List of Legislative Council of Hong Kong members 1991–1995 explained

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
bgcolor=Pink rowspan=8			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
bgcolor=LightGreen rowspan=7			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
	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.

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
					Government	1935 2, df=yes	1987
Deputy Pres.	Appointed				Conservative	1932 4, df=yes	1980
EO					Government	1935 2, df=yes	1980
EO					Government	1940 1, df=yes	1987
EO					Government	1941 12, df=yes	1980
AP	Appointed			Independent^a	Conservative	1940 4, df=yes	1978
FC	First Industrial^b			BPF^a	Conservative	1941 5, df=yes	1980
AP	Appointed			Independent^a	Conservative	1945 1, df=yes	1981
AP	Appointed^b			Independent^a	Conservative	1945 9, df=yes	1983
FC					Pro-democracy	1936 4, df=yes	1985
GC				United Democrats^a	Pro-democracy	1938 6, df=yes	1985
FC					Conservative	1939 3, df=yes	1985
FC				LDF^a	Conservative	1924 11, df=yes	1985
FC	Labour				Pro-Taiwan	1921 6, df=yes	1985
GC				United Democrats^a	Pro-democracy	1931 2, df=yes	1985
GC	New Territories West^b	^d			Conservative	1952 8, df=yes	1985
FC	Labour			FTU^a	Pro-Beijing	1949 12, df=yes	1985
GC					Moderate	1943 12, df=yes	1985
FC				FSHK^a	Conservative	1936 10, df=yes	1985
FC				BPF^a	Conservative	1938 12, df=yes	1987
FC				Independent^a	Conservative	1939 1, df=yes	1988
AP	Appointed			Independent^a	Conservative	1944 3, df=yes	1988
AP	Appointed			Independent^a	Conservative	1928 5, df=yes	1988
AP	Appointed			Independent^a	Conservative	1947 4, df=yes	1988
AP	Appointed			Independent^a	Conservative	1928 1, df=yes	1988
FC				DF^a	Pro-democracy	1939 4, df=yes	1988
FC					Pro-democracy	1924 1, df=yes	1988
FC					Moderate	1913 6, df=yes	1988
FC				LDF^a	Conservative	1944 4, df=yes	1988
GC				United Democrats^a	Pro-democracy	1955 3, df=yes	1991
AP	Appointed^b				Moderate	1945 1, df=yes	1991
AP	Appointed				Conservative	1948 7, df=yes	1991
AP	Appointed			Independent^a	Conservative		1991
AP	Appointed			Independent^a	Conservative	1947 11, df=yes	1991
FC				United Democrats^a	Pro-democracy	1954 9, df=yes	1991
FC					Conservative	1946 9, df=yes	1991
GC				United Democrats^a	Pro-democracy	1956 8, df=yes	1991
GC					Pro-democracy	1953 3, df=yes	1991
AP	Appointed				Moderate	1937 5, df=yes	1991
FC				United Democrats^a	Pro-democracy	1955 11, df=yes	1991
GC				United Democrats^a	Pro-democracy	1939 11, df=yes	1991
FC				Independent^a	Moderate	1948 9, df=yes	1991
AP	Appointed			Independent^a	Conservative	1941 11, df=yes	1991
GC				United Democrats^a	Pro-democracy	1935 11, df=yes	1991
GC				United Democrats^a	Pro-democracy	1944 9, df=yes	1991
GC					Pro-democracy	1952 1, df=yes	1991
GC				United Democrats^a	Pro-democracy	1955 12, df=yes	1991
FC	Regional Council^b				Conservative	1953 7, df=yes	1991
AP	Appointed			Independent^a	Conservative	1953 5, df=yes	1991
GC	Kowloon East			Meeting Point^a	Pro-democracy	1955 4, df=yes	1991
AP	Appointed^b				Conservative	1941 8, df=yes	1991
GC				United Democrats^a	Pro-democracy	1944 7, df=yes	1991
GC	New Territories West^b			United Democrats^a	Pro-democracy	1955 4, df=yes	1991
AP	Appointed			Independent^a	Conservative	1943 7, df=yes	1991
AP	Appointed			Independent^a	Conservative	1952 9, df=yes	1991
GC				Meeting Point^a	Pro-democracy	1957 9, df=yes	1991
GC				United Democrats^a	Pro-democracy	1963 3, df=yes	1991
FC	Engineering			Independent^a	Conservative	1937 11, df=yes	1991
FC	Second Commercial				Conservative/Pro-Beijing	1938 12, df=yes	1991
GC				United Democrats^a	Pro-democracy	1947 11, df=yes	1991
FC	Tourism			LDF^a	Conservative	1948 3, df=yes	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

• 1991 Hong Kong legislative election

References

• Database on LegCo Members

Notes and References

1. News: Ex-lawmaker charged with offering bribe to poll rival. Benjamin. Wong. 7 August 2012. 12 April 2013. SCMP.
2. Web site: Biography of Lau Chin-shek. The Democratic Party. 1 May 2013.