Steven Kwok Wing-kin (; born 30 November 1986) is a Hong Kong politician and the chairman of the Labour Party since 2017. He is also a former member of the

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Biography

Kwok was educated at the

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(HKU) and was the president of the

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and the chairman of the Standing Committee of the

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(HKFS). He ran in the "

Five Constituencies Referendum The 2010 Hong Kong Legislative Council by-election was an election held on 16 May 2010 in Hong Kong for all five geographical constituencies of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, Legislative Council (LegCo), triggered by the resignation of f ...

" launched by the

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under the banner of " Tertiary 2012" in 2010. He ran in

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against

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and received 6,192 votes, 4.6 percent of the vote. He became member of the Labour Party, a pro-democratic social democratic party established in 2011. He ran in the 2012 Legislative Council election with Fernando Cheung in

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and helped Cheung to be re-elected. In a

by-election in San Fu in July 2015, he was elected with 1,392 votes, becoming the first Labour member to be elected to the District Councils. His office just lasted four months when he lost his seat in the 2015 District Council elections, becoming the shortest serving District Councillor in history. He partnered with Fernando Cheung in the 2016 Legislative Council election again and the duo received 49,800 which saw Cheung re-elected successfully. In 2017 Labour party leadership, he was elected the new party chairman, after former chairwoman Suzanne Wu resigned amidst the internal rift in the party in the earlier month. He joined the pro-democracy primary for the 2018 New Territories East by-election, competing against

Tommy Cheung Tommy Cheung Yu-yan, GBS, JP (, born 30 September 1949 in Hong Kong) is a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo), representing the Catering functional constituencies seats. He is a non-official member of the Executive Counc ...

and Gary Fan for the seat left vacant by Baggio Leung who was disqualified over the oath-taking controversy.

Arrest

Kwok was arrested on 1 November 2020, along with six other democrats, in connection with the melee that had broken out in the LegCo on 8 May 2020. On that day,

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, the incumbent chair of the House Committee of the Legislative Council, had attempted to commence a meeting of the Committee after extended stalling tactics of the pan-democratic camp over the previous months.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kwok, Wing-kin 1986 births Living people Alumni of the University of Hong Kong HKFS people District councillors of Tai Po District Labour Party (Hong Kong) politicians