 The Civic Party's first electoral test was its decision to run Alan Leong in the March 2007 "small circle" 
Chief Executive election, challenging incumbent Donald Tsang.The party and its ally actively fill candidates running in the 800-member December 2006 Election Committee Subsector elections and won more than 100 seats.Leong's winning sufficient nomination votes to enter the race was viewed as a breakthrough in what previously had been seen as an entirely Beijing-orchestrated process.