1935 Dunedin mayoral election

The 1935 Dunedin mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1935, elections were held for the Mayor of Dunedin plus other local government positions including twelve city councillors. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.

1935 Dunedin mayoral election

← 1933 8 May 1935 1938 →
Turnout	28,118
Candidate Edwin Cox James Marlow Party Labour Citizens' Popular vote 12,215 10,425 Percentage 43.44 37.07
Mayor before election Edwin Cox Elected mayor Edwin Cox

Edwin Cox, the incumbent Mayor, sought re-election and was successful in attaining a second-term. The Labour Party was also successful in securing a majority on the council for the first time.^[1]

Mayoral results

1935 Dunedin mayoral election^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Edwin Cox	12,215	43.44	+2.56
	Citizens'	James Marlow	10,425	37.07
	Independent	Robert Black	5,268	18.73	−14.75
Informal votes			210	0.74	+0.01
Majority			1,790	6.36	−1.04
Turnout			28,118

Council results

1935 Dunedin local election^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Fred Jones	15,746	55.99	+3.70
	Labour	Gervan McMillan	15,461	54.98
	Labour	Jim Munro	15,131	53.81	−0.08
	Labour	Mark Silverstone	14,745	52.43	+12.26
	Citizens'	William Begg	13,354	47.49	+8.52
	Citizens'	Walter Alexander Scott	13,121	46.66	+4.17
	Citizens'	Andrew Allen	12,911	45.91	+5.61
	Citizens'	Francis William Mitchell	12,723	45.24
	Citizens'	William Henry Sheppard	12,404	44.11	+4.62
	Citizens'	Donald Cameron	12,066	42.91
	Labour	Peter Neilson	12,034	42.79	+5.54
	Labour	William Batchelor	11,779	41.89	+6.42
	Citizens'	Robert Walls	11,757	41.81	+7.07
	Labour	Ralph Harrison[nb 1]	11,411	40.58	+3.17
	Citizens'	Henry Louis Paterson	11,338	40.32
	Citizens'	William Julian Bardsley	11,220	39.90
	Citizens'	Jackson Purdie	11,207	39.85
	Labour	Michael Connelly	11,191	39.80
	Labour	Phil Connolly	11,024	39.20	+3.17
	Labour	James Harrison	10,875	38.67
	Citizens'	Alfred Clark	10,797	38.39
	Citizens'	John McIndoe	10,794	38.38	−5.20
	Labour	John Robinson	10,773	38.31
	Labour	Bryan O'Donnell	10,140	36.06	+4.63
	Independent	Charles Andrew Wilson	9,512	33.82
	Independent	Henry Alexander Hamer	3,943	14.02	−13.26
	Independent	Alexander William Martin	3,148	11.19
	Independent	Cornelius Machin Moss	2,325	8.26
	Communist	Arthur Basil Powell	1,082	3.84
	Communist	Samuel Ikin	799	2.84

Table footnotes:

1. Harrison was appointed to the council in December 1937 to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Fred Jones.^[4]

References

1. "Dunedins Vote". Auckland Star. Vol. LXVI, no. 108. 9 May 1935. p. 8. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
2. "Election Notices". Otago Daily Times. No. 24569. 13 May 1935. p. 11. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
3. "The Elections - Dunedin City Council". Otago Daily Times. No. 22570. 14 May 1935. p. 6. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
4. "A New Councillor". Otago Daily Times. No. 23368. 7 December 1937. p. 8.