Democratic Party (Hong Kong)
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Democratic Party
民主黨 |
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| Chairperson | Wu Chi-wai |
| Vice-Chairpersons |
Lo Kin-hei Li Wing-shing |
| Founded | 23 April 1990 (as UDHK) 2 October 1994 (as DP) |
| Merger of |
United Democrats Meeting Point The Frontier |
| Headquarters | 4/F, Hanley House, 776–778 Nathan Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong |
| Youth wing | Young Democrats |
| Membership (2015) |
 788 |
| Ideology |
Liberalism (HK) Social liberalism |
| Political position | Centre to Centre-left |
| Regional affiliation | Pro-democracy camp |
| International affiliation |
Liberal International Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats (through two individual members) |
| Colours | Green |
| Legislative Council |
7 / 70
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| District Councils |
42 / 458
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| Yale Romanization | Màhn jyú dóng |
| Jyutping | Man4 zyu2 dong2 |
The Democratic Party (Chinese: 民主黨; DP) is a centre-leftliberal political party in Hong Kong established in 1994. Chaired by legislator Wu Chi-wai, it is currently the second largest party in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, having seven seats and 42 District Councillors. It is also the largest pro-democracy party in the legislature.
The party was founded in 1994 as a merger of the United Democrats of Hong Kong (UDHK) and the Meeting Point (MP). Founded in 1990, the United Democrats were the first major political party which rose to become the largest party in the last years of the colonial legislature, winning a landslide victory in the first ever direct election in 1991. The UDHK and MP later merged into the Democratic Party to further consolidate the pro-democracy bloc. Due to its emergence from the support to the Tiananmen protests of 1989 and its opposition to Beijing's bloody crackdown and calling for the end of one-party rule, the party was seen for a long time "treason" by the Beijing authorities.
The Democratic Party became the largest party in the first fully elected legislature after winning another victory in the 1995 Legislative Council election and retained the largest party status and the flagship pro-democracy party despite its long decline in the first decades of the SAR period due to intra-party factional struggles and the proportional representation. In the 2004 election, the party lost its largest party status to the flagship pro-Beijing rival Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB) and faced competition from the new pro-democracy activists and groups emerged from the 2003 large-scale pro-democracy demonstration.
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