A day after the 2016 New Territories East by-election, three localist groups, Wong Yuk-man's Proletariat Political Institute, Wong Yeung-tat's Civic Passion and Chin Wan's Hong Kong Resurgence Order, announced to run in the September Legislative Council election under the alliance "CP-PPI-HKRO" [REF].
The localists scored a great victory in the election, winning six seats and securing of nearly 20 per cent of the vote share.