The election for the Hong Kong deputies to the

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(NPC) was held on 3 December 2002. 36 Hong Kong deputies were elected by an electoral college.

Background

Article 21 of the

Hong Kong Basic Law The Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China is a national law of China that serves as the organic law for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). Comprising nine chapters, 160 ...

stipulates:

Chinese citizens who are residents of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region shall be entitled to participate in the management of state affairs according to law. In accordance with the assigned number of seats and the selection method specified by the National People's Congress, the Chinese citizens among the residents of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region shall locally elect deputies of the Region to the National People's Congress to participate in the work of the highest organ of state power.

An electoral college composed of the following: * Members of the previous electoral college that had elected the Hong Kong deputies to the 9th National People's Congress; * Hong Kong delegates of the 9th

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(CPPCC); * Members of the

Election Committee The Election Committee is a Hong Kong electoral college, the function of which is to select the Chief Executive (CE) and, since 2021, to elect 40 of the 90 members of the Legislative Council. Established by Annex I of the Basic Law of Hong ...

(which elects the Chief Executive) who are Chinese nationals, except those who opt out; and * The Chief Executive of the HKSAR.

Election result

54 of the 78 candidates were pre-elected on 29 November 2002 and 36 of the 54 candidates were elected on 3 December. It was presided by

Tung Chee-hwa Tung Chee-hwa (; born 7 July 1937) is a Hong Kong businessman and politician who served as the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong between 1997 and 2005, upon the transfer of sovereignty on 1 July. He is currently a vice-chairman of the Chin ...

, executive chairman of the 15-strong presidium. Five

pro-democrats The pro-democracy camp, also known as the pan-democracy camp, is a political alignment in Hong Kong that supports increased democracy, namely the universal suffrage of the Chief Executive and the Legislative Council as given by the Basic L ...

who contested in the election,

Albert Ho 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 f ...

James To James To Kun-sun (; ; born 11 March 1963) is a Hong Kong lawyer and Democratic Party politician. From 1991 to 2020, To was a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, representing the District Council (Second) constituency. In his fina ...

Sin Chung-kai Sin Chung-kai (; born 15 June 1960) is a former member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council. He was the chairman and a member of Kwai Tsing District Council for the Wah Lai constituency. He was one of the two vice-chairmen of the Democratic ...

Anthony Cheung Anthony or Antony is a masculine given name, derived from the ''Antonii'', a ''gens'' ( Roman family name) to which Mark Antony (''Marcus Antonius'') belonged. According to Plutarch, the Antonii gens were Heracleidae, being descendants of Anton, ...

and

Frederick Fung Frederick Fung Kin-kee, SBS, JP (; born 17 March 1953) is a former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong from 1991 to 1997 and from 2000 to 2016 and the former chairman of the pro-democracy Hong Kong Association for Democracy and Peo ...

were defeated in the heavily pro-Beijing electoral college. The Liaison Office was accused of issuing a recommendation list to the electors before the election.

Elected members (36)

* Robin Chan *

Cheng Yiu-tong Cheng Yiu-tong GBM, JP (; born 14 October 1948 in Hong Kong) is a non-official member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong. He was appointed as the president of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions in April 2000. He is also the Hong Kong ...

David Chu Yu-lin David Chu may refer to: * David Chu (designer), founder of Nautica, a men's designer outerwear company * David S. C. Chu, former U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness * David Chu (Hong Kong politician), member of the Legislati ...

Rita Fan Hsu Lai-tai Rita Fan Hsu Lai-tai (; ' Hsu; ''born'' Hsu Ching-li; born 20 September 1945) is a senior Hong Kong politician. She was the first President of the Hong Kong SAR Legislative Council from 1998 to 2008 and a member of the Standing Committee o ...

* Fei Fih *

Ip Kwok-him Ip Kwok-him, GBM, GBS, JP (; born 8 November 1951) is a former unofficial member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong, served between 2016 and 2022. He is also former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong for the District Council ...

Kan Fook-yee Kan Fook-yee, GBS (born 14 June 1936, Hong Kong) was the member of the Provisional Legislative Council. He is a member of the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors, fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and Royal Institution of Charter Su ...

* Ko Po-ling * Lam Kwong-siu * Priscilla Lau Pui-king * Joseph Lee Chung-tak *

Allen Lee Peng-fei Allen Lee Peng-fei, CBE, JP (; 24 April 194015 May 2020) was a Hong Kong industrialist, politician and political commentator. He was a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, serving from 1978 to 1997 and was the Senior Member of th ...

Lee Chark-tim Lee Chark-tim, (, 23 December 1934 – 22 May 2007) was the president of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (HKFTU), the largest trade union and pro-Beijing organ in Hong Kong from 1988 to 2000. Lee joined the Hong Kong and Kowloon Shoe Tra ...

* Lee Lin-sang *

Sophie Leung Lau Yau-fun Sophie Leung Lau Yau-fun, OBE, GBS, JP (; born 9 October 1945, Macau) is a resident of the Hong Kong SAR, Mrs. Sophie Leung had been a Member of the Legislative Council of HKSAR from 1996 to 2012, representing the textile and garment industry, ...

Lo Suk-ching Lo Suk-ching, BBS, JP (born 22 June 1950, Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong politician. He was the member of the Legislative Council (1995–97) for the Election Committee and also the Provisional Legislative Council (1996–98). He was the chairman of ...

Ma Fung-kwok Ma Fung-kwok () is a member of the Provisional Legislative Council and Legislative Council of Hong Kong from for Election Committee constituency and Sports, Performing Arts, Culture and Publication from 1997 to 2000 and 2012 to present. He ha ...

Ma Lik Ma Lik, GBS, JP (; 23 February 1952 – 8 August 2007), was a Legislative Councillor, and was the Chairman of the Democratic Alliance for Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB), a pro-Beijing political party in Hong Kong. Education Ma Lik attended ...

Ng Ching-fai Ng Ching-fai, GBS (; born 20 November 1939 in Shanghai, China) is a Professor of Chemistry and the former President and Vice-Chancellor of Hong Kong Baptist University and the President of United International College. Before he became the Pr ...

Ng Hong-mun Ng Hong-mun GBM (, born 9 April 1926) is a Chinese politician who served as a member of the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th National People's Congress representing Guangdong, from 1975 to 1998. Ng then served as a member of the 9th and 10th Nati ...

* Ng Leung-sing * Sik Chi-wai * Victor Sit Fung-shuen *

Maria Tam Wai-chu Maria Tam Wai-chu (; born 2 November 1945) is a senior Hong Kong politician and lawyer. She is a member of the Committee for the Basic Law of the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) since 1997 and the chairman of the Operati ...

Tsang Hin-chi Tsang Hin-chi, (; 2 February 1934 – 20 September 2019) was a Hong Kong entrepreneur and politician. He was the founder and president of the Goldlion Group Co. Ltd. and a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPCSC) ...

Tsang Tak-sing Tsang Tak Sing GBS JP (; born 1949, Canton, China) is the former Secretary for Home Affairs of Hong Kong. Formerly an adviser to the Central Policy Unit, he assumed office on 1 July 2007, replacing Patrick Ho. He is the younger brother of J ...

Tso Wung-wai Dr. Tso Wung-wai (; born 28 February 1941), BBS is a Hong Kong politician and chemistry professor. He is an adjunct professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and has also served as a Hong Kong delegate to the National People's Congress of ...

* Wang Rudeng * Carson Wen Ka-shuen *

Wong Kwok-kin Wong Kwok-kin, BBS (黃國健; Yale: Wòhng Gwok Gihn; born May 1952) is a former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong representing the Kowloon East constituency, and a former non-official member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong ...

Peter Wong Man-kong Peter Wong Man-kong (; 9 January 1949 – 11 March 2019) was a politician and businessman from Hong Kong. Business career Peter Wong and his younger brother Ronnie were born to , who founded Chung Wah Shipbuilding & Engineering Company. After P ...

Philip Wong Yu-hong Philip Wong Yu-hong, GBS (; 23 December 1938 – 6 June 2021) was a politician in Hong Kong who served as a member of the legislative council ( Functional constituencies, Commercial econd, a deputy to the National People's Congress and vice ...

* Wilfred Wong Ying-wai * Raymond Wu Wai-yung *

Yeung Yiu-chung Yeung Yiu-chung, BBS, JP (born 1951 in Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong pro-Beijing educator and politician. He is the President of the Hong Kong Federation of Education Workers and the Hong Kong Deputy to National People's Congress of the People's Repu ...

Yuen Mo Yuen Mo () GBS JP (born November 1941) is a business leader in Hong Kong. Yuen joined China Merchants, a shipping company, in 1964, and served in various positions such as Deputy General Manager of Hong Kong Ming Wah Shipping Co. Ltd., Deputy Ge ...

Supplementary members (16)

Peter Chan Chi-kwan Peter Chan Chi-kwan ( Chinese: 陳子鈞, 7 March 1936 – March 2017) was a barrister-at-law and a member of the Urban Council of Hong Kong for more than twenty years. He was the founding member and former vice-chairman of the Hong Kong Civic Assoc ...

* Raymond Chien Kuo-fung * David Fang * Fung Chi-kin *

Raymond Ho Chung-tai Raymond Ho Chung-tai (, born 23 March 1939 in Hong Kong with family roots in Shunde, Guangdong) was, from 1998 to 2012, a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (Legco), representing the engineering industry in functional constituencies se ...

* Bernard Hui Man-bock * Stanley Ko Kam-chuen *

Dennis Lam Shun-chiu Dennis Lam Shun-chiu, JP (; born 26 November 1959) is a prominent Hong Kong ophthalmologist, businessman and politician. He has been a Hong Kong deputy to the National People's Congress (NPC) since 2008 and a member of the Election Committee. Bi ...

* Leung Ping-chung * Lo Chung-hing * Ma Ho-fai *

Ngai Shiu-kit Ngai Shiu-kit, OBE, SBS, JP (; 14 November 1924 – 2015) was a Hong Kong entrepreneur and a former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (1985–97) for the Industrial (Second) constituency, representing the Chinese Manufacturers' ...

Wong Po-yan Wong Po-yan (, 5 May 1923 – 21 July 2019) was a Hong Kong industrialist and politician. He was the first chairman of Airport Authority Hong Kong from 1995 to 1999. Biography Wong Po-yan was born in and brought up in Hwei-An, Fujien, C ...

Wong Siu-yee Wong Siu-yee, BBS, JP (born 4 July 1953, Hong Kong) was the member of the Provisional Legislative Council and the Kowloon City District Board member (1985–2003) and Urban Council (1991–94). He was also elected as member of the Election Com ...

Wong Yuk-shan Professor Wong Yuk-shan, SBS, BBS, JP (; born 1950) is a Hong Kong politician and academic. He is the former president of the Open University of Hong Kong, a Hong Kong deputy of the National People's Congress of China and its member of the Commit ...

Howard Young Howard Young How Wah (, born 30 March 1948 in Hong Kong with family roots in Xinhui, Guangdong) was a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong ( Functional constituencies, Tourism) and the member of Southern District Council. He is a member ...

Controversies

The Liaison Office was criticised for meddling in the election; it was accused of issuing a recommendation list to the electors before the election. James Tien of the

Liberal Party The Liberal Party is any of many political parties around the world. The meaning of ''liberal'' varies around the world, ranging from liberal conservatism on the right to social liberalism on the left. __TOC__ Active liberal parties This is a li ...

criticised the Liaison Office for circulating the recommendation lists, the

Democratic Party Democratic Party most often refers to: *Democratic Party (United States) Democratic Party and similar terms may also refer to: Active parties Africa *Botswana Democratic Party *Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea *Gabonese Democratic Party *Demo ...

Martin Lee Martin Lee Chu-ming, SC, JP (; born 8 June 1938) is a Hong Kong politician and barrister. He is the founding chairman of the United Democrats of Hong Kong and its successor, the Democratic Party, Hong Kong's flagship pro-democracy party. He ...

viewed it as a "shadow government" meddling in elections in all levels, including the Chief Executive elections, coordinating with pro-Beijing parties in Legislative Council and District Council elections,.

References

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