Insurance (constituency)

The Insurance functional constituency (Chinese: 保險界功能界別) is a functional constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong first created in 1998. The constituency is restricted to only 134 insurers.[1]

Insurance 保險界
Functional Constituency for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Country	Hong Kong
Electorate	134 (2020)[1]
Current constituency
Created	1998
Number of members	One
Member(s)	Chan Kin-por

A similar Financing, Insurance, Real Estate and Business Services functional constituency was created for the 1995 election by Governor Chris Patten with a much larger electorate base of total 171,534 eligible voters.

Return members

Election		Member	Party
	1998	Bernard Charnwut Chan	Nonpartisan
	2004		Alliance
	2008	Chan Kin-por	Nonpartisan

Electoral results

Instant-runoff voting system is used.

2010s

2016 Hong Kong legislative election: Insurance

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nonpartisan	Chan Kin-por	Uncontested
	Nonpartisan hold		Swing

2012 Hong Kong legislative election: Insurance

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nonpartisan	Chan Kin-por	Uncontested
	Nonpartisan hold		Swing

2000s

[2]

2008 Hong Kong legislative election: Insurance

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nonpartisan	Chan Kin-por	52	45.61
	Nonpartisan	Choi Chung-fu	42	36.84
	Nonpartisan	Chun Chi-yuk	20	17.55
Two-party-preferred result
	Nonpartisan	Chan Kin-por	60	52.63
	Nonpartisan	Choi Chung-fu	52	45.61
Turnout			113	78.47
Registered electors			144
	Nonpartisan hold		Swing

[3]

2004 Hong Kong legislative election: Insurance

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nonpartisan	Bernard Charnwut Chan	Uncontested
	Nonpartisan hold		Swing

[4]

2000 Hong Kong legislative election: Insurance

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nonpartisan	Bernard Charnwut Chan	Uncontested
	Nonpartisan hold		Swing

1990s

1998 Hong Kong legislative election: Insurance – 2nd Round

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nonpartisan	Bernard Charnwut Chan	94	53.11
	Liberal	Chan Yim-kwong	83	48.69
Turnout			185	95.85
Registered electors			193
	Nonpartisan win (new seat)

References

1. "Voter Registration Statistics : Functional Constituency". Voter Registration.
2. "Election Result". Electoral Affairs Commission. Archived from the original on 13 September 2012. Retrieved 2 April 2012.
3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 17 July 2012. Retrieved 20 November 2012.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 29 August 2012. Retrieved 20 November 2012.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)