2014 Democratic Party (HK) Leadership Election
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2014 Democratic Party (HK) Leadership Election
The Democratic Party leadership election was held on 14 December 2012 for the 30-member 11th Central Committee of the Democratic Party in Hong Kong, including chairperson and two vice-chairperson posts. Incumbent Chairperson Emily Lau secured her post against three other candidates after two rounds of election. Electoral method The Central Committee was elected by the party congress. All public office holders, including the members of the Legislative Council and District Councils, are eligible to vote in the party congress. The electoral method changed in this election, the eligibility of members electing a delegate who holds one vote in the congress from 30 members each delegate to only 5 members. Candidate also needs a majority in order to claim victory. Overview The election was held right after the Umbrella Movement was cleared out. The 20-year-old Democratic Party sought to reposition itself in the post-Occupy era in which the young generation took a big role. Emily Lau, ...
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Southern District Council
Southern District Council is the district council for the Southern District in Hong Kong. It is one of 18 such councils. The Southern District Council currently consists of 17 members, of which the district is divided into 17 constituencies, electing a total of 17 members. The last election was held on 24 November 2019. History The Southern District Council was established on 4 December 1981 under the name of the Southern District Board as the result of the colonial Governor Murray MacLehose's District Administration Scheme reform. The District Board was partly elected with the ''ex-officio'' Urban Council members, as well as members appointed by the Governor until 1994 when last Governor Chris Patten refrained from appointing any member. The Southern District Board became Southern Provisional District Board after the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) was established in 1997 with the appointment system being reintroduced by Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa. The So ...
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Ho Chun-yan
Albert Ho Chun-yan (; born 1 December 1951) is a solicitor and politician in Hong Kong. He is the former chairman (2014–2019) and vice-chair (2019–2021) of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, and former chairman of the Democratic Party from 2006 to 2012. He is a solicitor and a former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong for District Council (Second) constituency. Early life and education Ho was born in what was then British Hong Kong on 1 December 1951 in a big family with six children. His father worked in a shipping company by day and as a translator by night, along with two other jobs that he had. Ho got his Bachelor of Laws with honors in the University of Hong Kong in 1974, and obtained a Postgraduate Certificate in Laws in 1975. He attended lectures given by Hsu Kwan-san, a Chinese historian who later became a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, whom Ho cited as influence for his political beliefs and ...
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Cheung Yin-tung
Cheung Yin-tung (; born 1 May 1964) is a Hong Kong politician. He is the former secretary and treasurer of the Democratic Party and former member of the Yuen Long District Council. Biography He was a New Territories indigenous resident born in Yuen Long in 1964. He participated in student activism when he was younger and was chairman of the 32nd standing committee of the Hong Kong Federation of Students (HKFS) and led protests in support of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 in Beijing. After he graduated, he became a teacher. He was invited by Meeting Point and United Democrats of Hong Kong legislator Ng Ming-yum to join the United Democrats, which later transformed into the Democratic Party. He was elected to the Yuen Long District Board in 1991 but was defeated by conservative Leung Che-cheung in Yiu Yau with a large margin in the 1994 re-election. He participated in the 1995 Regional Council election, running against Leung Che-cheung again but lost to Leung in a mar ...
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Cheung Man-kwong
Cheung Man-kwong (, born 15 September 1954) is a Hong Kong politician, who is a member of the Yuen Long District Council. Background Born in Hong Kong with family roots in Taishan, Cheung was a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council representing the Education functional constituency. He is a member of Democratic Party and former chairman of Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union. He obtained his bachelor's degree from the Economics department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and is a registered teacher. Views, policy positions and Legco voting In June 2010, he voted with the party in favour of the government's 2012 constitutional reform package, which included the late amendment by the Democratic Party – accepted by the Beijing government – to hold a popular vote for five new District Council functional constituencies A functional constituency is an electoral device (a non-geographical constituency) used within the political systems of two Special Administrat ...
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Josephine Chan Shu-ying
Josephine Chan Shu-ying (; born 18 November 1958) is a Hong Kong politician and former chairman of the Tuen Mun District Council. As a Democratic Party member, Chan has been member of the Tuen Mun District Council from 1994 to 2015 and again from 2020 to 2021 for Siu Hong constituency and former member of the Regional Council. Biography Chan was graduated from University of Hong Kong in 1982 and became a secondary school teacher at Buddhist Sum Heung Lam Memorial College, where she met her husband Lee Wing-tat. She married Lee in 1984 but divorced in 1990 and remarried Lee in 2001. Chan was first elected to the Tuen Mun District Board in the 1994 election, where she won a seat in Siu Hong. She was consecutively re-elected for four occasions, but lost to Mo Shing-fung of the pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB). She regained her seat in the 2019 election, where the pro-democrats gained the majority of the seat and elected Chan was ...
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Ricky Or Yiu-lam
Ricky Or Yiu-lam (; born 12 May 1971) is a Hong Kong politician and a former member of the Sai Kung District Council for Kwong Ming. He is the former chairman of the Concern Group for Tseung Kwan O People's Livelihood and a former member of the Democratic Party. Biography He first won a seat in Sai Kung District Council in Kwong Ming in the 2003 District Council elections. After joining Emily Lau's The Frontier, he ran in the 2004 Legislative Council election on the star-stubbed "7.1 United Front" ticket in New Territories East with stars like Lau, Andrew Cheng and Ronny Tong. Being on the last place of the ticket, received more than 168,000 votes. In the 2008 Legislative Council election, he partnered Lau on the Frontier ticket and received about 33,000 which got Lau re-elected in the constituency. Following the merger of the Frontier and the Democratic Party in 2008, Or joined the Democrats and became its executive committee member. In the 2011 District Council el ...
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Hui Chi-fung
Ted Hui Chi-fung ( zh, t=許智峯; born 8 June 1982) is a Hong Kong politician. He formerly represented the Chung Wan constituency in the Central and Western District Council, and formerly he was the Legislative Councillor for the Hong Kong Island constituency. He announced his self-exile in Denmark and withdrawal from the Democratic Party in December 2020. Personal life and education Hui was born in Hong Kong and raised in Tuen Mun. He received his education in Canada and Hong Kong. In 2006, Hui earned his bachelor's degree in law with honors from the City University of Hong Kong. Hui has blogged about his two children, and promoted family-friendly policies. Politics Early career In the 2011 District Council elections, Hui successfully succeeded veteran Yuen Bun-keung's Central and Western District Council seat in the Chung Wan constituency which covers the Central area. He was elected a lawmaker for the Hong Kong Island constituency in 2016. Hui first caught media atte ...
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Li Wing-shing
Wilson Li Wing-shing (; born 1975) is a Hong Kong politician. He is formerly the secretary and currently the vice-chairman of the Democratic Party. He is also member of the Sha Tin District Council for Wu Kai Sha. Li was born in 1975. He started working at Legislative Councillor Emily Lau's office in 2005. He joined the Democratic Party when The Frontier was merged into the Democratic Party in 2008. He became a member of the party central committee and served as party secretary-general of the party from 2014. In the 2016 Democratic Party leadership election, Li was elected vice-chairman with Southern District Councillor Lo Kin-hei with 209 and 222 votes. Li first contested in City One in the 2007 District Council election but was defeated by incumbent Wong Ka-wing. He ran again in Wah Do in the North District Council in the 2011 District Council election but lost to Yiu Ming of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB). He won a seat in the a ...
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Yuen Hoi-man
Ramon Yuen Hoi-man (; born 1986) is a Hong Kong politician. He is the Treasurer of the Democratic Party and member of the Sham Shui Po District Council for Lai Chi Kok Central. Biography He was educated at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and graduated in 2009 with degree in Business Administration and Engineering. He considered in joining Regina Ip's Savantas Policy Institute but ended up joining the Democratic Party. He first contested in the 2011 District Council elections in Mong Kok South but lost to incumbent Chau Chun-fai. He ran on the Democratic Party's ticket in Kowloon West in the 2012 Legislative Council election 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1 ... with Helena Wong as a fourth candidate. He became the party's treasurer in 2015. He ran in the ...
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Andrew Wan Siu-kin
Andrew Wan Siu-kin (; born 7 June 1969) is the former vice-chairman of the Democratic Party and a former member of the Kwai Tsing District Council for Shek Yam constituency. He was elected in the 2016 Hong Kong Legislative Council election through New Territories West. Career Born in Hong Kong in 1969, Andrew‘s ancestral hometown is Huizhou (惠州), Guangdong province. Wan graduated from the City University of Hong Kong with the Bachelor of Social Science (BSocSc) in Social Work and studied at the University of Essex from 2006 and graduated with Bachelor and Master of Arts in Sociology. In 2002, he joined the pro-democracy Neighbourhood and Worker's Service Centre (NWSC) as the assistant of legislator Leung Yiu-chung and ran in the 2003 Hong Kong local elections, 2003 District Council elections, defeating the pro-Beijing camp, pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB) in Shek Yam (constituency), Shek Yam and was re-elected in 2007. He partner ...
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Emily Lau Wai-hing
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