The 1931 Auckland City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1931, 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 | 21,634 (44.87%) | |||||||||||||||
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Mayoralty results
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Citizens Committee | George Hutchison | 12,799 | 59.16 | ||
Labour | Rex Mason | 8,598 | 39.74 | ||
Informal votes | 237 | 1.09 | −0.17 | ||
Majority | 4,201 | 19.41 | |||
Turnout | 21,634 | 44.87 |
Councillor results
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Citizens Committee | George Grey Campbell | 11,966 | 55.31 | +26.01 | |
Citizens Committee | Harold Percy Burton | 11,371 | 52.56 | +27.71 | |
Citizens Committee | Dawson Donaldson | 11,029 | 50.97 | +26.63 | |
Citizens Committee | Leonard Coakley | 10,902 | 50.39 | ||
Citizens Committee | Andrew Entrican | 10,659 | 49.26 | +13.83 | |
Citizens Committee | Harry Jenkins | 10,571 | 48.86 | ||
Citizens Committee | James Robertson | 10,510 | 48.58 | ||
Citizens Committee | Matthew John Bennett | 10,440 | 48.25 | +17.60 | |
Citizens Committee | Michael John Coyle | 10,367 | 47.91 | +22.66 | |
Citizens Committee | Francis Leonard | 10,298 | 47.60 | ||
Independent | Tom Bloodworth | 10,241 | 47.33 | −2.94 | |
Citizens Committee | Ellen Melville | 10,179 | 47.05 | +17.88 | |
Labour | Ted Phelan | 10,169 | 47.00 | +14.94 | |
Independent | John Barr Patterson | 9,929 | 45.89 | +20.55 | |
Citizens Committee | Alice Basten | 9,902 | 45.77 | +17.15 | |
Independent | Walter Harry Murray | 9,525 | 44.02 | +6.73 | |
Citizens Committee | Gideon Lawrence Taylor | 9,367 | 43.29 | ||
Labour | Fred Bartram | 9,215 | 42.59 | +12.67 | |
Independent | James Donald | 8,975 | 41.48 | +12.16 | |
Citizens Committee | David Henry | 8,879 | 41.04 | ||
Labour | Bernard Martin | 8,501 | 39.29 | +23.63 | |
Citizens Committee | Robert Gracie Milligan | 8,441 | 39.01 | ||
Independent | George McKendrick | 8,351 | 38.60 | ||
Independent | George Brownlee | 8,341 | 38.55 | +8.76 | |
Labour | John Thomas Jennings | 8,319 | 38.45 | +22.61 | |
Citizens Committee | John Allum | 8,100 | 37.44 | +13.38 | |
Independent | William Lang Casey | 8,072 | 37.31 | +7.64 | |
Citizens Committee | Harold Tahana Thomas | 7,903 | 36.53 | ||
Citizens Committee | Herbert Bellam | 7,867 | 36.36 | +16.20 | |
Independent | John Lundon | 7,799 | 36.04 | +8.93 | |
Labour | Arthur Rosser | 7,568 | 34.98 | ||
Labour | Ernest Frank Andrews | 7,545 | 34.87 | ||
Labour | Charles Arthur Watts | 7,231 | 33.42 | ||
Labour | Joe Sayegh | 6,548 | 30.26 | ||
Labour | Gordon Hultquist | 6,345 | 29.32 |
References
edit- ^ a b "Local Body Elections". Vol. LXII, no. 110. The New Zealand Herald. 12 May 1931. p. 18. Retrieved 26 August 2017.