Wholesale and Retail (constituency)

Wholesale and Retail 批發及零售界
Functional constituency for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Country	Hong Kong
Electorate	2,015 (2021)[1]
Current constituency
Created	1995
Number of members	One
Member(s)	Shiu Ka-fai (Liberal)

The Wholesale and Retail functional constituency (Chinese: 批發及零售界功能界別) 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 101,988 eligible voters worked related to the wholesale and retail industry.

The constituency was abolished with the colonial Legislative Council 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 and from individual voting to bodies that are members of 82 wholesale and retail associations.^[2] After the major electoral overhaul in 2021, the registered voters were scrapped from 6,104 to 2,015 corporate members of the 99 wholesale and retail associations.

Since its creation, it has been controlled by the Liberal Party and currently represented by Shiu Ka-fai.

Return members

Election		Member	Party
	1995	Selina Chow	Liberal
Not represented in PLC (1997–1998)
	1998	Selina Chow	Liberal
	2000
	2004	Vincent Fang	Liberal
	2008
	2012
	2016	Shiu Ka-fai	Liberal
	2021

Electoral results

2020s

2021 Legislative Council election: Wholesale and Retail

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Shiu Ka-fai	1,116	90.88	+25.84
	Nonpartisan	Lam Chi-wing	112	9.12
Majority			1,004	81.76	+51.68
Total valid votes			1,228	100.00
Rejected ballots			18
Turnout			1,246	65.30	+7.18
Registered electors			2,015
	Liberal hold		Swing

2010s

^[3]

2016 Legislative Council election: Wholesale and Retail

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Shiu Ka-fai	2,290	65.04
	Democratic	Au Nok-hin	1,231	34.96
Majority			1,059	30.08
Total valid votes			3,521	100.00
Rejected ballots			282
Turnout			3,803	58.12	+2.97
Registered electors			6,543
	Liberal hold		Swing

2012 Legislative Council election: Wholesale and Retail

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Vincent Fang Kang	Unopposed
Registered electors			7,242
	Liberal hold		Swing

2000s

^[4]

2008 Legislative Council election: Wholesale and Retail

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Vincent Fang Kang	1,907	64.73	+17.88
	Nonpartisan	Chiu Chun-kwok	1,039	35.27
Majority			868	29.46
Total valid votes			2,946	100.00
Rejected ballots			185
Turnout			3,131	55.15	−7.59
Registered electors			6,074
	Liberal hold		Swing

^[5]

2004 Legislative Council election: Wholesale and Retail

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Vincent Fang Kang	1,145	46.85	−28.55
	Nonpartisan	Fung Leung-lo	896	36.66
	Ind. democrat	Samuel Chan Tim-shing	403	16.49
Majority			249	10.19
Total valid votes			2,946	100.00
Rejected ballots			502
Turnout			2,549	62.74
Registered electors			4,063
	Liberal hold		Swing

^[6]

2000 Legislative Council election: Wholesale and Retail

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Selina Chow Liang Shuk-yee	1,459	75.40	+8.99
	DAB	Lau Chi-wing	476	24.60
Majority			983	50.80
Total valid votes			1,935	100.00
Rejected ballots			57
Turnout			1,992	60.33
Registered electors			3,375
	Liberal hold		Swing

1990s

^[6]

1998 Legislative Council election: Wholesale and Retail

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Selina Chow Liang Shuk-yee	945	66.41	−1.64
	HKPA	Wong Siu-yee	276	19.40
	Nonpartisan	Chan Choi-hi	202	14.19
Majority			669	47.01
Total valid votes			1,423	100.00
Rejected ballots			33
Turnout			1,456	67.56
Registered electors			2,155
	Liberal hold		Swing

1995 Legislative Council election: Wholesale and Retail

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Selina Chow Liang Shuk-yee	23,357	68.05
	DAB	Wong Kwok-hing	10,965	31.95
Majority			12,392	36.10
Total valid votes			34,322	100.00
Rejected ballots			2,724
Turnout			37,046	36.32
Registered electors			101,988
	Liberal win (new seat)

References

1. "Voter Registration Statistics : Functional Constituency". Voter Registration.
2. "Guidance Notes - Application for Registration as an Elector in a Functional Constituency and as a Voter in an Election Committee Subsector - Wholesale and Retail" (PDF). Registration and Electoral Office. p. 14.
3. "2016 Legislative Council Election". Government of Hong Kong. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
4. "2008 Legislative Council Election". Government of Hong Kong. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
5. "2004 Legislative Council Election". Government of Hong Kong. Archived from the original on 17 July 2012. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
6. "2000 Legislative Council Election". Government of Hong Kong. Archived from the original on 29 August 2012. Retrieved 17 November 2012.