The Hong Kong Island by-election, 2007 Pro-democracy primary was a primary election held for the selection of a unified candidate for all the parties representing the Pan-democrats, also referred to as the "pro-democracy camp", in the Hong Kong Island by-election, 2007.
The pro-democracy parties and organizations participating in the coordination are Democratic Party, Civic Party, League of Social Democrats, The Frontier, Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions, Neighbourhood and Workers Service Centre, Civic Act-up, Civil Human Rights Front, Women's Alliance (婦盟) and the Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood.[1] The selection mechanism was be organized by Frederick Fung, Emily Lau, Ronny Tong and Joseph Lee (李國麟)[2]
The selection mechanism for the Democrat candidate consisted of a public debate, an opinion poll and primary elections. The weightings for opinion poll counts was 50%, the 300 delegates 30%, and the Legislative and District Councilors 10% each:
The debate format is based on the ones held for the 2007 Chief Executive election. University professors Ma Ngok (馬嶽), Chan Kin Man (陳健民) and Benny Tai (戴耀廷) agreed to question the candidates while culture critic Leung Man-tao (梁文道) has agreed to act as moderator. 100 members of the public participated and asked questions.[3] The debate was broadcast live on television and radio. Rev. Chu Yiu-Ming (朱耀明) acted as the returning officer for the voting.
The selection mechanism cost an estimated HK$140,000, the result announced on September 30.[1]
Chan won the primary easily, with 77.3 points compared to Lo's 22.7 points.
