Lo Wing-lok, JP (; 13 September 1954 – 9 May 2015) was a Hong Kong doctor and

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. He was the Legislative Councillor for the

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functional constituency from 2000 to 2004. He was the vice-chairman of the pro-democracy League of Social Democrats but quit the party in late 2007. He ran for the Legislative Council again in 2004, 2008 and 2012 but was not elected. He died from

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in 2015.

Biography

Lo was born in Hong Kong in 1954 and lived in the Healthy Village, a public housing estate in

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. He graduated from St Paul's College in 1974 and from the

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of the

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in 1979. He was an infectious disease specialist. He entered into politics when he was elected to the

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in the 1998 Subsector elections through the Medical sub-sector. He was elected to the

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(Legco), representing the

functional constituency in 2000 Legco election. Lo was chairman of the Panel on Health Services of the Legislative Council from 2002 to 2003. He belonged to the pro-government parliamentary group Breakfast Group. During the controversies over Article 23 legislation, he publicly supported the national security law. He failed to retain the seat in the 2004 election won by urologist

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. During serving on the Legislative Council, he was also president of the Hong Kong Medical Association for two terms from 2002 to 2004. Lo made a surprise move when he joined the newly founded pro-democracy League of Social Democrats in 2006 as vice-chairman, but resigned from the position and quit the party in late December 2007 over differences with the chairman Wong Yuk-man on the lease of the party's headquarters. In 2007, he bid to represent the pan-democracy camp in the important Legco by-election for

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but was defeated in the

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by the eventual winner of the seat,

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.Hong Kong's Former Deputy Leader To Run In By-election
chinadigitaltimes.net; accessed 10 May 2015. Lo stood for the Hong Kong Island constituency in the

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and 2012 Legco elections as an independent candidate but was not returned.

Personal life

He married his schoolmate, gynaecologist Anna Yung Hiu-yan, who died in 2013. They had a son, Alasdair Kai-yan Lo.

Death

He battled lung cancer during his last years of his life. He was admitted to Queen Mary Hospital in May 2015 and then discharged, but died at Canossa Hospital the morning of 9 May.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lo, Wing-lok 1954 births 2015 deaths Hong Kong medical doctors Alumni of the University of Hong Kong Alumni of St. Paul's College, Hong Kong Hong Kong pro-Beijing politicians Hong Kong Anglicans League of Social Democrats politicians HK LegCo Members 2000–2004 Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 1998–2000 Deaths from lung cancer in Hong Kong Hong Kong justices of the peace