Liberal Party of Hong Kong
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Liberal Party
自由黨 |
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| Leader | Felix Chung |
| Chairman | Tommy Cheung |
| Vice-Chairmen |
Peter Shiu Alan Hoo Lee Chun-keung |
| Founded | 12 December 1991 (as CRC) 6 June 1993 (as LP) |
| Preceded by | Co-operative Resources Centre |
| Headquarters | 2/F New Hennessy Tower, 263 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong |
| Youth wing | Liberal Party Youth Committee |
| Membership (2014) |
 ~350 |
| Ideology |
Conservatism (HK) Economic liberalism Liberal conservatism Social conservatism |
| Political position | Centre-right |
| Regional affiliation | Pro-Beijing camp |
| Colours |
Blue Yellow (formerly) |
| Executive Council |
1 / 33
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| Legislative Council |
4 / 70
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| District Councils |
8 / 458
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| NPC (HK deputies) |
1 / 36
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| CPPCC (HK members) |
4 / 124
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| Website | |
| www |
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| Traditional Chinese | 自由黨 | ||||||||
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| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Jih yàuh dóng |
| Jyutping | Zi6 jau4 dong2 |
The Liberal Party (Chinese: 自由黨; LP) is a pro-Beijing, pro-business and conservative political party established in 1993 in Hong Kong. Led by Felix Chung and chaired by Tommy Cheung, the Liberal Party is currently the sixth largest party in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, holding four seats.
Derived from the Co-operative Resources Centre in 1993, the Liberal Party was founded by a group of conservative politicians, businessmen and professionals who were appointed by the colonial governor or elected through trade-based functional constituencies to counter the rise of the pro-democracy camp elected through the first ever direct election in 1991 to the legislature. The Liberal Party aligned to the Beijing government in the last years of the colonial rule and remained one of the largest parties with the pro-democracy Democratic Party and the Beijing-loyalist Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB) in the first decade of the SAR period through the business sectors of the functional constituencies with restricted electorates.
The Liberal Party's popularity rose to the peak after its chairman James Tien resigned from the Executive Council to halt down the government proposal of the Basic Law Article 23 legislation in the wake of the large-scale demonstration in 2003. The party received the best results in party history in the 2004 Legislative Council election, by winning two seats in the geographical constituency direct elections since 1995, overtaking the Democratic Party as the second largest party.
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