20 Facts About Wong Sing-chi

Nelson Wong Sing-chi was born on 11 October 1957 and is a Hong Kong politician and social worker.

Wong Sing-chi was the founding member of the Democratic Party before he was expelled in 2015 for his support in the government's constitutional reform proposals.

Wong Sing-chi was briefly a founding member of the Third Side, a centrist political party.

Wong Sing-chi is former member of the North District Council and Regional Council.

Wong Sing-chi obtained his Bachelor of Social Work from Hong Kong Polytechnic University and was a social worker before joining Hong Kong politics.

Wong Sing-chi was the member of the Meeting Point a liberal party and was first elected to the North District Board in Choi Yuen with party mate Tik Chi-yuen.

Wong Sing-chi became the founding member of the Democratic Party when the Meeting Point was merged with the United Democrats of Hong Kong.

Wong Sing-chi lost his seat in North District Council in the 1994 District Board elections to So Sai-chi of the pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong, who became his long-time rival in the area.

Wong Sing-chi was nevertheless elected to the Regional Council in 1995 and served until it was abolished in 1999.

Wong Sing-chi ran in New Territories East in the 1998 Legislative Council election, placing second on the list behind Andrew Cheng Kar-foo and helped Cheng to get elected.

Wong Sing-chi lost in 2004 through a weak electoral strategy; as all the pro-democratic candidates formed a combined party-list in the election, Wong was placed in fourth behind Andrew Cheng, Emily Lau Wai-hing and Ronny Tong Ka-wah who all got elected.

Wong Sing-chi returned to the Legco in 2008 in a successful strategic voting with Andrew Cheng.

Wong Sing-chi returned to North District Council in 2007 election, running in Shek Wu Hui.

Wong Sing-chi was defeated in the 2012 election, which left the Democratic Party only one representative in New Territories East, Emily Lau.

Wong Sing-chi opposed amendments to the Domestic Violence Ordinance that would offer same-sex couples equal protection under the law on the grounds that the amendment would include same-sex relationships as if they were couples.

Wong Sing-chi opposed the government would take actions go a step further to make laws which prohibited discrimination against the LGBT people.

In July 2015, Wong Sing-chi was expelled from the Democratic Party due to his defiance of the party line and clandestine proposal in support of the government's constitutional reform package, which was panned by pan-democrats for being "fake universal suffrage".

Wong Sing-chi later set up a moderate party, the Third Side, with ex-Democrat Tik Chi-yuen which aimed for a middle-of-the-road approach between the pan-democrats and pro-Beijing camp.

Wong Sing-chi ran in the 2015 District Council election in Fanling South in his North District base but was not elected.

Wong Sing-chi received the fewest votes in the five-candidate contest.