Hong Kong municipal election, 1953

Hong Kong municipal election, 1953

20 May 1953

4 elected (of 15) seats to the Urban Council Turnout ~20%   First party   Leader Brook Bernacchi Party Reform Last election 1 seats, 33.58% Seats before 1 Seats won 4 Seat change 3 Popular vote 6,374 Percentage 71.25% Swing 37.67pp

The 1953 Urban Council election was held on 20 May 1953 for the 4 elected seats of the Urban Council of Hong Kong.

The elected seats extended from 2 seats to 4 seats in this election, which increased the total numbers of member from 13 to 15. For the first time the polling station was set in the Kowloon peninsula, at the Kowloon-Canton Railway Station in Tsim Sha Tsui, besides the one in Hong Kong Island. Despite that, only 2,536 of about 8,000 eligible voters, about twenty percent of the electorate, cast ballots, less than last year.

All candidates from the Reform Club, including Brook Bernacchi and Woo Pak-chuen were elected, while incumbent William Louey lost the re-election.

Results

Urban Council Election 1953^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Reform	Brook Bernacchi	2,100	23.47	+5.64
	Reform	Woo Pak-chuen	1,746	19.52	+3.77
	Reform	Raymond Harry Shoon Lee	1,304	14.58
	Reform	Philip Au	1,224	13.68
	KRA	P.J. Griffiths	981	10.97
	KRA	William Louey Sui-tak	745	8.33	-7.98
	CRA	Percy Chen	456	5.10	-1.94
	Independent	G.O. Jones	390	4.36
Turnout			2,536	~20%

Citations

1. "Quiet, But Steady Stream Of Voters". China Mail. 20 May 1953.

References

• Pepper, Suzanne (2008). Keeping Democracy at Bay:Hong Kong and the Challenge of Chinese Political Reform. Rowman & Littlefield.
• 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.