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Hong Kong municipal election, 1959

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3 March 1959
  
1961 →

5
  
3

1
  
1

Turnout
  
30.68% 5.14pp

4
  
4

12,030
  
6,010

Hong Kong municipal election, 1959

The 1959 Urban Council election was held on 3 March 1959 for the 4 of the 8 elected seats of the Urban Council of Hong Kong. The turnout rate dropped to 30.7% but there were still 7,236 of the 23,584 eligible voters cast their votes, 5,354 ballots from Hong Kong Island and 1,882 from Kowloon. Ernest Charles Wong, chairman of the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals won a seat for the Hong Kong Civic Association of which Philip Au of the Reform Club of Hong Kong retired from, while the other three Club incumbents were re-elected.

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Hong Kong municipal election, 1959 Wikipedia