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
Registered	1,421,391 58.01%
Turnout	476,558 (37.48%) 1.45pp
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 1.30pp 0.06pp N/A   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 10 of its members who all ran as individuals and 5 of them were elected,[2] while 5 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	60,311	8.76	44	17
	Reform Club of Hong Kong	43,769	6.36	35	17
	Eastern District Coalition	28,495	4.14	12	10
	Central and Western District Coalition	19,703	2.86	12	10
	Hong Kong People's Council on Public Housing Policy	29,390	4.27	10	8
	Hong Kong People's Association	18,040	2.62	8	8
	Southern District Coalition	9,570	1.39	10	6
	Meeting Point	9,714	1.41	4	4
	Hong Kong Affairs Society	4,148	0.60	3	3
	Independent and others	508,313	73.81	385	170
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.