Election Name: | 1915 Hong Kong sanitary board election |
Country: | Hong Kong |
Flag Image: | Flag of Hong Kong 1876.svg |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 1914 Hong Kong sanitary board election |
Previous Year: | 1914 |
Next Election: | 1916 Hong Kong sanitary board election |
Next Year: | 1916 |
Election Date: | 22 January 1915 |
Registered: | 1,325 |
Turnout: | 806 (60.83%) |
Nominee1: | G. H. L. Fitzwilliams |
Party1: | Nonpartisan candidate |
Popular Vote1: | 363 |
Percentage1: | 45.04% |
Nominee2: | P. W. Goldring |
Party2: | Nonpartisan candidate |
Popular Vote2: | 223 |
Percentage2: | 27.67% |
Nominee3: | F. B. L. Bowley |
Party3: | Nonpartisan candidate |
Popular Vote3: | 220 |
Percentage3: | 27.30% |
Members | |
Before Election: | G. H. L. Fitzwilliams P. W. Goldring |
Map Size: | 325px |
The 1915 Hong Kong Sanitary Board election was held on 22 January 1915 for the two unofficial seats in the Sanitary Board of Hong Kong.
Only ratepayers who were included in the Special and Common Jury Lists of the years or ratepayers who are exempted from serving on Juries on account of their professional avocations, unofficial members of the Executive or Legislative Council, or categories of profession were entitled to vote at the election.
The election took place from 4 to 6 p.m. on 22 January in the Registry of the Supreme Court. Out of 1200 eligible voters on the jurors list and 300 exemptions, only 430 voters polled.[1]
Three candidates ran for two seats with two long serving Board members F. B. L. Bowley and G. H. L. Fitzwilliams and also P. W. Goldring who was elected in the 1914 by-election, filling Bowley's vacant seat. Bowley was nominated by David Landale and seconded by Henry Pollock, Fitzwilliams by Henry Pollock and H. W. Looker and Goldring by E. J. Grist and H. S. Playfair.
Fitzwilliams and Goldring were elected and 806 votes out of 1,325 electorates were cast.