The 1986 Hong Kong Urban Council and Regional Council elections were the municipal elections held on 6 March 1986 for the elected seats of the

Urban Council The Urban Council (UrbCo) was a municipal council in Hong Kong responsible for municipal services on Hong Kong Island and in Kowloon (including New Kowloon). These services were provided by the council's executive arm, the Urban Services ...

for

Hong Kong Island Hong Kong Island is an Islands and peninsulas of Hong Kong, island in the southern part of Hong Kong. Known colloquially and on road signs simply as Hong Kong, the island has a population of 1,289,500 and its population density is 16,390/km ...

Kowloon Kowloon () is an urban area in Hong Kong comprising the Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon. With a population of 2,019,533 and a population density of in 2006, it is the most populous area in Hong Kong, compared with Hong Kong Island and t ...

and

New Kowloon New Kowloon is an area in Hong Kong, bounded in the south by Boundary Street, and in the north by the ranges of the Eagle's Nest, Beacon Hill, Lion Rock, Tate's Cairn and Kowloon Peak. It covers the present-day Kwun Tong District and Wong Tai S ...

and newly created Regional Council for the rest of the

New Territories The New Territories is one of the three main regions of Hong Kong, alongside Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula. It makes up 86.2% of Hong Kong's territory, and contains around half of the population of Hong Kong. Historically, it ...

respectively.

Overview

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 Heung Yee Kuk, officially the Heung Yee Kuk N.T., is a statutory advisory body representing establishment interests in the New Territories, Hong Kong. The council is a powerful organisation comprising heads of rural committees which repres ...

. The

first-past-the-post In a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast their ...

voting system was used. Total of 362,725, which shared 27 per cent of the voters cast their votes on the election day on 6 March, 143,888 of which voted (35.9 per cent turnout) in the Regional Council and 218,837 of them (23.2 per cent turnout) voted in the Urban Council, slightly higher than the 1983 Urban Council Election. Among 12 incumbent Urban Councillors, only veteran

Brook Bernacchi Brook Antony Bernacchi (; 22 January 1922 – 22 September 1996) was a lawyer and politician in Hong Kong. He was the long-time chairman of the Reform Club of Hong Kong, the then quasi-opposition party in the colony and the longest serving ele ...

of the

Reform Club of Hong Kong The Reform Club of Hong Kong was one of the oldest political organisations in Hong Kong, existing from 1949 until the mid-1990s. Established by expatriates who were concerned about the Young Plan proposed by Governor Mark Aitchison Young in 1 ...

and Chow Wai-hung of the

Hong Kong Civic Association The Hong Kong Civic Association is one of the longest-existing political organisations in Hong Kong. Established in 1954 by a group of teachers, professionals and businessmen, the Civic Association was one of the two semi-political parties to ...

failed to be re-elected. The oldest elected Urban Councillor was

Elsie Tu Elsie Tu (; ; 2 June 1913 – 8 December 2015), known as Elsie Elliott in her earlier life, was an English-born Hong Kong social activist, elected member of the Urban Council of Hong Kong from 1963 to 1995, and member of the Legislative Counc ...

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 The Hong Kong People's Council on Public Housing Policy (; HKPCHP), formerly called the Hong Kong People's Council on Public Housing Policy (), was a Hong Kong pressure group established in 1978 and was prominent in the 1970s and 80s. It was set ...

(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 The Hong Kong Affairs Society () was a middle class and professionals oriented political organisation formed in 1984 for the discussion for the Hong Kong prospect and political constitution after the handover to China with about 20 members led ...

and

Meeting Point Meeting Point (Chinese: 匯點) was a liberal political organisation and party in Hong Kong formed by a group of former student activists in the 1970s and intellectuals for the discussion for the Sino-British negotiation on the question of Hong ...

had both victories and defeats in different areas.

General results

, - !style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" colspan=2 rowspan=2, Political affiliation !style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" colspan=3 , Urban Council !style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" colspan=3 , Regional Council !style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" colspan=3 , Total , - ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" , Popular
votes ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" , Standing ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" , Elected ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" , Popular
votes ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" , Standing ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" , Elected ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" , Popular
votes ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" , % ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" , Total
seats
gained , - , style="background-color:" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, , 33,038 , , 4 , , 4 , , 14,795 , , 2 , , 2 , , 47,833 , , 13.58 , , 6 , - , style="background-color:" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, , 44,027 , , 9 , , 3 , , 400 , , 1 , , 0 , , 44,427 , , 12.60 , , 3 , - , style="background-color:" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

Note: the votes gained by

Ng Ming-yum Ng Ming-yum (; 13 April 1955 – 22 June 1992) was a Hong Kong politician and writer. He was a key founder of the United Democrats of Hong Kong (forerunner of the Democratic Party), a member of the Tuen Mun District Council, an elected member o ...

who represents both Meeting Point and PCPHP is overlapped in this table. , , 17,013 , , 2 , , 1 , , 18,398 , , 2 , , 1 , , 35,411 , , 10.06 , , 2 , - , style="background-color:" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, , 24,486 , , 5 , , 2 , , - , , - , , - , , 24,486 , , 6.95 , , 2 , - , style="background-color:" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, , 15,377 , , 3 , , 1 , , 3,953 , , 1 , , 0 , , 19,330 , , 5.49 , , 1 , - , style="background-color:" , , style="text-align:left;" , Individuals and others , , 75,527 , , 16 , , 4 , , 119,925 , , 35 , , 10 , , 195,452 , , 55.50 , , 14 , - , style="text-align:left;background-color:#E9E9E9" colspan="2", Total (turnout: 26.9%) , style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9", 209,468 , style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9", 39 , style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9", 15 , style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9", 142,676 , style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9", 40 , style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9", 12 , style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9", 352,144 , style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9", 100.00 , style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9", 27

Elected members

Urban Council

Regional Council

References

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