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Hotels and Catering (constituency)

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Electorate
  
69,592

Founded
  
1995

Abolished
  
1997

Number of members
  
1

Created
  
Hong Kong legislative election, 1995

The Hotels and Catering 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 of 75,174 eligible voters worked related to the agriculture, fisheries, mining, hotel and catering sectors.

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

A similar Catering functional constituency was created for the 2000 election by the HKSAR government with a much narrow electorate base which only consists of is composed of holders of food business licences.

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Hotels and Catering (constituency) Wikipedia