1909 Hong Kong sanitary board election

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1909 Hong Kong sanitary board election
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  1906 20 January 1909 1912  
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Nominee A. Shelton Hooper Gerard H. L. Fitzwilliams
Party Nonpartisan candidate Nonpartisan candidate
Popular vote504343
Percentage38.0%25.8%

 
Nominee R. A. Belilios H. Percy Smith
Party Nonpartisan candidate Nonpartisan candidate
Popular vote313167
Percentage23.6%12.6%

Members before election

Henry Humphreys
A. Shelton Hooper

Elected Members

A. Shelton Hooper
Gerard H. L. Fitzwilliams

The 1909 Hong Kong Sanitary Board election was held on 20 January 1909 was an election for the two unofficial seats in the Sanitary Board of Hong Kong. It was the first election with more than two contestants since the 1903 election.

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An Amendment of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance passed in 1908 by the Legislative Council slightly extended the electorate, reorganised the powers of the Board and officially defined the jurisdictions of the Board were Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and New Kowloon.

It was the first election with more than two contestants since 1903. Four candidates ran in the election and among them Augustus Shelton Hooper and G. H. L. Fitzwilliams were elected. [1]

Result

NamesVotes
Mr. Augustus Shelton Hooper 504
Dr. Gerard Hall Lloyd Fitzwilliams 343
Dr. Raphael Aaron Belilios 313
Mr. Horace Percy Smith 167

Citations

  1. "The sanitary board election.", Hong Kong Daily Press, p. 2, 21 January 1909

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