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1929 Auckland City mayoral election

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1929 Auckland City mayoral election

← 1927 1 May 1929 1931 →
Turnout23,990
 
Candidate George Baildon Tom Bloodworth
Party Progressive Citizens' Labour
Popular vote 7,595 6,679
Percentage 31.65 27.84

Mayor before election

George Baildon

Elected mayor

George Baildon

The 1929 Auckland City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1929, elections were held for the Mayor of Auckland plus other local government positions including twenty-one city councillors. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.

Mayoralty results

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1929 Auckland mayoral election[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Citizens' George Baildon 7,595 31.65 −9.84
Labour Tom Bloodworth 6,679 27.84 −6.09
Independent Hubert Earle Vaile 5,187 21.62
Independent Walter Harry Murray 4,226 17.61
Informal votes 303 1.26 −0.10
Majority 916 3.81 −3.75
Turnout 23,990

Councillor results

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1929 Auckland City Council election[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Tom Bloodworth 12,061 50.27 −5.29
Progressive Citizens' George Hutchison 11,310 47.14
Independent Walter Harry Murray 8,946 37.29 −0.01
Progressive Citizens' Andrew Entrican 8,502 35.43 −15.49
Progressive Citizens' John Dempsey 7,758 32.33 −17.68
Labour Ted Phelan 7,692 32.06 −13.28
Progressive Citizens' George Ashley 7,359 30.67 −9.37
Progressive Citizens' Matthew John Bennett 7,354 30.65 −19.53
Labour Fred Bartram 7,179 29.92
Progressive Citizens' George Brownlee 7,147 29.79 −6.94
Independent William Lang Casey 7,118 29.67 −8.29
Independent James Donald 7,035 29.32 −13.59
Progressive Citizens' George Grey Campbell 7,030 29.30 −5.73
Independent Ellen Melville 6,998 29.17 −19.22
Independent Alice Basten 6,868 28.62 −8.39
Progressive Citizens' Brent Llewellyn Bagnall 6,748 28.12
Independent Balfour Mears Irvine 6,550 27.30
Independent John Lundon 6,505 27.11 −2.28
Independent John Barr Patterson 6,081 25.34 −18.74
Independent Michael John Coyle 6,059 25.25 −19.60
Independent Harold Percy Burton 5,963 24.85
Independent Dawson Donaldson 5,840 24.34
Independent Alfred Hall Skelton 5,795 24.15 −11.58
Progressive Citizens' John Allum 5,774 24.06 −22.72
Progressive Citizens' Thomas McNab 5,771 24.05 −8.42
Independent Samuel Crookes 5,723 23.85 −19.46
Independent Claude James Lovegrove 5,586 23.28
Labour Oscar McBrine 5,428 22.62 −15.95
Progressive Citizens' Sidney Takle 5,271 21.97
Labour Edna Macky 5,190 21.63
Progressive Citizens' Percy John Goldfinch 5,038 21.00
Independent Leonard Bailey Busfield 5,004 20.85
Progressive Citizens' John W. Kealy 4,997 20.82
Independent John William Carr 4,983 20.77
Labour John Stacey Adeane 4,927 20.53
Independent Albert Glover 4,925 20.52
Progressive Citizens' William Hugh McKinney 4,919 20.50 −10.54
Independent Almond Edmund Marsden Dunningham 4,870 20.30
Progressive Citizens' Herbert Bellam 4,837 20.16
Labour Dick Barter 4,761 19.84 −14.13
Progressive Citizens' John Francis Shanly 4,712 19.64 −6.34
Labour Jim Purtell 4,517 18.82 −14.17
Independent Duncan Carmichael Fraser 4,492 18.72
Independent Harold Schmidt 4,470 18.63
Independent George Leonard Brett 4,371 18.22 −9.90
Independent Hallyburton Johnstone 4,349 18.12 −4.28
Labour Alice Cassie 4,257 17.74
Labour Hugh Campbell 4,148 17.29
Labour John Oliver Liddell 3,990 16.63
Labour Bill Schramm 3,980 16.59 −0.10
Independent James Grace 3,976 16.57
Independent Frederick Waterston Matthews 3,916 16.32
Independent James Francis Hosking 3,820 15.92
Labour John Thomas Jennings 3,794 15.84
Progressive Citizens' Dick Thompson 3,776 15.73 −10.09
Labour Bernard Martin 3,759 15.66 −13.18
Independent George Russell Magee 3,572 14.88
Independent Isaac Gelston Gray 3,319 13.83
Progressive Citizens' Arthur Gilbert Quartley 3,087 12.86
Independent John Heard Ansell 2,999 12.50
Independent Walter Thomas Smith 2,962 12.34
Independent George Rochester Metcalfe 2,934 12.23 −11.20
Labour Harry Gordon Staley 2,881 12.00
Independent Harry Percival Taylor 2,613 10.89
Labour Paul Richardson 2,218 9.24
Independent John Jolley Thomas 1,312 5.46
Independent Harry Woodroff 1,073 4.47

References

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  1. ^ "Electoral". The New Zealand Herald. Vol. LXVI, no. 20248. 7 May 1929. p. 20. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
  2. ^ "Electoral". The New Zealand Herald. Vol. LXVI, no. 20248. 7 May 1929. p. 20. Retrieved 26 August 2017.