Editing Cyd Ho (section)

==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 '[[Ant Alliance|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 (Hong Kong)|The Frontier]].

She was elected a legislative councillor for the geographical constituency of [[New Territories East (constituency)|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 of Hong Kong|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 [[Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong|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.