Hong Kong municipal election, 1983

1981 ←

8 March 1983

→ 1986

15 (of 30) seats to the Urban Council

Turnout	22.37%
	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Hilton Cheong-Leen	Brook Bernacchi	Frederick Fung
Party	Civic	Reform	PCPHP
Leader's seat	Wan Chai	Shau Kei Wan	Sham Shui Po East
Last election	4 seats ,45.35%	2 seats, 28.29%	New party
Seats won	4	2	2
Seat change		1	2
Popular vote	23,576	19,520	13,894
Percentage	18.58%	15.38%	10.98%
Swing	26.77pp	12.91pp	N/A

Chairman before election

Hilton Cheong-Leen
Civic

Elected Chairman

Hilton Cheong-Leen
Civic

The 1983 Urban Council Election was held on 8 March 1983 for the elected seats of the Urban Council. It marked the centenary of the establishment of the Urban Council and the largely reformed electoral methods with the creation of the district-based constituencies and massive expansion of the electorate.

1983 marked the centenary of the Urban Council. Elections for the certain amounts of seat in the Urban Council had been held since 1888, but the electorates were strictly limited to the residents on the jurors list or with certain professions. All elected members were voted without in a single constituency.

Since the colonial government began the reform on the district administrations on the eve of the Sino-British negotiation over the Hong Kong sovereignty after 1997, the 1983 election marked a major change of the Urban Council. The elected members increased from 12 to 15 whilst the appointed members increased from 12 to 15 as well, which increased the total members from 24 to 30. 15 elected members were elected by electorates of each constituency in Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and New Kowloon with single member plurality method. The electorate base was fully extended to all Hong Kong permanent residents over 21 to about 568,000 voters, which made the electorate increased by 17 times.

Despite the two long existing political groups in the Urban Council, the Hong Kong Civic Association and the Reform Club of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong People's Council on Public Housing Policy (PCPHP), a pressure group which devoted itself to the public housing policies also fill in two candidates, vice-chairman Lam Chak-piu in Kwun Tong East and secretary-general Frederick Fung in Sham Shui Po East, which made it the first pressure group to have representative in the election.

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