Textiles and Garment (constituency)

Textiles and Garment 紡織及製衣界
Functional constituency for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Country	Hong Kong
Electorate	348 (2021)[1]
Current constituency
Created	1995
Number of members	One
Member(s)	Sunny Tan (BPA)

The Textiles and Garment functional constituency (Chinese: 紡織及製衣界功能界別) 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]

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]

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

2021 Legislative Council election: Textiles and Garment

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nonpartisan	Sunny Tan	172	67.72
	Liberal	Chung Kwok-pan	82	32.28	−43.64
Majority			90	35.44	−16.40
Total valid votes			254	100.00
Rejected ballots			2
Turnout			256	79.26	+5.47
Registered electors			348
	Nonpartisan gain from Liberal		Swing

^[3]

2016 Legislative Council election: Textiles and Garment

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Chung Kwok-pan	1,138	75.92	+19.85
	Nonpartisan	Kenny Yang Si-kit	361	24.08
Majority			777	51.84
Total valid votes			1,499	100.00
Rejected ballots			52
Turnout			1,551	73.79	+0.93
Registered electors			2,102
	Liberal hold		Swing

^[4]

2012 Legislative Council election: Textiles and Garment

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Chung Kwok-pan	1,076	56.07	+19.91
	Nonpartisan	Henry Tan	843	43.93
Majority			233	100.00
Total valid votes			1,919	100.00
Rejected ballots			153
Turnout			2,072	72.86	+17.31
Registered electors			2,844
	Liberal gain from Economic Synergy		Swing

^[5]

2008 Legislative Council election: Textiles and Garment

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sophie Leung Lau Yau-fun	1,255	63.84	−14.10
	Nonpartisan	Chung Kwok-pan	711	36.16
Majority			544	27.68
Total valid votes			1,966	100.00
Rejected ballots			95
Turnout			2,061	55.55
Registered electors			3,710
	Liberal hold		Swing

^[6]

2004 Legislative Council election: Textiles and Garment

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sophie Leung Lau Yau-fun	1,816	77.94
	Nonpartisan	Kwan Kam-yuen	514	22.06
Majority			1,302	55.88
Total valid votes			2,330	100.00
Rejected ballots			100
Turnout			2,430	62.40
Registered electors			3,894
	Liberal hold		Swing

^[7]

2000 Legislative Council election: Textiles and Garment

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sophie Leung Lau Yau-fun	Unopposed
Registered electors			4,697
	Liberal hold		Swing

^[7]

1998 Legislative Council election: Textiles and Garment

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Sophie Leung Lau Yau-fun	Unopposed
Registered electors			2,739
	Liberal win (new seat)

1995 Legislative Council election: Textiles and Garment

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Leung Yiu-chung	10,472	49.44
	FTU	Chan Kwok-keung	5,116	24.15
	Independent	Ng Ching-man	2,957	13.96
	LDF	Chan Ming-kit	2,638	12.45
Majority			5,356	25.29
Total valid votes			21,183	100.00
Rejected ballots			1,941
Turnout			23,124	38.18
Registered electors			60,568
	Independent win (new seat)