Hong Kong municipal election, 1965

Hong Kong municipal election, 1965

3 March 1965

6 (of 10) elected seats to the Urban Council   First party Second party   Leader Brook Bernacchi Woo Pak-foo Party Reform Civic Seats before 3 5 Seats after 5 5 Seat change 2

The 1965 Urban Council Election was held on 3 March 1965 for the 6 of the 10 elected seats of the Urban Council of Hong Kong after the membership of the elected members increased from 8 to 10.

Overview

The polling stations increased to four in this year. City Hall in Central, North Point Government Primary School, Aberdeen Government Primary School, East wing of the Star Ferry Pier in South Kowloon and Queen Elizabeth School.

6,492 of the 29,529 eligible electorates came out and voted which was about 22%.

The Civic-Reform Coalition collapsed in 1964, but the dominance of the two groups still continued. Henry Hu representing Reform Club was elected to the Council for the first time.

Six members of the Labour Party of Hong Kong protested a peacefully at the Edinburgh Place outside of the poll station of City Hall on the election day afternoon for two hours with slogans of "abolish Urban Council", "support Labour don't vote", and "give Hong Kong democracy". They criticised the Urban Council was powerless to manage the affairs which had real impact on Hong Kong residents and less than only 30 thousands people had the right to vote out of nearly four millions population.^[1]

Elected members

Names of Candidate		Political Affiliation	Votes
	Brook Bernacchi	Reform Club	4,192
	Alison Bell	Reform Club	3,913
	Henry Hu	Reform Club	3,828
	Li Yiu-bor	Civic Association	3,768
	Woo Pak-foo	Civic Association	3,616
	Hilton Cheong-Leen	Civic Association	3,520

Unelected candidates

• Charles Ching (Reform Club)
• Dr. Pun Chung-chik (Civic Association)
• Henry Wong (Civic Association)
• Patrick Wong (Reform Club)
• Charles Yeung (Reform Club)

Citations

1. 投票站外首次出現示威行動. 香港工商日報 (in Chinese). 4 March 1965. p. 5.

References

• Lau, Y.W. (2002). A history of the municipal councils of Hong Kong : 1883-1999 : from the Sanitary Board to the Urban Council and the Regional Council. Leisure and Cultural Service Dept.
• Pepper, Suzanne (2008). Keeping Democracy at Bay:Hong Kong and the Challenge of Chinese Political Reform. Rowman & Littlefield.