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Heung Yee Kuk
鄉議局
Functional constituency
for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Electorate147 (2016)[1]
Current constituency
Created1991
Number of membersOne
Member(s)Kenneth Lau (BPA)

The Heung Yee Kuk functional constituency, formerly called the Rural functional constituency, is a functional constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong first created in 1991. The constituency is composed of the Chairman and Vice-Chairmen of the Heung Yee Kuk and the Ex Officio, Special and Co-opted Councillors of the Full Council of the Kuk.[2] It has been represented by the Chairman of the Kuk, Kenneth Lau since 2016.

No actual election has been held since its creation in 1985 as all candidates have been uncontested.

Return Members

Rural (1991–97)

Election Member Party
style="background-color: Template:Federation for the Stability of Hong Kong/meta/color" | 1991 Lau Wong-fat FSHK
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (Hong Kong)/meta/color" | 1993 Liberal

Heung Yee Kuk (1997 to present)

Election Member Party
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (Hong Kong)/meta/color" | 1998 Lau Wong-fat Liberal
style="background-color: Template:Non-partisan/meta/color" | 2004 Daniel Lam Wai-keung Nonpartisan
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (Hong Kong)/meta/color" | 2008 Lau Wong-fat 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:Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong/meta/color" | 2012 BPA
style="background-color: Template:Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong/meta/color" | 2016 Kenneth Lau Ip-keung BPA

Electoral Results

2010s

Hong Kong legislative election, 2016: Heung Yee Kuk
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BPA Kenneth Lau Ip-keung uncontested
BPA hold Swing
Hong Kong legislative election, 2012: Heung Yee Kuk
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Economic Synergy Lau Wong-fat uncontested
Economic Synergy hold Swing

2000s

[3]
Hong Kong legislative election, 2008: Heung Yee Kuk
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Lau Wong-fat uncontested
Liberal gain from Nonpartisan Swing
[4]
Hong Kong legislative election, 2004: Heung Yee Kuk
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nonpartisan Lam Wai-keung uncontested
Nonpartisan gain from Nonpartisan Swing
[5]
Hong Kong legislative election, 2000: Heung Yee Kuk
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nonpartisan Lau Wong-fat uncontested
Nonpartisan hold Swing

1990s

[5]
Hong Kong legislative election, 1998: Heung Yee Kuk
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nonpartisan Lau Wong-fat uncontested
Nonpartisan hold Swing
Hong Kong legislative election, 1995: Rural
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nonpartisan Lau Wong-fat uncontested
Nonpartisan hold Swing
Hong Kong legislative election, 1991: Rural
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
FSHK Lau Wong-fat uncontested
FSHK win (new seat)

References