Hong Kong local elections, 1985

Hong Kong local elections, 1985

7 March 1985

All Elected Constituencies 237 (of 426) seats in all 19 District Boards Turnout 37.5%   First party Second party Third party   Leader Hilton Cheong-Leen Brook Bernacchi Frederick Fung Party Civic Reform PCPHP Last election 6 seats, 7.46% 4 seats, 6.42% N/A Seats won 17 17 8 Popular vote 60,311 43,769 29,390 Percentage 8.76% 6.36% 4.27% Swing 1.30pp 0.06pp N/A

The 1985 Hong Kong District Board elections were the second district board elections held on 7 March 1985 for the all 19 districts of Hong Kong (original Tsuen Wan District Board was separated into Tsuen Wan District Board and Kwai Tsing District Board).

Overview

The two political groups with long history, the Hong Kong Civic Association and the Reform Club of Hong Kong continued to fill candidates in various districts. The Reform Club focused on its base in the Eastern District and both groups focused their campaigns in the urban areas. The relatively new grassroots group, the Hong Kong People's Council on Public Housing Policy which mainly focused on the public housing policies also actively fill in candidates. The incumbent District Councillors in the Central and Western District, Eastern District and the Southern District on the Hong Kong Island formed the coalition of seeking for re-election. Most of the members retained their seats.^[1] The pro-Beijing leftist union Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions also supported 10 of its members who all ran as individuals and 5 of them were elected,^[2] while 5 elected candidates were with pro-Taipei background.

General outcome

Total of 476,530 voters cast their votes on the election day on 7 March, which was about 37.5% of the total eligible voters, slightly higher than the last election.

Note: The votes of candidates with multiple affiliations are overlapped in this table.

References

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