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The Labour functional constituency () is a functional constituency in the elections for the
Legislative Council of Hong Kong The Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (LegCo) is the unicameral legislature of Hong Kong. It sits under China's " one country, two systems" constitutional arrangement, and is the power centre of Hong Kon ...
. It was one of the 12 functional constituency seats created for the 1985 Legislative Council election. It corresponds to the Labour Subsector in the
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. The constituency is composed of 697 bodies that are trade unions of which all the voting members are employees. The constituency composed of two seats when it first created by in 1985 as two of the 12 original functional constituency seats. It was held by the two largest labour unions at that time, the pro-
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Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (FTU) and pro-
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Hong Kong and Kowloon Trades Union Council The Hong Kong and Kowloon Trades Union Council is the third largest trade union federation in Hong Kong, after the Federation of Trade Unions (FTU) and pro-Beijing Federation of Hong Kong and Kowloon Labour Unions (FLU). It is affiliated wit ...
(TUC). Since 1998, the constituency composed of three seats, two occupied by the FTU and one occupied by the
Federation of Hong Kong and Kowloon Labour Unions The Federation of Hong Kong and Kowloon Labour Unions (HKFLU), established in 1984, is the second largest trade union in Hong Kong after the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions, having 82 trade unions and more than 60,000 members in total. The ...
(FLU), both pro-Beijing.


Return members


1985–1997 (2 seats)


1998–present (3 seats)


Electoral results

The plurality-at-large voting system is used and the elected candidates are shown in bold.


2020s


2010s


2000s


1990s


1980s


References

{{Hong Kong Legislative Council constituencies (2021-2025) Constituencies of Hong Kong Constituencies of Hong Kong Legislative Council Functional constituencies (Hong Kong) 1985 establishments in Hong Kong Constituencies established in 1985