Waitemata (New Zealand electorate)

Waitemata was a New Zealand parliamentary electorate, from 1871 to 1946, and then from 1954 to 1978. It was represented by 18 members of parliament.

Population centres

The Waitemata electorate was created in the 1870 electoral redistribution based on 1867 New Zealand census data and was used in its initial form for the 1871 election.^[1] It was located north of the various urban Auckland electorates and south of the Rodney electorate.^[2] The following settlements were included in its initial area: Cornwallis, Huia, Parau, Laingholm, Titirangi, Waiatarua, Oratia, Piha, Henderson Valley, Swanson, Rānui, Waitākere township, Taupaki, Kumeū, Hobsonville, Whenuapai, Takapuna, and Helensville.^[2]

The First Labour Government was defeated in the 1949 election and the incoming National Government changed the Electoral Act, with the electoral quota once again based on total population as opposed to qualified electors, and the tolerance was increased to 7.5% of the electoral quota. There was no adjustments in the number of electorates between the South and North Islands, but the law changes resulted in boundary adjustments to almost every electorate through the 1952 electoral redistribution; only five electorates were unaltered.^[3] Five electorates were reconstituted (including Waitemata) and one was newly created, and a corresponding six electorates were abolished; all of these in the North Island.^[4] These changes took effect with the 1954 election.^[5]

History

The electorate existed from 1871 to 1946, and from 1954 to 1978.^[6]

Early members were Thomas Henderson 1871–1874 (resigned),^[7] Gustav von der Heyde 1874–1875 (unseated on petition),^[8] John Sangster Macfarlane 1876–1879 (defeated),^[9] Reader Wood 1879–1881 (retired),^[10] William John Hurst 1881–1886 (died),^[11] Richard Monk 1886–1890 (defeated),^[12] and Jackson Palmer 1890–1893 (defeated).^[13]

The election of Richard Monk, who stood again in 1893, was declared invalid.^[12] From 1894 to 1896 Waitemata was held by future Prime Minister William Massey, until he transferred to Franklin.^[14] Richard Monk held the electorate for the period 1896–1902.^[12] The seat was then held by Ewen Alison from 1902 to 1908,^[15] Leonard Phillips from 1908 to 1911,^[16] and Alexander Harris from 1911 to 1935.^[17]

In 1946 Henry Thorne Morton, who had held the seat from 1943, was defeated for North Shore.^[18]

Members of Parliament

Waitemata was represented by 18 Members of Parliament.^[6]

Key

  Independent   Independent Liberal   Conservative   Reform   Labour   National

Election	Winner
1871 election		Thomas Henderson
1st 1874 by-election		Gustav von der Heyde
2nd 1874 by-election
1876 election		John Macfarlane
1879 election		Reader Wood
1881 election		William Hurst
1884 election
1886 by-election		Richard Monk
1887 election
1890 election		Jackson Palmer
1893 election		Richard Monk
1894 by-election		William Massey
1896 election		Richard Monk
1899 election
1902 election		Ewen Alison
1905 election
1908 election		Leonard Phillips
1911 election		Alexander Harris
1914 election
1919 election
1922 election
1925 election
1928 election
1931 election
1935 election		Jack Lyon
1938 election
1941 by-election		Mary Dreaver
1943 election		Henry Morton
(electorate abolished 1946–1954, see North Shore)
1954 election		Norman King
1957 election
1960 election
1963 election
1966 election
1969 election		Frank Gill
1972 election		Michael Bassett
1975 election		Dail Jones
(electorate abolished 1978, see Helensville)

Election results

1975 election

1975 general election: Waitemata^[19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National	Dail Jones	8,965	46.94
	Labour	Michael Bassett	7,580	36.69	−17.21
	Social Credit	Gordon McCormick	1,460	7.64	−0.38
	Values	Steve Covacich	1,046	5.47
	Independent	Gordon Bree	44	0.23
Majority			1,385	7.25
Turnout			19,095	77.75	−10.91
Registered electors			24,557

1972 election

1972 general election: Waitemata^[19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Michael Bassett	8,083	53.90	+10.91
	National	Ray La Varis	5,539	36.93
	Social Credit	Gordon McCormick	1,203	8.02
	New Democratic	John Robert Neil	106	0.70
	Liberal Reform	Robert John Hannaford	65	0.43
Majority			2,544	16.96
Turnout			14,996	88.66	−1.72
Registered electors			16,913

1969 election

1969 general election: Waitemata^[19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National	Frank Gill	8,804	48.82
	Labour	Michael Bassett	7,752	42.99
	Social Credit	Alex Davidson	1,475	8.18
Majority			1,052	5.83
Turnout			18,031	90.38	+4.08
Registered electors			19,950

1966 election

1966 general election: Waitemata^[19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Norman King	11,624	53.09	−2.03
	National	Terry Power	7,792	35.59
	Social Credit	Joseph F. Richards	2,476	11.31
Majority			3,832	17.50	−0.89
Turnout			21,892	86.30	−2.24
Registered electors			25,365

1963 election

1963 general election: Waitemata^[19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Norman King	9,686	55.12	+5.30
	National	Butch Pugh	6,767	38.51
	Social Credit	Byrt Jordan	954	5.42	−0.91
	Communist	Basil James Holmes	164	0.93
Majority			2,919	16.61	−9.88
Turnout			17,571	88.54	−2.60
Registered electors			19,845

1960 election

1960 general election: Waitemata^[19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Norman King	9,241	49.82	−3.70
	National	Jolyon Firth	7,992	43.09
	Social Credit	Byrt Jordan	1,174	6.33	+0.01
	Communist	Hugh John McLeod	139	0.74
Majority			1,249	6.73	−6.64
Turnout			18,546	91.14	−3.69
Registered electors			20,348

1957 election

1957 general election: Waitemata^[19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Norman King	8,771	53.52	+6.99
	National	Robert Muldoon	6,580	40.15
	Social Credit	Byrt Jordan	1,036	6.32	−3.09
Majority			2,191	13.37	+10.89
Turnout			16,387	94.83	+3.20
Registered electors			17,280

1954 election

1954 general election: Waitemata^[19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Norman King	7,234	46.53
	National	Hubert Morrison	6,847	44.04
	Social Credit	Byrt Jordan	1,463	9.41
Majority			387	2.48
Turnout			15,544	91.63
Registered electors			16,963

1943 election

1943 general election: Waitemata^[20]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National	Henry Morton	6,451	42.22
	Labour	Mary Dreaver	6,130	40.12	−4.76
	Democratic Labour	Karl Benjamin Ansley	976	6.38
	Independent	William C. Hewitt	204	1.33
Informal votes			127	0.83	+0.10
Majority			321	2.10
Turnout			15,277	94.62
Registered electors			16,144

1941 by-election

1941 Waitemata by-election^[21][22]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mary Dreaver	4,396	44.88
	Independent National	William Brockway Darlow	3,884	39.65
	Democratic Labour	Norman Douglas	940	9.59
	Independent	Peter Robertson Gardner	414	4.22
	Independent	Henry Thomas Head	88	0.89
Informal votes			72	0.73	−0.14
Majority			512	5.22
Turnout			9,794

1938 election

1938 general election: Waitemata^[23]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jack Lyon	7,806	57.95	+6.43
	National	John Ernest Close	5,545	41.16
Informal votes			118	0.87	−0.84
Majority			2,261	16.78	−4.24
Turnout			13,469	94.19	+2.31
Registered electors			14,299

1935 election

1935 general election: Waitemata^[24][25]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jack Lyon	6,578	51.52
	Independent	Alexander Harris	3,894	30.50	−22.38
	Democrat	Alan Walter Donald	2,045	16.02
	United	John Guiniven	252	1.97
Majority			2,684	21.02	−1.46
Informal votes			222	1.71	+1.37
Turnout			12,991	91.88	+10.91
Registered electors			14,139

1931 election

1931 general election: Waitemata^[26]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Alexander Harris	5,593	52.88	+12.28
	Labour	Arthur Osborne	3,215	30.40	+8.85
	United	William Brockway Darlow[27]	1,769	16.72
Majority			2,378	22.48	+19.75
Informal votes			36	0.34	−0.28
Turnout			10,613	80.97	−4.87
Registered electors			13,107

1928 election

1928 general election: Waitemata^[28][29]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Alexander Harris	4,683	40.59	−17.24
	United	Reginald Henry Greville	4,368	37.86
	Labour	Arthur Osborne	2,485	21.54	−7.16
Majority			315	2.73	−26.40
Informal votes			72	0.62	+0.11
Turnout			11,608	85.84	−4.84
Registered electors			13,523

1925 election

1925 general election: Waitemata^[30]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Reform	Alexander Harris	7,101	57.84	+11.74
	Labour	Arthur Osborne	3,524	28.70
	Liberal	Thomas Lamont	1,653	13.46
Majority			3,577	29.13	+16.36
Informal votes			63	0.51	−0.30
Turnout			12,341	90.68	+1.00
Registered electors			13,610

1922 election

1922 general election: Waitemata^[31][32]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Reform	Alexander Harris	4,586	46.10	−12.34
	Liberal	Frank Henry Burbush	3,315	33.32
	Labour	Robert Frederick Way[33]	2,047	20.58
Majority			1,271	12.78	−4.11
Informal votes			81	0.81	−0.59
Turnout			10,029	89.67	+6.21
Registered electors			11,184

1919 election

1919 general election: Waitemata^[34]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Reform	Alexander Harris	4,911	58.44	+2.65
	Liberal	Arthur Edwin Greenslade[35]	3,492	41.56
Majority			1,419	16.89	+5.31
Informal votes			119	1.40	+0.32
Turnout			8,522	83.46	−1.22
Registered electors			10,211

1914 election

1914 general election: Waitemata^[36]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Reform	Alexander Harris	4,881	55.79	+2.98
	Liberal	Henry Cromwell Tewsley[37]	3,868	44.21
Majority			1,013	11.58	+5.96
Informal votes			95	1.07	+0.91
Turnout			8,844	84.68	+2.37
Registered electors			10,444

1911 election

1911 general election: Waitemata, first ballot^[38]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William Joseph Napier	3,064	42.40	+0.01
	Reform	Alexander Harris	2,787	38.57
	Independent	Ewen Alison	1,375	19.03
Majority			277	3.83	−11.34
Informal votes			142	1.93
Turnout			7,368	83.64	+6.66
Registered electors			8,809

1911 general election: Waitemata, second ballot^[39]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Reform	Alexander Harris	3,823	52.81	+14.24
	Liberal	William Joseph Napier	3,416	47.19	4.79
Majority			407	5.62	+1.79
Informal votes			12	0.17	−1.76
Turnout			7,251	82.31	−1.33
Registered electors			8,809

1908 election

1908 general election: Waitemata, first ballot^[40]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Leonard Phillips	2,946	49.50
	Liberal	William Joseph Napier	2,059	34.59
	Liberal	Henry Wakeford Wilding	673	11.31
	Independent	Theophilus Wake	274	4.60
Majority			887	14.90	−3.47
Turnout			5,952	77.02	−8.03
Registered electors			7,728

1908 general election: Waitemata, second ballot^[41]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Leonard Phillips	3,426	57.56	+8.06
	Liberal	William Joseph Napier	2,523	42.39	+7.80
Majority			903	15.17	+0.27
Turnout			5,949	76.98	−0.04
Registered electors			7,728

1905 election

1905 general election: Waitemata^[42]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ewen Alison	3,128	59.19	+0.49
	Liberal	Cecil Clinkard	2,157	40.81
Majority			971	18.37	+0.98
Informal votes			84	1.56
Turnout			5,369	85.05	+14.02
Registered electors			6,313

1902 election

1902 general election: Waitemata^[43][44]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ewen Alison	2,409	58.70
	Liberal	Alexander John Hatfield[45]	1,695	41.30
Majority			714	17.40	+3.92
Turnout			4,104	71.03	+2.53
Registered electors			5,778

1899 election

1899 general election: Waitemata^[46][47]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Monk	1,713	51.29
	Liberal	Edwin Ford	1,263	37.81
	Liberal	Charles Newman	364	10.90
Majority			450	13.47
Turnout			3,340	68.50
Registered electors			4,876

1894 by-election

1894 Waitemata by-election^[48]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Massey	1,619	52.82
	Independent Liberal	Jackson Palmer	1,446	47.17
Majority			173	5.64
Turnout			3,065

1890 election

1890 general election: Waitemata^[49]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent Liberal	Jackson Palmer	752	53.22
	Conservative	Richard Monk	661	46.77
Majority			91	6.44
Turnout			1,413	39.92
Registered electors			3,539

1886 Waitemata by-election

1886 Waitemata by-election^[50][51][52]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Richard Monk	736	69.83
	Independent	Harry Farnall	312	29.60
Majority			424	40.23
Informal votes			6
Turnout			1054

September 1874 Waitemata by-election

September 1874 Waitemata by-election^[53]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Gustav von der Heyde	271	56.46
	Independent	John Sangster Macfarlane	209	43.53
Majority			62	12.92
Turnout			480

July 1874 Waitemata by-election

July 1874 Waitemata by-election^[54]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Gustav von der Heyde	287	54.77
	Independent	John Sangster Macfarlane	237	45.23
Majority			50	9.54
Turnout			524

Notes

1. McRobie 1989, p. 39.
2. McRobie 1989, p. 38.
3. McRobie 1989, pp. 99f.
4. McRobie 1989, pp. 95–100.
5. McRobie 1989, p. 99.
6. Wilson 1985, p. 275.
7. Wilson 1985, p. 204.
8. Wilson 1985, p. 242.
9. Wilson 1985, p. 215.
10. Wilson 1985, p. 247.
11. Wilson 1985, p. 207.
12. Wilson 1985, p. 220.
13. Wilson 1985, p. 225.
14. Wilson 1985, p. 219.
15. Wilson 1985, p. 179.
16. Wilson 1985, p. 226.
17. Wilson 1985, p. 203.
18. Wilson 1985, p. 221.
19. Norton 1988, pp. 379.
20. The General Election, 1943. National Library. 1944. p. 1000. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
21. "Electoral". The New Zealand Herald. Vol. LXXVIII, no. 24027. 26 July 1941. p. 5. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
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38. AtoJs 1911 election 1912, p. 6.
39. AtoJs 1911 election 1912, p. 1.
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