The 1995 Hong Kong Urban Council and Regional Council elections were the municipal elections held on 5 March 1995 for the elected seats of the Urban Council and Regional Council respectively. It was the second of the three-tier elections held in 1995 under Governor Chris Patten's electoral reform, namely the 1994 District Board and 1995 Legislative Council election. The liberal Democratic Party continued its dominance by winning 23 seats in total. Due to the abolishment of the two Councils by Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa in 1999, this election became the last election.

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1995 Hong Kong municipal elections

← 1991 5 March 1995
32 (of the 41) seats to the Urban Council 27 (of the 39) seats to the Regional Council
Registered	2,450,372 34.46%
Turnout	561,778 (22.93%) 0.21pp
First party Second party Third party   Leader Martin Lee Tsang Yok-sing Frederick Fung Party Democratic DAB ADPL Last election New party New party 2 seats, 5.37% Seats won 12 UC 11 RC 5 UC 3 RC 5 UC 3 RC Seat change 12 4 4 Popular vote 205,823 70,690 38,918 Percentage 36.91% 16.24% 6.98% Swing N/A N/A 1.61pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Hu Fa-kuang Lau Kong-wah Allen Lee Party LDF Civil Force Liberal Last election 3 seats, 9.99% New party New party Seats won 1 UC 3 RC 0 UC 1 RC 1 UC 0 RC Seat change 1 1 1 Popular vote 25,398 10,546 7,188 Percentage 4.55% 1.89% 1.29% Swing 5.44pp N/A N/A
Chairmen before election Ronald Leung (UC) Lam Wai-keung (RC) Elected Chairmen Ronald Leung (UC) Lau Wong-fat (RC)

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Due to the democratisation reform under the governorship of Chris Patten, all the appointed seats since the creations of the Councils were replaced by members of direct elections. 32 seats in the Urban Council was the directly elected by the general residents and 9 seats were elected by the Hong Kong Island and Kowloon District Boards members. For Regional Council, 27 seats were directly elected and 9 seats were elected by the New Territories District Boards members, with 3 ex-officio members of the chairman and two chairmen of the Heung Yee Kuk. The first-past-the-post voting system was used.

Dozens of long-serving Urban and Regional Councillors decided not to stand in the first full-scale municipal-level elections. The most senior member on the Urban Council Brook Bernacchi who was first elected in 1952 would not stand because the council was becoming increasingly politicised. Elsie Tu, the second most senior Councillor was challenged and defeated by the Democratic Party heavyweight Szeto Wah for the Kwun Tong North seat.^[1]

As a result, 21 Urban Councillors left in 1995 taking with them a total of 210 years of experience.^[2]

After the transfer of sovereignty to the People's Republic of China, Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa decided to streamline and centralise municipal services as part of his government's policy reforms by dissolving the two Councils. The 1995 election thus became the last election.