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5th Legislative Council of Hong Kong

The Fifth Legislative Council of Hong Kong was the fifth meeting of the legislative branch of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government. The membership of the LegCo is based on the 2012 election. The term of the session is from 1 October 2012 to 30 September 2016, during the term in office of the Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying. Due to the new arrangements agreed in a contentious LegCo vote in 2010, the session consists of the new total of 70 seats in LegCo, ten more than previously, with 35 members elected in geographical constituencies through direct elections, and 35 members in functional constituencies, in which five District Council (Second) functional constituency seats each represent all 18 District councils of Hong Kong voted for by all resident voters in Hong Kong (who did not have a vote in any other functional constituency).[1][2] The Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong remained the largest party while the pan-democrats secured the one-third crucial minority. Notable new members of the LegCo members include Gary Fan from the new established party Neo Democrats and first openly gay councillor, People Power's Ray Chan Chi-chuen.[3]

5th Legislative Council of
Hong Kong
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Overview
Legislative bodyLegislative Council
JurisdictionHong Kong
Meeting placeLegislative Council Complex
Term1 October 2012 – 30 September 2016
GovernmentLeung government
Websitelegco.gov.hk/
Members70 members
PresidentTsang Yok-sing (DAB)
Party controlPro-Beijing camp

Major events

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2012–13

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  • 8 November 2012: Motion on "Equal rights for people of different sexual orientations", moved by Cyd Ho, was negatived.[4]
  • 13 December 2012: Motion on "Vote of no confidence in the Chief Executive", moved by the Democratic Party's Wu Chi-wai, in response to the illegal structures scandal of Leung Chun-ying's residences was voted down by the Pro-Beijing camp.[5]
  • 16 January 2013: Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying presented his first policy address to the council.[6]
  • 27 February 2013: The 2013–14 Budget Speech was delivered by the Financial Secretary, Mr John C Tsang, in the Legislative Council.[7]
  • 24 April – 21 May 2013 : Five radical pan-democrats People Power and League of Social Democrats started filibustering by moving a total of 710 amendments on the Budget Appropriation Bill debate, to press for a universal pension scheme and a HK$10,000 cash handout.[8] The government warned that the service would shut down if the budget bill do not pass. President of the Legislative Council Jasper Tsang ordered to end the filibuster on 13 May after 55 hours spent to debate 17 of the 148 amendments.[9] The Appropriation Bill was passed on 21 May 2013 with 684 amendments negatived.[10]

2013–14

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Protests against the HKSAR government's decision to refuse a free-to-air broadcast licence to Hong Kong Television.

2015–16

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  • 11 March 2016: The HK$19.6 billion extra funds for controversial Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong Express Rail Link (XRL) project was passed by the Financial Committee in a sudden vote despite fierce protests and filibustering from the pan-democratic legislators. The pan-democrats questioned the procedure set by the acting chairman Chan Kam-lam who only approved 36 of the 19 pan-democratic legislators' 1,262 motions.[15]

Major legislation

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Enacted

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  • 17 April 2013: Import and Export (General) (Amendment) Regulation 2013
  • 21 May 2013: Appropriation Bill 2013
  • 22 May 2013: District Council (Amendment) Bill 2013

Proposed

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  • 18 June 2015: Motion Concerning the Amendment to the Method for the Selection of the Chief Executive of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
  • 4 March 2016: Copyright (Amendment) Bill 2014

2015 Hong Kong electoral reform

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Main article: 2014–15 Hong Kong electoral reform
 
Pro-Beijing legislators walked out right before the historic vote.

On 18 June 2015, right before the vote, pro-Beijing legislator Jeffrey Lam Kin-fung led a walk-out of members of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB), the Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong (BPA), most members of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (FTU) and other pro-Beijing legislators, leaving five Liberal Party legislators, Chan Yuen-han of the FTU and two other pro-Beijing independents remained in the chamber. The government's reform proposal failed as 8 legislators voted in favour and 28 votes against.[16] All 27 pan democrats who had vowed to vote down the reform did so, as did one pro-Beijing legislator Leung Ka-lau representing the Medical constituency. Lam explained that the walk-out was an impromptu attempt to delay the division after the chairman denied his request for a 15-minute recess so that his party member Lau Wong-fat, who was delayed, could cast his vote in favour of the Beijing-backed reforms.[17] However, enough legislators remained in the chamber that quorum was met and the proposal was voted down while most of the pro-Beijing legislators were outside. Nine pro-Beijing legislators, including five Liberal Party members, stayed behind out of confusion, and only eight of them voted in favour of the package, giving the rest of the world the false impression there was no support for the blueprint.[18]

Composition

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Affiliation Election At dissolution
Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong 13 13
Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong 0 7
Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions 6 6
Liberal Party 5 5
New People's Party 2 2
Federation of Hong Kong and Kowloon Labour Unions 1 1
New Century Forum 1 1
Economic Synergy 3 0
Professional Forum 2 0
Independent 9 7
Total for Pro-Beijing camp 42 42
Civic Party 6 6
Democratic Party 6 6
Labour Party 4 4
People Power 3 2
Professional Commons 2 2
League of Social Democrats 1 1
Neighbourhood and Worker's Service Centre 1 1
Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood 1 1
Neo Democrats 1 1
Independent 2 3
Total for Pan-democracy camp 27 27
Non-aligned independent 1 1
Total 70 70

Note: Italic represents organisations that still function but become under another affiliation.

Graphical representation of the Legislative Council

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Current Legislative Council of Hong Kong seat composition by party.

Pan-democracy camp (27)

  People Power (2)
  LSD (1)
  Neo Democrats (1)
  NSWC (1)
  Labour (4)
  Civic (6)
  Prof Commons (2)
  Democratic (6)
  ADPL (1)
  Independent (4)

Pro-Beijing camp (42)

  Liberal (5)
  New Forum (1)
  BPA (7)
  NPP (2)
  DAB (13)
  FTU (6)
  FLU (1)
  Independent (7)

Leadership

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President Jasper Tsang

Convenors

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List of members

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The following table is a list of LegCo members elected on 9 September 2012 in the order of precedence.

Members who did not serve throughout the term are italicised. Supplementary members elected in by-elections are listed below.

Key to changes since legislative election:

a = change in party allegiance
b = by-election
Capacity Constituency Portrait Elected Members Elected Party Political Alignment Born Occupation(s) Assumed
Office
President of the Legislative Council
GC Hong Kong Island   Jasper Tsang DAB Pro-Beijing (1947-05-14)14 May 1947 Legislative Councillor 1998
Other members
FC District Council (Second)   Albert Ho Democratic Pan-democracy (1951-12-01)1 December 1951 Solicitor and Notary Public
Legislative Councillor 		1998
GC New Territories West   Lee Cheuk-yan Labour/CTU Pan-democracy (1957-02-12)12 February 1957 Legislative Councillor 1998
FC District Council (Second)   James To Democratic Pan-democracy (1963-03-11)11 March 1963 Solicitor 1998
GC Kowloon East   Chan Kam-lam DAB Pro-Beijing (1949-01-22)22 January 1949 Legislative Councillor 1998
GC New Territories West   Leung Yiu-chung NWSC Pan-democracy (1953-05-19)19 May 1953 Legislative Councillor 1998
FC Heung Yee Kuk   Lau Wong-fat Economic Synergya Pro-Beijing (1936-10-15)15 October 1936 Company Chairman 1998
GC New Territories East   Emily Lau Democratic Pan-democracy (1952-01-22)22 January 1952 Legislative Councillor 1998
GC New Territories West   Tam Yiu-chung DAB Pro-Beijing (1949-12-15)15 December 1949 Legislative Councillor 1998
FC Real Estate and Construction   Abraham Shek Professional Foruma Pro-Beijing (1945-06-24)24 June 1945 Company Director 2000
FC Catering   Tommy Cheung Liberal Pro-Beijing (1949-09-30)30 September 1949 Merchant
Legislative Councillor 		2000
FC District Council (Second)   Frederick Fung ADPL Pan-democracy (1953-03-17)17 March 1953 Legislative Councillor 2000
FC Wholesale and Retail   Vincent Fang Liberal Pro-Beijing (1943-05-07)7 May 1943 Chief Executive
Managing Director 		2004
GC Hong Kong Island   Wong Kwok-hing FTU Pro-Beijing (1949-03-29)29 March 1949 Writer
FTU Director 		2004
FC Health Services   Joseph Lee Independent Pan-democracy (1959-08-14)14 August 1959 Dean and Professor 2004
FC Commercial (First)   Jeffrey Lam Economic Synergya Pro-Beijing (1951-10-23)23 October 1951 Merchant 2004
FC Industrial (First)   Andrew Leung Economic Synergya Pro-Beijing (1951-02-24)24 February 1951 Merchant 2004
FC Import and Export   Wong Ting-kwong DAB Pro-Beijing (1949-09-12)12 September 1949 Merchant 2004
GC New Territories Eastb   Ronny Tong Civica Pan-democracy (1950-08-28)28 August 1950 Senior Counsel 2004
GC Hong Kong Island   Cyd Ho Labour/Civic Act-up Pan-democracy (1954-07-24)24 July 1954 Legislative Councillor 2008
FC District Council (Second)   Starry Lee DAB Pro-Beijing (1974-03-13)13 March 1974 Accountant
Legislative Councillor 		2008
FC Industrial (Second)   Lam Tai-fai Independent Pro-Beijing (1959-11-22)22 November 1959 Legislative Councillor 2008
GC New Territories East   Chan Hak-kan DAB Pro-Beijing (1976-04-24)24 April 1976 Legislative Councillor 2008
FC Insurance   Chan Kin-por Independent Pro-Beijing (1954-05-10)10 May 1954 Legislative Councillor
Chief Executive 		2008
GC Kowloon West   Priscilla Leung Professional Forum (KWND)a Pro-Beijing (1961-11-18)18 November 1961 Associate Professor
Barrister-at-law 		2008
FC Medical   Leung Ka-lau Independent Non-aligned 1962 (1962) Doctor 2008
FC Social Welfare   Cheung Kwok-che Labour/SWGU Pan-democracy (1951-11-08)8 November 1951 Social Worker 2008
GC Kowloon East   Wong Kwok-kin FTU Pro-Beijing (1952-05-03)3 May 1952 Legislative Councillor 2008
FC District Council (First)   Ip Kwok-him DAB Pro-Beijing (1951-11-08)8 November 1951 Legislative Councillor 2008
GC Hong Kong Island   Regina Ip NPP Pro-Beijing (1950-08-24)24 August 1950 Chair of Savantas Policy Institute 2008
GC Kowloon East   Paul Tse Independent Pro-Beijing (1959-11-21)21 November 1959 Solicitor 2008
GC Kowloon East   Alan Leong Civic Pan-democracy (1958-02-22)22 February 1958 Senior Counsel 2010 (b)
GC New Territories East   Leung Kwok-hung LSD Pan-democracy (1957-01-18)18 January 1957 Legislative Councillor 2010 (b)
GC New Territories West   Albert Chan People Power Pan-democracy (1955-03-03)3 March 1955 Legislative Councillor 2010 (b)
GC Kowloon West   Wong Yuk-man People Powera Pan-democracy (1951-10-01)1 October 1951 Legislative Councillor 2010 (b)
GC Kowloon West   Claudia Mo Civic Pan-democracy (1956-03-27)27 March 1956 Media Freelancer
Part-time Lecturer 		2012
GC New Territories West   Michael Tien NPP Pro-Beijing (1950-08-26)26 August 1950 Company Chairman 2012
GC New Territories East   James Tien Liberal Pro-Beijing (1947-01-08)8 January 1947 Company Chairman 2012
FC Finance   Ng Leung-sing Independent Pro-Beijing (1949-07-11)11 July 1949 Banker 2012
FC Agriculture and Fisheries   Steven Ho DAB Pro-Beijing (1979-11-30)30 November 1979 Legislative Councillor 2012
FC Transport   Frankie Yick Liberal Pro-Beijing 1953 (1953) Company Director 2012
GC Kowloon East   Wu Chi-wai Democratic Pan-democracy (1962-10-18)18 October 1962 Legislative Councillor
District Councillor 		2012
FC Tourism   Yiu Si-wing Independent Pro-Beijing 1955 (1955) Deputy chair of China Travel Service 2012
GC New Territories East   Gary Fan Neo Democrats Pan-democracy (1966-10-30)30 October 1966 Legislative Councillor
District Councillor 		2012
FC Sports, Performing Arts,
Culture and Publication 		  Ma Fung-kwok New Forum Pro-Beijing (1955-07-22)22 July 1955 Managing Director 2012
FC Information Technology   Charles Peter Mok Prof Commons Pan-democracy (1964-10-25)25 October 1964 Information Technology Executive 2012
GC New Territories East   Chan Chi-chuen People Power/Frontier Pan-democracy (1972-04-16)16 April 1972 Legislative Councillor 2012
GC New Territories West   Chan Han-pan DAB/NTAS Pro-Beijing 1975 (1975) Legislative Councillor
District Councillor 		2012
GC Hong Kong Island   Kenneth Chan Civic Pan-democracy (1968-06-12)12 June 1968 Associate Professor 2012
FC District Council (Second)   Chan Yuen-han FTU Pro-Beijing (1946-11-15)15 November 1946 Labour Service 2012
GC New Territories West   Leung Che-cheung DAB Pro-Beijing (1957-02-03)3 February 1957 Legislative Councillor
District Councillor 		2012
FC Accountancy   Kenneth Leung Prof Commons Pan-democracy (1962-10-17)17 October 1962 Tax Consultant
Accountant 		2012
GC New Territories West   Alice Mak FTU Pro-Beijing (1971-11-01)1 November 1971 Legislative Councillor
District Councillor 		2012
GC New Territories West   Kwok Ka-ki Civic Pan-democracy (1961-07-20)20 July 1961 Urologist 2012
FC Labour   Kwok Wai-keung FTU Pro-Beijing (1978-04-15)15 April 1978 Legislative Councillor 2012
FC Legal   Dennis Kwok Civic (Prof Commons) Pan-democracy (1978-04-15)15 April 1978 Barrister-at-law 2012
FC Financial Services   Christopher Cheung Independenta Pro-Beijing (1952-05-02)2 May 1952 Securities Dealer 2012
GC New Territories East   Fernando Cheung Labour Pan-democracy (1957-02-23)23 February 1957 Lecturer 2012
GC Hong Kong Island   Sin Chung-kai Democratic Pan-democracy (1960-06-15)15 June 1960 Legislative Councillor 2012
GC Kowloon West   Helena Wong Democratic Pan-democracy (1959-03-21)21 March 1959 Lecturer 2012
FC Education   Ip Kin-yuen Independent (PTU) Pan-democracy 1961 (1961) Legislative Councillor
Teacher 		2012
GC New Territories East   Elizabeth Quat DAB Pro-Beijing (1966-12-23)23 December 1966 Legislative Councillor
District Councillor 		2012
FC Commercial (Second)   Martin Liao Independent Pro-Beijing 1957 (1957) Barrister-at-law 2012
FC Labour   Poon Siu-ping FLU Pro-Beijing 1957 (1957) Barrister-at-law 2012
FC Labour   Tang Ka-piu FTU Pro-Beijing (1979-10-29)29 October 1979 Social Worker 2012
GC Kowloon West   Chiang Lai-wan DAB Pro-Beijing (1955-05-16)16 May 1955 Legislative Councillor 2012
FC Engineering   Lo Wai-kwok Independenta Pro-Beijing (1953-12-25)25 December 1953 Engineer 2012
FC Textiles and Garment   Chung Kwok-pan Liberal Pro-Beijing (1963-11-04)4 November 1963 Merchant 2012
GC Hong Kong Island   Christopher Chung DAB Pro-Beijing (1957-03-31)31 March 1957 Legislative Councillor 2012
FC Architectural, Surveying
and Planning 		  Tony Tse Independent Pro-Beijing (1954-10-27)27 October 1954 Surveyor 2012
Supplementary members
GC New Territories East   Alvin Yeung Civic Party Pro-democracy (1981-06-05)5 June 1981 Barrister 2016 (b)

By-election

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Other changes

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2012

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2013

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2015

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Committees

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Panels

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Maximiliano Herrera. "Electoral Calendar- world elections,US elections,presidential election,world parties". Mherrera.org. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
  2. ^ "Hong Kong votes in key legislative elections". Al Jazeera. 9 September 2012. Retrieved 9 September 2012.
  3. ^ "Hong Kong legislator hailed for coming out as gay". South China Morning Post. 12 September 2012. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  4. ^ LegCo Reporter Council Meeting 2012–2013 Issue No. 6 (8 November 2012)
  5. ^ LegCo Reporter Council Meeting 2012–2013 Issue No. 12 (13 December 2012)
  6. ^ LegCo Reporter Council Meeting 2012–2013 Issue No. 15 (16 January 2013)
  7. ^ "Budget Speech by the Financial Secretary". Hong Kong Government. 27 February 2013. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
  8. ^ "Filibustering continues over budget". RTHK. 29 April 2013. Retrieved 30 April 2013.
  9. ^ Lai, Ying-kit (13 May 2013). "Legco president Jasper Tsang orders end to budget bill filibuster". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
  10. ^ LegCo Reporter Council Meeting 2012–2013 Issue No. 28 (21 May 2013)
  11. ^ The LegCo Reporter – Council Meetings 2013–2014 – Issue No. 1 (11 October 2013)
  12. ^ LegCo Reporter Council Meeting 2013–2014 Issue No. 2 (17 October 2013)
  13. ^ LegCo Reporter Council Meeting 2013–2014 Issue No. 6 (8 November 2013)
  14. ^ The LegCo Reporter Council Meetings 2013–2014 Issue No. 20 (21 March 2014)
  15. ^ Cheng, Kris (11 March 2016). "Chaotic scenes at LegCo as additional funds for Express Rail Link approved in sudden vote". Hong Kong Free Press.
  16. ^ Lam, Hang-chi (18 June 2015). "And so, we stagger into an even more uncertain future". ejinsight.
  17. ^ "Why Did Pro-Beijing Lawmakers Walk Out of the Hong Kong Vote?". The Wall Street Journal. 18 June 2015.
  18. ^ Cheung, Tony; Lai, Ying-kit; Lam, Jeffie (20 June 2015). "Bickering escalates in pro-Beijing camp over bungled Legco vote on Hong Kong political reform". South China Morning Post.
  19. ^ "2016 Legislative Council Geographical Constituency New Territories By-election – Election Result". Electoral Affairs Commission. 29 February 2016.
  20. ^ But, Joshua (20 May 2013). "Lawmaker Wong Yuk-man quits People Power". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
  21. ^ Cheung, Gary; Lam, Jeffie; Ng, Kang-chung (22 June 2015). "Tearful Ronny Tong quits as legislator hours after resigning from Civic Party amid rift in Hong Kong's pan-democratic camp". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
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