1965 Hong Kong municipal election

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1965 Hong Kong municipal election
Flag of Hong Kong 1959.svg
  1963 3 March 1965 1967  

6 (of the 10) elected seats to the Urban Council
Registered29,349 Increase2.svg13.18%
Turnout6,492 (22.12%) Increase2.svg1.60pp
 First partySecond party
  Woo Pak-foo.jpg
Leader Brook Bernacchi Woo Pak-foo
Party Reform Civic
Seats before35
Seats after55
Seat changeIncrease2.svg2Steady2.svg

The 1965 Hong Kong Urban Council election was held on 3 March 1965 for the six of the ten elected seats of the Urban Council of Hong Kong after the membership of the elected members increased from eight to ten.

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As for the previous election, there were four polling stations: 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. Turnout was 6,492 of 29,349 eligible voters, approximately 22 percent. [1] The CivicReform Coalition had collapsed in 1964, but the dominance of the two groups continued separately. Both groups won three seats each in the election, maintaining the balance of power in the Council, with Henry Hu representing Reform Club was elected for the first time.

On election day afternoon, six members of the Labour Party protested peacefully for two hours at Edinburgh Place outside the City Hall poll station with slogans of "Abolish Urban Council", "Support Labour don't vote", and "Give Hong Kong democracy". They criticised the Urban Council as powerless to manage matters that had real impact on Hong Kong residents, and that of Hong Kong's population of nearly four million, fewer than 30,000 people had the right to vote. [2]

Elected members

Urban Council Election 1965
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Reform Brook Bernacchi 4,192
Reform Alison Bell 3,913
Reform Henry Hu 3,828
Civic Li Yiu-bor 3,768
Civic Woo Pak-foo 3,616
Civic Hilton Cheong-Leen 3,520
Reform Charles Ching
Civic Pun Chung-chik
Civic Henry Wong
Reform Patrick Wong
Reform Charles Yeung Siu-cho
Turnout 6,49222.12+1.60
Registered electors 29,349+13.18

Citations

  1. "選舉議員今晨已揭曉". 香港工商日報. 1965-03-04. p. 5.
  2. 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.

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