List of Legislative Council of Hong Kong members 1991–1995
This is a list of Members elected to the Legislative Council in the colonial period at the 1991 election, held on 15 September 1991.
Composition
Affiliation | Election | At dissolution | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Co-operative Resources Centre/Liberal Party | 0 | 15 | ||
Liberal Democratic Federation of Hong Kong | 3 | 1 | ||
Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions/Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong | 1 | 1 | ||
New Hong Kong Alliance | 1 | 1 | ||
Federation for the Stability of Hong Kong | 3 | 0 | ||
Business and Professionals Federation of Hong Kong | 2 | 0 | ||
Breakfast Group | 0 | 6 | ||
Independent | 13 | 2 | ||
Total for Conservatives/pro-Beijing | 23 | 26 | ||
United Democrats of Hong Kong/Democratic Party | 14 | 15 | ||
Hong Kong Democratic Foundation | 2 | 1 | ||
Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood | 1 | 1 | ||
Hong Kong and Kowloon Trades Union Council | 1 | 1 | ||
Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions | 0 | 1 | ||
Meeting Point | 2 | 0 | ||
Independent | 3 | 4 | ||
Total for Liberals/pro-democracy | 23 | 23 | ||
Non-aligned Independent | 10 | 8 | ||
Ex officio members | 3 | 3 | ||
President (Governor) | 1 | 0 | ||
Total | 60 | 60 | ||
Note: Italic represents organizations that still function but become under another affiliation.
Graphical representation of the Legislative Council
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- Ex officio members
Liberals/Pro-democracy:
Conservatives/Pro-Beijing:
List of Members elected in the legislative election
The following table is a list of LegCo members elected on 15 September 1991. Members who did not serve throughout the term are italicised.
Key to changes since legislative election:
- a = change in party allegiance
- b = resigned/by-election
- c = other change
- d = did not take seat
Selection Method |
Capacity or Constituency | Elected Members | Elected Party | Political Alignment | Born | Assumed Office | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
President | Governor | David Clive Wilson | Nonpartisan | Government | 14 February 1935 | 1987 | |
Deputy Pres. | Appointed | John Joseph Swaine | Independent | Conservative | 22 April 1932 | 1980 | |
EO | Chief Secretary | David Robert Ford | Nonpartisan | Government | 22 February 1935 | 1980 | |
EO | Financial Secretary | Nathaniel W. H. Macleod | Nonpartisan | Government | 6 January 1940 | 1987 | |
EO | Attorney General | Jeremy Fell Mathews | Nonpartisan | Government | 14 December 1941 | 1980 | |
AP | Appointed | Allen Lee | Independenta | Conservative | 24 April 1940 | 1978 | |
FC | First Industrialb | Stephen Cheong | BPFa | Conservative | 31 May 1941 | 1980 | |
AP | Appointed | Selina Chow | Independenta | Conservative | 25 January 1945 | 1981 | |
AP | Appointedb | Rita Fan | Independenta | Conservative | 20 September 1945 | 1983 | |
FC | Social Services | Hui Yin-fat | Independent | Pro-democracy | 28 April 1936 | 1985 | |
GC | Hong Kong Island East | Martin Lee | United Democratsa | Pro-democracy | 8 June 1938 | 1985 | |
FC | Finance | David Li | Independent | Conservative | 13 March 1939 | 1985 | |
FC | Second Industrial | Ngai Shiu-kit | LDFa | Conservative | 14 November 1924 | 1985 | |
FC | Labour | Pang Chun-hoi | TUC | Pro-Taiwan | 26 June 1921 | 1985 | |
GC | Kowloon East | Szeto Wah | United Democratsa | Pro-democracy | 28 February 1931 | 1985 | |
GC | New Territories Westb | Tai Chin-wahd | FSHK | Conservative | 24 August 1952 | 1985 | |
FC | Labour | Tam Yiu-chung | FTUa | Pro-Beijing | 15 December 1949 | 1985 | |
GC | New Territories East | Andrew Wong | Independent | Moderate | 11 December 1943 | 1985 | |
FC | Rural | Lau Wong-fat | FSHKa | Conservative | 15 October 1936 | 1985 | |
FC | Architectural, Surveying and Planning | Edward Ho | BPFa | Conservative | 2 December 1938 | 1987 | |
FC | Real Estate and Construction | Ronald Joseph Arculli | Independenta | Conservative | 2 January 1939 | 1988 | |
AP | Appointed | Martin Gilbert Barrow | Independenta | Conservative | 10 March 1944 | 1988 | |
AP | Appointed | Peggy Lam | Independenta | Conservative | 2 May 1928 | 1988 | |
AP | Appointed | Miriam Lau | Independenta | Conservative | 27 April 1947 | 1988 | |
AP | Appointed | Lau Wah-sum | Independenta | Conservative | 30 January 1928 | 1988 | |
FC | Medical | Leong Che-hung | DFa | Pro-democracy | 23 April 1939 | 1988 | |
FC | First Commercial | James David McGregor | DF | Pro-democracy | 30 January 1924 | 1988 | |
FC | Urban Council | Elsie Tu | Independent | Moderate | 2 June 1913 | 1988 | |
FC | Accountancy | Peter Wong | LDFa | Conservative | 25 April 1944 | 1988 | |
GC | New Territories South | Albert Chan | United Democratsa | Pro-democracy | 3 March 1955 | 1991 | |
AP | Appointedb | Edward Chen | Independent | Moderate | 14 January 1945 | 1991 | |
AP | Appointed | Vincent Cheng | Independent | Conservative | 16 July 1948 | 1991 | |
AP | Appointed | Moses Cheng | Independenta | Conservative | 1950 | 1991 | |
AP | Appointed | Marvin Cheung | Independenta | Conservative | 20 November 1947 | 1991 | |
FC | Teaching | Cheung Man-kwong | United Democratsa | Pro-democracy | 15 September 1954 | 1991 | |
FC | Financial Services | Chim Pui-chung | Independent | Conservative | 24 September 1946 | 1991 | |
GC | New Territories North | Fung Chi-wood | United Democratsa | Pro-democracy | 23 August 1956 | 1991 | |
GC | Kowloon West | Frederick Fung | ADPL | Pro-democracy | 17 March 1953 | 1991 | |
AP | Appointed | Timothy Ha | Independent | Moderate | 21 May 1937 | 1991 | |
FC | Health | Michael Ho | United Democratsa | Pro-democracy | 6 November 1955 | 1991 | |
GC | Hong Kong Island West | Huang Chen-ya | United Democratsa | Pro-democracy | 4 November 1939 | 1991 | |
FC | Legal | Simon Ip | Independenta | Moderate | 10 September 1948 | 1991 | |
AP | Appointed | Lam Kui-chun | Independenta | Conservative | 20 November 1941 | 1991 | |
GC | Kowloon Central | Conrad Lam | United Democratsa | Pro-democracy | 24 November 1935 | 1991 | |
GC | Kowloon Central | Lau Chin-shek | United Democratsa | Pro-democracy | 12 September 1944 | 1991 | |
GC | New Territories East | Emily Lau | Independent | Pro-democracy | 22 January 1952 | 1991 | |
GC | New Territories South | Lee Wing-tat | United Democratsa | Pro-democracy | 25 December 1955 | 1991 | |
FC | Regional Councilb | Gilbert Leung | FSHK | Conservative | 23 July 1953 | 1991 | |
AP | Appointed | Eric Li | Independenta | Conservative | 23 May 1953 | 1991 | |
GC | Kowloon East | Fred Li | Meeting Pointa | Pro-democracy | 25 April 1955 | 1991 | |
AP | Appointedb | Felice Lieh Mak | Independent | Conservative | 10 August 1941 | 1991 | |
GC | Hong Kong Island East | Man Sai-cheong | United Democratsa | Pro-democracy | 15 July 1944 | 1991 | |
GC | New Territories Westb | Ng Ming-yum | United Democratsa | Pro-democracy | 13 April 1955 | 1991 | |
AP | Appointed | Steven Poon | Independenta | Conservative | 9 July 1943 | 1991 | |
AP | Appointed | Henry Tang | Independenta | Conservative | 6 September 1952 | 1991 | |
GC | New Territories North | Tik Chi-yuen | Meeting Pointa | Pro-democracy | 24 September 1957 | 1991 | |
GC | Kowloon West | James To | United Democratsa | Pro-democracy | 11 March 1963 | 1991 | |
FC | Engineering | Samuel Wong | Independenta | Conservative | 2 November 1937 | 1991 | |
FC | Second Commercial | Philip Wong | NHKA | Conservative/Pro-Beijing | 23 December 1938 | 1991 | |
GC | Hong Kong Island West | Yeung Sum | United Democratsa | Pro-democracy | 22 November 1947 | 1991 | |
FC | Tourism | Howard Young | LDFa | Conservative | 30 March 1948 | 1991 | |
By-elections
- A by-election was held for the New Territories West after the elected member Tai Chin-wah refused to take the seat and was subsequently discovered forging credentials. Zachary Wong Wai-yin of the Meeting Point won the vacant seat on 8 December 1991.
- 30 August 1992, another by-election was held for the vacant seat in New Territories West after Ng Ming-yum died in office, Independent rural leader Tang Siu-tong was elected.
- 15 July 1993, James Tien, former appointed unofficial member of the Legislative Council won in the Industrial (First) by-election after the incumbent Stephen Cheong died of a heart attack.
- 28 July 1993, Alfred Tso won in the by-election for the Regional Council after legislator Gilbert Leung found guilty in for trying to bribe two regional councillors to vote for him in the 1991 election and was removed from the seat.[1]
- 5 March 1993, Lee Cheuk-yan replaced Lau Chin-shek in the Kowloon Central constituency after Lau resigned from his office in protest after an important labour bill which he had amended to protect workers was withdrawn by the government.[2]
Other changes
- Allen Lee, the Senior Unofficial Member of the Council with some other 17 appointed members founded a political grouping called Co-operative Resources Centre on 12 December 1991 as a counter-force to the United Democrats of Hong Kong. The group eventually transformed into the Liberal Party on 6 June 1993.
- Tam Yiu-chung (Labour) unionist from the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions co-founded the Beijing-loyalist party the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong in July 1992. Tam became the sole representative in the Council until 1995.
- Rita Fan, Edward Chen and Felice Lieh Mak, three appointed members resigned and subsequently replaced by Christine Loh, Roger Luk and Anna Wu.
- Edward Leong Che-hung (Medical), member of the Hong Kong Democratic Foundation joined the Meeting Point.
- The two largest pro-democratic parties the United Democrats of Hong Kong and Meeting Point merged into a new party called the Democratic Party on 2 October 1994, all LegCo members from the previous two parties except for Edward Leong joined the newly formed party.
See also
Citations
- Wong, Benjamin (7 August 2012). "Ex-lawmaker charged with offering bribe to poll rival". SCMP. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
- "Biography of Lau Chin-shek". The Democratic Party. Retrieved 1 May 2013.
References
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