 LSD chairman Avery Ng also lost his bid in Kowloon West.In the 2017 Chief Executive election, LSD legislator Leung Kwok-hung launched his Chief Executive bid in February 2017 through a "public nomination" mechanism, in which he would seek to secure 37,790 votes from members of the public, one per cent of the city's registered voters before he would canvass for the nominations from the Election Committee.Leung dropped out from the race on 25 February after failed to gain enough nominations from the public, secured only 20,234 nominations.