Hong Kong municipal elections, 1986

Hong Kong municipal elections, 1986

6 March 1986

15 (of 30) seats to the Urban Council 12 (of 36) seats to the Regional Council Turnout 26.92% 4.55pp   First party Second party Third party   Leader Frederick Fung Hilton Cheong-Leen Lau Nai-keung Party PCPHP Civic Meeting Point Leader's seat Sham Shui Po East Wan Chai Did not stand Last election 2 seats, 10.98% 4 seats, 18.58% New party Seats won 5 UC 1 RC 3 UC — 1 UC 1 RC Seat change 4 1 1 Popular vote 47,833 44,427 35,411 Percentage 13.58% 12.60% 10.06% Swing 2.60pp 5.98pp N/A   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Brook Bernacchi Huang Chen-ya Party Reform HKAS Leader's seat Shau Kei Wan (lost seat) Did not stand Last election 3 seats, 15.38% New party Seats won 2 UC — 1 UC 0 RC Seat change 1 Popular vote 24,486 19,330 Percentage 6.95% 5.49% Swing 8.43pp N/A

Chairmen before election Hilton Cheong-Leen (UC) RegCo new established Elected Chairmen Hugh Forsgate (UC) Cheung Yan-lung (RC)

The 1986 Urban Council and Regional Council Elections were the municipal elections held on 6 March 1986 for the elected seats of the Urban Council for Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and New Kowloon and newly created Regional Council for the rest of the New Territories respectively.

Overview

15 seats in the Urban Council remained the directly elected by the general residents and 15 appointed by the Governor. For the newly formed Regional Council, 12 seats were directly elected and 9 seats were elected by the New Territories District Boards members, with 12 appointed members and 3 ex officio members of the Chairman and two vice chairmen of the Heung Yee Kuk. The first-past-the-post voting system was used.

Total of 362,725, which shared 27% of the voters cast their votes on the election day on 6 March, 143,888 of which voted (35.9% turnout) in the Regional Council and 218,837 of them (23.2% turnout) voted in the Urban Council, slightly higher than the 1983 Urban Council Election.^[1]

Among 12 incumbent Urban Councillors, only veteran Brook Bernacchi of the Reform Club of Hong Kong and Chow Wai-hung of the Hong Kong Civic Association failed to be re-elected. The oldest elected Urban Councillor was Elsie Tu who was already 72 years old, while 64 years old Kwong Ping-yau was the oldest Regional Councillor. For the Regional Council, 10 out of 27 councillors elected were social workers, while there were also 7 education workers.^[2]

The grassroots organisation Hong Kong People's Council on Public Housing Policy (PCPHP) had candidates it supported being elected Kwun Tong, Sham Shui Po, Shau Kei Wan and Wong Tai Sin while the other new political groups such as the Hong Kong Affairs Society and Meeting Point had both victories and defeats in different areas.^[3]

General results

 Overall Summary of the 6 March 1986 Urban Council and Regional Council Hong Kong election results

Political affiliation		Urban Council			Regional Council			Total
		Popular votes	Standing	Elected	Popular votes	Standing	Elected	Popular votes	%	Total seats gained
	Hong Kong People's Council on Public Housing Policy[note 1]	33,038	4	4	14,795	2	2	47,833	13.58	6
	Hong Kong Civic Association	44,027	9	3	400	1	0	44,427	12.60	3
	Meeting Point[note 1]	17,013	2	1	18,398	2	1	35,411	10.06	2
	Reform Club of Hong Kong	24,486	5	2	-	-	-	24,486	6.95	2
	Hong Kong Affairs Society	15,377	3	1	3,953	1	0	19,330	5.49	1
	Individuals and others	75,527	16	4	119,925	35	10	195,452	55.50	14
Total (turnout: 26.9%)		209,468	39	15	142,676	40	12	352,144	100.00	27

1. Note: the votes gained by Ng Ming-yam who represents both Meeting Point and PCPHP is overlapped in this table.

Elected members

Urban Council

District	Constituency	Candidates	Affiliation
Central & Western	Central & Western	Chow Wai-keung		Independent
Wan Chai	Wan Chai	Hilton Cheong-Leen		Civic
Eastern	North Point	Man Sai-cheong		HKAS
	Shau Kei Wan	Cheung Wai-ping		Independent
Southern	Southern	Joseph Chan Yuek-sut		Civic
Kowloon City	Kowloon City West	Peter Chan Chi-kwan		Civic
	Kowloon City East	Pao Ping-wing		PCPHP
Kwun Tong	Kwun Tong West	Elsie Tu		Independent
	Kwun Tong East	Lam Chak-piu		PCPHP
Mong Kok	Mong Kok	Chan Kwok-ming		Independent
Yau Tsim	Yau Ma Tei	Kwan Lim-ho		Reform
Sham Shui Po	Sham Shui Po East	Frederick Fung Kin-kee		PCPHP
	Sham Shui Po West	Lee Chik-yuet		Meeting Point
Wong Tai Sin	Wong Tai Sin South	Fok Pui-yee		PCPHP
	Wong Tai Sin North	Cecilia Yeung Lai-yin		Reform

Regional Council

District	Constituency	Candidate	Affiliation
Tsuen Wan	Tsuen Wan	Albert Chan Wai-yip		Independent
Tuen Mun	Tuen Mun East	Tsang Kwok-yuen		Independent
	Tuen Mun West	Ng Ming-yam		Meeting Point/PCPHP
Yuen Long	Yuen Long	Tang Kam-fat		Independent
North	North	Tang Kwok-yung		Independent
Tai Po	Tai Po	Michael Lai Kam-cheung		Independent
Sai Kung	Sai Kung	Wong Shui-sang		Independent
Sha Tin	Sha Tin East	Cheung Chi-yuen		Independent
	Sha Tin West	Lau Kong-wah		Independent
Kwai Tsing	Kwai Chung East & Tsing Yi	Lee Wing-tat		Independent
	Kwai Chung West & Tsing Yi	Wong Man-tai		PCPHP
Islands	Islands	Kwong Ping-yau		Independent

References

1. "通宵點票今晨完成 三十六萬人投票 投票率官方滿意". Wah Kiu Yat Po. 7 March 1986. p. 1.
2. "民選市局區域議局議員 社工界佔十人 杜葉錫恩獲得選票最多". Wah Kiu Yat Po. 8 March 1986. p. 9.
3. "港人對政治意識漸提高". Wah Kiu Yat Po. 8 March 1986. p. 9.