Democratic Party (Hong Kong)

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The Democratic Party (DP) was a liberal political party in Hong Kong. Once the flagship party of the pro-democracy camp, it was Hong Kong's main opposition party for decades before dissolving in December 2025 after it was unable to enter elections due to the 2021 Hong Kong electoral changes. The party was established in 1994 in a merger of the United Democrats of Hong Kong and Meeting Point in preparation for the 1995 Legislative Council election. The party won a landslide victory, received over 40 percent of the popular vote and became the largest party in the legislature in the final years of the British colonial era. It opposed the bloody crackdown on the Tiananmen protests of 1989 and called for the end of one-party rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP); the party was long seen as hostile to the Beijing authorities. Led by Martin Lee, the Democratic Party boycotted the Provisional Legislative Council on the eve of the Hong Kong handover in 1997 in protest to Beijing's decision to...

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