Accountancy (constituency)

The Accountancy functional constituency (Chinese: 會計界功能界別) is a functional constituency seat in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong first created for the 1988 Legislative Council election, derived from the Financial functional constituency. In 2020, the constituency was composed of some 25,000 certified public accountants (CPAs) as compared to 222,000 citizens on average for the geographical constituencies.^[2]

Accountancy 會計界
Functional constituency for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Electorate	27,778 (2021)[1]
Current constituency
Created	1988
Number of members	One
Member(s)	Edmund Wong (DAB)
Created from	Financial

It is one of the swing seats between the pro-Beijing and pro-democracy camps. It had the largest field of candidates in the 2004 Legislative Council election among the functional constituencies with nine candidates running in the constituency. Independent democrat Mandy Tam defeated pro-Beijing independent Paul Chan, but the result was reversed in 2008 when Mandy Tam lost her re-election to Paul Chan. Chan was resigned before the 2012 Legislative Council election to be appointed Secretary for Development by Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying.^[3] From 2012, the seat was held by Kenneth Leung of the Professional Commons (PC) until his disqualification from the office by the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) in November 2021.^[4]

Return members

Election		Member	Party
	1988	Peter Wong	Group of 89→NHKA→LDF/BPF
	1991		LDF→Liberal
	1995	Eric Li	Independent
Not represented in the PLC (1997–1998)
	1998	Eric Li	Independent
	2000
	2004	Mandy Tam	Independent→Civic
	2008	Paul Chan	Independent
	2012	Kenneth Leung	Professional Commons
	2016
	2021	Edmund Wong	DAB

Electoral results

2020s

2021 Legislative Council election: Accountancy

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	DAB	Edmund Wong Chun-sek	3,175	39.91
	Nonpartisan	Wong Wang-tai	1,981	24.90
	Nonpartisan	Florence Poon Man See-yee	1,734	21.80
	Nonpartisan	Yung Kin	1,065	13.39
Majority			1,194	15.01
Total valid votes			7,955	100.00
Rejected ballots			503
Turnout			8,458	30.45
Registered electors			27,778
	DAB gain from Prof Commons		Swing

2010s

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2016 Legislative Council election: Accountancy

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Prof Commons	Kenneth Leung Kai-cheong	12,131	63.96	+13.20
	Independent	Kenneth Chen Yung-ngai	6,836	36.04
Majority			5,297	27.92
Total valid votes			18,965	100.00
Rejected ballots			1,066
Turnout			19,535	75.11	+5.45
Registered electors			26,008
	Nonpartisan gain from Independent		Swing

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2012 Legislative Council election: Accountancy

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nonpartisan	Kenneth Leung Kai-cheong	7,701	46.76
	Independent	Nelson Lam Chi-yuen	6,538	39.70
	Nonpartisan	Wong Wang-tai	1,335	8.11	+3.87
	Nonpartisan	Peter Chan Po-fun	896	5.44
Majority			1,163	7.06
Total valid votes			16,470	100.00
Rejected ballots			1,066
Turnout			17,536	69.66
Registered electors			25,174
	Nonpartisan gain from Independent		Swing

2000s

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2008 Legislative Council election: Accountancy

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Paul Chan Mo-po	5,659	41.67	+12.93
	Civic	Tam Heung-man	4,116	30.31	+1.26
	Independent	Elve Kung Yiu-fai	3,116	22.95	+7.41
	Nonpartisan	Wong Wang-tai	576	4.24	+2.92
	Nonpartisan	Yim Ting-wai	112	0.82
Majority			1,543	11.36
Total valid votes			13,579	100.00
Rejected ballots			285
Turnout			13,864	62.24
Registered electors			22,276
	Independent gain from Civic		Swing

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2004 Legislative Council election: Accountancy

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Tam Heung-man	3,393	29.05
	Independent	Chan Mo-po	3,356	28.74
	Independent	Elve Kung Yiu-fai	1,815	15.54
	Nonpartisan	Edward Chow Kwong-fai	1,066	9.13
	Independent	Louis Leung Wing-on	604	5.17
	Nonpartisan	Peter Chan Po-fun	603	5.16	−7.54
	Independent	Choi Sau-yuk	444	3.80
	Independent	Wilfred Wu Shek-chun	244	2.09
	Nonpartisan	Wong Wang-tai	154	1.32
Majority			37	0.31
Total valid votes			11,679	100.00
Rejected ballots			654
Turnout			12,333	70.47
Registered electors			17,500
	Independent gain from Independent		Swing

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2000 Legislative Council election: Accountancy

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Eric Li Ka-cheung	3,867	64.55	−0.49
	Nonpartisan	Edward Chow Kwong-fai	1,363	22.75	−1.07
	Nonpartisan	Peter Chan Po-fun	761	12.70	+1.56
Majority			2,504	41.80
Total valid votes			5,991	100.00
Rejected ballots			413
Turnout			6,404	50.22
Registered electors			12,753
	Independent hold		Swing

1990s

1998 Legislative Council election: Accountancy

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Eric Li Ka-cheung	3,556	65.04	+1.10
	Nonpartisan	Edward Chow Kwong-fai	1,302	23.82	+1.65
	Nonpartisan	Peter Chan Po-fun	609	11.14	−2.75
Majority			2,254	41.22
Total valid votes			5,467	100.00
Rejected ballots			413
Turnout			5,826	59.02
Registered electors			9,871
	Independent hold		Swing

1995 Legislative Council election: Accountancy

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Eric Li Ka-cheung	1,376	63.94
	Liberal	Edward Chow Kwong-fai	477	22.17
	Nonpartisan	Peter Chan Po-fun	299	13.89
Majority			899	41.77
Total valid votes			2,152	100.00
Rejected ballots			38
Turnout			2,190	58.84
Registered electors			3,722
	Independent gain from Liberal		Swing

1991 Legislative Council election: Accountancy

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LDF	Peter Wong Hong-yuen	Unopposed
Registered electors			2,276
	LDF hold		Swing

1980s

1988 Legislative Council election: Accountancy

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Group of 89	Peter Wong Hong-yuen	366	48.80
	Nonpartisan	Peter Chan Po-fun	301	40.13
	Nonpartisan	Fanny Lai Ip Po-ping	83	11.07
Majority			65	8.67
Total valid votes			750	100.00
	Nonpartisan win (new seat)

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