Hong Kong Island (constituency)


The Hong Kong Island geographical constituency is one of the five geographical constituencies in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. It currently elects 6 Members of the Legislative Council using the Hare quota of party-list proportional representation. The constituency covers all the four districts on the Hong Kong Island, namely, Central and Western, Eastern, Southern and Wan Chai.

Background

The constituency was formed since the 1998 legislative election, replacing a number of single-member constituencies in 1995. These were Island West and Island East in the 1991 election with dual-seat constituency dual vote system and Island East, Island West, Island Central, and Island South in the 1995 election. From 1985 to 1991, the seats were elected by the electoral colleges composed of the members of the district boards and Urban Council.

Return Members

Below are all the members since the creation of the Hong Kong Island constituency. The number of seats allocated to Hong Kong Island has been increased from 4 to 7 between 1998 and 2012 due to the enlargement.

Summary of seats won

Vote share summary

History

The constituency was set up in 1998 election when the largest remainder method of the proportional representative electoral system was introduced, replacing four single-member constituencies of the 1995 election. 4, 5, 6, and 7 members were returned from this constituency in the 1998, 2000, 2004 and 2012 elections respectively. No change of boundary had been made throughout since 1998.

2010s

2000s

1990s

1995 Constituencies

Hong Kong Island Central

Hong Kong Island East

Hong Kong Island South

Hong Kong Island West

1991 Constituencies

system was used with two seats to be filled in each constituency.

Hong Kong Island East

Hong Kong Island West

1985–88

Hong Kong Island (East)

Hong Kong Island (West)