Kowloon Central (1991 constituency)

Kowloon Central was a geographical constituencies in the election for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong in 1991, which elects two members of the Legislative Council using the dual-seat constituency dual vote system. The constituency covers Kowloon City District and Wong Tai Sin District in Kowloon.^[1]

Kowloon Central
Former Geographical constituency for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Boundary of Kowloon Central in Hong Kong
District	Kowloon City District Wong Tai Sin District
Region	Kowloon
Electorate	287,373
Former constituency
Created	1991
Abolished	1995
Number of members	Two
Replaced by	Kowloon Central (1995) Kowloon North-east Kowloon South

A by-election was held on 5 March 1995 after Lau Chin-shek resigned from his office to protest against government's withdrawal of Employment Bill.^[2]

The constituency was divided and replaced by the Kowloon Central, Kowloon North-east, and Kowloon South constituencies in 1995.^[3]

Returned members

Elected members are as follows:^[4]

Election	Member		Party	Member		Party
1991		Lau Chin-shek	UDHK		Conrad Lam	UDHK
1994			Democratic			Democratic
1995 (b)		Lee Cheuk-yan	CTU

Election results

1995 Kowloon Central by-election^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CTU	Lee Cheuk-yan	Unopposed
	CTU gain from Democratic		Swing

1991 Legislative Council election: Kowloon Central^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United Democrats	Lau Chin-shek	68,489	34.19
	United Democrats	Conrad Lam Kui-shing	56,084	28.00
	FTU	Chan Yuen-han	44,894	22.41
	Civic	Peter Chan Chi-kwan	14,145	7.06
	Reform	Cecilia Yeung Lai-yin	8,257	4.12
	Independent	John Dragon Young	6,273	3.13
	Independent	Justin Cheung Chung-ming	2,158	1.08
Turnout			110,043	38.29
Registered electors			287,373
	United Democrats win (new seat)
	United Democrats win (new seat)