Daniel Wong Kwok-tung explained

Daniel Wong Kwok-tung
Native Name Lang:zh
Office:Member of the Urban Council
Constituency:Yau Tsim
Term Start:1 April 1989
Term End:31 December 1999
Predecessor:Kwan Lim-ho
Successor:Council abolished
Office1:Member of the Kowloon City District Council
Constituency1:Prince
Term Start1:1 January 2020
Term End1:31 December 2023
Predecessor1:Ting Kin-wa
Successor1:Constituency abolished
Office2:Member of the Wong Tai Sin District Council
Constituency2:Choi Wan East
Term Start2:1 January 2004
Term End2:31 December 2015
Predecessor2:Lo Siu-wah
Successor2:Timothy Choy
Term Start3:1 April 1988
Term End3:31 March 1991
Office3:Member of the Yau Tsim District Board
Constituency3:Yau Ma Tei North
Predecessor3:Kwan Miu-mei
Successor3:Kwan Miu-mei
Party:Democratic Party
Otherparty:ADPL (1990s)
The Frontier (early 2000s)
LSD (2006–10s)
Birth Date:28 July 1949
Birth Place:British Hong Kong
Nationality:Republic of China
Profession:Solicitor
Alma Mater:National Taiwan University

Daniel Wong Kwok-tung (; born 28 July 1949) is a Hong Kong lawyer and politician. He is a former member of the Kowloon City District Council for Prince constituency. Prior to that, he had been elected member of the Yau Tsim District Board, Urban Council and Wong Tai Sin District Council. He is a current member of the Democratic Party, before that he was a member of the Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood (ADPL), The Frontier and the League of Social Democrats (LSD).

Biography

Wong was born in 1949 and was educated at the National Taiwan University in Taiwan. He first contested in the 1988 District Board election where he won a seat in the Yau Tsim District Board for Yau Ma Tei North. He went on and won a seat in Urban Council, representing Yau Tsim in the 1989 Urban Council election, where he served through the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong until the abolishment of the Provisional Urban Council in 1999.

During the time, Wong joined the pro-democratic Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood (ADPL) and unsuccessfully challenged Frederick Fung's chairmanship in 1995, in which he and his supporters accused of Fung for taking the position of Hong Kong Affairs Advisers from the Beijing government.[1] Wong also ran in the 1995 Legislative Council election but was defeated by James To of the Democratic Party.[2]

Wong later quit the ADPL and joined the more radical The Frontier. He ran in the 2003 District Council election and was elected to the Wong Tai Sin District Council through Choi Wan East. He held onto the seat until he was defeated by Timothy Choy Tsz-kin of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) in 2015. During that time, Wong became the founding member of the League of Social Democrats (LSD) but later switched to the Democratic Party.

In the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests, Wong volunteered for giving legal assistance to hundreds of arrested protesters. In the 2019 District Council election, Wong campaigned for District Councillor for the third time, running in Prince of the Kowloon City District Council. He defeated pro-Beijing incumbent Ting Kin-wa with a margin of 293 votes.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Daily Report: China, Issues 88-97. 104. Foreign Broadcast Information Service. 1995.
  2. Book: Kuan, Hsin-Chi. The 1995 Legislative Council Elections in Hong Kong. Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies. 1996. 133.
  3. News: 【光復區會●太子】迎接光輝歲月 逆權律師桐叔:一定不負所託. 蘋果日報. 2019-12-04.