1909 Hong Kong sanitary board election

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1909 Hong Kong sanitary board election

← 1906

20 January 1909

1912 →


Nominee	A. Shelton Hooper	Gerard H. L. Fitzwilliams
Party	Nonpartisan	Nonpartisan
Popular vote	504	343
Percentage	38.0%	25.8%


Nominee	R. A. Belilios	H. Percy Smith
Party	Nonpartisan	Nonpartisan
Popular vote	313	167
Percentage	23.6%	12.6%

Members before election

Henry Humphreys
A. Shelton Hooper

Elected Members

A. Shelton Hooper
Gerard H. L. Fitzwilliams

The 1909 Hong Kong Sanitary Board election was held on 20 January 1909 was an election for the two unofficial seats in the Sanitary Board of Hong Kong. It was the first election with more than two contestants since the 1903 election.

An Amendment of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance passed in 1908 by the Legislative Council slightly extended the electorate, reorganised the powers of the Board and officially defined the jurisdictions of the Board were Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and New Kowloon.

It was the first election with more than two contestants since 1903. Four candidates ran in the election and among them Augustus Shelton Hooper and G. H. L. Fitzwilliams were elected.^[1]

Result

Names	Votes
Mr. Augustus Shelton Hooper	504
Dr. Gerard Hall Lloyd Fitzwilliams	343
Dr. Raphael Aaron Belilios	313
Mr. Horace Percy Smith	167

Citations

^ "The sanitary board election.", Hong Kong Daily Press, p. 2, 21 January 1909

References

Endacott, G. B. Government and people in Hong Kong, 1841-1962 : a constitutional history Hong Kong University Press. (1964)
The Hong Kong Government Gazette
Twentieth century impressions of Hong Kong, Shanghai, and other Treaty Ports of China. Their history, people, commerce, industries, and resources; editor in chief: Arnold Wright, assistant editor: H.A. Cartwright. Published 1908 by Lloyd's Greater Britain Pub. Co. in London.

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