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1956 Christchurch mayoral election

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1956 Christchurch mayoral election

← 1953 17 November 1956 1958 →
Turnout37,421 (42.45%)
 
Candidate Robert Macfarlane Bill MacGibbon
Party Labour Citizens'
Popular vote 20,368 17,053
Percentage 54.43 45.57

Mayor before election

Robert Macfarlane

Elected mayor

Robert Macfarlane

The 1956 Christchurch mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1956, election were held for the Mayor of Christchurch plus other local government positions. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.

Background

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Sitting mayor Robert Macfarlane was re-elected for a fourth term, opposed only by Bill MacGibbon of the Citizens' Association who had run against Macfarlane in 1950.

Mayoral results

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The following table gives the election results:

1956 Christchurch mayoral election[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Robert Macfarlane 20,368 54.43 +2.36
Citizens' Bill MacGibbon 17,053 45.57
Majority 3,315 8.85 +4.22
Turnout 37,421 42.45 −6.35

Council results

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1956 Christchurch local election[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour George Manning 20,837 55.68 −0.41
Citizens' Les Amos 19,574 52.30 +6.41
Labour Mabel Howard 19,529 52.18 +0.52
Citizens' Mary McLean 19,418 51.89 +4.42
Citizens' Bill Glue 19,136 51.13 +5.26
Citizens' Harold Smith 18,977 50.71 +9.20
Labour Lyn Christie 18,446 49.29 +1.54
Citizens' Thomas Burtt 18,175 48.56
Labour John Mathison 18,037 48.20 −1.57
Citizens' Ron Guthrey 17,899 47.83 +4.69
Citizens' Maurice Carter 17,533 46.85
Citizens' William James Cowles 17,442 46.61 +4.76
Labour Mick Connelly 16,975 45.36
Citizens' Reginald Gilbert Brown 16,801 44.89 +3.85
Citizens' Bill Utley 16,674 44.55
Citizens' William Ernest Olds 16,490 44.06
Labour Harold Denton 16,347 43.68
Labour Norman Reginald Forbes 16,194 43.27 −1.32
Citizens' Alma Schumacher 16,154 43.16
Labour Reg Stillwell 16,142 43.13
Citizens' Fred Price 16,139 43.12 +2.74
Citizens' Kenneth Bartlett 16,019 42.80
Citizens' John William Hulme 16,003 42.76
Citizens' Peter Watts 15,880 42.43
Citizens' Walter Raymond Campbell 15,813 42.25
Labour Arthur John Smith 15,782 42.17 +1.91
Citizens' George Griffiths 15,667 41.86 +1.64
Labour Roy Smith 15,618 41.73 +2.42
Labour James Shankland Sr. 15,512 41.45 −1.07
Citizens' Wilfred Henry Blyth Buckhurst 15,286 40.84
Labour Archibald Galbraith 14,860 39.71
Labour Edith Tongue 14,710 39.30
Labour James Sturrock 14,592 38.99 −1.27
Labour John Athol Gregor 14,589 38.98
Labour Robert Newman 14,308 38.23 −1.71
Labour John Palmer 14,220 38.00
Labour Louis Julian Mouat 13,101 35.00
Labour Joshua Harris 13,038 34.84
Independent Charles Baldwin 5,565 14.87
Communist Jack Locke 2,661 7.11 +0.03
Ind. Social Credit Ernest Yealands 2,048 5.47
Communist Frank McNulty 1,931 5.16

References

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  1. ^ "Election of Mayor". The Press. Vol. XCIV, no. 28139. 30 November 1956. p. 23.
  2. ^ "Christchurch City Council". The Press. Vol. XCIV, no. 28139. 30 November 1956. p. 23.