The 1971 Hong Kong Urban Council election was held on 3 March 1971 for the five of the ten elected seats of the

Urban Council of Hong Kong 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 ...

. 10,047 of the 37,778 eligible voters cast their votes, the turnout rate was 26.6 per cent, slightly better than the previous election in 1969.

Cecilia Yeung Cecilia Yeung Lai-yin (, born 1931 in Hong Kong) was the Wong Tai Sin District Board member (1983–1989, 1991–1994) and Urban Councillor (1971–1995). She was also the Vice-chairwoman of the Reform Club of Hong Kong, school supervisor and pr ...

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 ...

won the seat onto the Urban Council, becoming the first Chinese woman ever elected to this Council, edging out incumbent

Solomon Rafeek Solomon Rafeek, BEM was an elected member of the Urban Council of Hong Kong. Biography Rafeek was a graduate of St. Paul's College, Hong Kong. He worked as a sales manager, P. J. Lobo Co., Ltd. He was an Officer-in-Charge of the Demonstration T ...

with a margin of 139 votes.

Elsie Elliott 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 dubbed as the "Queen of the Polls", led the field of ten candidates with 7,578 votes, topping her 1967 record by more than 500 votes.

Outcome

Citations

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. {{Hong Kong elections

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...

1971 in Hong Kong

Urban Urban means "related to a city". In that sense, the term may refer to: * Urban area, geographical area distinct from rural areas * Urban culture, the culture of towns and cities Urban may also refer to: General * Urban (name), a list of people ...

March 1971 events in Asia 1971 elections in the British Empire