Textiles and Garment (constituency) explained

Type:	Functional
Textiles and Garment
Year:	1995
Parl Name:	Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Member:	Sunny Tan (BPA)
Region Label:	Country
Elects Howmany:	One
Electorate:	348 (2021)^[1]

The Textiles and Garment functional constituency is a functional constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, first created in 1995 as one of the nine new functional constituencies under the electoral reform, carried out by the then Governor Chris Patten in which the electorate consisted of total 60,568 eligible voters related to the textile and garment industry. It was abolished by the colonial Legislative Council and dissolved after the transfer of the sovereignty in 1997.

The constituency was recreated for the 1998 Legislative Council election unless its electorate base has been narrowed which is composed of textiles and garment associations and traders only. After a major electoral overhaul in 2021, the registered voters are restricted from 1,607 in 2016 to 348 corporate voters of the designated associations.^[2]

Composition

The Textiles and Garment functional constituency is composed of—

• corporate members of the Textile Council of Hong Kong Limited entitled to vote at general meetings of the council; and
• corporate members of each of the following bodies entitled to vote at general meetings of the body—
  • The Federation of Hong Kong Cotton Weavers;
  • The Federation of Hong Kong Garment Manufacturers;
  • Hong Kong Chinese Textile Mills Association;
  • The Hongkong Cotton Spinners Association;
  • Hong Kong Garment Manufacturers Association Ltd.;
  • Hongkong Knitwear Exporters & Manufacturers Association Limited; (Amended 11 of 2019 s. 5)
  • Hong Kong Woollen & Synthetic Knitting Manufacturers’ Association Ltd.;
  • The Hong Kong Association of Textile Bleachers, Dyers, Printers and Finishers Limited;
  • The Hong Kong Weaving Mills Association;
  • The Hong Kong General Chamber of Textiles Limited.^[2]

Return members

Election		Member	Party
	1995	Leung Yiu-chung	Independent (NWSC)→Frontier
Not represented in the PLC (1997–1998)
	1998	Sophie Leung	Liberal
	2000
	2004
	2008		Liberal→Independent→Economic Synergy
	2012	Felix Chung	Liberal
	2016
	2021	Sunny Tan	Nonpartisan→BPA

Electoral results

2010s

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2000s

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1990s

Notes and References

1. Web site: Voter Registration Statistics : Functional Constituency. Voter Registration.
2. Web site: Cap. 542 Legislative Council Ordinance. E-Legislation.
3. http://www.elections.gov.hk/legco2012/eng/result/rs_fc_X.html 2012 Legislative Council Election
4. http://www.elections.gov.hk/legco2012/eng/result/rs_fc_X.html 2012 Legislative Council Election
5. Web site: 2008 Legislative Council Election . 2 April 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120913064040/http://www.elections.gov.hk/legco2008/eng/result/rs_fc_X.html . 2012-09-13 . dead .
6. http://www.elections.gov.hk/elections/legco2004/english/results/rs_fc_overall.html 2004 Legislative Council Election – Election Results
7. http://www.elections.gov.hk/elections/legco2000/update/result/fc_e.htm Legislative Council Elections Results