1986 Hong Kong municipal elections

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.

1986 Hong Kong municipal elections
6 March 1986
15 (of the 30) seats to the Urban Council
12 (of the 36) seats to the Regional Council
Registered1,441,540
Turnout362,107 (26.92%)
  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)

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]33,0384414,7952247,83313.586
Hong Kong Civic Association44,027934001044,42712.603
Meeting Point[note 1]17,0132118,3982135,41110.062
Reform Club of Hong Kong24,48652---24,4866.952
Hong Kong Affairs Society15,377313,9531019,3305.491
Individuals and others75,527164119,9253510195,45255.5014
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
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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.
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