Catering (constituency)

The Catering functional constituency (Chinese: 飲食界功能界別) is a functional constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. It was created for the 2000 Legislative Council election to replace the Urban Council and Regional Council constituencies. The constituency is composed of bodies of several catering associations. It is also corresponding to the Catering Subsector in the Election Committee. Since its creation, it has been held by Liberal Party's Tommy Cheung.

Catering
飲食界
Functional constituency
for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Country Hong Kong
Electorate141 (2021)[1]
Current constituency
Created2000
Number of membersOne
Member(s)Tommy Cheung (Liberal)
Created fromRegional Council and Urban Council

A similar Hotels and Catering functional constituency was created for the 1995 election by the then governor Chris Patten with a much larger electorate base composed of almost 70,000 voters.

Composition

Before the major electoral overhaul in 2021, the Catering constituency contained both corporate and individual members who held food licenses and/or are members of associations such as the Association for the Hong Kong Catering Services Management Limited, the Hong Kong Catering Industry Association Limited and the Association of Restaurant Managers Limited.[2]

The constituency was criticised for favouring big business. It was revealed that around one in 10 corporate voters have links to four major conglomerates in Hong Kong, more than 100 of the 1,004 corporate voters registered give addresses connected with the Tao Heung Group, Cafe de Coral Group, Fulum Group and Victoria Harbour Restaurant Group.[3]

After the electoral change in 2021, the eligible voters constituency were further limited to the bodies who are holders of food business licences under the Public Health and Municipal Services Ordinance (Cap. 132) that are entitled to vote at the Board of The Association for Hong Kong Catering Services Management Limited, the Association of Restaurant Managers Limited or the Hong Kong Catering Industry Association Limited.[4] As a result, the registered voters declined sharply from 5,485 in 2016 to only 141 in 2021.

Return members
ElectionMemberParty
2000 Tommy Cheung Liberal
2004
2008
2012
2016
2021

Electoral results

2020s
2021 Legislative Council election: Catering
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Tommy Cheung Yu-yan 101 78.91 −0.12
Independent Rayman Chui Man-wai 27 21.09
Majority 74 57.82 −0.24
Total valid votes 128 100.00
Rejected ballots 0
Turnout 128 90.78 +32.09
Registered electors 141
Liberal hold Swing

2010s

[5]

2016 Hong Kong legislative election: Catering
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Tommy Cheung Yu-yan 2,438 79.03
Nonpartisan Ng Wing-tak 647 20.97
Majority 1,791 58.06
Total valid votes 3,085 100.00
Rejected ballots 134
Turnout 3,219 58.69
Registered electors 5,485
Liberal hold Swing
2012 Hong Kong legislative election: Catering
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Tommy Cheung Yu-yan Unopposed
Registered electors 7,797
Liberal hold Swing

2000s

[6]

2008 Hong Kong legislative election: Catering
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Tommy Cheung Yu-yan Unopposed
Registered electors 8,149
Liberal hold Swing

[7]

2004 Hong Kong legislative election: Catering
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Tommy Cheung Yu-yan 2,488 63.75 +10.16
Democratic Josephine Chan Shu-ying 849 21.75
Nonpartisan Wong Sin-ying 566 14.50
Majority 1,639 42.00
Total valid votes 3,903 100.00
Rejected ballots 186
Turnout 4,089 52.52
Registered electors 7,786
Liberal hold Swing

[8]

2000 Hong Kong legislative election: Catering
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Tommy Cheung Yu-yan 1,478 53.59
Independent Leung Kwong-cheong 720 26.11
DAB Ng Tak-leung 560 20.3
Majority 758 27.48
Total valid votes 2,758 100.00
Rejected ballots 114
Turnout 2,872 41.25
Registered electors 6,963
Liberal win (new seat)

References
  1. "Voter Registration Statistics : Functional Constituency". Voter Registration.
  2. Young, Simon N.M.; Cullen, Richard (2010). Electing Hong Kong's Chief Executivei. Hong Kong University Press. p. 117.
  3. Lam, Jeffie; Fung, Owen (3 June 2015). "Corporate power: Hong Kong catering functional constituency gives undue weight to four big groups". South China Morning Post.
  4. "Cap. 542 Legislative Council Ordinance". E-Legislation.
  5. "2016 Legislative Council Election". Elections.gov.hk. Retrieved 2012-11-17.
  6. "2008 Legislative Council Election". Elections.gov.hk. Retrieved 2012-11-17.
  7. "2004 Legislative Council Election". Elections.gov.hk. Archived from the original on 2012-07-17. Retrieved 2012-11-17.
  8. "2000 Legislative Council Election". Elections.gov.hk. Archived from the original on 2012-08-29. Retrieved 2012-11-17.
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