The Federation of Hong Kong Garment Manufacturers;
  • Hong Kong Chinese Textile Mills Association;
  • The Hong Kong Cotton Made-up Goods Manufacturers Association, Limited;
  • The Hong Kong Cotton Spinners Association;
  • Hong Kong Garment Manufacturers Association Ltd.;
  • Hong Kong Knitwear Exporters & Manufacturers Association Ltd.;
  • Hong Kong Woollen & Synthetic Knitting Manufacturers' Association Ltd.;
  • The Hong Kong Association of Textile Bleachers, Dyers, Printers and Finishers Limited;
  • The Hong Kong Weaving Mills Association;
  • The Hong Kong Wool and Synthetic Spinners Association Limited;
  • The Hong Kong General Chamber of Textiles Limited;
• members of the Hong Kong Institution of Textile and Apparel Limited entitled to vote at general meetings of the Institution
• Textiles & Clothing manufacturers
• textiles traders.

Return Members

Election		Member	Party
style="background-color: Template:Neighbourhood and Worker's Service Centre/meta/color" |	1995	Leung Yiu-chung	NWSC
style="background-color: Template:The Frontier (Hong Kong)/meta/color" |	1996		Frontier/NWSC
Not represented in the Provisional Legislative Council (1997–98)
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (Hong Kong)/meta/color" |	1998	Sophie Leung	Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" |	2008		Independent
style="background-color: Template:Economic Synergy/meta/color" |	2009		Economic Synergy
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (Hong Kong)/meta/color" |	2012	Felix Chung	Liberal

Electoral Results

2010s

Hong Kong legislative election, 2012: Textiles and Garment

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Felix Chung	1,076	56.07	−7.77
	Nonpartisan	Henry Tan	843	43.93
	Liberal hold		Swing

2000s

Hong Kong legislative election, 2008: Textiles and Garment

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sophie Leung	1,255	63.84
		Chung Kwok-peng	711	36.16
	Liberal hold		Swing

Hong Kong legislative election, 2004: Textiles and Garment

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sophie Leung	1,816	77.94
	Nonpartisan	Kwan Kam-yuen	514	22.06
	Liberal hold		Swing

Hong Kong legislative election, 2000: Textiles and Garment

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sophie Leung	uncontested
	Liberal hold		Swing

1990s

Hong Kong legislative election, 1998: Textiles and Garment

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sophie Leung	uncontested
	Liberal hold		Swing

Hong Kong legislative election, 1995: Textiles and Garment

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NWSC	Leung Yiu-chung	10,472	45.3
	FTU	Chan Kwok-keung	5,116	22.1
	Kowloon City Observers	Ng Ching-man	2,957	12.8
	Liberal Democratic Foundation of Hong Kong	Chan Ming-kit	2,638	11.4
	NWSC win (new seat)