1922 New Zealand general election
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Turnout | 87.7% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The New Zealand general election of 1922 was held on Monday, 6 December in the Māori electorates, and on Tuesday, 7 December in the general electorates to elect a total of 80 MPs to the 21st session of the New Zealand Parliament. A total number of 700,111 (87.7%) voters turned out to vote.[1] In one seat (Bay of Plenty) there was only one candidate.[2][3]
1922 was the year residents of the Chatham Islands were enfranchised for the first time (included in Lyttelton and Western Māori electorates).
Result
William Massey formed a government, but with the loss in support for the Reform Party he had to negotiate for support with Independents, and with two Liberal Party members.[4]
Liberal was in decline and disorganised. Just before the 1925 election (held on 4 November), two Liberal MPs from Christchurch who had supported Massey (along with Independents Harry Atmore and Allen Bell) were appointed to the Legislative Council. They were Leonard Isitt and George Witty who were both appointed to the Legislative Council by Gordon Coates on 28 October 1925. Both were Liberals and their retirement removed "a source of some bitterness from the Party’s ranks (Coates rewarded them with seats in the Legislative Council the day after the election)".[5] Gordon Coates was Reform, and both of their seats went to Reform candidates in 1925.
Party Totals
Party totals
Election results | |||||
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Party | Candidates | Total votes | Percentage | Seats won | |
width=5 bgcolor=Template:Reform Party (New Zealand)/meta/color| | Reform Party | 76 | 249,735 | 39.35 | 37 |
bgcolor=Template:New Zealand Liberal Party/meta/color| | Liberal Party | 56 | 166,708 | 26.26 | 22 |
bgcolor=Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color| | Labour Party | 41 | 150,448 | 23.70 | 17 |
bgcolor=Template:Independent politician/meta/color| | Others | 39 | 67,837 | 10.69 | 4 |
Total | 212 | 634,728 | 80 |
*Note: For numbers of candidates see Wilson (1985) p. 295; for numbers of votes and percentage see Wilson (1985) p. 289. Electorate results given below include 38 Reform and 21 Liberal members. The figures given in the table agree with Mackie and Rose, as well as the article on New Zealand elections.
Votes summary
Electorate results
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Summary of changes
A boundary redistribution resulted in the abolition of one seat:
At the same time, one new seat was created:
Notes
- ^ "General elections 1853-2005 - dates & turnout". Elections New Zealand. Archived from the original on 14 November 2014. Retrieved 12 January 2011.
- ^ Bassett 1982, p. 666.
- ^ Wilson 1985, p. 286.
- ^ Bassett 1982, p. 32.
- ^ Bassett 1982, p. 35.
References
- Bassett, Michael (1982). Three Party Politics in New Zealand 1911–1931. Auckland: Historical Publications. ISBN 0-86870-006-1.
- Chapman, Robert M. (1948). The Significance of the 1928 General Election: A Study in Certain Trends in New Zealand Politics During the Nineteen-Twenties (Thesis). Massey University.
- Chapman, Robert M. (1969). The Political Scene 1919–1931. Heinemann.
- Hislop, J. (1923). The General Election, 1922. Government Printer. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
- Mackie, Thomas T.; Rose, Richard (1991). The International Almanac of Electoral History (3rd ed.). Macmillan.
- McRobie, Alan (1989). Electoral Atlas of New Zealand. Wellington: GP Books. ISBN 0-477-01384-8.
- Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.