Social Welfare functional constituency

The Social Welfare functional constituency (Chinese: 社會福利界功能界別), formerly called Social Services, is a functional constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. The constituency was first created as one of the original 12 functional constituency seats for the first ever Legislative Council election in 1985.

Social Welfare 社會福利界
Functional constituency for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Country	Hong Kong
Electorate	13,974 (2021)[1]
Current constituency
Created	1985
Number of members	One
Member(s)	Tik Chi-yuen (Third Side)

It is one of the functional constituencies with the most electorates. As of 2021, there were 13,974 registered voters, including all the social workers registered under the Social Workers Registration Ordinance (Cap. 505). It had also been one of the few functional constituencies held by the pro-democrats before 2021. Since 2021, it has been the only constituency of any kind with a non-pro-Beijing Legislative Council member, instead being represented by a centrist.

Return members

Social Services (1988–1995)

Election		Member	Party
	1985	Hui Yin-fat	Nonpartisan
	1988
	1991

Social Welfare (1995–present)

Election		Member	Party
	1995	Law Chi-kwong	Democratic
Not represented in PLC (1997–98)
	1998	Law Chi-kwong	Democratic
	2000
	2004	Fernando Cheung	Nonpartisan→Civic
	2008	Cheung Kwok-che	SWGU/ADPL→Labour/SWGU
	2012		Labour/SWGU
	2016	Shiu Ka-chun	Independent
	2021	Tik Chi-yuen	Third Side

Electoral results

2020s

2021 Legislative Council election: Social Welfare

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Third Side	Tik Chi-yuen	1,400	56.73
	DAB	Chu Lai-ling	872	35.33
	Nonpartisan	Yip Cham-kai	196	7.94
Majority			528	21.40
Total valid votes			2,468	100.00
Rejected ballots			245
Turnout			2,713	19.41
Registered electors			13,974
	Third Side gain from Independent		Swing

2010s

^[2]

2016 Legislative Council election: Social Welfare

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Shiu Ka-chun	4,603	40.79
	Nonpartisan	Yip Kin-chung	3,858	34.19
	Nonpartisan	Kwan Yui-huen	1,255	11.12
	Nonpartisan	Tsang Kin-chiu	1,011	8.96
	Nonpartisan	Wong Sing-chi	557	4.94
Majority			745	6.60
Total valid votes			11,284	100.00
Rejected ballots			280
Turnout			11,564	83.65
Registered electors			13,824

^[3]

2012 Legislative Council election: Social Welfare

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SWGU (Labour)	Cheung Kwok-che	9,078	89.08	+23.04
	Nonpartisan	Chan Yee-fei	1,113	10.92
Majority			6,335	78.16
Total valid votes			10,191	100.00
Rejected ballots			748
Turnout			10,939	77.62
Registered electors			14,093

2000s

^[4]

2008 Legislative Council election: Social Welfare

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SWGU	Cheung Kwok-che	5,334	66.04	+27.80
	Democratic	Tik Chi-yuen	2,743	33.96
Majority			2,591	32.08
Total valid votes			8,077	100.00
Rejected ballots			507
Turnout			8,584	68.57
Registered electors			12,519
	SWGU gain from Civic		Swing

^[5]

2004 Legislative Council election: Social Welfare

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nonpartisan	Cheung Chiu-hung	3,263	39.01
	SWGU	Cheung Kwok-che	3,199	38.24
	Nonpartisan	Christine Fong Meng-sang	1,903	22.75
Majority			64	0.77
Total valid votes			8,365	100.00
Rejected ballots			181
Turnout			8,546	82.13
Registered electors			10,405
	Nonpartisan gain from Democratic		Swing

^[6]

2000 Legislative Council election: Social Welfare

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Law Chi-kwong	3,061	65.93
	Nonpartisan	Leung Yuet-ming	1,582	34.07
Majority			1,479	31.86
Total valid votes			4,643	100.00
Rejected ballots			522
Turnout			5,165	65.73
Registered electors			7,858
	Democratic hold		Swing

1990s

^[6]

1998 Legislative Council election: Social Welfare

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Law Chi-kwong	Unopposed
	Democratic hold		Swing

1995 Legislative Council election: Social Welfare

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Law Chi-kwong	1,115	64.08
	Nonpartisan	Chow Wing-sang	625	35.92
Majority			490	28.16
Total valid votes			1,740	100.00
Turnout			612	29.39
Registered electors			2,082
	Democratic gain from Nonpartisan		Swing

1991 Legislative Council election: Social Services

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nonpartisan	Hui Yin-fat	Unopposed
Registered electors			181
	Nonpartisan hold		Swing

1980s

1988 Legislative Council election: Social Services

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nonpartisan	Hui Yin-fat	Unopposed
	Nonpartisan hold		Swing

1985 Legislative Council election: Social Services

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nonpartisan	Hui Yin-fat	76	54.68
	Nonpartisan	Mak Hoi-wah	41	29.50
	Nonpartisan	Chan Sau-han	22	15.83
Majority			35	25.18
Total valid votes			139	100.00
	Nonpartisan win (new seat)