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Hong Kong municipal elections, 1986

Hong Kong municipal elections, 1986

1983 ←
6 March 1986 → 1989

15 (of 30) seats to the Urban Council
12 (of 36) seats to the Regional Council
Turnout 26.92% Increase4.55pp
  First party Second party Third party
  Frederick Fung at Alliance for True Democracy.jpg Lau Nai-keung.JPG
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 Increase4 Decrease1 Increase1
Popular vote 47,833 44,427 35,411
Percentage 13.58% 12.60% 10.06%
Swing Increase2.60pp Decrease5.98pp N/A

  Fourth party Fifth party
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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 Decrease1 Steady
Popular vote 24,486 19,330
Percentage 6.95% 5.49%
Swing Decrease8.43pp N/A

Chairmen before election

Hilton Cheong-Leen (UC)
RegCo new established

Elected Chairmen

Hugh Forsgate (UC)
Cheung Yan-lung (RC)


Hilton Cheong-Leen (UC)
RegCo new established

Hugh Forsgate (UC)
Cheung Yan-lung (RC)

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.

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.

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.

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.


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