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Labour (constituency)

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Electorate
  
668 (2016)

Number of members
  
3

Founded
  
1985

Created
  
Hong Kong legislative election, 1985

The Labour (Chinese: 勞工界) is a functional constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong first created It was one of the 12 functional constituency seats created for the 1985 Legislative Council election. It corresponds to the Labour Subsector in the Election Committee. The constituency is composed of 668 bodies that are trade unions of which all the voting members are employees.

The constituency composed of two seats when it first created by in 1985, held by the two largest labour unions at that time, the pro-Communist Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (FTU) and pro-Nationalist Hong Kong and Kowloon Trades Union Council (TUC). Since 1998, the constituency composed of three seats, two occupied by the FTU and one occupied by the Federation of Hong Kong and Kowloon Labour Unions (FLU).

Electoral Results

The Plurality-at-large voting system is used and the elected candidates are shown in bold.

References

Labour (constituency) Wikipedia