{{short description|Hong Kong politician}} {{about|the politician|the director Nelson Wong|Wong brothers|the restaurateur|Nelson Wang}} {{BLP sources|date=February 2012}} {{Use British English|date=February 2016}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2016}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Wong Sing-chi | native_name = {{nobold|黃成智}} | native_name_lang = zh-hk | image = Nelson Wong Sing-chi.jpg | caption = Wong Sing-chi after the [[2016 New Territories East by-election|2016 Legislative Council by-election]] | office = Member of the [[Legislative Council of Hong Kong|Legislative Council]] | term_start = 1 October 2008 | term_end = 30 September 2012 | predecessor = [[James Tien Pei-chun|James Tien]] | successor = [[Raymond Chan Chi-chuen|Ray Chan]] | constituency = [[New Territories East (constituency)|New Territories East]] | term_start2 = 1 October 2000 | term_end2 = 30 September 2004 | predecessor2 = [[Cyd Ho]] | successor2 = [[James Tien Pei-chun|James Tien]] | parliament = | constituency2 = New Territories East | ancestry = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1957|10|11}} | birth_place = [[Hong Kong]] | death_date = | death_place = | party = [[Meeting Point]] {{small|(until 1994)}}<br />[[Democratic Party (Hong Kong)|Democratic Party]] {{small|(1994–2015)}}<br />[[Third Side]] {{small|(2015–2016)}} | alma_mater = [[Hong Kong Polytechnic University]] | occupation = [[Social Worker]] | website = }} {{Infobox Chinese |t=黃成智 |s=黄成智 |p=Huáng Chéngzhì |j=Wong4 Sing4 Ji3 }} '''Nelson Wong Sing-chi''' (born 11 October 1957)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wongsingchi.org/profile.html |title=黃成智個人檔案 |last=Wong |first=Nelson |trans-title=Nelson Wong Personal Profile |publisher=Office of Wong Chi Sing District Councilor |access-date=19 September 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091221103555/http://www.wongsingchi.org/profile.html |archive-date=21 December 2009 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> is a Hong Kong politician and social worker. He had been member of the [[Legislative Council of Hong Kong]] between 2000–04 and 2008–12. He was the founding member of the [[Democratic Party (Hong Kong)|Democratic Party]] before he was expelled in 2015 for his support in the government's [[2015 Hong Kong electoral reform|constitutional reform proposals]]. He was also briefly a founding member of the [[Third Side]], a centrist political party.
He is also former member of the [[North District Council]] and [[Regional Council of Hong Kong|Regional Council]].
==Background== {{BLP unreferenced section|date=July 2025}} Wong was born in Hong Kong in 1957. He obtained his [[Bachelor of Social Work]] from [[Hong Kong Polytechnic University]] and was a social worker before joining Hong Kong politics. He was the member of the [[Meeting Point]] a liberal party and was first elected to the [[North District Council|North District Board]] in [[Choi Yuen (constituency)|Choi Yuen]] with party mate [[Tik Chi-yuen]]. He became the founding member of the [[Democratic Party (Hong Kong)|Democratic Party]] when the Meeting Point was merged with the [[United Democrats of Hong Kong]].
He lost his seat in North District Council in the [[1994 Hong Kong local elections|1994 District Board elections]] to So Sai-chi of the pro-Beijing [[Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong]] (DAB), who became his long-time rival in the area. He was nevertheless elected to the [[Regional Council of Hong Kong|Regional Council]] in 1995 and served until it was abolished in 1999.
== Legco member == Wong ran for the [[Legislative Council of Hong Kong|Legislative Council]] (Legco) in [[New Territories North (constituency)|New Territories North]] in 1995 but lost to DAB's [[Cheung Hon-chung]]. He ran in [[New Territories East (constituency)|New Territories East]] in the [[1998 Hong Kong legislative election|1998 Legislative Council election]], placing second on the list behind [[Andrew Cheng Kar-foo]] and helped Cheng to get elected. In the [[2000 Hong Kong legislative election|2000 election]], the Democratic Party split Cheng and Wong into two tickets to avoid wasting the votes as the electoral mechanism was [[largest remainder method]] and the strategy got them both elected with fewer votes.
He lost in [[2004 Hong Kong legislative election|2004]] through a weak electoral strategy; as all the pro-democratic candidates formed a combined party-list in the election, Wong was placed in fourth behind Andrew Cheng, [[Emily Lau Wai-hing]] and [[Ronny Tong Ka-wah]] who all got elected. Before that he also lost his seat in the District Council in [[2003 Hong Kong local elections|2003]] as his changed his constituency to challenge So Sai-chi in Choi Yuen.
He returned to the Legco in [[2008 Hong Kong legislative election|2008]] in a successful [[strategic voting]] with Andrew Cheng. In June 2010, he voted with his party in favour of the government's [[Consultation Document on the Methods for Selecting the Chief Executive and for Forming the LegCo in 2012|2012 constitutional reform package]], which included the late amendment by the Democratic Party – accepted by the [[Government of the People's Republic of China|Beijing government]] – to hold a popular vote for five new [[District Councils of Hong Kong|District Council]] [[Functional constituency (Hong Kong)|functional constituencies]].<ref>Cheers and jeers for political reform vote, [[South China Morning Post|SCMP]], Gary Cheung, Albert Wong and Fanny WY Fung, 25 June 2010</ref> He also returned to North District Council in [[2007 Hong Kong local elections|2007 election]], running in [[Shek Wu Hui (constituency)|Shek Wu Hui]]. In 2011, he was defeated by So Sai-chi again in Choi Yuen.
Wong was defeated in the [[2012 Hong Kong legislative election|2012 election]], which left the Democratic Party only one representative in New Territories East, Emily Lau.
=== Gay rights === Wong is an evangelical Christian and a [[Social conservatism|social conservative]]. He opposed amendments to the Domestic Violence Ordinance that would offer same-sex couples equal protection under the law on the grounds that the amendment would include same-sex relationships as if they were couples. He opposed the government would take actions go a step further to make laws which prohibited discrimination against the LGBT people.<ref>[http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=11&art_id=76191&sid=22005186&con_type=1 Gay sex violence row hits Democrat]</ref> This position give him as the same attitude with other pro-Beijing conservative members in Legco, such as [[Priscilla Leung]]. Wong's conservative stances on gay rights made him different with other pan-democrats, which many of them take liberal stances on social issues.
== Third Side == In July 2015, Wong was expelled from the Democratic Party due to his defiance of the party line and clandestine proposal in support of the government's [[2015 Hong Kong electoral reform|constitutional reform package]], which was panned by pan-democrats for being "fake universal suffrage". He later set up a moderate party, the [[Third Side]], with ex-Democrat [[Tik Chi-yuen]] which aimed for a middle-of-the-road approach between the pan-democrats and pro-Beijing camp.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/1862166/new-hong-kong-political-party-third-side-prepares-test-its|work=South China Morning Post|title=New Hong Kong political party Third Side prepares to test its moderate stance in Legco elections|date=29 September 2015}}</ref>
He ran in the [[2015 Hong Kong local elections|2015 District Council election]] in [[Fanling South (constituency)|Fanling South]] in his [[North District, Hong Kong|North District]] base but was not elected. In 2016, he also ran in the [[2016 New Territories East by-election|Legislative Council by-election]] in [[New Territories East (constituency)|New Territories East]], receiving 17,295 votes, 4% of the total ballots and failed to return to the Legislative Council.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.elections.gov.hk/legco2016by/eng/results.html|work=Electoral Affairs Commission|title=2016 Legislative Council Geographical Constituency New Territories By-election - Election Result|date=29 February 2016}}</ref> In July 2016, he left the Third Side to contest the [[Social Welfare (constituency)|Social Welfare]] constituency in the [[2016 Hong Kong legislative election|upcoming legislative election]] after failing to get the party's approval.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hongkongfp.com/2016/07/30/12-legco-functional-constituency-seats-automatically-filled-nominees-no-contestants/|work=Hong Kong Free Press|title=12 LegCo functional constituency seats automatically filled as nominees stand uncontested|date=30 July 2016}}</ref> He received the fewest votes in the five-candidate contest.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.elections.gov.hk/legco2016/eng/rs_fc_K.html|title=2016 Legislative Election}}</ref>
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== External links == * {{Commons category-inline}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20080909091929/http://www.wongsingchi.org/ Official site of Wong Sing-chi]
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