South New Territories (1985 Constituency)
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, which elects one member of the Legislative Council using the multiple-round elimination system and preferential elimination system respectively. The constituency covers
Tsuen Wan District Tsuen Wan District is one of the 18 districts of Hong Kong. It is located in the New Territories and is served by the Tsuen Wan line of the MTR metro system. Its area is 60,7 kmĀ². Its residents, who mostly live in Tsuen Wan Town, enj ...
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Islands District The Islands District is one of the 18 districts of Hong Kong. It is part of the New Territories. It had a population of 170,900 in 2018. Hong Kong consists of a peninsula and 263 islands. The Islands District consists of some twenty large an ...
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Sai Kung District Sai Kung District is one of the 18 districts of Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China. The district comprises the southern half of the Sai Kung Peninsula, the Clear Water Bay Peninsula in the New Territories and a strip of lan ...
in
New Territories The New Territories is one of the three main regions of Hong Kong, alongside Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula. It makes up 86.2% of Hong Kong's territory, and contains around half of the population of Hong Kong. Historically, it ...
. The constituency is indirectly elected, with members of the District Boards and Urban Council from the two Districts as the electorates. It was divided and replaced by New Territories South and New Territories East in 1991.


Returned members

Elected members are as follows:


Election results

Only the final results of the run-off are shown.


References

{{New Territories constituencies for Legislative Council Constituencies of Hong Kong New Territories Constituencies of Hong Kong Legislative Council 1985 establishments in Hong Kong Constituencies established in 1985