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Kowloon Central
Kowloon Central
Former Geographical constituency; for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
	Boundary of Kowloon Central in Hong Kong
District	Kowloon City District; Wong Tai Sin District
Region	Kowloon
Electorate	287,373
Former constituency
Created	1991
Abolished	1995
Number of members	Two
Replaced by	Kowloon Central (1995); Kowloon North-east; Kowloon South

Kowloon Central was a geographical constituencies in the election for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong in 1991, which elects two members of the Legislative Council using the dual-seat constituency dual vote system. The constituency covers Kowloon City District and Wong Tai Sin District in Kowloon.^[1]

A by-election was held on 5 March 1995 after Lau Chin-shek resigned from his office to protest against government's withdrawal of Employment Bill.^[2]

The constituency was divided and replaced by the Kowloon Central, Kowloon North-east, and Kowloon South constituencies in 1995.^[3]

Returned members

Elected members are as follows:^[4]

Election		Party		Party
1991	Lau Chin-shek	UDHK	Conrad Lam	UDHK
1994	Lau Chin-shek	Democratic		Democratic
1995 (b)	Lee Cheuk-yan	CTU		Democratic

Election results

1995 Kowloon Central by-election^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CTU	Lee Cheuk-yan	Unopposed
	CTU gain from Democratic		Swing

1991 Legislative Council election: Kowloon Central^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	United Democrats	Lau Chin-shek	68,489	34.19
	United Democrats	Conrad Lam Kui-shing	56,084	28.00
	FTU	Chan Yuen-han	44,894	22.41
	Civic	Peter Chan Chi-kwan	14,145	7.06
	Reform	Cecilia Yeung Lai-yin	8,257	4.12
	Independent	John Dragon Young	6,273	3.13
	Independent	Justin Cheung Chung-ming	2,158	1.08
Turnout			110,043	38.29
Registered electors			287,373
	United Democrats win (new seat)
	United Democrats win (new seat)

References

^ ^a ^b Scott, I (1991). "Chapter One: An Overview of the Hong Kong Legislative Council Elections of 1991". The Asian Journal of Public Administration. 13 (2): 11–37. doi:10.1080/02598272.1991.10800247.
^ ^a ^b "滴水穿石31年──職工盟見證工運興衰誰再為打工仔發聲？". Citizen News (in Chinese). Retrieved 2022-01-25.
^ 殷, 俊; 馬, 春暖 (2018). "香港立法會直選制度變革與政黨體系之演變". 中國大陸研究. 61 (3): 033–052.
^ 雷, 競璇; 沈, 國祥 (1995). "香港選舉資料匯編, 1982年-1994年". 硏究叢刊 (19). 香港: Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies.