Civic Party

Civic Party 公民黨

Leader	Alvin Yeung
Chairman	Alan Leong
Founded	19 March 2006
Preceded by	Article 45 Concern Group
Headquarters	Unit 202, 2/F, Block B, Sea View Estate, 4–6 Watson Road, North Point, Hong Kong
Youth wing	Young Civics
Membership (2016)	~500
Ideology	Constitutionalism Liberalism Social liberalism
Political position	Centre to Centre-left
Regional affiliation	Pro-democracy camp
Colours	Purple
Legislative Council	5 / 70
District Councils	11 / 458
Website
www.civicparty.hk
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Civic Party

公民黨

Civic Party (Chinese: 公民黨) is a pro-democracy liberal political party established in 2006 in Hong Kong. Led by Alvin Yeung and chaired by Alan Leong, the party is now the fourth largest party in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, commanding five seats. It also has 11 seats in the District Councils.

Founded in 2006, the Civic Party was derived from the Basic Law Article 45 Concern Group formed by a group of barristers in pursuit of the universal suffrage of the Chief Executive and the Legislative Council after the large-scale pro-democracy demonstration against the legislation of the Basic Law Article 23 in 2003, in which the barristers took the leading role against the national security bill. The group won four seats in the 2004 Legislative Council election and transformed into a political party afterwards.

The Civic Party had contested in the 2007 Chief Executive election by nominating legislator Alan Leong to challenge incumbent Donald Tsang which was elected by the 800-member Election Committee. In 2010, the party launched the "Five Constituencies Referendum" with another pro-democracy party League of Social Democrats (LSD) to pressure the government to implement universal suffrage. The party surpassed the flagship pro-democracy party Democratic Party in the 2012 Legislative Council election by popular votes, winning six seats. The party retained its six seats in the 2016 election.