League of Social Democrats
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League of Social Democrats
社會民主連線 |
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| Abbreviation | LSD |
| Chairman | Avery Ng |
| Vice-Chairman | Raphael Wong |
| Founded | 1 October 2006 |
| Headquarters | Flat B2, 4/F, Tai Cheong Factory Building, 3 Wing Ming Street, Cheung Sha Wan, Kowloon |
| Membership (2011) |
 ~700 |
| Ideology |
Direct democracy Social democracy Radical democracy |
| Political position | Centre-left to Left-wing |
| Regional affiliation | Pro-democracy camp |
| Colours | Red |
| Legislative Council |
1 / 70
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| District Councils |
0 / 458
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| Website | |
| www |
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| Traditional Chinese | 社會民主連線 | ||||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 社会民主连线 | ||||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Shèhuì Mínzhŭ Liánxiàn |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Séh wuih màhn jyú Lìhn sin |
| Jyutping | Se5 wui6*2 man4 zyu2 Lin4 sin3 |
The League of Social Democrats (Chinese: 社會民主連線; LSD) is a social democratic political party in Hong Kong established in 2006. Chaired by Avery Ng, it currently holds one seat in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.
It was established in 2006 by a group of social democrat activists within the pro-democracy camp. It positions itself as a pro-grassroots clearcut opposition party which devoted into "street actions" and "parliamentary struggles". It reached its peak in the 2008 Legislative Council election in which it received ten per cent of the popular votes and won three seats.
In 2010, the party launched the "Five Constituencies Referendum" to pressure the government to implement universal suffrage in 2012. After the flagship pro-democracy party Democratic Party made a compromise with the government over the constitutional reform proposal, the party suffered a devastating defeat as two of the three legislators left the party to form People Power over the dispute whether to spine the Democrats in the following 2011 District Council election.
The League resumed a co-operative relationship with the People Power in filibustering in the legislature. In the 2016 Legislative Council election, two parties formed an electoral alliance and received seven percent, which saw the party's only legislator Leung Kwok-hung re-elected in New Territories East.
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