1977 Mangere by-election

The Mangere by-election of 1977 was a by-election for the electorate of Mangere on 26 March 1977 during the 38th New Zealand Parliament. The by-election resulted from the resignation of the previous member Colin Moyle after accusations against him in parliament, and he was replaced by David Lange, also of the Labour Party. Apart from Lange, there were seven other candidates in the by-election.

The by-election put Lange (who had stood unsuccessfully in 1975 for Hobson) into parliament, and the attention that he got helped propel him to the leadership of the parliamentary Labour Party in February 1983, and then a landslide victory over Muldoon in the 1984 general election.

Results

The following table gives the election results:

1977 Mangere by-election^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Lange	9,766	58.27
	National	Clem Simich	5,107	30.48
	Social Credit	Bill Owens	1,026	6.10	-0.07
	Values	Frank Grayson	789	4.71	-1.02
	Worker's Labour	Barry Moss	28	0.17
	Alpha	Paul Magoffin	18	0.11
	Independent Labour	Barry Shaw	17	0.10
	Socialist Action	Brigid Mulrennan	7	0.04
Majority			4,659	27.80
Turnout			16,758	64.31	-15.35
Registered electors			26,058
	Labour hold		Swing

References

^ Norton 1988, p. 267.

Norton, Clifford (1988). New Zealand Parliamentary Election Results 1946–1987: Occasional Publications No 1, Department of Political Science. Wellington: Victoria University of Wellington. ISBN 0-475-11200-8. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
Wood, G. A. (1996) [1987]. Ministers and Members in the New Zealand Parliament (2 ed.). Dunedin: University of Otago Press. p. 113. ISBN 1 877133 00 0.

[FOOTNOTENorton1988267-1] Norton 1988, p. 267.

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