Catering (constituency)

The Catering functional constituency (Chinese: 飲食界功能界別) is a functional constituency is 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 holders of food business licences.[2] 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
Electorate	8,018 (2020)[1]
Current constituency
Created	2000
Number of members	One
Member(s)	Tommy Cheung (Liberal)
Created from	Hotels and Catering

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 which composed of almost 70,000 voters.

Composition

The Catering constituency contains both corporate and individual members who hold 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.[3]

The constituency has been 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.[4]

Return members

Election		Member	Party
	2000	Tommy Cheung Yu-yan	Liberal

Electoral results

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	Uncontested
	Liberal hold		Swing

2000s

[6]

2008 Hong Kong legislative election: Catering

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Tommy Cheung Yu-yan	Uncontested
	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. "Community Legal Information Centre". Retrieved April 2, 2012.
3. Young, Simon N.M.; Cullen, Richard (2010). Electing Hong Kong's Chief Executivei. Hong Kong University Press. p. 117.
4. 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.
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.