1903 Hong Kong sanitary board election

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1903 Hong Kong sanitary board election
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  1901 25 March 1903 1906  
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Nominee Henry Pollock Ahmet Rumjahn
Party Nonpartisan Nonpartisan
Popular vote225141
Percentage38.0%23.82%

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Nominee Edbert Ansgar Hewett Augustus Shelton Hooper
Party Nonpartisan Nonpartisan
Popular vote121105
Percentage20.44%17.74%

Elected Members

Henry Pollock
Ahmet Rumjahn

The 1903 Hong Kong Sanitary Board election was held on 25 March 1903 was the second election for the two unofficial seats in the Sanitary Board of Hong Kong under the reconstituted Public Health and Building Ordinance of 1903.

Contents

Only ratepayers who were included in the Special and Common Jury Lists of the years or ratepayers who are exempted from serving on Juries on account of their professional avocations were entitled to vote at the election.

Candidates

CandidatesOccupationNominatorSeconder
Edbert Ansgar Hewett Agent, P&O J. H. LewisE. W. Mitchell
Augustus Shelton Hooper Secretary, Hongkong Land Edward Osborne W. A. Curickshank
Henry Pollock, K.C.Barrister-at-law Bendyshe Layton G. Balloch
Ahmet Rumjahn ArchitectJohn LemmE. M. Hazeland

Outcome

Henry Edward Pollock, the former Acting Attorney General and the member of the Executive and Legislative Council was elected.

Sanitary Board Election 1903
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Nonpartisan Henry Edward Pollock 225 38.00
Nonpartisan Ahmet Rumjahn 141 23.82
Nonpartisan Edbert Ansgar Hewett 12120.44
Nonpartisan Augustus Shelton Hooper 10517.74

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