Labour Party
Which party was Cyd Ho a member of from 2011 to 2012?
Cyd Ho Cyd Ho Sau-lan ( ) is a former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong ( Legco ) for the Hong Kong Island constituency . She is a founding member of the Labour Party , since December 2011 , and currently holds the position of vice-chairwoman . Previously , she was a founding member of The Frontier , another pro-democracy political group . Since 2006 , she has been a founding councillor of the World Future Council . She has garnered a reputation for promoting universal suffrage , rule of law , human rights , and equal opportunity , as well as advancement in the interests of women , homosexuals and other minority groups . Education . Ho studied at the University of Waterloo , Canada . She worked in the textile trading industry from 1979 to 1995 . Career . In 1991 , Ho helped Emily Lau during the election campaign , the first open direct election of Legco in Hong Kong . In 1993 , she founded the liberal pressure group United Ants with other pro-democracy political activists . In 1995 , she worked as an assistant to Margaret Ng , a lawmaker representing the legal profession in Legco . In 1996 , along with other political activists , she founded The Frontier . She was elected a legislative councillor for the geographical constituency of New Territories East in 1998 in the first Legco election since the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong from the UK to China . She was re-elected in the c in 2000 . She chaired bills committees such as the 2004 Education ( Revised ) Bill and the 2004 Examination Authority Bill , and was vice-chair of the panel on environmental affairs . She chaired the Sub-committee under the Home Affair Panel to study questions of discrimination based on sexual orientation between 2000 and 2004 . She was elected as a District Council member of the Central and Western district via the Kwun Lung ( 觀龍 ) constituency in November 2003 , unseating veteran Ip Kwok-him of the DAB with a margin of 64 votes . She also supported members of other pro-democracy political groups such as Civic Act-up , which were also contesting seats in the Wanchai district council . In 2004 , she , together with James To Kun Sun , Frederick Fung Kin Kee , Wong Sing Chi , Mak Kwok Fung , attempted to cross the border and meet Beijing officials at Shenzhen , to request a faster pace of democratisation in Hong Kong . 2004 Legco election . The 2004 Legislative Council election returned candidates to office based on a party-list proportional representation system . There were four viable tickets running for election for the Hong Kong Island constituency . The left was represented by the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kongs ticket , consisting of Ma Lik and Choy So-yuk ; and the centrist ticket was represented by Rita Fan . The pan-democratic camp decided , after strategising , to put up two tickets for election : the Democratic Partys ticket with Martin Lee and Yeung Sum , and Audrey Eu and Cyd Hos ticket . The thinking was that the remainder vote on both these tickets was sufficient to return all four candidates to office , providing that voters in the pan-democratic camp were coordinated effectively . Cyd Ho was defeated by a slim margin ( 815 out of a total of about 350,000 , or 0.23% ) to her nearest DAB rival , Choy So-yuk . Originally , the slogan was taken as a way to strategically allocate votes between the two pan-democratic camp tickets , namely that a spouse from each couple would vote for each ticket . Conspiracy theorists claim that , during the final days leading up to the election , the Democratic Party believed it could secure a seat for their third candidate , Lai Chi-Keung . The Democratic Party hence allegedly requested all supporters of the pan-democratic camp in the Hong Kong Island geographical constituency to vote for them , claiming that Audrey Eus star presence on the other ticket was strong enough to skew votes to the other ticket . In the end , Lai ended up a few hundred votes short of Cyd Ho , costing them both the chance for a seat . This ultimately benefited Cyd Hos DAB rival Choy So-yuk . A number of disgruntled voters of the pan-democratic camp demanded that then-DP chairman Yeung Sum and Founding chairman Martin Lee Chu-ming both step down in consequence . Post-election . In addition to remaining as a key member of the Frontier until 2006 , Ho hosted weekly radio programmes on two local radio stations in 2006 – on RTHK and PRHK . She hosted a radio show on the internet radio station My Radio on Thursday nights ( 2200–2300 HKT ) . In 2006 , she quit the Frontier and became the chairperson of the Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor and the co-convener of Project Civil Referendum , a scheme to pilot and promote the idea of holding a referendum in Hong Kong . In 2007 , when the death of Ma Lik vacated a Hong Kong Island Legislative Council seat , she originally decided to run in the by-election , but later she decided against . Also , she declined to stand again for her district council seat to prepare for her 2008 Legco election campaign . 2008 Legco election . Ho stood for and was returned in the Hong Kong Island geographical constituency for the 2008 Hong Kong legislative election . She finished with the fifth highest number of votes in the six-member constituency , 30,887 , or 9.85% . Her running mate in 2004 , Audrey Eu of the Civic Party , obtained 30,362 . Labour Party . In December 2011 , after The Frontier had failed to pass its own resolution to dissolve , she joined with Lee Cheuk-yan , Cheung Kwok-che and others to form the Labour Party , taking up the position of vice-chairwoman . She was re-elected in 2012 elections . LGBT rights . In 2012 , soon after Ho re-elected as member of Legco , she put forward a proposal calling for public consultation on legislation to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation . This proposal was supported by most of the pro-democrats and some pro-Beijing lawmakers , but was veto by Democratic Party lawmaker James To ( who voted abstained ) and pro-Beijing conservative parties . During her terms , Ho is one of only few legislators to openly support same-sex marriage and other LGBT rights , conservative parties and groups criticized her on this issue . Though most of the pro-democrats support non-discrimination laws , they are less openly discuss and talk about this issue , as the pro-democrats have many supporters with many social conservative views . 2016 Legco election . She lost in the 2016 Hong Kong legislative election with 19,376 votes , placed ninth in the Hong Kong Island constituency , along with the former party chairman Lee Cheuk-yan , leaving the Labour Party only one representative in the legislature . 2020 arrest . On 18 April 2020 , Ho was arrested as one of 15 Hong Kong high-profile democracy figures , on suspicion of organizing , publicizing or taking part in several unauthorized assemblies between August and October 2019 in the course of the anti-extradition bill protests . Following protocol , the police statement did not disclose the names of the accused , however others arrested include veteran lawyers Martin Lee and Margaret Ng .