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[edit]

	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[edit]

Ex officio members

Liberals/Pro-democracy:

Conservatives/Pro-Beijing:

List of Members elected in the legislative election[edit]

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		Political Alignment	Born	Assumed Office
President	Governor	David Clive Wilson	Nonpartisan	Government	(1935-02-14)14 February 1935	1987
Deputy Pres.	Appointed	John Joseph Swaine	Independent	Conservative	(1932-04-22)22 April 1932	1980
EO	Chief Secretary	David Robert Ford	Nonpartisan	Government	(1935-02-22)22 February 1935	1980
EO	Financial Secretary	Nathaniel W. H. Macleod	Nonpartisan	Government	(1940-01-06)6 January 1940	1987
EO	Attorney General	Jeremy Fell Mathews	Nonpartisan	Government	(1941-12-14)14 December 1941	1980
AP	Appointed	Allen Lee	Independent^a	Conservative	(1940-04-24)24 April 1940	1978
FC	First Industrial^b	Stephen Cheong	BPF^a	Conservative	(1941-05-31)31 May 1941	1980
AP	Appointed	Selina Chow	Independent^a	Conservative	(1945-01-25)25 January 1945	1981
AP	Appointed^b	Rita Fan	Independent^a	Conservative	(1945-09-20)20 September 1945	1983
FC	Social Services	Hui Yin-fat	Independent	Pro-democracy	(1936-04-28)28 April 1936	1985
GC	Hong Kong Island East	Martin Lee	United Democrats^a	Pro-democracy	(1938-06-08)8 June 1938	1985
FC	Finance	David Li	Independent	Conservative	(1939-03-13)13 March 1939	1985
FC	Second Industrial	Ngai Shiu-kit	LDF^a	Conservative	(1924-11-14)14 November 1924	1985
FC	Labour	Pang Chun-hoi	TUC	Pro-Taiwan	(1921-06-26)26 June 1921	1985
GC	Kowloon East	Szeto Wah	United Democrats^a	Pro-democracy	(1931-02-28)28 February 1931	1985
GC	New Territories West^b	Tai Chin-wah^d	FSHK	Conservative	(1952-08-24)24 August 1952	1985
FC	Labour	Tam Yiu-chung	FTU^a	Pro-Beijing	(1949-12-15)15 December 1949	1985
GC	New Territories East	Andrew Wong	Independent	Moderate	(1943-12-11)11 December 1943	1985
FC	Rural	Lau Wong-fat	FSHK^a	Conservative	(1936-10-15)15 October 1936	1985
FC	Architectural, Surveying and Planning	Edward Ho	BPF^a	Conservative	(1938-12-02)2 December 1938	1987
FC	Real Estate and Construction	Ronald Joseph Arculli	Independent^a	Conservative	(1939-01-02)2 January 1939	1988
AP	Appointed	Martin Gilbert Barrow	Independent^a	Conservative	(1944-03-10)10 March 1944	1988
AP	Appointed	Peggy Lam	Independent^a	Conservative	(1928-05-02)2 May 1928	1988
AP	Appointed	Miriam Lau	Independent^a	Conservative	(1947-04-27)27 April 1947	1988
AP	Appointed	Lau Wah-sum	Independent^a	Conservative	(1928-01-30)30 January 1928	1988
FC	Medical	Leong Che-hung	DF^a	Pro-democracy	(1939-04-23)23 April 1939	1988
FC	First Commercial	James David McGregor	DF	Pro-democracy	(1924-01-30)30 January 1924	1988
FC	Urban Council	Elsie Tu	Independent	Moderate	(1913-06-02)2 June 1913	1988
FC	Accountancy	Peter Wong	LDF^a	Conservative	(1944-04-25)25 April 1944	1988
GC	New Territories South	Albert Chan	United Democrats^a	Pro-democracy	(1955-03-03)3 March 1955	1991
AP	Appointed^b	Edward Chen	Independent	Moderate	(1945-01-14)14 January 1945	1991
AP	Appointed	Vincent Cheng	Independent	Conservative	(1948-07-16)16 July 1948	1991
AP	Appointed	Moses Cheng	Independent^a	Conservative	1950 (1950)	1991
AP	Appointed	Marvin Cheung	Independent^a	Conservative	(1947-11-20)20 November 1947	1991
FC	Teaching	Cheung Man-kwong	United Democrats^a	Pro-democracy	(1954-09-15)15 September 1954	1991
FC	Financial Services	Chim Pui-chung	Independent	Conservative	(1946-09-24)24 September 1946	1991
GC	New Territories North	Fung Chi-wood	United Democrats^a	Pro-democracy	(1956-08-23)23 August 1956	1991
GC	Kowloon West	Frederick Fung	ADPL	Pro-democracy	(1953-03-17)17 March 1953	1991
AP	Appointed	Timothy Ha	Independent	Moderate	(1937-05-21)21 May 1937	1991
FC	Health	Michael Ho	United Democrats^a	Pro-democracy	(1955-11-06)6 November 1955	1991
GC	Hong Kong Island West	Huang Chen-ya	United Democrats^a	Pro-democracy	(1939-11-04)4 November 1939	1991
FC	Legal	Simon Ip	Independent^a	Moderate	(1948-09-10)10 September 1948	1991
AP	Appointed	Lam Kui-chun	Independent^a	Conservative	(1941-11-20)20 November 1941	1991
GC	Kowloon Central	Conrad Lam	United Democrats^a	Pro-democracy	(1935-11-24)24 November 1935	1991
GC	Kowloon Central	Lau Chin-shek	United Democrats^a	Pro-democracy	(1944-09-12)12 September 1944	1991
GC	New Territories East	Emily Lau	Independent	Pro-democracy	(1952-01-22)22 January 1952	1991
GC	New Territories South	Lee Wing-tat	United Democrats^a	Pro-democracy	(1955-12-25)25 December 1955	1991
FC	Regional Council^b	Gilbert Leung	FSHK	Conservative	(1953-07-23)23 July 1953	1991
AP	Appointed	Eric Li	Independent^a	Conservative	(1953-05-23)23 May 1953	1991
GC	Kowloon East	Fred Li	Meeting Point^a	Pro-democracy	(1955-04-25)25 April 1955	1991
AP	Appointed^b	Felice Lieh Mak	Independent	Conservative	(1941-08-10)10 August 1941	1991
GC	Hong Kong Island East	Man Sai-cheong	United Democrats^a	Pro-democracy	(1944-07-15)15 July 1944	1991
GC	New Territories West^b	Ng Ming-yum	United Democrats^a	Pro-democracy	(1955-04-13)13 April 1955	1991
AP	Appointed	Steven Poon	Independent^a	Conservative	(1943-07-09)9 July 1943	1991
AP	Appointed	Henry Tang	Independent^a	Conservative	(1952-09-06)6 September 1952	1991
GC	New Territories North	Tik Chi-yuen	Meeting Point^a	Pro-democracy	(1957-09-24)24 September 1957	1991
GC	Kowloon West	James To	United Democrats^a	Pro-democracy	(1963-03-11)11 March 1963	1991
FC	Engineering	Samuel Wong	Independent^a	Conservative	(1937-11-02)2 November 1937	1991
FC	Second Commercial	Philip Wong	NHKA	Conservative/Pro-Beijing	(1938-12-23)23 December 1938	1991
GC	Hong Kong Island West	Yeung Sum	United Democrats^a	Pro-democracy	(1947-11-22)22 November 1947	1991
FC	Tourism	Howard Young	LDF^a	Conservative	(1948-03-30)30 March 1948	1991

By-elections[edit]

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[edit]

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.

Citations[edit]

^ 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[edit]

Database on LegCo Members

[1] Wong, Benjamin (7 August 2012). "Ex-lawmaker charged with offering bribe to poll rival". SCMP. Retrieved 12 April 2013.

[2] "Biography of Lau Chin-shek". The Democratic Party. Retrieved 1 May 2013.

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