Hong Kong municipal election, 1952
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The 1952 Hong Kong Urban Council Election was held on 30 May 1952 for the 2 elected seats of the Urban Council of Hong Kong.
Overview
It was the first Urban Council election after the Second World War. Prior to the election, the former Governor Sir Mark Aitchison Young suggested a further constitutional reform by a new elected Municipal body replacing the Urban Council. The Young Plan was strongly opposed by the conservatives and the then Governor Sir Alexander Grantham. Instead, the Governor restored the election for two seats in the Urban Council which had existed before the war.
Some 3,368 men cast ballots, about one-third of the 9,700 registered electorates.
Brook Bernacchi of the Reform Club of Hong Kong and William Louey of the Kowloon Residents' Association were elected out of nine candidates.
Pro-Chinese Communist barrister Percy Chen was one of the candidates. He urged voters to treat the election as a referendum to press London for a further constitutional reform promised by Young. He ranked sixth of the nine candidates by getting 461 votes.
The other Reform Club candidate Woo Pak-Chuen lost the race by only 38 votes.[1]
| Urban Council Election 1952[2] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Reform | Brook Bernacchi | 1,168 | 17.84 | ||
| KRA | William Louey | 1,068 | 16.31 | ||
| Reform | Woo Pak-Chuen | 1,031 | 15.75 | ||
| Independent | Tso Tsun-on | 1,017 | 15.53 | ||
| Independent | Peter Sin | 866 | 13.23 | ||
| CRA | Percy Chen | 461 | 7.04 | ||
| Independent | G. S. Kennedy-Skipton | 386 | 5.89 | ||
| Independent | Kong Chi-Nai | 307 | 4.69 | ||
| Independent | Daniel Chen | 244 | 3.73 | ||
| Turnout | 3,368 | 35.0 | |||
Citations
References
Pepper, Suzanne (2008). Keeping Democracy at Bay:Hong Kong and the Challenge of Chinese Political Reform. Rowman & Littlefield.
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