The 1915 Auckland City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1915, elections were held for the Mayor of Auckland plus other local government positions including twenty-one city councillors. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.
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Turnout | 14,684 | |||||||||||||||
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Background
editThis was the first election following the Borough of Grey Lynn's amalgamation with Auckland City which saw the number of councillors increased from eighteen to twenty-one.[1]
Mayoralty results
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Citizens | James Gunson | 8,643 | 58.85 | ||
Independent | Robert Tudehope | 5,801 | 39.50 | ||
Informal votes | 240 | 1.63 | |||
Majority | 2,842 | 19.35 | |||
Turnout | 14,684 |
Councillor results
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Citizens | Andrew Entrican | 8,542 | 62.42 | −12.81 | |
Citizens | Ellen Melville | 7,220 | 52.76 | +6.29 | |
Citizens | Patrick Nerheny | 6,949 | 50.78 | −14.43 | |
Citizens | Maurice Casey | 6,942 | 50.73 | −9.70 | |
Citizens | George Knight | 6,886 | 50.32 | −2.75 | |
Citizens | Horatio Bagnall | 6,619 | 48.37 | +6.50 | |
Citizens | Peter Mitchell Mackay | 6,332 | 46.27 | −5.05 | |
Independent | Ernest Davis | 6,249 | 45.66 | ||
Citizens | George Baildon | 6,232 | 45.54 | ||
Citizens | James Alexander Warnock | 6,186 | 45.20 | ||
Citizens | Harold D. Heather | 6,177 | 45.14 | −9.89 | |
Citizens | William Holdsworth | 5,770 | 42.16 | ||
Citizens | Jonathan Trevethick | 5,711 | 41.73 | −8.34 | |
Citizens | Alfred Hall-Skelton | 5,423 | 39.63 | −10.28 | |
Independent | John Dempsey | 5,321 | 38.88 | ||
Citizens | Edwin James Carr | 5,203 | 38.02 | ||
Independent | John Burton | 5,043 | 36.85 | ||
Independent | Ralph Thomas Michaels | 4,860 | 35.51 | −8.74 | |
Independent | Sydney Moore-Jones | 4,613 | 33.71 | −2.44 | |
Independent | George William Murray | 4,531 | 33.11 | ||
Independent | Frederick Brinsden | 4,454 | 32.54 | ||
Citizens | William Donald | 4,376 | 31.97 | ||
Independent | Arthur Anthony Rose | 3,779 | 27.61 | ||
Independent | Walter Harry Murray | 3,648 | 26.65 | ||
Independent | Percy Spender | 3,620 | 26.45 | ||
Independent | William Richardson | 3,587 | 26.21 | ||
Social Democrat | Michael Joseph Savage | 3,580 | 26.16 | ||
Independent | William Thompson | 3,574 | 26.11 | −9.12 | |
Independent | Charles Edgar Palmer | 3,490 | 25.50 | ||
Social Democrat | Tom Bloodworth | 3,326 | 24.30 | ||
Independent | Frederick David Parsons | 3,292 | 24.05 | ||
Social Democrat | Thomas Long | 3,040 | 22.21 | −14.20 | |
Social Democrat | Wesley Richards | 2,930 | 21.41 | ||
Independent | Joseph Zahara | 2,426 | 17.72 | ||
Social Democrat | Charles Arthur Watts | 2,129 | 15.55 | ||
Social Democrat | Oscar McBrine | 2,010 | 14.68 |
Notes
edit- ^ Bush 1971, pp. 599.
- ^ "Election of Mayor". Vol. LII, no. 15907. The New Zealand Herald. 3 May 1915. p. 3. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
- ^ "Election of Councillors". Vol. XXXV, no. 37. Observer. 22 May 1915. p. 18. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
References
edit- Bush, Graham W. A. (1971). Decently and in Order: The Government of the City of Auckland 1840-1971. Auckland: Collins.