Hong Kong municipal election, 1967

7 June 1967

5 (of 10) elected seats to the Urban Council

Turnout	38.66% 16.67pp
	First party	Second party

Leader	Woo Pak-foo	Brook Bernacchi
Party	Civic	Reform
Seats before	5	4
Seats after	4	4
Seat change	1
Popular vote	14,816	9,789
Percentage	37.69%	24.90%

The 1967 Urban Council election was held on 7 June 1967 for the 5 of the 10 elected seats of the Urban Council of Hong Kong. There were a total number of six polling stations located on Hong Kong Island and Kowloon.

Overview

The record of 38.7% turnout as 10,130 of the 26,202 eligible voters came out and cast their ballots, in the middle of the Leftists' disturbances.

The incumbent Dr. Raymond Harry Shoon Lee, also the Reform Club’s vice-chairman who had earlier announced his intention retired, left Hong Kong for permanent residence abroad and Woo Po-shing assumed his seat, while prominent activist Elsie Elliott left the Club and ran as an independent and received the highest votes. The other newcomer was independent Dr. Denny Huang who defeated incumbent Cheung Wing-in of the Hong Kong Civic Association.

Results

Urban Council Election 1967
	Candidate	Votes	%	±
Independent	Elsie Elliott	6,924	17.33	–0.09
Independent	Denny Huang Mong-hwa	5,197	13.01
Civic	Hilton Cheong-Leen	4,555	11.40
Reform	Woo Po-shing	4,254	10.65
Civic	Solomon Rafeek	3,459	8.66
Civic	Cheung Wing-in	3,195	7.80	–13.17
Civic	Peter Chi-kwan Chan	2,145	5.37
Reform	Napoleon Chung-yiu Ng	1,770	4.43
Reform	Patrick Pak-toh Wong	1,611	4.03
Civic	Pun Chung-chik	1,462	3.66
Labour	George S. Kennedy Skipton	1,262	3.16
Independent	Maureen Clark	753	1.88
Reform	Billy K.S. Leong	646	1.62
Independent	Y.B. Low	569	1.42

References

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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