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* '''[[Path of Democracy]]''': The moderate group led by former legislator [[Ronny Tong]] set to field three candidates, co-convenor, Joseph Lau Pui-wing, and governors Gary Wong Chi-him and Raymond Mak Ka-chun.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/1956740/moderate-hong-kong-group-path-democracy-set-field-three?utm_source&utm_medium&utm_campaign=SCMPSocialNewsfeed|newspaper=South China Morning Post|date=27 May 2016|first=Tony|last=Cheung|title=Moderate Hong Kong group Path of Democracy set to field three candidates in Legislative Council elections}}</ref>
* '''[[Path of Democracy]]''': The moderate group led by former legislator [[Ronny Tong]] set to field two candidates, governors Gary Wong Chi-him and Raymond Mak Ka-chun.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/1956740/moderate-hong-kong-group-path-democracy-set-field-three?utm_source&utm_medium&utm_campaign=SCMPSocialNewsfeed|newspaper=South China Morning Post|date=27 May 2016|first=Tony|last=Cheung|title=Moderate Hong Kong group Path of Democracy set to field three candidates in Legislative Council elections}}</ref> Co-convenor Joseph Lau Pui-wing, who initially considered running in New Territories East, pulled out before the nomination period.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/1979998/moderate-hong-kong-political-groups-seek-closer-co-operation|newspaper=South China Morning Post|date=23 June 2016|first=Kang-chung|last=Ng|title=Moderate Hong Kong political groups seek closer co-operation in Legco elections}}</ref>
* '''[[Third Side]]''': The new moderate party has planned to field candidates in the two Kowloon and two New Territories constituencies.<ref>{{cite news|title=政Whats噏： 新思維選舉名單　黃成智慘被飛|url=http://hk.on.cc/hk/bkn/cnt/news/20160430/bkn-20160430172113414-0430_00822_001.html?eventid=402883474eba8256014ebfd17f772349&eventsection=hk_news|newspaper=Orential Daily|date=30 April 2016}}</ref>
* '''[[Third Side]]''': The new moderate party has planned to field candidates in the two Kowloon and two New Territories constituencies.<ref>{{cite news|title=政Whats噏： 新思維選舉名單　黃成智慘被飛|url=http://hk.on.cc/hk/bkn/cnt/news/20160430/bkn-20160430172113414-0430_00822_001.html?eventid=402883474eba8256014ebfd17f772349&eventsection=hk_news|newspaper=Orential Daily|date=30 April 2016}}</ref>


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Hong Kong legislative election, 2016
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All 70 seats to the Legislative Council
  Starry Lee Andrew Leung Alan Leong
Leader Starry Lee Andrew Leung Alan Leong
Party DAB BPA Civic
Alliance Pro-Beijing Pro-Beijing Pan-democracy
Leader's seat District Council (Second) Industrial (First) Retiring from Kowloon East
Last election 13 seats, 20.22% 4 seats, 2.23%[n 1] 6 seats, 14.08%
Current seats 13 7 6
  Emily Lau Lam Suk-yee Vincent Fang
Leader Emily Lau Lam Suk-yee Vincent Fang
Party Democratic FTU Liberal
Alliance Pan-democracy Pro-Beijing Pro-Beijing
Leader's seat Retiring from New Territories East No seat Retiring from Wholesale and Retail
Last election 6 seats, 13.65% 6 seats, 7.06% 5 seats, 2.64%
Current seats 6 6 5
  Suzanne Wu Erica Yuen Regina Ip
Leader Suzanne Wu Erica Yuen
and Avery Ng 		Regina Ip
Party Labour PP/LSD NPP
Alliance Pan-democracy Pan-democracy Pro-Beijing
Leader's seat No seat (standing in Kowloon East) No seat (standing in Hong Kong Island) Hong Kong Island
Last election 4 seats, 6.19% 4 seats, 14.59% 2 seats, 3.76%
Current seats 4 3 2
Incumbent President

Tsang Yok-sing
DAB



The 2016 Hong Kong Legislative Council general election will be held on 4 September 2016 for the 6th Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo). A total of 70 members, 35 from geographical constituencies (GCs) and 35 from functional constituencies (FCs), will be returned. The election comes after the rejection of the constitutional reform proposals which suggested the electoral method for the 2016 Legislative Council remains unchanged.

Background

Electoral reform and Umbrella Revolution

Main articles: 2014–15 Hong Kong electoral reform and 2014 Hong Kong protests

The election comes after the rejection of constitutional reform proposals carried out by the Leung Chun-ying administration in mid-2015. The constitutional reform proposals suggested the electoral method for the Legislative Council (LegCo) in 2016 to be unchanged as the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) ruled out the possible universal suffrage in 2016 but states that the LegCo may be elected by universal suffrage after the Chief Executive (CE) is elected by universal suffrage which may be implemented in 2017,[1]

On 31 August 2014, the NPCSC set limits for the 2016 Legislative Council and 2017 Chief Executive elections. While allowing the CE to be elected by all electorates, "unpatriotic" candidates would have to be screened out by a Beijing-controlled nominating committee. The NPCSC decision also reaffirms the electoral method for the 2016 remains unchanged.[2] In response to the NPCSC decision, the Hong Kong Federation of Students and the student pressure group Scholarism staged a co-ordinated class boycott which later led into a months-long large-scale occupy movement, as proposed by the Occupy Central movement, which was referred as the "Umbrella Revolution.[3][4]

The government proposals eventually failed to gain the required two-thirds support in the Legislative Council as the pan-democrats vetoed it on 18 June 2015. In response to the occupy movement and reform, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying urged the voters to "punish" the opposition democratic candidates by voting them out in the upcoming legislative election.[5]

Thunderbolt plan

Occupy Central co-founder Benny Tai, who was inspired by the electoral victory the Democratic Progressive Party received in the 2016 Taiwanese legislative election, has mapped out a "thunderbolt plan" for pan-democrats to grab half of the seats in the Legislative Council election in order to have much stronger bargaining power in future political reform. He suggests the non-pro-Beijing camp to field no more than 23 lists if their goal is to win 23 seats in the geographical constituencies, six tickets for nine-seat New Territories West and New Territories East, four tickets for six-seat Hong Kong Island and Kowloon West, and three for five-seat Kowloon East respectively.[6]

For the functional constituencies, Tai suggested that besides retaining the current six trade-based functional constituencies and three District Council (Second) super seats, the camp needs to target three additional seats in Medical, Engineering and Architectural, Surveying and Planning.[6]

Tai has met with reservations from some pro-democracy politicians. Democrat legislator Sin Chung-kai said Tai’s idea would be "difficult to implement" as doubted the umbrella soldiers and radical parties would be willing to collaborate. Albert Chan of radical People Power dismissed Tai’s scheme as "nightmare".[6] Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood (ADPL) chairwoman Rosanda Mok on the other hand has been actively attempted in implementing the plan.

Tai's plan hit its first setback when the Neo Democrats decided not to support the proposed coordinating mechanism for the District Council (Second) super seats in May.[7]

Emergence of new political forces

The emergence of new political groups led by young activists is set to shake up the political landscape of Hong Kong. Hong Kong Indigenous, a pro-independence localist group, faire well in the February New Territories East by-election by receiving more than 66,000 votes, coming third after pan-democratic Civic Party and pro-Beijing DAB, gaining about 15 percent of the total votes. A day after the election, localist groups including Wong Yuk-man's Proletariat Political Institute, Wong Yeung-tat's Civic Passion and Chin Wan's Hong Kong Resurgence Order announced a plan to field candidates in all five geographical constituencies.[8]

On 10 April 2016. six post-Occupy organisations, Youngspiration, East Kowloon Community, Tin Shui Wai New Force, Cheung Sha Wan Community Establishment Power, Tsz Wan Shan Constructive Power and Tuen Mun Community, political groups formed after the Umbrella Revolution, formed an electoral alliance planned to field candidates in four of the five geographical constituencies with the agenda to put forward a referendum on Hong Kong's self-determination.[9] Hong Kong Indigenous and another new pro-independence Hong Kong National Party also stated that they will run in the upcoming election.

On the same day on 10 April 2016, the student leaders in the Umbrella Revolution, Joshua Wong, Oscar Lai and Agnes Chow of Scholarism and Nathan Law of the Hong Kong Federation of Students (HKFS) also formed a new party Demosisto which was inspired by Taiwan's New Power Party which was formed by the Sunflower Movement leaders and fared well in the 2016 Taiwanese legislative election.[10] The new party calls for referendum on Hong Kong's future after 2047 when the One Country, Two Systems is supposed to expire.[11] The party aimed at fielding candidates in Hong Kong Island and Kowloon East, facing competitions from other new political groups while posing challenge to the traditional pan-democracy camp.

Due to the soaring number of candidates which may split the pro-democracy votes, political scientist Professor Ma Ngok said the pro-democracy candidates might all suffer the same fate amid infighting, even under proportional representation.[12]

Pre-election issues

Leung Chun-ying's re-election

See also: Leung Chun-ying as Chief Executive of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Chief Executive election, 2017

The pan-democracy camp has campaigned to block Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, whose popularity dropped to a new low, from serving a second term. Technology and media entrepreneur Ricky Wong Wai-kay, whose Hong Kong Television Network (HKTV) the free-to-air television licence was denied by Leung's Executive Council in October 2013 and sparked public uproar and protests, also started his “ABC campaign” (Anyone but CY) by announcing Leung’s exit as his key campaign platform.[13] Wong is backed by the Liberal Party, a pro-Beijing party representing the business sector which has been at odds with the Chief Executive since the 2012 Chief Executive election when the Liberals openly opposed Leung.

Causeway Bay bookseller disappearances

Main article: Causeway Bay Books disappearances

Lam Wing-kee, one of the five Causeway Bay booksellers who went missing from October 2015 returned to Hong Kong and revealed at a press conference in June 2016 that he was kidnapped at the China–Hong Kong border in October and put through eight months of mental torture. The controversy sparked concerns about whether mainland law enforcement officers were taking the law into their own hands in Hong Kong and became a blow to Hongkongers’ confidence in the "One Country, Two Systems". Professor Lau Siu-kai, former head of the Hong Kong government’s think tank, the Central Policy Unit, worried that more people may vote for pan-democracy camp in September’s election.[14]

Contesting parties and candidates

Pro-Beijing camp

Pan-democracy camp

  • Civic Party: The Civic Party became the largest pro-democracy party along with the Democratic Party after the 2012 election. On 27 January 2016, the party received 17 nominations for the intra-party primary on 27 January 2016. Three incumbents, Claudia Mo, Kwok Ka-ki and Dennis Kwok will seek for re-election while party leader Alan Leong and Kenneth Chan decided to step down.[24] Jeremy Janson Tam Man-ho will seek for nomination for replacing Leung in Kowloon East and Tanya Chan will contest in Hong Kong Island after she failed to get re-elected standing in Kenneth Chan's ticket in 2012. Sumly Chan, a Tsuen Wan District Councillor, will also seek for nomination to run in the District Council (Second) "super seat".
  • Democratic Party: The Democrats were the first to set up unprecedented intra-party pre-election primaries for the candidacies for the Legislative Council elections.[25] On 31 December 2015, a total number of 14 nominations were received. Incumbents Emily Lau, Albert Ho and Sin Chung-kai will not seek re-election.[26] The primary results were finalised on 24 April with new faces Lam Cheuk-ting, Roy Kwong Chun-yu, Ted Hui Chi-fung and Andrew Wan contesting in the upcoming election.
  • Labour Party: All three of the directly elected Labour incumbents, Lee Cheuk-yan, Cyd Ho and Fernando Cheung will seek for re-election, while new chairwoman Suzanne Wu and vice-chairman Chiu Shi-shun will seek for nominations in Kowloon East and Kowloon West respectively. The nomination will be confirmed in the party congress in June.[27]
  • People Power–League of Social Democrats: Facing challenges from the emerging post-Occupy groups, the League of Social Democrats (LSD) and the People Power, radical faction in the pan-democracy camp, formed an electoral alliance in the name of "progressive democrats". The League will field nine candidates with the aim to win at least six seats, incumbent Leung Kwok-hung and Raymond Chan will seek re-election in the New Territories East in separate tickets, League chairman Avery Ng and People Power former chairman Christopher Lau and chairwoman Erica Yuen will run in Kowloon West and Hong Kong Island respectively, People Power's Tam Tak-chi in Kowloon East, while League vice-chairman Raphael Wong Ho-ming will form a join ticket with Albert Chan in New Territories West.[28][29][30]
  • Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood (ADPL): Although barring from running in the same constituency as he lost his District Council seat in the 2015 local election, incumbent District Council (Second) legislator Frederick Fung intends to run in the geographical constituency in the September election. 2012 candidate and vice-chairman Tam Kwok-kiu narrowly defeated chairwoman Rosanda Mok in the primary for Kowloon West, while Sham Shui Po District Councillor Ho Kai-ming intends to run in the District Council (Second) seat.[31]
  • Neighbourhood and Worker's Service Centre (NWSC): The long-time legislator Leung Yiu-chung for the NWSC is actively considering running in the District Council (Second) constituency, while his place in New Territories West will be succeeded by his long-time disciple Wong Yun-tat.
  • Neo Democrats: Once vowed not to participate in the District Council (Second) constituency created under the Democratic Party's modified reform proposals in 2010 which the Neo Democrats broke away from the party to oppose it, the Neo Democrats has announced that it will consider fielding Kwan Wing-yip in District Council (Second). Besides its current seat held by Gary Fan in New Territories East, It has considered fielding candidate in Kowloon East and New Territories West.[30]
  • Demosisto: Chairman Nathan Law and film director Shu Kei are considering running in Hong Kong Island while Oscar Lai is considering Kowloon East.[11]

Localist groups

Others

  • Path of Democracy: The moderate group led by former legislator Ronny Tong set to field two candidates, governors Gary Wong Chi-him and Raymond Mak Ka-chun.[33] Co-convenor Joseph Lau Pui-wing, who initially considered running in New Territories East, pulled out before the nomination period.[34]
  • Third Side: The new moderate party has planned to field candidates in the two Kowloon and two New Territories constituencies.[35]

Retiring incumbents

Constituency Departing incumbents Party
Hong Kong Island Kenneth Chan Ka-lok Civic
Sin Chung-kai Democratic
Jasper Tsang Yok-sing DAB
Kowloon East Chan Kam-lam DAB
Alan Leong Kah-kit Civic
New Territories West Tam Yiu-chung DAB
New Territories East Emily Lau Wai-hing Democratic
Heung Yee Kuk Lau Wong-fat BPA
Medical Leung Ka-lau Nonpartisan
Social Welfare Cheung Kwok-che Labour
Wholesale and Retail Vincent Fang Kang Liberal
District Council (First) Ip Kwok-him DAB
District Council (Second) Chan Yuen-han FTU
Albert Ho Chun-yan Democratic

See also

Notes

  1. ^ The votes received by Economic Synergy and Kowloon West New Dynamic.

References

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