2020 Hong Kong pro-democracy primaries

2020 Hong Kong pro-democracy primaries

11–12 July 2020
26 lists for Geographical Constituencies 5 lists for Functional Constituencies
Turnout	606,761 (13.62%)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Wu Chi-wai Alvin Yeung Ray Chan Party Democratic Civic People Power Popular vote 77,251 73,054 28,081 Percentage 12.78% 12.08% 4.64% Lists won 6 4 2   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Gary Poon Raphael Wong Ng Kin-wai and others Party TMCN LSD TSW Connection Popular vote 35,513 34,962 20,525 Percentage 5.87% 5.78% 3.39% Lists won 1 1 1   Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party   Leader Yam Kai-bong and others Claudia Mo Sze Tak-loy Party Neo Democrats HK First ADPL Popular vote 15,021 9,308 8,776 Percentage 2.48% 1.54% 1.45% Lists won 1 1 1

The 2020 Hong Kong pro-democracy primaries were held on 11 and 12 July 2020 for selecting the numbers of pro-democracy candidates for the subsequently postponed 2020 Legislative Council election to maximise the chance for the pro-democrats to achieve a majority in the 70-seat Legislative Council.

With a turnout of more than 600,000, which equals to nearly half of votes received by the pro-democracy camp in the 2016 general election, it was the most-participated primary held in the history of Hong Kong, despite the SAR government's threats of the organisers' potential breaching of the newly imposed national security law.

Traditional pro-democrat parties lost ground to the localist new faces, with an unofficial six-person alliance led by Joshua Wong and Nathan Law of the disbanded Demosistō becoming the biggest winner in the primaries. The candidates they endorsed also emerged as either top or runner-up candidates in their respective constituencies.

55 candidates and participants were arrested under the national security law on 6 January 2021, of which 47 were officially charged with conspiracy to commit subversion.