Elections in Hong Kong take place when certain political offices in the government need to be filled. Hong Kong has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in the Legislative Council. The Chief Executive of Hong Kong is nonpartisan but has to work with several parties to form a coalition government.
Legislative elections are held in Hong Kong every four years Legislative Council (LegCo) in accordance with Article 69 of the Basic Law. Legislative elections are held either at the expiry of a four-year term or when the Chief Executive dissolves the legislature and calls a new election.
The Hong Kong local elections are elections in Hong Kong for the members of District Councils. First held in 1982, the elections are held at 4-year intervals for returning a total of 452 elected members as at 2019. The last election was held on 24 November 2019.
The Urban Council (UrbCo) was a municipal council in Hong Kong responsible for municipal services on Hong Kong Island and in Kowloon. These services were provided by the council's executive arm, the Urban Services Department. Later, the equivalent body for the New Territories was the Regional Council.
The Senior Unofficial Member, later Senior Member and, finally, Convenor of the Non-official Members, was the highest-ranking unofficial member of the Legislative Council (LegCo) and Executive Council (ExCo) of British Hong Kong, which was tasked with representing the opinions of all unofficial members of the council to the Governor.
The 1985 Hong Kong Legislative Council election was an indirect election for members of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo) held on 26 September 1985. It was the first ever election of the Legislative Council in Hong Kong which marked the beginning of the Hong Kong representative democracy.
The 1888 Hong Kong Sanitary Board election was held on 11 June 1888 for the two unofficial seats in the Sanitary Board of Hong Kong.
The 1919 Hong Kong Sanitary Board election was supposed to be held on 10 March 1919 for one of the two unofficial seats in the Sanitary Board of Hong Kong.
The 1927 Hong Kong Sanitary Board election was supposed to be held on 30 December 1927 for one of the two unofficial seats in the Sanitary Board of Hong Kong.
The 1929 Hong Kong Sanitary Board election was supposed to be held on 22 May 1929 for one of the two unofficial seats in the Sanitary Board of Hong Kong.
The 1930 Hong Kong Sanitary Board election was supposed to be held on 8 December 1930 for one of the two unofficial seats in the Sanitary Board of Hong Kong.
The 1933 Hong Kong Sanitary Board election was supposed to be held on 27 December 1933 for one of the two unofficial seats in the Sanitary Board of Hong Kong. Only one nomination was received therefore no actual election was held.
The 1935 Hong Kong Sanitary Board election was supposed to be held on 22 May 1935 for one of the two unofficial seats in the Sanitary Board of Hong Kong. It was the last election for the Sanitary Board before it was renamed to Urban Council in 1936.
The 1937 Hong Kong Urban Council election was supposed to be held in January 1937 for one of the two unofficial seats in the Urban Council of Hong Kong. It was supposed to be the first election of the Urban Council.
The 1939 Hong Kong Urban Council election was supposed to be held on 2 February 1939 for one of the two unofficial seats in the Urban Council of Hong Kong.
The 1940 Hong Kong Urban Council election was held on 29 February 1940 for one of the two unofficial seats in the Urban Council of Hong Kong. It was the first contested election since the establishment of the Urban Council of Hong Kong and also the last one before the outbreak of the Pacific War. The next election to be held would be the 1952 election, twelve years later.
A plebiscite on whether the Sanitary Board should have an official or unofficial majority was held in Hong Kong in June 1896. It was the only plebiscite conducted by the Hong Kong Government on record. The other de facto referendum launched by the pro-democracy camp through the by-election in 2010 was not officially recognised.
The Kowloon Residents' Association was one of the earliest political organisations in Hong Kong history founded in 1920.
The 1985 Hong Kong electoral reform introduced the first ever indirect election to the colonial legislature during the last years of the British colonial rule in Hong Kong. The reform proposals was first carried out in the Green Paper: the Further Development of Representative Government in Hong Kong in July 1984 right before the Sino-British Joint Declaration in December. The reform laid the foundation of the representative democracy in Hong Kong which developed throughout the last years of the colonial rule and succeeded by the democratic development in Hong Kong after the handover of Hong Kong in 1997.
The White Paper on District Administration in Hong Kong (《地方行政白皮書》）was a white paper published by the Hong Kong Government in January 1981 on introducing elected bodies to local administration in Hong Kong and widening the electoral franchise of the Urban Council.
