Alan Leong

The Honourable Alan Leong Kah-kit SC
梁家傑
Leong at a rally on 17 January 2015
Leader of the Civic Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 8 January 2011
Chairman	Audrey Eu
Vice-Chairman	Albert Lai Margaret Ng
Preceded by	Audrey Eu
Member of the Legislative Council
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 October 2004
Preceded by	New seat
Constituency	Kowloon East
Personal details
Born	(1958-02-22) 22 February 1958 Hong Kong
Political party	Civic Party
Spouse(s)	Carol Chen Suk-yi
Alma mater	La Salle Primary School Wah Yan College, Kowloon University of Hong Kong Hughes Hall, Cambridge
Religion	Roman Catholicism

The native form of this personal name is Leong Kah-kit Alan. This article uses the Western name order.

Alan Leong
Traditional Chinese	梁家傑
Transcriptions Yue: Cantonese Jyutping Loeng4 Gaa1git6 Yale Romanization Lèuhng Gā-giht

Alan Leong Kah-kit (梁家傑; born 22 February 1958), SC is a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council, representing the Kowloon East geographical constituency and leader of the Civic Party. He is also vice-chairperson of the Independent Police Complaints Council.

Early career

Leong graduated with an LLB from the University of Hong Kong and an LLM from Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge. He was chairman of Hong Kong Bar Association from 2001 to 2003.

Political career

As chairperson of Hong Kong Bar Association, he mobilised many barristers to participate in the July 1 protests. He won a seat in the Legislative Council in the 2004 election.

In January 2011, Leong was elected the second leader of the Civic Party, replacing Audrey Eu.

Chief Executive election 2007

Leong was nominated by the Civic Party as its party candidate for the Chief Executive election in 2007. He was also supported by the pan-democrats, including the Democratic Party.

Leong later secured 132 nominations and became the first Pan-democracy camp candidate to succeed in joining the Chief Executive election. In the end Leong lost to Donald Tsang in the CE election on 25 March 2007, gaining 123 votes from the 800-member Election Committee.

"Five Constituencies Referendum"

Main article: Hong Kong by-election, 2010

In January 2010, Leong and other four lawmakers, Albert Chan, Tanya Chan, Leung Kwok-hung and Wong Yuk-man resigned their seats to force by-elections, in which they all stood, which they called on to be treated as a referendum to press the Chinese Central Government into allowing universal suffrage in Hong Kong. On 16 May 2010, he was re-elected as a lawmaker in the by-election.

Personal life

Leong is married with three children.

External links

• Personal website
• Official website
• CE election site
• Official blog

Legislative Council of Hong Kong
New seat	Member of Legislative Council Representative for Kowloon East 2004–present	Incumbent
Party political offices
Preceded by Audrey Eu	Leader of Civic Party 8 January 2011	Incumbent
Legal offices
Preceded by Ronny Tong	Chairman of Hong Kong Bar Association 2001–2003	Succeeded by Edward Chan
Order of precedence
Preceded by Samson Tam Member of the Legislative Council	Hong Kong order of precedence Member of the Legislative Council	Succeeded by Leung Kwok-hung Member of the Legislative Council