1985 Hong Kong local elections

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).

1985 Hong Kong local elections
7 March 1985
All Elected Constituencies
237 (of the 426) seats in all 19 District Boards
Registered1,421,391 Increase58.01%
Turnout476,558 (37.48%) Decrease1.45pp
  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% New party
Seats won 17 17 8
Popular vote 60,311 43,769 29,390
Percentage 8.76% 6.36% 4.27%
Swing Increase1.30pp Decrease0.06pp N/A
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Lo King-man Lau Nai-keung Huang Chen-ya
Party People's Association Meeting Point HKAS
Last election New party New party New party
Seats won 8 4 3
Popular vote 18,040 9,714 4,148
Percentage 2.62% 1.41% 0.60%
Swing N/A N/A N/A

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 (FTU) also supported ten of its members who all ran as individuals and five of them were elected,[2] while five elected candidates were with pro-Taipei background, one of whom was a member of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Trades Union Council (TUC). The Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union (PTU) also supported 30 of its members, 24 of whom were elected.

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.

Overall Summary of the 7 March 1985 District Board election results
Political Affiliation Votes % Standing Elected
Hong Kong Civic Association 60,3118.764417
Reform Club of Hong Kong 43,7696.363517
Eastern District Coalition 28,4954.141210
Central and Western District Coalition 19,7032.861210
Hong Kong People's Council on Public Housing Policy 29,3904.27108
Hong Kong People's Association 18,0402.6288
Southern District Coalition 9,5701.39106
Meeting Point 9,7141.4144
Hong Kong Affairs Society 4,1480.6033
Independent and others 508,31373.81385170
Total (turnout 37.5%) 688,676 100.00 501 237

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

References
  1. "革新會卅五人主力東區議席 公屋評議會居民力量 中西區十二子連環". The Wah Kiu Yat Po. 4 January 1985. p. 8.
  2. "工聯會十會員競選". Wah Kiu Yat Po. 14 February 1985. p. 6.
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