direct elections to LegCo; there is also the Hong Kona Affairs Society.
The Liberal Democratic Foundation, established in
November 1990, represents the more conservative business and professional establishment and is seen as being more supportive of the Hong Kong Government; but it also wants
good relations with China. It suffers from a lack of grass root organisational support, although a number of independent candidates shared the LDF's outlook.
only 5% of the vote in the direct elections to LegCo but did better in the functional constituencies, winning 9 of the
21 seats.
It won
5. The Hong Kong Democratic Foundation (HKDF) has views similar to those of the UDHK, for example in advocating the immediate introduction of universal direct suffrage. It
represents professional and managerial interests, particularly among expatriates. It did not do well in the 1991 direct elections, but it won 2 functional constituency
seats.
6.
Other groups include: the Progressive Hong Kong Society, which has now been virtually absorbed into the LDF and the Hong Kong Citizens' Forum, which was inaugurated on
20 January 1991. The Forum advocates dialogue with China but all its candidates in the District Board elections stood as independents as did nearly half the candidates of the conservative LDF. In fact over half the 472 candidates in
the District Board elections in March 1991 ran as
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independents. In the Municipal Council elections in May 1991, 22 of the 61 candidates were "independents". But they won only 5 of the 27 seats. In the 1991 elections to LegCo just over 22% of the vote went to independents, giving them 3 of the 39 elected seats.
There are other interest groups which have not formed political groupings or associations as such. These include:
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