Editing Cyd Ho

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{{Short description|Hong Kong politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name          = Cyd Ho Sau-lan
|native_name   = {{nobold|何秀蘭}}
|native_name_lang = zh-hk
|image         = Cyd Ho at January 2013 protest (cropped).jpg
|caption       = Cyd Ho campaigning for the [[2012 Hong Kong legislative election|2012 Hong Kong Legislative Council Election]].
|alt           = Cyd Ho in 2012
|office        = Member of the [[Legislative Council of Hong Kong|Legislative Council]]
|constituency  = [[Hong Kong Island (constituency)|Hong Kong Island]]
|term_start    = 1 October 2008
|term_end      = 30 September 2016
|successor     =  Seat abolished
|predecessor   = [[Rita Fan]]
|constituency1 = [[Hong Kong Island (constituency)|Hong Kong Island]]
|term_start1   = 1 October 2000
|term_end1     = 30 September 2004
|predecessor1  = [[Christine Loh]]
|successor1    = [[Ma Lik]]
|constituency2 = [[New Territories East (constituency)|New Territories East]]
|term_start2   = 1 July 1998
|term_end2     = 30 June 2000
|predecessor2  = New parliament
|successor2    = [[Wong Sing-chi]]
| birth_date   = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1954|07|24}}
| birth_place  = Hong Kong
| party = [[United Ants]] {{small|(1993–1996)}}<br />[[The Frontier (Hong Kong)|The Frontier]] <small>(1996–2004)</small><br />[[Civic Act-up]] <small>(2003–2012)</small><br />[[Labour Party (Hong Kong)|Labour Party]] <small>(2012–present)</small>
| residence = 
| alma_mater = [[University of Waterloo]]
| occupation = Politician 
}}
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'''Cyd Ho Sau-lan''' ({{zh|first=t|t=何秀蘭}}) is a former member of the [[Legislative Council of Hong Kong]] (Legco) for the [[Hong Kong Island (constituency)|Hong Kong Island constituency]].

She is a founding member of the [[Labour Party (Hong Kong)|Labour Party]], since December 2011, and currently holds the position of vice-chairwoman.  Previously, she was a founding member of [[The Frontier (Hong Kong)|The Frontier]], another pro-democracy [[political group]]. Since 2006, she has been a founding councillor of the [[World Future Council]].

She has garnered a reputation for promoting universal suffrage, rule of law, human rights, and equal opportunity, as well as advancement in the interests of women, homosexuals and other minority groups.

==Education==
Ho studied at the [[University of Waterloo]], Canada. She worked in the textile trading industry from 1979 to 1995.

==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.

==2004 Legco election==
The [[2004 Hong Kong Legislative Council election|2004 Legislative Council election]] returned candidates to office based on a party-list [[proportional representation]] system. There were four viable tickets running for election for the [[Hong Kong Island (constituency)|Hong Kong Island constituency]]. The left was represented by the [[Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong]]'s ticket, consisting of [[Ma Lik]] and [[Choy So-yuk]]; and the centrist ticket was represented by [[Rita Fan]].

The pan-democratic camp decided, after strategising, to put up two tickets for election: the [[Democratic Party (Hong Kong)|Democratic Party]]'s ticket with [[Martin Lee]] and [[Yeung Sum]], and [[Audrey Eu]] and Cyd Ho's ticket. The thinking was that the remainder vote on both these tickets was sufficient to return all four candidates to office, providing that voters in the pan-democratic camp were coordinated effectively. Cyd Ho was defeated by a slim margin (815 out of a total of about 350,000, or 0.23%) to her nearest DAB rival, Choy So-yuk.

Originally, the slogan "1+1=4" was taken as a way to strategically allocate votes between the two pan-democratic camp tickets, namely that a spouse from each couple would vote for each ticket. Conspiracy theorists claim that, during the final days leading up to the election, the Democratic Party believed it could secure a seat for their third candidate, Lai Chi-Keung. The Democratic Party hence allegedly requested all supporters of the pan-democratic camp in the Hong Kong Island geographical constituency to vote for them, claiming that Audrey Eu's star presence on the other ticket was strong enough to skew votes to the other ticket.

In the end, Lai ended up a few hundred votes short of Cyd Ho, costing them both the chance for a seat. This ultimately benefited Cyd Ho's DAB rival Choy So-yuk. A number of disgruntled voters of the pan-democratic camp demanded that then-DP chairman Yeung Sum and Founding chairman Martin Lee Chu-ming both step down in consequence. {{Citation needed|date=April 2009}}

==Post-election==
In addition to remaining as a key member of the Frontier until 2006, Ho hosted weekly radio programmes on two local radio stations in 2006 – on [[RTHK]] and [[PRHK]]. She hosted a radio show on the [[internet radio]] station My Radio on Thursday nights (2200–2300 HKT).

In 2006, she quit the Frontier and became the chairperson of the [[Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor]] and the co-convener of Project Civil Referendum, a scheme to pilot and promote the idea of holding a [[referendum]] in Hong Kong.

In 2007, when the death of [[Ma Lik]] vacated a Hong Kong Island Legislative Council seat, she originally decided to run in the by-election, but later she decided against. Also, she declined to stand again for her district council seat to prepare for her 2008 Legco election campaign.

==2008 Legco election==
Ho stood for and was returned in the Hong Kong Island geographical constituency for the [[2008 Hong Kong legislative election]]. She finished with the fifth highest number of votes in the six-member constituency, 30,887, or 9.85%. Her running mate in 2004, Audrey Eu of the Civic Party, obtained 30,362.

== Labour Party ==
In December 2011, after The Frontier had failed to pass its own resolution to dissolve, she joined with [[Lee Cheuk-yan]], [[Cheung Kwok-che]] and others to form the Labour Party, taking up the position of vice-chairwoman. She was re-elected in 2012 elections.

== LGBT rights ==
In 2012, soon after Ho re-elected as member of Legco, she put forward a proposal calling for public consultation on legislation to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation. This proposal was supported by most of the pro-democrats and some pro-Beijing lawmakers, but was veto by Democratic Party lawmaker [[James To]] (who voted abstained) and pro-Beijing conservative parties.<ref>[http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1083187/lawmakers-opposition-gay-rights-law-shames-hong-kong?login=1 Lawmakers' opposition to gay rights law shames Hong Kong]. ''South China Morning Post''</ref> During her terms, Ho is one of only few legislators to openly support [[same-sex marriage]] and other [[LGBT rights]], conservative parties and groups criticised her on this issue. Though most of the pro-democrats support non-discrimination laws, they are less openly discuss and talk about this issue, as the pro-democrats have many supporters with many social conservative views.

==2016 Legco election==
She lost in the [[2016 Hong Kong legislative election]] with 19,376 votes, placed ninth in the Hong Kong Island constituency, along with the former party chairman [[Lee Cheuk-yan]], leaving the Labour Party only one representative in the legislature.

==2020 arrest==
On 18 April 2020, Ho was arrested as one of 15 Hong Kong high-profile democracy figures, on suspicion of organising, publicising or taking part in several unauthorised assemblies between August and October 2019 in the course of the [[2019–20 Hong Kong protests|anti-extradition bill]] protests. Following protocol, the police statement did not disclose the names of the accused, however others arrested include veteran lawyers [[Martin Lee]] and [[Margaret Ng]].<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/18/world/asia/hong-kong-arrests.html |title = Amid Pandemic, Hong Kong Arrests Major Pro-Democracy Figures|first1=Elaine|last1=Yu|first2=Austin|last2=Ramzy|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date = 18 April 2020|access-date = 18 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=https://hongkongfp.com/2020/04/18/8-hong-kong-pro-democracy-figures-arrested-in-latest-police-round-up-party-says/ |title = 15 Hong Kong pro-democracy figures arrested in latest police round up|first=Rachel|last=Wong|newspaper=[[Hong Kong Free Press]]|date = 18 April 2020|access-date = 18 April 2020}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Politics of Hong Kong]]
* [[List of political parties in Hong Kong]]
* [[2019–20 Hong Kong protests]]
* [[List of University of Waterloo people]]

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Cyd Ho}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20040521213045/http://www.cydho.org.hk/ Official website of Cyd Ho]
*[http://www.legco.gov.hk Official website of Legislative Council]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090525234526/http://worldfuturecouncil.org/cyd_ho.html Councillor at World Future Council]
* [https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/directdemocracy/hong-kong_cyd-ho/41659598 Cyd Ho at swissinfo.ch]

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