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Education (constituency)

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Education Constituencies
Functional constituency
for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
CountryHong Kong
Electorate85,117 (2021)[1]
Current constituency
Created1985
Number of membersOne
Member(s)Chu Kwok-keung (FEW)
Education Constituency
Traditional Chinese教育界
Transcriptions
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationGaau yuhk gaai
JyutpingGaau3 juk6 gaai3
Teaching Constituency
Traditional Chinese教學界
Transcriptions
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationGaau hohk gaai
JyutpingGaau3 hok6 gaai3

The Education functional constituency, formerly called Teaching from 1985 to 1995, is a functional constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. It was one of the 12 functional constituency seats created for the 1985 Legislative Council election. Since 1998, It has been the functional constituency with the most registered voters, including registered teachers, principals, managers of schools, full-time academic staff, members of the councils of the universities in Hong Kong and board of governors of the institutes of higher educations.[2] In 2020, it had 85,698 registered voters, as compared to the Finance constituency who had only 121 voters.[3]

The constituency was historically one of the few pro-democracy strongholds in the functional constituencies. For most of its history it was held by the Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union (PTU), the largest teachers' union in Hong Kong, and was held by PTU president Szeto Wah until he switched to a geographical constituency direct election in the 1991 election. He was succeeded by Cheung Man-kwong who held the seat from 1991 to 2012. Beginning in 2012, it was represented by Ip Kin-yuen until he resigned en masse from the office with other pro-democrats in protest to Beijing's disqualification of the four pro-democracy legislators.[4]

Composition

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The Education functional constituency is composed of—[5]

Return members

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Teaching (1985–1995)

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Election Member Party
1985 Szeto Wah Nonpartisan (PTU)
1988
1991 Cheung Man-kwong PTU/UDPTU/Democratic

Education (1995–present)

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Election Member Party
1995 Cheung Man-kwong PTU/Democratic
Not represented in the PLC (1997–1998)
1998 Cheung Man-kwong PTU/Democratic
2000
2004
2008
2012 Ip Kin-yuen PTU
2016
2021 Chu Kwok-keung FEW

Electoral results

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2020s

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2021 Legislative Council election: Education
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
FEW Chu Kwok-keung 10,641 46.16
Nonpartisan James Lam Yat-fung 4,544 19.71
Nonpartisan Lam Wing-sze 3,280 14.23
HKKGEPE Ting Kin-wa 2,533 10.99
Independent Jessica Man Sze-wing 2,054 8.91
Majority 6,097 26.45
Total valid votes 23,052 100.00
Rejected ballots 1,652
Turnout 24,704 29.02
Registered electors 85,117
FEW gain from PTU Swing

2010s

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2016 Legislative Council election: Education
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PTU Ip Kin-yuen 45,984 71.69 –3.73
Nonpartisan (FEW) Choi Yuk-lin 18,158 28.31
Majority 27,826 43.38
Total valid votes 64,142 100.00
Rejected ballots 1,821
Turnout 65,963 74.80 +4.17
Registered electors 88,185
PTU hold Swing
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2012 Legislative Council election: Education
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PTU Ip Kin-yuen 46,535 75.42 +3.81
Nonpartisan Ho Hon-kuen 15,170 24.58 +1.38
Majority 31,365 50.84
Total valid votes 61,705 100.00
Rejected ballots 3,773
Turnout 65,478 70.44 +10.55
Registered electors 92,957
PTU hold Swing

2000s

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2008 Legislative Council election: Education
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PTU (Democratic) Cheung Man-kwong 37,876 71.61 −11.33
Nonpartisan Ho Hon-kuen 12,272 23.20
Nonpartisan Yu Yee-wah 2,746 5.19
Majority 25,604 48.41
Total valid votes 52,894 100.00
Rejected ballots 1,421
Turnout 54,315 59.89
Registered electors 90,693
PTU hold Swing
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2004 Legislative Council election: Education
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PTU (Democratic) Cheung Man-kwong 44,517 82.94 −3.35
Nonpartisan Yu Kai-chun 9,155 17.06
Majority 35,362 65.88
Total valid votes 53,672 100.00
Rejected ballots 2,284
Turnout 55,956 72.02
Registered electors 77,696
PTU hold Swing
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2000 Legislative Council election: Education
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PTU (Democratic) Cheung Man-kwong 35,793 86.29 −0.47
Nonpartisan Lee Kit-kong 5,686 13.71
Majority 30,107 72.58
Total valid votes 41,479 100.00
Rejected ballots 900
Turnout 42,379 59.45
Registered electors 71,284
PTU hold Swing

1990s

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1998 Legislative Council election: Education
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PTU (Democratic) Cheung Man-kwong 34,864 86.76 +5.54
Nonpartisan Li Sze-yuen 5,319 13.24
Majority 29,545 73.52
Total valid votes 40,183 100.00
Rejected ballots 679
Turnout 40,862 66.79
Registered electors 61,184
PTU win (new seat)
1995 Legislative Council election: Education
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PTU (Democratic) Cheung Man-kwong 19,558 81.31 −8.51
Nonpartisan Leung Siu-tong 4,496 18.69
Majority 15,062 62.62
Total valid votes 24,054 100.00
Rejected ballots 297
Turnout 24,351 57.43
Registered electors 42,404
PTU hold Swing
1991 Legislative Council election: Teaching
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
PTU (United Democrats) Cheung Man-kwong 15,193 89.82
FEW Ho King-on 886 5.24
STA Walter Wou Tchong-hong 836 4.94
Majority 14,307 84.58
Total valid votes 16,915 100.00
Rejected ballots 119
Turnout 17,034 44.04
Registered electors 38,678
PTU hold Swing

1980s

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1988 Legislative Council election: Teaching
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nonpartisan (PTU) Szeto Wah Unopposed
Nonpartisan hold Swing
1985 Legislative Council election: Teaching
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Nonpartisan (PTU) Szeto Wah 12,706 68.64
Nonpartisan Luk Yip Jing-ping 2,655 14.34
Civic Ko Gra-yee 2,165 11.70
Nonpartisan Chan Yat-tong 577 3.12
Nonpartisan Wu Siu-wai 409 2.21
Majority 10,051 54.30
Total valid votes 18,512 100.00
Nonpartisan win (new seat)

References

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  1. ^ "Voter Registration Statistics : Functional Constituency". Voter Registration.
  2. ^ "Legislative Council Ordinance – Composition of the education functional constituency".
  3. ^ "Voter Registration Statistics : Functional Constituency". Voter Registration.
  4. ^ "'Death sentence' for Hong Kong democracy: NGOs, activists & gov'ts react as democrats unseated from legislature". Hong Kong Free Press. 12 November 2020.
  5. ^ "Cap. 542 Legislative Council Ordinance". Hong Kong e-Legislation.
  6. ^ "2016 LegCo Election – Election Results". Government of Hong Kong. Retrieved 12 May 2015.[permanent dead link]
  7. ^ "2012 LegCo Election – Election Results". Government of Hong Kong. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
  8. ^ "2008 Legislative Council Election". Government of Hong Kong. Archived from the original on 18 May 2015. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
  9. ^ "2004 Legislative Council Election – Election Results". Government of Hong Kong. 7 September 2004. Archived from the original on 17 July 2012. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
  10. ^ "Legislative Council Elections Results". Government of Hong Kong. Archived from the original on 29 August 2012. Retrieved 12 May 2015.