1969 Hong Kong municipal election

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1969 Hong Kong municipal election
Flag of Hong Kong 1959.svg
  1967 5 March 1969 1971  

5 (of the 10) elected seats to the Urban Council
Registered34,392 Increase2.svg31.26%
Turnout8,178 (23.78%) Decrease2.svg14.88pp
 First partySecond party
  Hilton Cheong-Leen.png
Leader Hilton Cheong-Leen Brook Bernacchi
Party Civic Reform
Seats before44
Seats after53
Seat changeIncrease2.svg1Decrease2.svg1
Popular vote14,33516,571
Percentage42.58%49.22%

The 1969 Hong Kong Urban Council election was held on 5 March 1969 for the five of the ten elected seats of the Urban Council of Hong Kong. 8,178 of 34,392 registered voters voted, the turnout rate was 23.8 per cent, a sharp decline from the record breaking turnout in the previous election in 1967. [1]

Contents

All five contested seats were divided up by the two political groups, three of them went to the Hong Kong Civic Association while the other two went to the Reform Club of Hong Kong. All three Civic candidates, Raymond Y. K. Kan, Peter C. K. Chan and Henry Wong were newly elected to the Urban Council.

Outcome

Urban Council Election 1969 [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Reform Brook Bernacchi 5,455 16.20
Reform Henry H. L. Hu 4,761 14.14
Civic Raymond Y. K. Kan 4,325 12.85 New
Civic Peter C. K. Chan 4,111 12.21 +6.84
Civic Henry Wong 3,536 10.50 New
Independent Y. B. Low2,7528.17+6.75
Reform Eva Leung2,5537.58
Reform Patrick Wong2,4597.30+3.27
Civic Harry Odell2,3737.05
Reform Alberto Da Cruz1,3433.99
Turnout 8,17823.78−14.88
Registered electors 34,392+31.26

Citations

  1. "競選市議員 今晨揭曉". 華僑日報. 1969-03-06. p. 5.
  2. Wong, Chris (3 March 1969). "3 seats to Civic; Two seats to Reform". Hong Kong Standard.

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