The 1985 Hong Kong Legislative Council election was an indirect election for members of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo) held on 26 September 1985. It was the first ever election of the Legislative Council in Hong Kong which marked the beginning of the Hong Kong representative democracy.
After the Sino-British Joint Declaration, the Hong Kong government decided to start the process of democratisation in Hong Kong based on the consultative document Green Paper: the Further Development of Representative Government in Hong Kong published on 18 July 1984. There were 12 members elected by the Electoral Colleges and 12 by the functional constituencies, four official members and the rest of the seats were appointed by the governor.
Composition Electoral colleges 12 unofficial members were elected by the electoral college comprised all members of the District Boards, the Urban Council and the new Regional Council. In order to achieve a more balanced and adequate representation the District Boards would be grouped into ten geographical constituencies each representing approximately 500,000 people. The remaining two seats would be provided by the two special constituencies formed respectively by members of the Urban Council and the Regional Council. The interests of the Heung Yee Kuk would be represented through the Regional Council. The 12 constituencies formed from the electoral college were: East Island: Eastern District and Wan Chai District West Island: Central & Western District and Southern District Kwun Tong: Kwun Tong District Wong Tai Sin: Wong Tai Sin District Kowloon City: Kowloon City District Sham Shui Po: Sham Shui Po District South Kowloon: Mong Kok District and Yau Ma Tei District East New Territories: North District, Tai Po District and Shatin District West New Territories: Yuen Long District and Tuen Mun District South New Territories: Tsuen Wan District (including Tsing Yi), Islands District and Sai Kung District Urban Council Regional Council
Functional constituencies Nine functional constituencies returned 12 unofficial members to the Legislative Council. The commercial, industrial, and labour constituencies would each return two unofficial members to the Legislative Council. The remaining six constituencies would each return one unofficial member. The nine functional constituencies and their representative organizations were: Commercial (2 seats): First Commercial: Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce Second Commercial: Chinese General Chamber of Commerce Industrial (2 seats): First Industrial: Federation of Hong Kong Industries Second Industrial: Chinese Manufacturers' Association of Hong Kong Financial: Hong Kong Association of Banks Labour (2 seats): all registered employee trade unions Social Services: Hong Kong Council of Social Service Medical: Hong Kong Medical Association Teaching Legal Engineering, Architectural, Surveying and Planning
Results
Electoral College Constituencies The Electoral College constituencies adopted the exhaustive ballot voting method. Only the results of the final rounds are shown below. Constituency CandidatesParty Votes Urban CouncilHilton Cheong-Leen16Elsie Tu13Provisional Regional CouncilLau Wong-fat Uncontested East IslandDesmond Lee Yu-tai /PHKS24Kwan Lim-ho16Albert Cheung Chi-piu 0Lee Kam-kee 0Peggy Lam Pei 0Chum Ting-pong 0 West IslandLiu Lit-for 18Anthony Ng Sung-man16Keith Lam Hon-keung 8 Kwun TongPoon Chi-fai 18Cheng Kwan-suen11Li Wah-ming0 Wong Tai SinConrad Lam Kui-shing 16Liu Koon-sing 15 Kowloon CityDaniel Tse Chi-wai 13Pao Ping-wing11Peter Chan Chi-kwan0 Sham Shui PoChung Pui-lam 19Ambrose Cheung Wing-sum 8 South KowloonJackie Chan Chai-keung 12Ena Yuen Yin-hung 7Jacob Chan Lai-sang 6Ip Kwok-chung 0 East New TerritoriesAndrew Wong Wang-fat 29Pang Hang-yin 25Liu Ching-leung 0Wong Yuen-cheung 0Wai Hon-leung 0 West New TerritoriesTai Chin-wah 22Man For-tai 18Alfred Tso Shiu-wai 0Kingsley Sit Ho-yin 0Tang Siu-tong 0 South New TerritoriesRichard Lai Sung-lung 34Lam Wai-keung 28 John Ho Tung-ching 0
Functional Constituencies Constituency CandidatesParty Votes First CommercialThomas Clydesdale470A. C. William Blaauw 320Second CommercialHo Sai-chuUncontestedFirst IndustrialStephen Cheong Kam-chuenUncontested Second IndustrialNgai Shiu-kit544Ho Yuk-wing31FinancialDavid Li Kwok-poUncontested Labour(2 seats)Pang Chun-hoiUncontestedTam Yiu-chungUncontested Social ServicesHui Yin-fat76Mak Hoi-wah41Chan Sau-han22 MedicalChiu Hin-kwong1,168Edward Leong Che-hung1,049 TeachingSzeto Wah12,706Luk Yip Jing-ping 2,655Ko Gra-yee 2,165Chan Yat-tong 577Wu Siu-wai 409LegalMartin Lee Chu-ming488 Henry Denis Litton 312 Edmund Chow Wai-hung 43 Engineering, Architectural,Surveying and PlanningCheng Hon-kwan1,129Raymond Ho Chung-tai1,074To Leung-tak496
See also Democratic development in Hong Kong History of Hong Kong
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