1941 Wellington City mayoral election

Wellington City mayoral election, 1941
Turnout	31,158
Mayor before election; Thomas Hislop;	Elected mayor ; Thomas Hislop;

The Wellington City mayoral election, 1941 was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1941, 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.

The election resulted in a landslide victory for the right-leaning local ticket the Civic League with their candidates capturing all council seats and the mayoralty, whitewashing the Labour Party. This election saw the new development of non-ratepayers being able to vote in municipal elections. The tenants of state houses were not required to pay rates directly to the council as equivalent costs were paid to central government instead, nonetheless residents of state housing were eligible to vote.^[1]

Mayoralty results

Wellington mayoral election, 1941^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Civic League	Thomas Hislop	19,919	63.92	+7.07
	Labour	Robert McKeen	10,978	35.23
Informal votes			261	0.83	+0.15
Majority			8,941	28.69	+14.30
Turnout			31,158

Councillor results

Wellington local election, 1941^[3]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Civic League	Robert Alexander Wright	19,468	62.48	+7.59
Civic League	Will Appleton	19,038	61.10	+9.55
Civic League	Malcolm Fraser	18,293	58.71	+7.51
Civic League	Elizabeth Gilmer	18,248	58.56
Civic League	Martin Luckie	18,150	58.25	+8.06
Civic League	William Gaudin	17,933	57.55	+7.14
Civic League	William Duncan	17,599	56.48	+7.25
Civic League	Leonard McKenzie	17,266	55.41	+6.76
Civic League	Robert McAlister	17,225	55.28	+9.35
Civic League	Bryan Todd	16,944	54.38
Civic League	Robert Nimmo	16,863	54.12
Civic League	Frederick Furkert	16,664	53.48
Civic League	Charles Bowden	16,416	52.68
Civic League	William Stevens	15,055	48.31
Civic League	James Sievwright	14,512	46.57
Labour	Robert McKeen	12,517	40.17	−14.56
Labour	Charles Henry Chapman	11,715	37.95	−13.95
Labour	Tom Brindle	10,779	34.59	−13.20
Labour	Peter Butler	10,706	34.36	−14.39
Labour	Adam Black	10,383	33.32	−12.91
Labour	Margaret Semple	10,379	33.31	−14.31
Labour	Catherine Stewart	9,947	31.92
Labour	Roy Holland	9,787	31.41
Labour	William Atkinson	9,643	30.94
Labour	Andrew Parlane	9,636	30.92	−13.44
Labour	John Read	9,307	29.87	−13.80
Labour	James Collins	9,214	29.57	−13.29
Labour	John Fleming	8,820	28.30
Labour	Harold Aspen	8,389	26.92
Labour	Percival Hansen	8,158	26.18
Independent	Leslie Austin	3,607	11.57	−8.62
Independent	Charlie Teece	3,230	10.36
Independent	Arthur Carman	2,239	7.18
Independent	Daniel Campbell	2,096	6.72
Communist	Alexander Galbraith	2,007	6.44
Communist	Connie Birchfield	1,731	5.55
Communist	William Wood	1,713	5.49
Independent	Jessie Probyn	1,081	3.46	−1.70

Notes

^ Betts 1970, pp. 42.
^ "The Mayoralty". Evening Post. Vol. CXXXI, no. 121. 24 May 1941. p. 11. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
^ "New City Council". Evening Post. Vol. CXXXI, no. 116. 19 May 1941. p. 9. Retrieved 27 October 2016.

References

Betts, G.M. (1970). Betts on Wellington: A City and its Politics. Wellington: A. H. & A. W. Reed Ltd. ISBN 0 589 00469 7. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

[FOOTNOTEBetts197042-1] Betts 1970, pp. 42.

[The_Mayoralty-2] "The Mayoralty". Evening Post. Vol. CXXXI, no. 121. 24 May 1941. p. 11. Retrieved 27 October 2016.

[New_City_Council-3] "New City Council". Evening Post. Vol. CXXXI, no. 116. 19 May 1941. p. 9. Retrieved 27 October 2016.

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