Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong 香港經濟民生聯盟
Abbreviation	BPA
Chairman	Lo Wai-kwok
Vice-Chairmen	Jeffrey Lam Priscilla Leung Kenneth Lau Ng Wing-ka
Founded	7 October 2012; 13 years ago (2012-10-07)
Merger of	Economic Synergy Professional Forum
Headquarters	3204A, 32/F, Tower 1, Admiralty Centre, 18Harcourt Road, Hong Kong
Ideology	Conservatism (HK) Economic liberalism Chinese nationalism
Political position	Centre-right toright-wing
Regional affiliation	Pro-Beijing camp
Colours	Blue andgreen
Slogan	"Business Drives Economy, Professionalism Improves Livelihood"
Executive Council	2 / 33
Legislative Council	9 / 90
District Councils	24 / 470
NPC (HK deputies)	2 / 36
CPPCC (HK members)	6 / 124
Website
bpahk.org
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TheBusiness and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong (BPA) is apro-Beijing,pro-business political party in Hong Kong. Chaired byLo Wai-kwok, the party is currently the second-largest party in theLegislative Council of Hong Kong, holding eight seats. It also has two representatives in theExecutive Council and five seats in theDistrict Councils.

The Alliance came into existence on 7 October 2012 after the2012 Legislative Council election, as a rebranding of a loose pro-business parliamentary group includingEconomic Synergy andProfessional Forum, as well as two other nonpartisan legislators who mostly came from trade-basedfunctional constituencies consisting of Hong Kong's leadingchambers of commerce or business sectors. Out of the seven founding legislators, the party's onlydirectly elected representative wasPriscilla Leung ofKowloon West.

The party immediately emerged as the second-largest party in the legislature, overtaking theLiberal Party who had an uneasy relationship with Beijing as the representative for the big business interests. It also slowly expanded its grassroots by absorbing Priscilla Leung'sKowloon West New Dynamic and won 10 seats in the2015 District Council election. The Alliance retained its seven seats in the2016 Legislative Council election which saw its party chairmanAndrew Leung elected as theLegislative Council President.

The Alliance was officially launched on 7 October 2012 on the basis of a loose political alliance under the same name on 21 August 2011, where 12 members of theLegislative Council from three pro-business groups, theLiberal Party, theProfessional Forum, and theEconomic Synergy joined together as a counter force to the pro-labour factions in the Legislative Council as well as the government. They fought over the Competition Bill subsequent to theMinimum Wage Bill with the support of powerful business unions and representative of small and medium-sized enterprises.^[1]

After the2012 LegCo elections, members from the two members of the Professional Forum and three of the Economic Synergy with two other independent legislators officially formed the Alliance on 7 October 2012. Members were mostly supporters ofHenry Tang, the formerchief secretary who lost toLeung Chun-ying in therace in 2012 for the Chief Executive.^[2] The group consists of seven legislators which makes it the second largest political group in theLegislative Council, six of the seven members are from thefunctional constituencies. Unlike the grouping of the former legislature, the Liberal Party did not join the Alliance.

During the2015 Hong Kong electoral reform,Jeffrey Lam Kin-fung of the BPA andIp Kwok-him of theDemocratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) led a walk-out of pro-Beijing legislators right before the historic vote on 18 June as an impromptu attempt todelay the division so that his party memberLau Wong-fat, who was delayed, could cast his vote in favour of the Beijing-backed reforms.^[3] The government's reform proposal failed as eight legislators voted in favour and 28 voted against, barely meeting the quorum of 35.^[4] Since it had been expected the reform would be voted down by 41-28 (which would fall only six votes short of the two-thirdsabsolute majority stipulated by the Basic Law), the failure in pro-Beijing camp's sudden tactics resulted in a surprising landslide defeat that gave the rest of the world the impression there was no support for the blueprint.^[5]

In the2015 District Council election, the BPA won 10 seats in total. The alliance retained all seven seats in the2016 Legislative Council election with the vice-chairman Jeffrey Lam narrowly defeatedLiberal Party challenger Joseph Can Ho-lim inCommercial (First). After party chairmanAndrew Leung was electedPresident of the Legislative Council, he resigned from as chairman post and was succeeded byLo Wai-kwok. Leung was promoted as honorary chairman alongsideLau Wong-fat, while Lau's son,Kenneth Lau who took over his father seat inHeung Yee Kuk, was picked as the new vice-chairman.^[6]

In December 2018, legislatorNg Wing-ka ofIndustrial (Second) was invited to join the party, making the alliance the second largest party in the legislature with eight seats.^[7]

In February 2021, afterXia Baolong said that only "patriots" must govern Hong Kong, the BPA released a statement supporting Xia's position and that it looks forward to the changes.^[8] Additionally, the BPA claimed that Beijing is not trying to suppress antigovernmental voices.^[9]

• Andrew Leung, 2012–2016
• Lo Wai-kwok, 2016–present

• Jeffrey Lam, 2012–present
• Christopher Cheung, 2012–2021
• Priscilla Leung, 2012–present
• Kenneth Lau, 2016–present
• Ng Wing-ka, 2018–present

• Abraham Shek, 2012–present

• Lau Wong-fat, 2012–2017
• Andrew Leung, 2016–present

• Peter Lam, 2012–present

• David Lie, 2012–present

Election	Number of popular votes	% of popular votes	GC seats	FC seats	EC seats	Total seats	+/−	Position
2016	49,745	2.29	1	6		7 / 70	0	2nd
2021	–	–	0	5	2	7 / 90	1	3rd

Election	Number of popular votes	% of popular votes	D.E. seats	E.C. seats	App. seats	Ex off. seats	Total seats	+/−
2015	27,452	1.90	11			1	12 / 458
2019	66,504	2.27	3			2	5 / 479	7
2023	59,105	5.04	4	8	10	2	24 / 470	18

• Jeffrey Lam
• Kenneth Lau

The BPA holds 24 seats in 11 District Councils (2024–2027):

• United Front Work Department
• United Front (China)

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