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1965 Hong Kong municipal election

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election_name1965 Hong Kong municipal election
countryHong Kong
flag_imageFlag of Hong Kong 1959.svg
typeparliamentary
ongoingno
previous_election1963 Hong Kong municipal election
previous_year1963
next_election1967 Hong Kong municipal election
next_year1967
seats_for_election6 (of the 10) elected seats to the Urban Council
election_date3 March 1965
registered29,349 13.18%
turnout6,492 (22.12%) 1.60pp
leader1Brook Bernacchi
party1Reform Club of Hong Kong
seats_before13
seats_after15
seat_change12
image2[[File:Woo Pak-foo.jpg150x150px]]
leader2Woo Pak-foo
party2Hong Kong Civic Association
seats_before25
seats_after25
seat_change2
map_size325px

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.

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. The Civic–Reform 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.

Elected members

|reg. electors = 29,349

Citations

References

  • Lau, Y.W. (2002). A history of the municipal councils of Hong Kong : 1883-1999 : from the Sanitary Board to the Urban Council and the Regional Council. Leisure and Cultural Service Dept.
  • Pepper, Suzanne (2008). Keeping Democracy at Bay:Hong Kong and the Challenge of Chinese Political Reform. Rowman & Littlefield.

References

  1. (1965-03-04). "選舉議員今晨已揭曉". 香港工商日報.
  2. (4 March 1965)
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