1944 Auckland City mayoral election
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The 1944 Auckland City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1944, 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.
Mayoralty results[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Citizens & Ratepayers | John Allum | 17,712 | 47.85 | -1.75 | |
Labour | Bill Anderton | 11,319 | 30.58 | ||
Independent | Victor Macky | 7,662 | 20.70 | ||
Informal votes | 318 | 0.85 | +0.07 | ||
Majority | 6,393 | 17.27 | +13.20 | ||
Turnout | 37,011 |
Councillor results[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Citizens & Ratepayers | Leonard Coakley | 20,471 | 55.31 | +3.10 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers | Reginald Judson | 19,735 | 53.32 | +3.27 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers | Wilfred Fortune | 19,716 | 53.27 | +6.62 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers | Fred Ambler | 19,391 | 52.39 | +2.94 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers | Harold Percy Burton | 18,577 | 50.19 | +2.33 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers | Arthur Bailey | 18,518 | 50.03 | -0.94 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers | Ellen Melville | 18,394 | 49.69 | +0.40 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers | Claude James Lovegrove | 18,293 | 49.42 | +5.23 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers | John W. Kealy | 17,958 | 48.52 | ||
Citizens & Ratepayers | Sidney Takle | 17,955 | 48.51 | +2.38 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers | William Forrest Fowlds | 17,895 | 48.35 | +0.82 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers | Alan St. Clair Brown | 17,788 | 48.06 | +3.57 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers | Keith Buttle | 17,643 | 47.66 | +2.22 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers | Frederick George Farrell | 17,552 | 47.42 | +3.06 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers | Reginald Stanley Harrop | 17,392 | 46.99 | +3.11 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers | Roy McElroy | 17,348 | 46.87 | +1.71 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers | Joan Rattray | 17,132 | 46.28 | ||
Citizens & Ratepayers | Joyce William Hyland | 16,359 | 44.20 | ||
Citizens & Ratepayers | Howard Edward Gray Matthews | 16,356 | 44.19 | ||
Citizens & Ratepayers | Archibald Ewing Brownlie | 15,965 | 43.13 | ||
Citizens & Ratepayers | Michael Joseph Moodabe | 15,696 | 42.40 | -1.28 | |
Labour | Mary Dreaver | 15,558 | 42.03 | -3.88 | |
Labour | Bill Anderton | 14,306 | 38.65 | -3.32 | |
Labour | Alfred Ernest Brownhill | 13,462 | 36.37 | ||
Labour | Jeremiah James Sullivan | 13,341 | 36.04 | -5.99 | |
Labour | Donald Campbell | 13,263 | 35.83 | -3.63 | |
Labour | Beatrice Joan Beer | 13,063 | 35.29 | ||
Labour | Paul Richardson | 12,732 | 34.40 | -4.54 | |
Labour | Fred Young | 12,629 | 34.12 | -5.37 | |
Labour | Elizabeth Wynn | 12,563 | 33.94 | -4.03 | |
Labour | Alfred Gilbert | 11,825 | 31.94 | ||
Labour | Tom Skinner | 11,700 | 31.61 | ||
Labour | William Reginald Taylor | 11,659 | 31.50 | ||
Labour | Joseph Glen Kennerley | 11,627 | 31.41 | -4.62 | |
Labour | Inez Freeman | 11,542 | 31.18 | ||
Labour | Raymond Hector Hieatt | 11,534 | 31.16 | ||
Labour | William Bekker | 10,994 | 29.70 | ||
Labour | Frank Williams | 10,988 | 29.68 | ||
Labour | Albert Harwood Berry | 10,971 | 29.64 | ||
Independent | Tom Bloodworth | 8,779 | 23.71 | ||
Communist | George Jackson | 7,045 | 19.03 | +13.35 | |
Communist | Johnny Mitchell | 6,550 | 17.69 | ||
Independent | Charles Bailey | 4,600 | 12.42 | ||
Independent | Donald Wallace MacClure | 3,756 | 10.14 | ||
Independent | Dermott Hall Skelton | 3,596 | 9.71 | ||
Independent | Charles Patrick Belton | 2,871 | 7.75 | ||
Independent | Joseph Alexander Govan | 2,315 | 6.25 | ||
Independent | Albert John Mason | 2,260 | 6.10 | ||
Independent | James Alexander Ritchie | 2,084 | 5.63 | ||
Independent | Edward James Clark | 2,050 | 5.53 |
References[]
- ^ a b "Local Body Elections". Vol. LXXV, no. 136. Auckland Star. 10 June 1944. p. 9. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
Categories:
- Mayoral elections in Auckland
- 1944 elections in New Zealand
- Politics of the Auckland Region
- 1940s in Auckland