Hong Kong municipal election, 1959

3 March 1959

4 (of 8) elected seats to the Urban Council

Turnout	30.68% 5.14pp
	First party	Second party

Leader	Brook Bernacchi	Woo Pak-foo
Party	Reform	Civic
Seats before	5	3
Seats after	4	4
Seat change	1	1
Popular vote	12,030	6,010
Percentage	47.67%	23.82%

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.^[1] 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.

Results

Urban Council Election 1959
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Reform	Chan Shu-woon	5,021	19.90	+5.58
	Reform	Alison Mary Spencer Bell	3,624	14.36	+6.2
	Reform	Raymond Harry Shoon Lee	3,385	13.41	–9.0
	Civic	Ernest Charles Wong	3,076	12.19
	Independent	Gerald Arthur de Basto	2,964	11.75
	Civic	Cheung Wing-in	2,940	11.65
	Independent	Fogg Yatt-chao	2,550	10.11
	Independent	Lee Sheung-pui	1,234	4.89
	Independent	Lam Yung-hon	441	1.75
Turnout			7,236	30.68

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