Hong Kong municipal election, 1969

5 March 1969

5 (of 10) elected seats to the Urban Council

Turnout	23.85% 14.81pp
	First party	Second party

Leader	Hilton Cheong-Leen	Brook Bernacchi
Party	Civic	Reform
Seats before	4	4
Seats after	5	3
Seat change	1	1
Popular vote	14,335	16,571
Percentage	42.58%	49.22%

The 1969 Urban Council Election was held on 5 March 1969 for the 5 of the 10 elected seats of the Urban Council of Hong Kong.

8,166 of 34,237 registered voters voted, the turnout rate was 23.8%

Peter Chan Chi-kwan of the Civic Association was newly elected to the Urban Council.

Outcome

Urban Council Election 1969^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Reform	Brook Bernacchi	5,455	16.20
	Reform	Henry H. L. Hu	4,761	14.14
	Civic	Raymond Y. K. Kan	4,325	12.85
	Civic	Peter C. K. Chan	4,111	12.21
	Civic	Henry Wong	3,536	10.50
	Independent	Y. B. Low	2,752	8.17
	Reform	Eva Leung	2,553	7.58
	Reform	Patrick Wong	2,459	7.30
	Civic	Harry Odell	2,373	7.05
	Reform	Alberto Da Cruz	1,343	3.99
Turnout			33,668	23.8

↑ Wong, Chris (3 March 1969). "3 seats to Civic; Two seats to Reform". Hong Kong Standard.

Lau, Y.W. (2002). A history of the municipal councils of Hong Kong : 1883-1999 : from the Sanitary Board to the Urban Council and the Regional Council. Leisure and Cultural Service Dept.
Pepper, Suzanne (2008). Keeping Democracy at Bay:Hong Kong and the Challenge of Chinese Political Reform. Rowman & Littlefield.

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