This research focuses mainly on the campaign advertising strategies of candidates in the legislative election in 2012 in Hong Kong. The case studied here is on the basis of the theories and literature of the functional theory of political campaign discourse, and at the same time, it also synthesizes some relevant literature published in recent years. The study adopts both a content analysis method and an in-depth interview method. According to the results, there are more positive than negative advertisements. As for the topic of the advertisements, advertisements show the character of the candidates more than policies and issues. Finally, there are significant differences in the character of the pan-democratic and conservative candidates.