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She was a full-time legislative councillor of Hong Kong's Legislative Council (LegCo), elected from the geographical constituency of Hong Kong Island from 2000 to 2004. Her defeat in September 2004 was a surprise, as the complicated voting system used for elections left her odd-woman out, when in an attempt to help elect fellow-politician and ally Martin Lee, her party failed to receive enough votes. She is a member of The Frontier (Hong Kong)|The Frontier (前綫, or 前<font size=1></font>), a pro-democracy political group in Hong Kong. Ho studied at the University of Waterloo, Canada. She worked in the textile trading industry from 1979 to 1995. In 1991, she helped Emily Lau | Emily Wai Hing L<small>AU</small> during the election campaign, the first open direct election of the Legislative Council (LegCo) in colonial Hong Kong. In 1993, she founded the "United Ants"; with other pro-democracy political activisits. In 1995, she worked as the assistant to Margaret Ng | Margaret Ngoi Yee N<small>G</small>;, a lawmaker representing the legal profession in the LegCo. In 1996, she and other political activists founded The Frontier (Hong Kong)|The Frontier, and was the founding convenor of the group. She was elected a legislative councillor in 1998 from the geographical constituency of New Territories East (New Territories | 新界東) in the first LegCo election since the handover of the sovereignty of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom|UK to PRC|China in 1997. She was re-elected in the constituency of Hong Kong Island (Hong Kong Island | 香港島) 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 was elected District_Council_of_Hong_Kong | district council member of the Central and Western district through the Kwun Lung (觀龍) constituency in November, 2003, beating veteran I<small>P</small> Kwok Him of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong | DAB. She also supported members of Civic Act-up contesting seats in the Wan Chai | Wanchai District Council of Hong Kong | district council. She pushes for promotion of universal suffrage, rule of law, human rights, and equal opportunity, and cares the interests of women, homosexuals and minorities. In 2004, she, together with James Kun Sun T<small>O</small>, Frederick Kin Kee F<small>UNG</small>, W<small>ONG</small> Sing Chi, M<small>AK</small> Kwok Fung, attempted to cross the border and meet Beijing officials at Shenzhen, to request for a faster pace of democratization | democratisation in Hong Kong. In the Hong Kong Legislative Council election, 2004, Ho contested, together with Audrey Eu | Audrey Yuet Mee E<small>U</small>, in the geographical constituency of Hong Kong Island. She was defeated by a very slim margin of votes (815 out of around 350 000, or 0.23%) to the list representing the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong|DAB. Some has attribute the defeat to the failure of vote allocation among pro-democratic camp candidates, that it was a betrayal of the Democratic Party (Hong Kong)|Democractic Party to a political ally. Despite the original agreement on the slogan "1+1=4", the Democratic Party (Hong Kong)|Democractic Party requested all supporters of democracy in Hong Kong to vote for them, and many supporters of Ho and Eu cast their votes to Martin Lee Chu-ming|Martin Chu Ming L<small>EE</small>, believing that Lee's seat would likely be lost to C<small>HOY</small> So Yuk of DAB. There was demand for Yeung Sum|YEUNG Sum and Martin Lee Chu-ming | Martin LEE, current and founding chair of Democratic Party (Hong Kong) | Democractic Party respectively, to step down. They were considered to have used false tactic that Martin Lee's seat would likely be lost to C<small>HOY</small> So Yuk of DAB, aiming to make the third person (L<small>AI</small> Chi Keung) on their list to get Ho's seat. The result turn out that Lai was only behind Ho by only a few hundreds vote. Lai would have elected if the Democratic Party was able to cheat more votes from Eu and Ho's supporters, beating Choy. She is currently hosting radio programmes at RTHK every Tuesday evening (1700-2000 HKT), and at http://www.prhk.org PRHK every Wednesday night (2200-2300 HKT).</p> See also
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Category:1954 births Category:Hong Kong politicians|Ho, Cyd Category: Hong Kong|Ho, Cyd Category: Politics of Hong Kong Category: Elections in Hong Kong zh:何秀蘭 Category: Hong Kong people|Ho, Cyd This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Cyd Ho".
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