The 1917 Auckland City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1917, 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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Incumbent mayor James Gunson was declared re-elected unopposed, with no other candidates emerging.[1]
Councillor results
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Citizens | Andrew Entrican | 5,369 | 72.11 | +9.69 | |
| Citizens | Patrick Nerheny | 4,653 | 61.83 | +11.05 | |
| Citizens | Ellen Melville | 4,649 | 61.77 | +9.01 | |
| Citizens | Harold D. Heather | 4,408 | 58.31 | +13.17 | |
| Citizens | William Holdsworth | 4,331 | 57.20 | +15.04 | |
| Citizens | George Knight | 4,240 | 55.90 | +5.58 | |
| Citizens | George Baildon | 4,185 | 55.11 | +9.57 | |
| Citizens | James Alexander Warnock | 4,057 | 53.27 | +8.07 | |
| Independent | Ernest Davis | 4,056 | 53.25 | +7.59 | |
| Citizens | Frederick Brinsden | 4,026 | 52.82 | +17.58 | |
| Citizens | Peter Mitchell Mackay | 3,937 | 51.54 | +5.27 | |
| Citizens | Edwin James Carr | 3,930 | 51.44 | +13.42 | |
| Citizens | Maurice Casey | 3,834 | 50.07 | −0.66 | |
| Citizens | Horatio Bagnall | 3,819 | 49.85 | +1.48 | |
| Citizens | James Francis Hosking | 3,739 | 48.70 | ||
| Citizens | Alfred Hall-Skelton | 3,693 | 48.04 | +8.41 | |
| Citizens | Jonathan Trevethick | 3,525 | 45.63 | +3.90 | |
| Citizens | John Burton | 3,413 | 44.02 | +7.17 | |
| Citizens | John Barr Paterson | 3,360 | 43.26 | ||
| Citizens | John Dempsey | 3,267 | 41.92 | +3.04 | |
| Citizens | Sydney Moore-Jones | 3,261 | 41.83 | +8.12 | |
| Independent | George William Murray[nb 1] | 3,258 | 41.79 | ||
| Independent | William Donald | 3,219 | 41.23 | +9.26 | |
| Independent | Arthur Rose | 3,194 | 40.87 | +13.26 | |
| Independent | Percy McElwain | 2,977 | 37.76 | ||
| Citizens | William Augustus Thompson | 2,552 | 31.65 | ||
| Independent Labour | Wesley Richards | 2,524 | 31.25 | +9.84 | |
| Independent | William Richardson | 2,490 | 30.76 | +4.55 | |
| Independent | Arthur Herrold | 2,307 | 28.13 | ||
| Independent | Richard Singer | 1,972 | 23.32 | ||
Table footnotes:
- ^ Murray and Emily Maguire were appointed to fill vacancies on the council in 1918 caused by the deaths of Maurice Casey and Sydney Moore-Jones
Notes
edit- ^ Bush 1971, pp. 594.
- ^ "Election of Councillors". Vol. XXXVII, no. 36. Observer. 12 May 1917. p. 23. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
References
edit- Bush, Graham W. A. (1971). Decently and in Order: The Government of the City of Auckland 1840-1971. Auckland: Collins.