Legislative Council Election: Registration of Social Welfare Functional Constituency

[07/03/2016]

The Legislative Council Election will be held in September this year. All RSWs are eligible for registration as voters of social welfare functional constituency. To be included in the register of voters of functional constituency, it is a pre-requisite for RSWs to first register as voter of geographical constituency. Apart from this, RSWs are also required to register as voters of social welfare functional constituency separately. Although the Board has sent the list of RSWs to the Registration and Electoral Office upon their request, the Registration and Electoral Office will not include the name of RSWs to the register of social welfare functional constituency automatically. According to the information of the Registration and Electoral Office, the list of RSWs provided by the Board was only used for verification purpose. Therefore, if any RSWs wish to cast a vote in the coming election but you are neither registered as voters of geographical constituency nor social welfare functional constituency, you are advised to collect the registration forms from the Registration and Electoral Office or Home Affair Office and to handle the registration procedures before the deadline of registration.