1935 Wellington City mayoral election
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The Wellington City mayoral election, 1935 was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1935, elections were held for the Mayor of Wellington plus other local government positions including fifteen city councillors. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.
Background
Incumbent mayor Thomas Hislop stood for a third-term, the first mayor to do so since Sir John Luke in 1915. His opponent was Bob Semple, a Labour councillor and MP for Wellington East. During the campaign Semple received slanderous allegations of being an Atheist, which he denied stating "If the people of the world followed the philosophy of Jesus there would be no poverty...".[1]
For the second election in a row Labour won a majority of the vote, but could not win a majority of seats.[2] However Labour did win one more seat than in 1933 and then went on to win a by-election soon after increase their representation further.[3]
Mayoralty results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Citizens' | Thomas Hislop | 21,505 | 53.08 | ||
Labour | Bob Semple | 19,009 | 46.92 | ||
Majority | 2,496 | 6.16 | |||
Turnout | 40,514 |
Councillor results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Peter Fraser | 28,215 | 69.64 | ||
Labour | Charles Henry Chapman | 25,847 | 63.79 | −2.63 | |
Labour | Robert McKeen | 25,482 | 62.89 | −1.48 | |
Citizens' | Robert Alexander Wright | 22,384 | 55.25 | ||
Labour | Peter Butler | 20,584 | 50.80 | +6.94 | |
Labour | Tom Brindle | 20,312 | 50.13 | +4.24 | |
Citizens' | William Bennett | 19,846 | 48.98 | −3.56 | |
Citizens' | Will Appleton | 19,100 | 47.14 | −1.08 | |
Citizens' | John Burns | 18,942 | 46.75 | +2.30 | |
Citizens' | William Gaudin | 18,816 | 46.44 | −6.45 | |
Citizens' | Len McKenzie | 18,551 | 45.78 | −2.23 | |
Citizens' | Martin Luckie | 18,529 | 45.73 | −3.06 | |
Labour | Adam Black | 18,504 | 45.67 | +5.44 | |
Citizens' | Herbert Huggins | 18,423 | 45.47 | −1.68 | |
Citizens' | William Duncan | 18,416 | 45.45 | −1.48 | |
Labour | Andrew Parlane[nb 1] | 18,320 | 45.21 | +2.55 | |
Labour | Alexander Croskery | 18,139 | 44.77 | ||
Labour | Michael Reardon | 18,054 | 44.56 | ||
Citizens' | Thomas Forsyth | 17,804 | 43.94 | −2.55 | |
Labour | John Read | 17,584 | 43.40 | ||
Labour | Michael Walsh | 16,930 | 41.78 | +1.99 | |
Labour | John Tucker | 16,878 | 41.65 | +2.41 | |
Citizens' | Robert Macalister | 16,857 | 41.60 | −1.69 | |
Labour | Caryll Hay | 16,387 | 40.44 | +1.62 | |
Labour | Jim Collins | 16,271 | 40.16 | −0.48 | |
Labour | James Ranson | 16,248 | 40.10 | −0.35 | |
Citizens' | Paul Hoskins | 15,482 | 38.21 | +4.25 | |
Communist | Charlie Brooks | 3,359 | 8.29 | ||
Communist | John Joseph Robinson | 3,069 | 7.57 | ||
Communist | Connie Rawcliffe | 2,750 | 6.78 | ||
Communist | Albert Birchfield | 2,695 | 6.65 | ||
Communist | Miles Ormerod | 2,182 | 5.38 |
Table footnotes:
- ^ Parlane was appointed to fill the vacancy on the council in 1936 caused by Peter Fraser's resignation[5]
References
- ^ Hickey, Carina (2010). From Coal Pit to Leather Pit: Life Stories of Robert Semple (PDF) (Ph.D.). Massey University. Retrieved 26 May 2018.
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(help) - ^ Betts 1970, pp. 146.
- ^ "Labour Victory". The Evening Post. Vol. CXXII, no. 110. 5 November 1936. p. 10. Retrieved 8 November 2016.
- ^ a b "Polling in Wellington". The New Zealand Herald. Vol. LXXII, no. 22105. 10 May 1935. p. 13. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
- ^ "No by-election". The Evening Post. Vol. CXXI, no. 109. 9 May 1936. p. 10. Retrieved 29 June 2018.