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Former electorate in Wellington, New Zealand From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wellington North was, from 1905 to 1946, a parliamentary electorate within the area encompassing New Zealand's capital, Wellington. The electorate was represented by four Members of Parliament.
Through the City Single Electorates Act, 1903, the three-member electorates of the four main centres were split again, and this became effective at the end of the 15th Parliament and was thus used for the 1905 election. The City of Wellington electorate was split into the Wellington East, Wellington Central, and Wellington North electorates.[1] The electorate covered areas north of the central city. For the purpose of the country quota, the electorate has always been regarded as fully urban.[2] In the 1937 electoral redistribution, Somes Island was transferred from the Hutt to the Wellington North electorate.[3]
Charles Hayward Izard of the Liberal Party was the electorate's first representative from 1905 to 1908,[4] when he was defeated by Alexander Herdman.[5] Herdman had previously represented the Mount Ida electorate. He joined the Reform Party but resigned from Parliament in February 1918.[6]
Herdman was succeeded by John Luke of the Reform Party in the resulting 1918 by-election.[7] In the 1928 election, Luke was defeated by Charles Chapman of the Labour Party. Chapman represented the electorate from 1928 to 1946, and moved to the Wellington Central electorate when Wellington North was abolished.[8]
The electorate was represented by four Members of Parliament:[9]
Key
Liberal Conservative Reform Labour
Election | Winner | |
---|---|---|
1905 election | Charles Hayward Izard | |
1908 election | Alexander Herdman | |
1911 election | ||
1914 election | ||
1918 by-election | John Luke | |
1919 election | ||
1922 election | ||
1925 election | ||
1928 election | Charles Chapman | |
1931 election | ||
1935 election | ||
1938 election | ||
1943 election | ||
(electorate abolished 1946; see Onslow) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Charles Chapman | 7,348 | 49.80 | −10.29 | |
National | Thomas Hislop | 5,451 | 36.94 | ||
Democratic Labour | Horace Herring | 1,016 | 6.89 | ||
People's Movement | Rugby Malcolm | 427 | 2.89 | ||
Independent | Arthur Carman | 298 | 2.02 | ||
Informal votes | 215 | 1.46 | +0.77 | ||
Majority | 1,897 | 12.86 | −7.83 | ||
Turnout | 14,755 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Charles Chapman | 9,522 | 60.09 | +16.47 | |
Independent Liberal | Elizabeth Gilmer | 6,244 | 39.40 | +2.65 | |
Independent | Thomas Folckman Simpson | 80 | 0.50 | ||
Informal votes | 110 | 0.69 | −0.22 | ||
Majority | 3,278 | 20.69 | +13.82 | ||
Turnout | 15,956 | 85.29 | +1.87 | ||
Registered electors | 18,709 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Charles Chapman | 5,039 | 43.62 | −0.61 | |
Independent | Elizabeth Gilmer | 4,245 | 36.75 | ||
Reform | Charles Treadwell | 2,266 | 19.61 | ||
Informal votes | 106 | 0.91 | +0.25 | ||
Majority | 794 | 6.87 | −3.49 | ||
Turnout | 11,550 | 83.42 | +12.09 | ||
Registered electors | 13,845 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Charles Chapman | 4,531 | 44.23 | −4.84 | |
Reform | George Troup | 3,470 | 33.87 | ||
Independent | John Luke | 2,243 | 21.90 | −26.74 | |
Informal votes | 68 | 0.66 | −1.63 | ||
Majority | 1,061 | 10.36 | +9.95 | ||
Turnout | 10,312 | 71.33 | −10.10 | ||
Registered electors | 14,457 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Charles Chapman | 5,611 | 49.07 | ||
Reform | John Luke | 5,564 | 48.64 | −2.66 | |
Informal votes | 263 | 2.29 | +1.15 | ||
Majority | 47 | 0.41 | |||
Turnout | 11,438 | 81.43 | −7.22 | ||
Registered electors | 14,046 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Reform | John Luke | 5,712 | 51.30 | +7.40 | |
Labour | Harry Combs | 3,766 | 33.82 | −6.52 | |
Liberal | Jack McGrath | 1,528 | 13.72 | ||
Informal votes | 127 | 1.14 | +0.02 | ||
Majority | 1,946 | 17.47 | +13.91 | ||
Turnout | 11,133 | 88.65 | −0.98 | ||
Registered electors | 12,558 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Reform | John Luke | 4,624 | 43.90 | +1.20 | |
Labour | Harry Combs | 4,249 | 40.34 | ||
Liberal | James Young | 1,540 | 14.62 | ||
Informal votes | 118 | 1.12 | +0.21 | ||
Majority | 375 | 3.56 | −7.81 | ||
Turnout | 10,531 | 89.63 | +11.30 | ||
Registered electors | 11,749 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Reform | John Luke | 3,999 | 42.70 | +0.81 | |
Liberal | H. Oakley Browne | 2,934 | 31.33 | ||
Labour | John Read | 2,345 | 25.04 | ||
Majority | 1,065 | 11.37 | +5.48 | ||
Informal votes | 86 | 0.91 | +0.35 | ||
Turnout | 9,364 | 78.33 | |||
Registered electors | 11,954 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Reform | John Luke | 2,986 | 41.89 | ||
Labour | Harry Holland | 2,566 | 35.99 | +15.50 | |
Liberal | Alfred Brandon | 816 | 11.44 | ||
Independent Liberal | Angus James Neville Polson | 720 | 10.10 | ||
Majority | 420 | 5.89 | |||
Informal votes | 40 | 0.56 | −0.70 | ||
Turnout | 7,128 | ||||
Reform hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Reform | Alexander Herdman | 4,550 | 55.23 | +2.15 | |
Liberal | William Turnbull | 1,895 | 23.00 | ||
Social Democrat | Harry Holland | 1,688 | 20.49 | ||
Majority | 2,655 | 32.23 | +3.61 | ||
Informal votes | 104 | 1.26 | −0.46 | ||
Turnout | 8,237 | 82.90 | +8.75 | ||
Registered electors | 9,936 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Reform | Alexander Herdman | 4,193 | 53.08 | −2.93 | |
Liberal | Arnold Woodford Izard | 2,386 | 30.20 | ||
Labour | Elijah Carey | 1,185 | 15.00 | ||
Informal votes | 136 | 1.72 | +1.30 | ||
Majority | 2,261 | 28.62 | +16.17 | ||
Turnout | 7,900 | 74.15 | +6.91 | ||
Registered electors | 10,654 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Alexander Herdman | 2,824 | 41.57 | ||
Independent Liberal | Frederick Bolton | 1,858 | 27.35 | ||
Liberal | Charles Hayward Izard | 1,833 | 26.98 | −23.84 | |
Independent | Henry Bodley | 131 | 1.92 | ||
Informal votes | 147 | 2.16 | +0.73 | ||
Turnout | 6,793 | 68.85 | |||
Second ballot result | |||||
Conservative | Alexander Herdman | 3,716 | 56.01 | +14.44 | |
Independent Liberal | Frederick Bolton | 2,890 | 43.56 | +16.21 | |
Informal votes | 28 | 0.42 | −1.74 | ||
Majority | 826 | 12.45 | |||
Turnout | 6,634 | 67.24 | −1.61 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Charles Hayward Izard | 3,283 | 50.82 | ||
Conservative | John Duthie | 2,794 | 43.25 | ||
Ind. Labour League | George Macfarlane | 290 | 4.48 | ||
Informal votes | 93 | 1.43 | |||
Majority | 489 | 7.56 | |||
Turnout | 6,460 |
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