35th New Zealand Parliament
35th Parliament of New Zealand | |||||
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Overview | |||||
Legislative body | New Zealand Parliament | ||||
Term | 26 April 1967 – 24 October 1969 | ||||
Election | 1966 New Zealand general election | ||||
Government | Second National Government | ||||
House of Representatives | |||||
Members | 80 | ||||
Speaker of the House | Roy Jack | ||||
Prime Minister | Keith Holyoake | ||||
Leader of the Opposition | Norman Kirk | ||||
Sovereign | |||||
Monarch | HM Elizabeth II | ||||
Governor-General | Sir Arthur Porritt from 1 December 1967 — HE Brigadier Sir Bernard Edward Fergusson until 20 October 1967 |
The 35th New Zealand Parliament was a term of the New Zealand Parliament. It was elected at the 1966 general election on 26 November of that year.
1966 general election[]
The 1966 general election was held on Saturday, 26 November.[1] A total of 80 MPs were elected; 52 represented North Island electorates, 24 represented South Island electorates, and the remaining four represented Māori electorates; this was the same distribution used since the 1963 election.[2] 1,409,600 voters were enrolled and the official turnout at the election was 86.0%.[1]
Sessions[]
The 35th Parliament sat for three sessions, and was prorogued on 24 October 1969.[3]
Session | Opened | Adjourned |
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first | 26 April 1967 | 24 November 1967 |
second | 26 June 1968 | 19 December 1968 |
third | 15 May 1969 | 24 October 1969 |
Ministries[]
The National Party had come to power at the 1960 election, and Keith Holyoake had formed the second Holyoake Ministry on 12 December 1960, which stayed in power until Holyoake stepped down in early 1972. The second National Government remained in place until its defeat at the 1972 election towards the end of that year.[4]
Overview of seats[]
The table below shows the number of MPs in each party following the 1966 election and at dissolution:
Affiliation | Members | ||
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At 1966 election | At dissolution | ||
National | 44 | 43 | |
Government total | |||
Labour Opposition | 35 | 36 | |
Social Credit | 1 | 1 | |
Opposition total | 36 | 37 | |
Total |
80 | 80 | |
Working Government majority | 8 | 6 |
Notes
- The Working Government majority is calculated as all Government MPs less all other parties.
Initial composition of the 35th Parliament[]
The table below shows the results of the 1966 general election:
Key
National Labour Social Credit
Electorate | Incumbent | Winner | Majority | Runner up | |||
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General electorates | |||||||
Ashburton | Geoff Gerard | Rob Talbot | 983 | John Srhoy | |||
Auckland Central | Norman Douglas | 2,562 | Marie Quinn | ||||
Avon | John Mathison | 5,232 | Dick Dawson | ||||
Awarua | Gordon Grieve | 3,222 | M E Booker | ||||
Bay of Plenty | Percy Allen | 3,596 | Leonard Thomas Fischer | ||||
Buller | Bill Rowling | 1,822 | Ernie King | ||||
Christchurch Central | Robert Macfarlane | 1,409 | Fred Francis | ||||
Clutha | Peter Gordon | 3,312 | Les McKay | ||||
Dunedin Central | Brian MacDonell | 1,245 | J E Farry | ||||
Dunedin North | Ethel McMillan | 2,833 | G B Gerard | ||||
Eden | John Rae | 2,548 | John William Stewart | ||||
Egmont | William Sheat | Venn Young | 3,262 | H N Johnston | |||
Fendalton | Harry Lake | 2,271 | Bruce Barclay | ||||
Franklin | Alfred E. Allen | 5,083 | Ron Ng-Waishing | ||||
Gisborne | Esme Tombleson | 1,432 | Bob MacDonald | ||||
Grey Lynn | Ritchie Macdonald | 4,399 | Horace Alexander Nash | ||||
Hamilton | Lance Adams-Schneider | 2,225 | Bob Reese | ||||
Hastings | Duncan MacIntyre | 2,129 | Sonja Davies | ||||
Hauraki | Arthur Kinsella | 2,336 | Henry Uttinger | ||||
Hawkes Bay | Richard Harrison | 3,915 | L K Evans | ||||
Heretaunga | Ron Bailey | 2,647 | Ian Ross | ||||
Hobson | Logan Sloane | Vernon Cracknell | 490 | Logan Sloane | |||
Hutt | Sir Walter Nash | 1,949 | John Kennedy-Good | ||||
Invercargill | Ralph Hanan | 2,396 | Noel Valentine | ||||
Island Bay | Arnold Nordmeyer | 2,806 | Saul Goldsmith[6] | ||||
Karori | Jack Marshall | 5,270 | Peter Blizard | ||||
Lyttelton | Norman Kirk | 2,121 | Peter de Latour | ||||
Manawatu | Blair Tennent | Les Gandar | 2,298 | E J Hemmingsen | |||
Manukau | Colin Moyle | 2,728 | Max Louis Peers | ||||
Manurewa | Phil Amos | 2,389 | B F Kimpton | ||||
Marlborough | Tom Shand | 732 | Gerry Wall | ||||
Marsden | Don McKay | 4,077 | O J Lewis | ||||
Miramar | Bill Fox | Bill Young | 146 | Bill Fox | |||
Mt Albert | Warren Freer | 2,654 | Tom Hibbert | ||||
Napier | Jim Edwards | Gordon Christie | 393 | M Kidson | |||
Nelson | Stan Whitehead | 2,045 | E B Slack | ||||
New Lynn | Rex Mason | Jonathan Hunt | 3,727 | Kevin Patrick Lynch | |||
New Plymouth | Ernest Aderman | Ron Barclay | 78 | Brian Clark | |||
North Shore | Dean Eyre | George Gair | 1,108 | Michael Bassett | |||
Onehunga | Hugh Watt | 4,265 | Daphne Double | ||||
Otago Central | John George | 2,305 | Brian Griffiths | ||||
Otaki | Allan McCready | 3,575 | Glen Herbert | ||||
Pahiatua | Keith Holyoake | 5,291 | F M O'Brien | ||||
Pakuranga | Bob Tizard | 2,259 | Victor David Thompson | ||||
Palmerston North | Bill Brown | 259 | Joe Walding | ||||
Petone | Mick Moohan | 2,607 | Joe Miller | ||||
Piako | Geoffrey Sim | Jack Luxton | 3,884 | Myles Edward Barroclough | |||
Porirua | Henry May | 1,928 | C R B Stevenson | ||||
Raglan | Douglas Carter | 1,659 | Ronald Nelson Little | ||||
Rangiora | Lorrie Pickering | 957 | Whetu Tirikatene | ||||
Rangitikei | Norman Shelton | 4,005 | Russell Wiseman | ||||
Remuera | Ronald Algie | Allan Highet | 6,660 | Bill Nairn | |||
Riccarton | Mick Connelly | 2,725 | Ian Wilson | ||||
Rodney | Jack Scott | 2,722 | Nevern McConachy | ||||
Roskill | Arthur Faulkner | 3,822 | A W G Cook | ||||
Rotorua | Harry Lapwood | 2,298 | Frank Knipe | ||||
St Albans | Bert Walker | 2,575 | Ted Adcock | ||||
St Kilda | Bill Fraser | 2,809 | R M Hall | ||||
Selwyn | John McAlpine | Colin McLachlan | 2,597 | Thomas Kelvin Campbell | |||
Stratford | David Thomson | 4,115 | David Butler | ||||
Sydenham | Mabel Howard | 3,947 | Helen Garrett | ||||
Tamaki | Robert Muldoon | 2,827 | Kevin Ryan | ||||
Taupo | Rona Stevenson | 258 | Barry Gustafson | ||||
Tauranga | George Walsh | 2,299 | Olive Smuts-Kennedy | ||||
Timaru | Sir Basil Arthur | 3,108 | N S Brown | ||||
Waimarino | Roy Jack | 2,491 | Shaun Alex Cameron | ||||
Waipa | Leslie Munro | 3,081 | N R D Shewan | ||||
Wairarapa | Haddon Donald | 533 | Jack Williams | ||||
Waitakere | Martyn Finlay | 3,813 | Peter Wilkinson | ||||
Waitaki | Allan Dick | 2,009 | Stan Rodger | ||||
Waitemata | Norman King | 3,832 | Terry Power | ||||
Waitomo | David Seath | 4,442 | Arthur John Ingram | ||||
Wallace | Brian Talboys | 3,965 | Aubrey Begg | ||||
Wanganui | George Spooner | 908 | John Grace | ||||
Wellington Central | Dan Riddiford | 1,713 | Rolland O'Regan | ||||
Westland | Paddy Blanchfield | 4,041 | George Kenneth Aitken Ferguson | ||||
Māori electorates | |||||||
Eastern Maori | Puti Tipene Watene | 3,121 | Arnold Reedy [7] | ||||
Northern Maori | Matiu Rata | 4,297 | F R Wilcox | ||||
Southern Maori | Eruera Tirikatene | 3,832 | Baden Pere | ||||
Western Maori | Iriaka Rātana | 5,580 | T M Te Heuheu |
By-elections during 35th Parliament[]
There were a number of changes during the term of the 35th Parliament.
Electorate and by-election | Date | Incumbent | Cause | Winner | |||
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Southern Maori | 1967 | 11 March | Sir Eruera Tirikatene | Death | Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan | ||
Fendalton | 1967 | 15 April | Harry Lake | Death | Eric Holland | ||
Petone | 1967 | 15 April | Michael Moohan | Death | Fraser Colman | ||
Eastern Maori | 1967 | 12 August | Puti Tipene Watene | Death | Paraone Reweti | ||
Palmerston North | 1967 | 2 December | Bill Brown | Death | Joe Walding | ||
Hutt | 1968 | 3 August | Sir Walter Nash | Death | Trevor Young |
Notes[]
- ^ a b "General elections 1853–2005 - dates & turnout". Elections New Zealand. Archived from the original on 27 May 2010. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
- ^ Wilson 1985, p. 173.
- ^ Wilson 1985, p. 142.
- ^ Wilson 1985, pp. 89–92.
- ^ Norton 1988.
- ^ Gustafson 1986, pp. 364f.
- ^ Gustafson 1986, p. 383.
References[]
- Gustafson, Barry (1986). The First 50 Years : A History of the New Zealand National Party. Auckland: Reed Methuen. ISBN 0-474-00177-6.
- Norton, Clifford (1988). New Zealand Parliamentary Election Results 1946-1987: Occasional Publications No 1, Department of Political Science. Wellington: Victoria University of Wellington. ISBN 0-475-11200-8.
- Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.
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