Hong Kong Special Administrative Region: Legislative Council, 4 September 2016

At stake in this election:

• 70 seats in the Legislative Council

Description of government structure:

• Chief of State: President of China XI Jinping (since 14 March 2013)
• Head of Government: Chief Executive LEUNG Chun-ying (since 1 July 2012)
• Assembly: Hong Kong has a unicameral Legislative Council (LegCo) composed of 70 seats.

Description of electoral system:           

• In the Legislative Council, 35 members are directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by party-list proportional representation vote, 30 members are indirectly elected by the members of various functional constituencies, and 5 at large members are directly elected by all of Hong Kong’s eligible voters who are not in a functional constituency. All members of the Legislative Council serve 4-year terms.

Last Election:

• Elections for the Legislative Council were last held on 9 September 2012. Parties in the pro-Beijing camp took 43 of the total seats, with pro-democracy parties taking 27.

Main candidates in the election:

• Pro-Beijing parties
  • Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB)
    • Leader: Starry LEE Wai-king
    • Seats won in last election: 13
  • Business and Professional Alliance (BPA)
    • Leader: Andrew LEUNG Kwan-yuen
    • Seats won in last election: 7
  • Federation of Trade Unions (FTU)
    • Leader: Stanley NG Chau-pei
    • Seats won in last election: 6
  • Liberal Party
    • Leader: Felix CHUNG Kwok-pan
    • Seats won in last election: 5
  • New People’s Party (NPP)
    • Leader: Regina IP Lau Su-yee
    • Seats won in last election: 2
  • Other pro-Beijing parties
    • Leader: N/A
    • Seats won in last election: 10
• Pro-Democracy parties
  • Democratic Party
    • Leader: Emily LAU
    • Seats won in last election: 6
  • Civic Party
    • Leader: Audrey EU
    • Seats won in last election: 6
  • Labor Party
    • Leader: Suzanne WU Shui-shan
    • Seats won in last election: 4
  • People Power (PP)
    • Leader: Erica YUEN Mi-ming
    • Seats won in last election: 3
  • League of Social Democrats (LSD)
    • Leader: Avery NG Man-yuen
    • Seats won in last election: 1
  • Association for Democracy and People’s Livelihood (ADPL)
    • Leader: Rosanda MOK ka-han
    • Seats won in last election: 1
  • Professional Teachers’ Union (PTU)
    • Leader: FUNG Wai-wah
    • Seats won in last election: 1
  • Neo Democrats
    • Leader: Collective Leadership
    • Seats won in last election: 1
  • Neighborhood and Workers Service Center (NWSC)
    • Leader: LEUNG Yui-chung
    • Seats won in last election: 1
  • Demosisto
    • Leader: Nathan LAW Kwun-chung
    • Seats won in last election: 0
• Others
  • Civic Passion – Proletariat Political Institute – Hong Kong Resurgence Order
    • Leaders: WONG Yuk-man, WONG Yeung-tat, CHIN Wan
    • Seats won in last election: 0
  • ALLinHK[1]
    • Leader: Collective Leadership
    • Seats won in last election: 0
  • Hong Kong Indigenous
    • Leader: Edward LEUNG
    • Seats won in last election: 0
  • Path of Democracy
    • Leader: Ronny TONG Ka-wah
    • Seats won in last election: 0
  • Third Side
    • Leader: TIK Chi-yuen
    • Seats won in last election: 0

Population and number of registered voters:

·         Population: 7,141,106 (July 2015 est.)

·         Registered Voters: 3,693,942 (2015)

Gender Data:

·         Female Population: 3,815,484 (July 2015 est.)

·         Is Hong Kong a signatory to CEDAW: N/A

·         Has Hong Kong ratified CEDAW: N/A

·         Gender Quota: No

·         Female candidates in this election: Yes

·         Number of Female Parliamentarians: 11 (15.71%)

·         Human Development Index Position: 12 (2014)

·         Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) Categorization: N/A

Disability Data:

·         Is Hong Kong a signatory to CRPD: N/A

·         Has Hong Kong ratified CRPD: N/A[2]

·         Population with a disability: 1,071,166 (est.)