1996 Hong Kong provisional legislative election

none 1996 Hong Kong provisional legislative election Flag of Hong Kong (1959–1997).svg Hong Kong parliamentary no 1995 Hong Kong legislative election 1995 List of Legislative Council of Hong Kong members elected in 1995 1998 Hong Kong legislative election 1998 elected members All 60 seats to the Provisional Legislative Council 31 21 December 1996 400 150x150px Tsang Yok-sing Pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong 6 seats, 15.4% 10 150x150px Allen Lee Liberal Party (Hong Kong) Pro-Beijing 10 seats, 1.6% 10 150x120px Ambrose Lau Hong Kong Progressive Alliance Pro-Beijing 1 seat, 2.85% 6 150x150px Frederick Fung Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood Pan-democracy 4 seats, 9.55% 4 Hu Fa-kuang Liberal Democratic Federation of Hong Kong Pro-Beijing 1 seat, 1.27% 3 Wai Kee-shun New Hong Kong Alliance Pro-Beijing 1 seat 2 Party control Party control after election Pro-Beijing camp The 1996 Hong Kong Provisional Legislative Council election was held on 21 December 1996 for the members of the Provisional Legislative Council (PLC). The 60 members of the PLC were elected by the Selection Committee, a 400-member body elected by the Preparatory Committee for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, a Beijing-appointed body which was responsible for implementation work related to the establishment of the HKSAR. Being set up to replace the existing legislature elected in 1995, the election was challenged by the British government of its legality, and therefore had to take place in Shenzhen. It was also boycotted by the major pro-democracy party Democratic Party, despite another pro-democracy Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood (ADPL) deciding to contest in the election. The pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB) and pro-business Liberal Party both became the largest parties in the provisional legislature by winning 10 seats, while all four ADPL candidates were elected. Rita Fan was elected as the President of the PLC. The session lasted for one year and was replaced by the 1st Legislative Council in 1998. Background 1994 Hong Kong electoral reform The decision for establishment of the Provisional Legislative Council was decided by the Preparatory Committee for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, a Beijing-appointed body which was responsible for implementation work related to the establishment of the HKSAR, to fill the constitutional vacuum left by the Beijing government's decision on overthrowing the "through-train" proposal to let the colonial Legislative Council elected in 1995 transition through the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997, after the Sino-British disagreement on the constitutional reform made by the colonial governor Chris Patten.68 The New Legal Order in Hong Kong Raymond Wacks Hong Kong University Press 1999 The Preparatory Committee decided that the 60 members of the Provisional Legislative Council should be elected by the 400-member Selection Committee which was elected by the Preparatory Committee for the first Chief Executive election in 1996.12 Provisional Legislative Council http://www.legco.gov.hk/yr97-98/english/sec/a_rpt9798.pdf Results details by LegCo members List of LegCo members elected in Hong Kong legislative election, 1996 On 21 December 1996, the Selection Committee elected the 60 members of the Provisional Legislative Council from a list of 130 candidates in Shenzhen as the legality of the PLC was challenged by the colonial authorities. The candidate list was finalised ten days before the election. Of those 130, 91 were members of the Selection Committee itself and 35 were the losers of the 1995 election.China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Inc.: The Dynamics of a New Empire Willem Van Kemenade Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010 Most members of the pro-democracy camp including the Democratic Party boycotted the election as it deemed it as "undemocratic", while moderate Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood (ADPL) initially opposed but then agreed to join the interim body. This led to a group of 16 members leaving to form the Social Democratic Front.176 Seeing Red: China's Uncompromising Takeover of Hong Kong Jamie Allen Taylor & Francis 1997 The ADPL had four members elected to the Provisional Legislative Council, which became the only representatives of the pro-democracy camp in the provisional legislature. The pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB) vice-chairman Tam Yiu-chung received the most votes with 345 and Timothy Fok, son of the pro-Beijing tycoon Henry Fok scraped through with 163.The Other Hong Kong Report 1997 Joseph Y. S. Cheng Chinese University Press 1997 Qian Qichen, Vice Premier and Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China, in his capacity as chairman of the Preparatory Committee, condemned the British for their lack of courage in facing the reality of the provisional legislature and said that the election was forced to be held in Shenzhen since the British refused to cooperate in an introductory speech. Qian also hailed the election as "just, fair and open". In Hong Kong, Governor Chris Patten called the whole process "stomach-turning" and told China that the reality it should face was that one million people had voted in September 1995 to elect the existing Legislative Council. "Now four hundred people - four hundred - in a bizarre farce are voting for a so-called provisional legislature...the other reality is that Hong Kong is a first world economy which some mainland officials are trying to get to accept the sort of." Overall Summary of the 21 December 1996 Provisional Legislative Council election results |- |style="text-align:center;" colspan=13|250px|center |- ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" colspan=3|Parties ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Vote ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |% ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Candidates ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Seats |- | rowspan=12 style="text-align:left;background-color:Pink;border-bottom-style:hidden;"| | width=1px style="background-color: Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong" | | style="text-align:left;" |Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong | 3,486 | 17.21 | 17 | 10 |- | width=1px style="background-color: Liberal Party (Hong Kong)" | | style="text-align:left;" |Liberal Party | 2,950 | 14.49 | 15 | 10 |- | width=1px style="background-color: Hong Kong Progressive Alliance" | | style="text-align:left;" |Hong Kong Progressive Alliance | 2,131 | 10.47 | 15 | 6 |- | width=1px style="background-color: Liberal Democratic Federation of Hong Kong" | | style="text-align:left;" |Liberal Democratic Federation of Hong Kong | 899 | 4.42 | 6 | 3 |- | width=1px style="background-color: New Hong Kong Alliance" | | style="text-align:left;" |New Hong Kong Alliance | 680 | 3.34 | 4 | 2 |- | width=1px style="background-color: Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions" | | style="text-align:left;" |Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions | 578 | 2.84 | 3 | 1 |- | width=1px style="background-color: New Territories Association of Societies" | | style="text-align:left;" |New Territories Association of Societies | 305 | 1.50 | 1 | 1 |- | width=1px style="background-color: Federation of Hong Kong and Kowloon Labour Unions" | | style="text-align:left;" |Federation of Hong Kong and Kowloon Labour Unions | 275 | 1.35 | 1 | 1 |- | width=1px style="background-color: Civil Force" | | style="text-align:left;" |Civil Force | 205 | 1.01 | 1 | 1 |- | width=1px style="background-color: Heung Yee Kuk" | | style="text-align:left;" |Heung Yee Kuk | 292 | 1.43 | 3 | 0 |- | width=1px style="background-color: Hong Kong Chinese Reform Association" | | style="text-align:left;" |Hong Kong Chinese Reform Association | 66 | 0.32 | 1 | 0 |- | width=1px style="background-color: Independent (politician)" | | style="text-align:left;" |Pro-Beijing independents | 5,281 | 25.94 | 59 | 21 |-style="background-color:Pink" | style="text-align:left;" colspan=3 |Total for pro-Beijing camp |18,976 |93.20 |124 |54 |- | width=4px rowspan=1 style="text-align:left;background-color:LightGreen;border-bottom-style:hidden;"| | width=1px style="background-color: Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood" | | style="text-align:left;" |Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood | 904 | 4.44 | 4 | 4 |- |-style="background-color:LightGreen" | style="text-align:left;" colspan=3 |Total for pro-democracy camp | 904 | 4.44 |4 |4 |- | width=1px style="background-color: Independent (politician)" | | style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 |Non-aligned independents | 481 | 2.36 | 2 | 2 |- |style="text-align:left;background-color:#E9E9E9" colspan="3"|Total |width="75" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|20,361 |width="30" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00 |style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|130 |style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|60 |- |} See also Hong Kong 1996 Hong Kong Chief Executive election References External links History of the Legco Provisional legislative . 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