Hong Kong municipal elections, 1991

Hong Kong municipal elections, 1991

5 May 1991

15 (of 40) seats to the Urban Council 12 (of 26) seats to the Regional Council Turnout 23.3% 5.7pp   First party Second party Third party   LDF Leader Martin Lee Hu Fa-kuang Hilton Cheong-Leen Party United Democrats LDF Civic Alliance Pro-democracy Conservative bloc N/A Last election New party New party 4 seats, 7.18% Seats before 6 2 3 Seats won 5 UC 6 RC 2 UC 1 RC 2 UC — Seat change 5 1 2 Popular vote 146,229 39,139 22,048 Percentage 37.33% 9.99% 5.63% Swing N/A N/A 1.55pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Frederick Fung Brook Bernacchi Anthony Cheung Party ADPL Reform Meeting Point Alliance Pro-democracy N/A Pro-democracy Last election 4 seats, 9.99% 2 seats, 6.31% 2 seats, 10.21% Seats before 2 2 0 Seats won 2 UC — 2 UC — 1 UC — Seat change 1 Popular vote 21,033 9,045 12,476 Percentage 5.37% 2.31% 3.18% Swing 4.62pp 4.00pp 7.03pp

Chairmen before election Hugh Forsgate (UC) Cheung Yan-lung (RC) Elected Chairmen Ronald Leung (UC) Lam Wai-keung (RC)

The 1991 Urban Council and Regional Council Elections were the municipal elections held on 5 May 1991 for the elected seats of the Urban Council and Regional Council respectively. The election saw the direct rivalry between the newly established political parties, the liberal United Democrats of Hong Kong (UDHK) and the conservative Liberal Democratic Federation of Hong Kong (LDFHK) which the liberal forces won a landslide victory.

Overview

15 seats in the Urban Council was the directly elected by the general residents and 10 seats were elected by the Hong Kong Island and Kowloon District Boards members and 15 appointed by the Governor. For 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.

A total of 392,496 electorates cast their votes, which counted more than 23.3% of the total registered voters, about 6% higher than the elections in 1989. 2 of the 27 seats in the Urban and Regional Councils were uncontested while 4 of the contesting incumbents were defeated including Peter Chan Chi-kwan who had served for 22 years. The two-term incumbent Wong Shui-sang was also defeated by Gilbert Leung Kam-ho.^[1]

The two newly established political parties, the United Democrats of Hong Kong (UDHK) and the Liberal Democratic Federation of Hong Kong (LDFHK) contested heavily in the districts like North Point, Southern District, Kowloon City East, Wong Tai Sin South, Tuen Mun West and Tai Po.^[2] The United Democrats won 11 seats as result, more than one-third in each council, including Sha Tin where Lau Kong-wah and Wong Hon-chung both won a seat in preparation for contesting the Legislative Council direct election in September, while the LDF won only 3 seats.

General results

Note: Some of the candidates with multiple affiliations are overlapped in this chart.

Result breakdown

Urban Council

Regional Council

References

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