2016 Hong Kong legislative election

Hong Kong legislative election, 2016

September 2016
All 70 seats to the Legislative Council
BPA Leader Tam Yiu-chung Andrew Leung Alan Leong Party DAB BPA Civic Alliance Pro-Beijing Pro-Beijing Pan-democracy Leader's seat New Territories West Industrial (First) Kowloon East Last election 13 seats, 20.22% new 6 seats, 14.08% Current seats 13 7 6   FTU Leader Emily Lau Cheng Yiu-tong James Tien Party Democratic FTU Liberal Alliance Pan-democracy Pro-Beijing Pro-Beijing Leader's seat New Territories East N/A New Territories East Last election 6 seats, 13.65% 6 seats, 7.06% 5 seats, 2.64% Current seats 6 6 5   File:Erica Yuen at City Forum cut.jpg Leader Lee Cheuk-yan Erica Yuen Regina Ip Party Labour People Power NPP Alliance Pan-democracy Pan-democracy Pro-Beijing Leader's seat New Territories West N/A Hong Kong Island Last election 4 seats, 6.19% 3 seats, 9.73% 2 seats, 3.76% Current seats 4 2 2
Incumbent President Tsang Yok-sing DAB

The 2016 Hong Kong Legislative Council Election will be the election to the 6th Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo). The electoral method of the election is currently being discussed under the 2014 Hong Kong electoral reform along with the 2017 Hong Kong Chief Executive election, which is supposed to be implemented by the method of universal suffrage.

Background

See also: Democratic development in Hong Kong, 2010 Hong Kong electoral reform, and 2014 Hong Kong electoral reform

In December 2007, the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) ruled out the possible universal suffrage in the 2012 LegCo Election but on the other hand states that the election of the LegCo may be implemented by the method of electing all members by universal suffrage after the Chief Executive is elected by universal suffrage which may be implemented in 2017, which means that the 2016 LegCo Election will not be implemented by universal suffrage.

In October 2013, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying established the Task Force on Constitutional Development headed by the Chief Secretary for Administration Carrie Lam, Secretary for Justice Rimsky Yuen, and Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Raymond Tam as members to handle the public consultation. On 4 December 2013, the Consultation Document on the Methods for Selecting the Chief Executive in 2017 and for Forming the Legislative Council in 2016, entitled "Let’s Talk and Achieve Universal Suffrage", was published which commenced a five-month public consultation period.

For the 2016 LegCo Election, the Consultation Document set out the questions such as the size of Legislative Council, the electorate base of the Functional Constituencies and also number of Geographical Constituencies and number of seats in each Geographical Constituency.

See also

• Legislative Council of Hong Kong
• Hong Kong legislative elections

External links

• Legislative Council of Hong Kong