7th Legislative Council of Hong Kong

7th Legislative Council of Hong Kong
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Overview
Legislative body	Legislative Council
Jurisdiction	Hong Kong
Meeting place	Legislative Council Complex
Term	1 January 2022 –
Election	2021 election
Government	Lam Administration (until 30 June 2022) Lee Administration (Since 1 July 2022)
Members	90 members
President	Andrew Leung (BPA)
Party control	Pro-Beijing camp
Sessions
1st 12 January 2022 – 23 December 2022 2nd 11 January 2023 – 22 December 2023 3rd 10 January 2024 – 27 December 2024 4th 8 January 2025 –

The Seventh Legislative Council of Hong Kong is the current meeting of the legislative branch of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government. Its term of office began on 1 January 2022 and convened on 12 January 2022, ^[1] in the last six months of Carrie Lam's tenure as Chief Executive and the first three-and-a-half years of John Lee's term of office. The legislature's term of office is expected to end on 31 December 2025.

The December 2021 election decided control of the legislature. Originally scheduled for 6 September 2020, Chief Executive Carrie Lam postponed the election for a whole year on 31 July 2020. ^[2] On 11 March 2021, the National People's Congress (NPC) passed a decision to drastically overhaul the Hong Kong electoral system, which was followed by the Carrie Lam administration promulgated the Improving Electoral System (Consolidated Amendments) Ordinance 2021, which changed the general election of the seventh term of the Legislative Council from 5 September to 19 December 2021. ^[3] Under the Ordinance, the membership of the Legislative Council increased from 70 to 90, and the members were elected by the Election Committee with 40 seats, functional constituencies with 30 seats, and geographical constituencies with 20 seats respectively. ^[4]

Under the new "patriots only" election rules, the pro-Beijing camp won its largest majority ever, taking 89 out of the 90 seats in the chamber. The pan-democratic and localist camps were left with no representation in the legislature for the first time since the Handover, with political parties disbanded, candidates disqualified from running, and most of their supporters boycotting the election. The 2021 election registered the lowest turnout ever since the introduction of elections to the Legislative Council in 1985, with only 32.22% of registered voters turning out to vote in the functional and geographical constituencies.

The legislators elected in 2021 have been criticised for not showing up to meetings and votes and for failing to submit work reports; in the 2024 legislative year, two-thirds of the 24 bills adopted were passed with under half of all councillors present, falling short of the 45-member quorum requirement. ^[5] Despite an increase in the size of the council, the number of questions asked by lawmakers has plunged, almost halving from 6722 in 2020 to 3519 in 2023, with the quality of questions reported as having "plummeted". ^[6]

Major events

• 1 January 2022: Commencement of this Council's term of office.
• 3 January 2022: Oath-taking ceremony. 3 of the members took oath in Mandarin, namely Chow Man-kong, Sun Dong and Tan Yueheng. ^[7]
• 4 January 2022: Nomination for the president. Andrew Leung re-elected unopposed as the only candidate. ^[8]
• 10 January 2022: Originally scheduled for election of the president but cancelled.
• 12 January 2022: Council's first session was convened.
• 19 June 2022: Resignation of Horace Cheung, Alice Mak, Sun Dong and Nelson Lam after appointed as officials of the new government headed by Chief Executive-elect John Lee. ^{[9] [10]}
• 18 December 2022: By-election for vacancies of Election Committee constituency. Chan Wing-kwong, Adrian Ho, Shang Hailong, William Wong elected.
• 27 December 2022: Resignation of Stephen Wong after appointed as head of Chief Executive's Policy Unit.

Major legislation

Enacted

• 9 June 2022: Employment and Retirement Schemes Legislation (Offsetting Arrangement) (Amendment) Ordinance 2022
• 6 July 2023: District Councils (Amendment) Ordinance 2023
• 19 March 2024: Safeguarding National Security Ordinance
• 11 July 2024: Mandatory Reporting of Child Abuse Ordinance
• 21 May 2025: Stablecoins Ordinance

Pending

• Introduced on 16 July 2025: Registration of Same-sex Partnerships Bill

Leadership

President Andrew Leung

Presiding

• President: Andrew Leung (BPA)

Pro-Beijing camp

• Convenor: Martin Liao
• Deputy Convenor: Starry Lee ^{[11] [12]}

Non-aligned

• Tik Chi-yuen (as the only member who does not belong to the Pro-Beijing camp ^[13] )

Secretariat

• Secretary General:
  • Kenneth Chen until 31 July 2024
  • Dora Wai from 1 August 2024 ^[14]

Composition

Affiliation		Members
		Elected	Current
	DAB	19	19
	BPA	7	8
	FTU	8	7
	NPP	5	6
	Liberal	4	4
	FEW	2	2
	FLU	2	2
	Roundtable	1	1
	PP	1	1
	KWND	1	1
	New Prospect	1	1
	New Forum	1	1
	Third Side	1	1
	Independent	37	35
Vacant		0	1
Total		90

List of Members

In this Legislative Council, 59 of the 90 members elected in the 2021 election were elected for the first time, or were not members of the last Legislative Council. All members are listed by seniority according to the year of the beginning of consecutive service then the order of swearing in (i.e. the number of strokes in the traditional characters of names in Chinese per precedent) with the president of the Legislative Council being ranked first. ^[15]

Members who did not serve throughout the term are italicised. Supplementary members elected in by-elections are listed below.

Key to changes since legislative election:

^a = change in party allegiance

^b = by-election

Capacity	Constituency	Portrait	Elected Members	Elected Party		Political Alignment	Born	Occupation(s)	Assumed Office
President of the Legislative Council
FC	Industrial (First)		Andrew Leung		BPA	Pro-Beijing	(1951-02-24)24 February 1951	Merchant	2004
Other members
FC	Catering		Tommy Cheung		Liberal	Pro-Beijing	(1949-09-30)30 September 1949	Merchant Legislative Councillor	2000
FC	Commercial (First)		Jeffrey Lam		BPA	Pro-Beijing	(1951-10-23)23 October 1951	Merchant	2004
ECC	Election Committee		Starry Lee		DAB	Pro-Beijing	(1974-03-13)13 March 1974	Accountant Legislative Councillor	2008
GC	New Territories North East		Chan Hak-kan		DAB/NTAS	Pro-Beijing	(1976-04-24)24 April 1976	Legislative Councillor	2008
FC	Insurance		Chan Kin-por		Nonpartisan	Pro-Beijing	(1954-05-10)10 May 1954	Legislative Councillor Chief Executive	2008
ECC	Election Committee		Priscilla Leung		BPA/KWND	Pro-Beijing	(1960-11-18)18 November 1960	Professor Barrister-at-law	2008
GC	Hong Kong Island West		Regina Ip		NPP	Pro-Beijing	(1950-08-24)24 August 1950	Chair of Savantas Policy Institute	2008
ECC	Election Committee		Paul Tse		Nonpartisan	Pro-Beijing	(1959-01-21)21 January 1959	Solicitor	2008
GC	New Territories North West		Michael Tien		Roundtable	Pro-Beijing	(1950-08-26)26 August 1950	Legislative Councillor Entrepreneur	2012
FC	Agriculture and Fisheries		Steven Ho		DAB	Pro-Beijing	(1979-11-30)30 November 1979	Legislative Councillor	2012
FC	Transport		Frankie Yick		Liberal	Pro-Beijing	1953 (1953)	Company Director	2012
ECC	Election Committee		Ma Fung-kwok		New Forum	Pro-Beijing	(1955-07-22)22 July 1955	Managing Director	2012
GC	New Territories South West		Chan Han-pan		DAB/NTAS	Pro-Beijing	1975 (1975)	Legislative Councillor	2012
ECC	Election Committee		Alice Mak [a]		FTU	Pro-Beijing	(1971-11-01)1 November 1971	Legislative Councillor	2012
GC	Labour		Kwok Wai-keung		FTU	Pro-Beijing	(1978-04-15)15 April 1978	Legislative Councillor Eastern District Councillor	2012
ECC	Election Committee		Elizabeth Quat		DAB	Pro-Beijing	(1966-12-23)23 December 1966	Legislative Councillor	2012
FC	Commercial (Second)		Martin Liao		Nonpartisan	Pro-Beijing	1957 (1957)	Barrister-at-law	2012
FC	Engineering		Lo Wai-kwok		BPA	Pro-Beijing	(1953-12-25)25 December 1953	Engineer	2012
FC	Industrial (Second)		Jimmy Ng		BPA	Pro-Beijing	(1969-06-17)17 June 1969	Company Director	2016
ECC	Election Committee		Junius Ho		Nonpartisan	Pro-Beijing	(1962-06-04)4 June 1962	Solicitor	2016
GC	New Territories North West		Holden Chow		DAB	Pro-Beijing	(1979-06-07)7 June 1979	Solicitor	2016
FC	Wholesale and Retail		Shiu Ka-fai		Liberal	Pro-Beijing	(1970-04-22)22 April 1970	Company Director	2016
ECC	Election Committee		Yung Hoi-yan		NPP/CF	Pro-Beijing	(1977-06-07)7 June 1977	Barrister-at-law	2016
FC	Finance		Chan Chun-ying		Nonpartisan	Pro-Beijing	1961 (1961)	Advisor	2016
ECC	Election Committee		Cheung Kwok-kwan [a]		DAB	Pro-Beijing	(1974-06-30)30 June 1974	Solicitor	2016
ECC	Election Committee		Luk Chung-hung		FTU	Pro-Beijing	(1978-09-21)21 September 1978	Legislative Councillor	2016
GC	New Territories North		Lau Kwok-fan		DAB/NTAS	Pro-Beijing	(1978-06-28)28 June 1978	Legislative Councillor	2016
FC	Heung Yee Kuk		Kenneth Lau		BPA	Pro-Beijing	1966 (1966)	Merchant	2016
GC	Kowloon West		Vincent Cheng		DAB	Pro-Beijing	(1979-07-18)18 July 1979	Legislative Councillor	2018 (b)
FC	Architectural, Surveying, Planning and Landscape		Tony Tse		Nonpartisan	Pro-Beijing	(1954-10-27)27 October 1954	Surveyor	2018 (b)
ECC	Election Committee		Doreen Kong		Nonpartisan	Pro-Beijing	(1970-07-12)12 July 1970	Solicitor	2022
FC	Education		Chu Kwok-keung		FEW	Pro-Beijing	Unknown	School Principal	2022
GC	New Territories South East		Stanley Li		DAB/NTAS	Pro-Beijing	(1983-08-12)12 August 1983	Legislative Councillor	2022
ECC	Election Committee		Hoey Simon Lee		Nonpartisan	Pro-Beijing	1977 (1977)	Chief Strategy Officer	2022
FC	Financial Services		Robert Lee		Nonpartisan	Pro-Beijing	1980 (1980)	Company Director	2022
GC	New Territories North East		Dominic Lee		NPP/CF	Pro-Beijing	(1984-01-22)22 January 1984	Company Director	2022
FC	Social Welfare		Tik Chi-yuen		Third Side	Non-aligned	(1957-09-24)24 September 1957	Legislative Councillor	2022
ECC	Election Committee		Lee Chun-keung		Liberal	Pro-Beijing	(1984-08-22)22 August 1984	Legislative Councillor Manager	2022
GC	Hong Kong Island East		Stanley Ng		FTU	Pro-Beijing	1970 (1970)	Trade Unionist	2022
ECC	Election Committee		Johnny Ng		Nonpartisan	Pro-Beijing	1974 (1974)	Company Director	2022
FC	Labour		Chau Siu-chung		FLU	Pro-Beijing	1970 (1970)	Trade Unionist	2022
ECC	Election Committee		Chow Man-kong		Nonpartisan	Pro-Beijing	Unknown	Associate Vice President of the Education University of Hong Kong	2022
FC	Medical and Health Services		David Lam		Nonpartisan	Pro-Beijing	1966 (1966)	Surgeon	2022
ECC	Election Committee		Lam Chun-sing		FLU	Pro-Beijing	1981 (1981)	Trade Unionist	2022
GC	New Territories South East		Lam So-wai		Professional Power	Pro-Beijing	(1987-12-31)31 December 1987	Legislative Councillor	2022
ECC	Election Committee		Nixie Lam		DAB	Pro-Beijing	(1982-03-13)13 March 1982	Legislative Councillor	2022
ECC	Election Committee		Nelson Lam [a]		Nonpartisan	Pro-Beijing	(1968-08-20)20 August 1968	Accountant	2022
ECC	Election Committee		Dennis Lam		Nonpartisan	Pro-Beijing	(1982-03-13)13 March 1982	Doctor	2022
FC	Legal		Lam San-keung		Nonpartisan	Pro-Beijing	1961 (1961)	Solicitor	2022
ECC	Election Committee		Andrew Lam		Nonpartisan	Pro-Beijing	1961 (1961)	Company Chairman	2022
FC	Technology and Innovation		Duncan Chiu		Nonpartisan	Pro-Beijing	1974 (1974)	Merchant	2022
FC	Tourism		Yiu Pak-leung		Nonpartisan	Pro-Beijing	(1974-03-11)11 March 1974	Chairman of the China Travel Service (Hong Kong)	2022
ECC	Election Committee		Wendy Hong		Nonpartisan	Pro-Beijing	1975 (1975)	Head of Research	2022
ECC	Election Committee		Sun Dong [a]		Nonpartisan	Pro-Beijing	1967 (1967)	Chair Professor of the City University of Hong Kong	2022
FC	Labour		Dennis Leung		FTU	Pro-Beijing	(1973-10-06)6 October 1973	Community Officer	2022
GC	Kowloon West		Leung Man-kwong		KWND	Pro-Beijing	(1984-08-03)3 August 1984	Legislative Councillor	2022
GC	Hong Kong Island East		Edward Leung		DAB	Pro-Beijing	(1985-03-08)8 March 1985	Legislative Councillor	2022
ECC	Election Committee		Kenneth Leung		Nonpartisan	Pro-Beijing	(1984-03-03)3 March 1984	Legislative Councillor	2022
ECC	Election Committee		Chan Yuet-ming		Nonpartisan	Pro-Beijing	1972 (1972)	Legislative Councillor North District Councillor	2022
ECC	Election Committee		Rock Chen		DAB	Pro-Beijing	(1966-06-06)6 June 1966	Investment Manager Company Director	2022
ECC	Election Committee		Chan Pui-leung		Nonpartisan	Pro-Beijing	1959 (1959)	Legislative Councillor China Taiping Insurance (HK) Company Limited General Manager	2022
FC	HKSAR members of NPC and CPPCC, Representatives of National Organisations		Chan Yung		DAB/NTAS	Pro-Beijing	(1966-06-06)6 June 1966	Hong Kong Deputies to the National People's Congress Legislative Councillor Social Worker	2022
FC	Textiles and Garment		Sunny Tan		Nonpartisan a	Pro-Beijing	1973 (1973)	Legislative Councillor Merchant	2022
ECC	Election Committee		Judy Chan		NPP	Pro-Beijing	(1980-04-04)4 April 1980	Legislative Councillor	2022
ECC	Election Committee		Maggie Chan		Nonpartisan	Pro-Beijing	(1969-02-03)3 February 1969	Solicitor	2022
ECC	Election Committee		Chan Siu-hung		Nonpartisan	Pro-Beijing	1958 (1958)	Engineer	2022
ECC	Election Committee		Chan Hoi-yan		Nonpartisan	Pro-Beijing	(1977-11-19)19 November 1977	Legislative Councillor Company Director	2022
GC	New Territories South West		Joephy Chan		FTU	Pro-Beijing	(1989-12-16)16 December 1989	Trade Unionist	2022
GC	Hong Kong Island West		Chan Hok-fung		DAB	Pro-Beijing	1976 (1976)	Banker	2022
GC	New Territories North		Gary Zhang		New Prospect	Pro-Beijing	1989 (1989)	Engineer	2022
ECC	Election Committee		Lilian Kwok		DAB	Pro-Beijing	(1979-04-20)20 April 1979	Teacher	2022
ECC	Election Committee		Benson Luk		BPA	Pro-Beijing	(1983-12-03)3 December 1983	Chief Strategy Officer	2022
ECC	Election Committee		Wong Yue-shan [b]		Nonpartisan	Pro-Beijing	(1975-12-22)22 December 1975	Our Hong Kong Foundation Senior Vice President Executive Director of Public Policy Institute	2022
FC	Import and Export		Kennedy Wong		DAB	Pro-Beijing	(1963-02-23)23 February 1963	Solicitor	2022
FC	Accountancy		Edmund Wong		DAB	Pro-Beijing	(1985-01-07)7 January 1985	Accountant	2022
ECC	Election Committee		Kingsley Wong		FTU	Pro-Beijing	1968 (1968)	Trade Unionist	2022
GC	Kowloon Central		Yang Wing-kit		Nonpartisan	Pro-Beijing	1968 (1968)	Legislative Councillor Kowloon City District Councillor	2022
ECC	Election Committee		Peter Koon		Nonpartisan	Pro-Beijing	(1965-12-02)2 December 1965	Clergyman	2022
ECC	Election Committee		Tang Fei		FEW	Pro-Beijing	Unknown	Legislative Councillor	2022
GC	Kowloon East		Tang Ka-piu		FTU	Pro-Beijing	(1979-10-29)29 October 1979	Legislative Councillor	2022
ECC	Election Committee		Lai Tung-kwok		NPP	Pro-Beijing	(1951-11-12)12 November 1951	Legislative Councillor	2022
ECC	Election Committee		Lau Chi-pang		Nonpartisan	Pro-Beijing	1960 (1960)	Associate Vice President of Lingnan University	2022
FC	Sports, Performing Arts, Culture and Publication		Kenneth Fok		Nonpartisan	Pro-Beijing	(1979-07-02)2 July 1979	Merchant	2022
FC	Real Estate and Construction		Louis Loong		Nonpartisan	Pro-Beijing	1951 (1951)	Business Executive	2022
GC	Kowloon East		Ngan Man-yu		DAB	Pro-Beijing	(1986-08-31)31 August 1986	Legislative Councillor Kwun Tong District Councillor	2022
ECC	Election Committee		Carmen Kan		Nonpartisan	Pro-Beijing	1968 (1968)	Solicitor	2022
ECC	Election Committee		Tan Yueheng		Nonpartisan	Pro-Beijing	1962 (1962)	Chairman of BOCOM International Holdings	2022
ECC	Election Committee		So Cheung-wing		Nonpartisan	Pro-Beijing	1960		2022
FC	Commercial (Third)		Yim Kong		Nonpartisan	Pro-Beijing	1972 (1972)	Business Executive	2022
Supplementary members
ECC	Election Committee		Adrian Ho		NPP	Pro-Beijing	1977 (1977)	Company Director	2022 (b)
ECC	Election Committee		Shang Hailong		Nonpartisan	Pro-Beijing	1982 (1982)	Merchant	2022 (b)
ECC	Election Committee		Chan Wing-kwong		DAB	Pro-Beijing	1963 (1963)	Chinese Medicine Practitioner Legislative Councillor	2022 (b)
ECC	Election Committee		William Wong		Nonpartisan	Pro-Beijing	1960 (1960)	Professor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong	2022 (b)

Changes

2022

• Sunny Tan (Textiles and Garment) joined the Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong (BPA).
• Scott Leung (Kowloon West), Kitson Yang (Kowloon Central), Connie Lam (New Territories South East), and Gary Zhang (New Territories North) formed the A4 Alliance.

Committees

• House Committee
  • Parliamentary Liaison Subcommittee
• Finance Committee
  • Establishment Subcommittee
  • Public Works Subcommittee
• Public Accounts Committee
• Committee on Members' Interests
• Committee on Rules of Procedure

Panels

• Panel on Administration of Justice and Legal Services
• Panel on Commerce and Industry
• Panel on Constitutional Affairs
• Panel on Development
• Panel on Economic Development
• Panel on Education
• Panel on Environmental Affairs
• Panel on Financial Affairs
• Panel on Food Safety and Environmental Hygiene
• Panel on Health Services
• Panel on Home Affairs
• Panel on Housing
• Panel on Information Technology and Broadcasting
• Panel on Manpower
• Panel on Security
• Panel on Transport
• Panel on Welfare Services

See also

• 2021 Hong Kong legislative election
• 2022 President of the Hong Kong Legislative Council election

Notes

1. Ceased to hold office as a member of Legislative Council upon resignation on 19 June 2022.
2. Ceased to hold office as a member of Legislative Council upon resignation on 27 December 2022.

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