Former electoral district in Auckland, New Zealand
Grey Lynn is a former New Zealand parliamentary electorate , in the city of Auckland . It existed from 1902 to 1978, and was represented by nine Members of Parliament .
Population centres [ ]
The Representation Act 1900 had increased the membership of the House of Representatives from general electorates 70 to 76, and this was implemented through the 1902 electoral redistribution. In 1902, changes to the country quota affected the three-member electorates in the four main centres. The tolerance between electorates was increased to ±1,250 so that the Representation Commissions (since 1896, there had been separate commissions for the North and South Islands ) could take greater account of communities of interest. These changes proved very disruptive to existing boundaries, and six electorates were established for the first time, including Grey Lynn, and two electorates that previously existed were re-established.
During this electorate's existence, it was centred on the suburb of Grey Lynn . In the 1902 election , the electorate was classed as a mix of rural and urban (with a two to one ratio), and comprised areas just west of the central part of Auckland. In the 1907 electoral redistribution, the electorate was classed as fully urban, and the country quota thus no longer applied.
History [ ]
The electorate existed from 1902 to 1978. George Fowlds of the Liberal Party was the electorate's first representative. He served for three terms as was beaten in the 1911 election by the independent left-wing politician John Payne .
In 1919 Ellen Melville was one of three women who stood at short notice when women were able to stand as candidates for election to parliament. She stood on behalf of the Reform Party and came second in Grey Lynn.
Grey Lynn was held from the 1919 election by Labour 's Fred Bartram until he was defeated in 1928 by John Fletcher of the United Party . During 1930, Fletcher became an Independent.[9] There was disagreement in the Labour Party regarding the nomination for the 1931 election , with John A. Lee chosen over their previous representative Fred Bartram, resulting in the latter to stand as an Independent.[10] [11] Four candidates stood in total, with Lee defeating the incumbent.[12]
Members of Parliament [ ]
The electorate was represented by nine Members of Parliament.
Key
Liberal
Independent Labour
Labour
Independent
United
Democratic Labour
Table footnotes:
^ John Fletcher became an Independent during 1930.[9]
Election results [ ]
1975 election [ ]
1975 general election : Grey Lynn
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
Labour
Eddie Isbey
8,268
51.58
-9.03
National
Jens Meder
5,429
33.87
+6.90
Values
Loren Robb
1,472
9.18
Social Credit
Bill Ross
977
6.09
-0.94
Socialist Action
Matt Robson
31
0.19
Socialist Unity
Bruce Skilton
30
0.18
Majority
2,839
17.71
-15.92
Turnout
16,027
71.99
-13.65
Registered electors
22,262
1972 election [ ]
1972 general election : Grey Lynn
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
Labour
Eddie Isbey
9,887
60.61
+16.10
National
Jens Meder
4,400
26.97
+1.09
Social Credit
Bill Ross
1,148
7.03
+2.29
Values
Wayne Houston
814
4.99
New Democratic
Martin Spratt
63
0.38
Majority
5,487
33.63
+15.01
Turnout
16,312
85.64
-1.45
Registered electors
19,045
1969 election [ ]
1969 general election : Grey Lynn
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
Labour
Eddie Isbey
6,966
44.51
National
Jens Meder
4,051
25.88
Independent Labour
Kevin Ryan
3,887
24.84
Social Credit
Bill Ross
743
4.74
-6.19
Majority
2,915
18.62
Turnout
15,647
87.09
+4.25
Registered electors
17,965
1966 election [ ]
1966 general election : Grey Lynn
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
Labour
Ritchie Macdonald
8,329
59.77
-2.24
National
Horace Alexander Nash
3,930
28.20
Social Credit
Bill Ross
1,523
10.93
+5.09
Communist
Peter McAra
152
1.09
Majority
4,399
31.57
-3.06
Turnout
13,934
82.84
-2.46
Registered electors
16,820
1963 election [ ]
1963 general election : Grey Lynn
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
Labour
Ritchie Macdonald
9,383
62.01
National
Jolyon Firth
4,598
30.38
Social Credit
Bill Ross
885
5.84
+1.96
Communist
George Jackson
264
1.74
-0.28
Majority
5,240
34.63
Turnout
15,130
85.30
+43.82
Registered electors
17,737
1963 by-election [ ]
1963 Grey Lynn by-election
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
Labour
Reginald Keeling
4,172
65.84
National
Ray Presland
1,791
28.26
Social Credit
Bill Ross
246
3.88
Communist
George Jackson
128
2.02
Informal votes
24
0.38
Majority
2,381
37.57
Turnout
6,361
41.48
-44.66
Registered electors
15,336
Labour hold
Swing
1960 election [ ]
1960 general election : Grey Lynn
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
Labour
Fred Hackett
8,761
63.78
-3.37
National
Brian Zouch
4,165
30.32
Social Credit
Frederick Thomas Morley
693
5.04
Communist
Dick Wolf
117
0.85
Majority
4,596
33.45
-5.83
Turnout
13,736
86.14
-7.57
Registered electors
15,945
1957 election [ ]
1957 general election : Grey Lynn
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
Labour
Fred Hackett
9,893
67.15
+2.51
National
Bernard Griffiths
4,106
27.87
Social Credit
Ernest Richard James
733
4.97
Majority
5,787
39.28
+2.65
Turnout
14,732
93.71
+2.79
Registered electors
15,720
1954 election [ ]
1954 general election : Grey Lynn
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
Labour
Fred Hackett
8,483
64.64
-0.35
National
Tom McGowan
3,676
28.01
Social Credit
Samuel Hank Charles Jones
835
6.36
Communist
Rita Smith
129
0.98
Majority
4,807
36.63
+6.65
Turnout
13,123
90.92
+2.25
Registered electors
14,432
1951 election [ ]
1951 general election : Grey Lynn
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
Labour
Fred Hackett
8,265
64.99
+6.95
National
Harold Barry
4,452
35.01
Majority
3,813
29.98
-11.98
Turnout
12,717
88.67
-5.23
Registered electors
14,341
1949 election [ ]
1949 general election : Grey Lynn[15]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
Labour
Fred Hackett
7,362
58.04
-14.40
National
John Leon Faulkner
3,159
24.02
Democratic Labour
John A. Lee
2,627
19.98
Majority
4,203
41.96
-2.93
Turnout
13,148
93.90
-0.98
Registered electors
14,002
1946 election [ ]
1946 general election : Grey Lynn[16]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
Labour
Fred Hackett
9,537
72.44
+13.43
National
Harold Barry
3,627
27.56
Majority
5,910
44.89
+9.17
Turnout
13,164
94.28
-0.07
Registered electors
13,962
1943 election [ ]
1943 general election : Grey Lynn[17] [18]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
Labour
Fred Hackett
10,010
59.01
Democratic Labour
John A. Lee
3,951
23.29
-56.26
National
Ellen Melville [19]
2,802
16.52
Real Democracy
Joseph Alexander Govan
410
2.42
-18.03
People's Movement
George Edward Plane
91
0.54
Informal votes
322
1.86
+0.03
Majority
6,059
35.72
-23.38
Turnout
17,286
94.35
+1.67
Registered electors
18,321
1938 election [ ]
1938 general election : Grey Lynn[20] [21]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
Labour
John A. Lee
11,584
79.55
+4.78
National
Joseph Alexander Govan
2,977
20.45
Informal votes
272
1.83
-1.05
Majority
8,607
59.10
-1.85
Turnout
14,833
92.68
+3.52
Registered electors
16,005
1935 election [ ]
1935 general election : Grey Lynn[22]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
Labour
John A. Lee
9,828
74.77
+16.99
United
1,816
13.81
Democrat
Hilton Basil Moore Arthur
1,290
9.81
Communist
Henry Mornington Smith
210
1.59
Informal votes
379
2.88
+2.00
Majority
8,012
60.95
+33.27
Turnout
13,144
89.16
+5.90
Registered electors
14,741
1931 election [ ]
1931 general election : Grey Lynn[12] [23]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
Labour
John A. Lee
6,767
57.78
Independent
John Fletcher
3,525
30.10
-16.43
United
Walter Harry Murray
1,037
8.85
Independent Labour
Fred Bartram
382
3.26
-42.73
Informal votes
104
0.88
-0.18
Majority
3,242
27.68
Turnout
11,815
83.26
-4.07
Registered electors
14,190
1928 election [ ]
1928 general election : Grey Lynn[24]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
United
John Fletcher
5,489
46.53
Labour
Fred Bartram
5,425
45.99
-6.67
Reform
Patrick Buckley Fitzherbert
684
5.79
Independent
Louisa Paterson
72
0.61
Informal votes
126
1.06
-0.26
Majority
64
0.54
Turnout
11,796
87.33
-3.47
Registered electors
13,507
1925 election [ ]
1925 general election : Grey Lynn[25]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
Labour
Fred Bartram
6,061
52.66
-3.73
Reform
Ellen Melville
5,296
46.01
Informal votes
152
1.32
+0.07
Majority
765
6.64
-7.40
Turnout
11,509
90.80
-1.75
Registered electors
12,674
1922 election [ ]
1922 general election : Grey Lynn[26]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
Labour
Fred Bartram
5,648
56.39
+20.37
Reform
William John Holdsworth
4,241
42.34
Informal votes
126
1.25
-0.10
Majority
1,407
14.04
+8.53
Turnout
10,015
92.55
+6.49
Registered electors
10,821
1919 election [ ]
1919 general election : Grey Lynn[29]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
Labour
Fred Bartram
3,141
36.02
Reform
Ellen Melville
2,660
30.51
Liberal
George Fowlds
2,405
27.58
Independent
Lindsay Garmson
214
2.45
Independent Labour
Paul Richardson
180
2.06
Informal votes
118
1.35
-0.33
Majority
481
5.51
Turnout
8,718
86.06
-0.14
Registered electors
10,130
1914 election [ ]
1914 general election : Grey Lynn[30]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
Independent Labour
John Payne
2,933
34.04
-16.07
Reform
Murdoch McLean
2,844
33.01
United Labour
George Fowlds
2,838
32.94
-16.62
Informal votes
145
1.68
+1.37
Majority
89
1.03
+0.49
Turnout
8,615
86.20
+5.09
Registered electors
9,994
1911 election [ ]
1911 general election : Grey Lynn, first ballot [31]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
Liberal
George Fowlds
3,117
44.64
-9.94
Independent Labour
John Payne
2,191
31.38
Reform
Walter Harry Murray
1,568
22.45
Informal votes
106
1.51
-0.57
Turnout
6,982
81.79
-0.41
Second ballot result
Independent Labour
John Payne
3,470
50.11
+18.73
Liberal
George Fowlds
3,432
49.56
+4.92
Informal votes
22
0.31
-1.20
Majority
38
0.54
Turnout
6,924
81.11
-0.68
Registered electors
8,536
1908 election [ ]
1908 general election : Grey Lynn, first ballot [32]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
Liberal
George Fowlds
4,035
54.58
+3.00
Conservative
Oliver Nicholson
3,146
42.55
Independent Labour
James Ulysses Brown
57
0.77
Informal votes
154
2.08
+1.16
Majority
889
12.02
+7.92
Turnout
7,392
82.20
+0.87
Registered electors
8,992
1905 election [ ]
1905 general election : Grey Lynn[33]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
Liberal
George Fowlds
2,891
51.58
-0.15
Conservative
John Farrell
2,661
47.48
Informal votes
52
0.92
+1.95
Majority
230
4.10
+1.23
Turnout
5,604
81.33
+5.71
Registered electors
6,890
1902 election [ ]
Notes [ ]
^ Jump up to: a b "State of Parties" . Auckland Star . LXII (5). 7 January 1931. p. 3. Retrieved 31 October 2014 .
^ "General Election" . Auckland Star . LXII (159). 8 July 1931. p. 5. Retrieved 31 October 2014 .
^ "Labour's Choice" . The New Zealand Herald . LXVIII (20774). 17 January 1931. p. 12. Retrieved 31 October 2014 .
^ Jump up to: a b The General Election, 1931 . Government Printer. 1932. p. 2. Retrieved 2 November 2014 .
^ "The General Election, 1949" . National Library . 1950. pp. 1–5, 8. Retrieved 3 January 2014 .
^ "The General Election, 1946" . National Library . 1947. pp. 1–11, 14. Retrieved 1 January 2014 .
^ "The General Election, 1943" . National Library . 1943. p. 9. Retrieved 25 September 2017 .
^ "Grey Lynn" . Evening Post . CXXXVI (76). 27 October 1938. p. 6. Retrieved 25 September 2017 .
^ Coney, Sandra. "Melville, Eliza Ellen" . Dictionary of New Zealand Biography . Ministry for Culture and Heritage . Retrieved 25 September 2017 .
^ "The General Election, 1938" . National Library . 1938. p. 9. Retrieved 25 September 2017 .
^ "Parliamentary Election" . Auckland Star . LXIX (254). 27 October 1938. p. 4. Retrieved 25 September 2017 .
^ The General Election, 1935 . National Library. 1936. pp. 1–35. Retrieved 3 August 2013 .
^ "Election Counts" . Auckland Star . LXII (291). 9 December 1931. p. 9. Retrieved 28 October 2014 .
^ The General Election, 1928 . Government Printer. 1929. p. 3. Retrieved 19 November 2014 .
^ The General Election, 1925 . Government Printer. 1926. p. 2. Retrieved 20 November 2014 .
^ The New Zealand Official Year-Book . Government Printer. 1924. Archived from the original on 21 January 2015. Retrieved 24 November 2013 .
^ Hislop, J. (1921). The General Election, 1919 . National Library . pp. 1–6. Retrieved 6 December 2014 .
^ Hislop, J. (1915). The General Election, 1914 . National Library . pp. 1–33. Retrieved 1 August 2013 .
^ "The General Election, 1911" . National Library. 1912. pp. 1–14. Retrieved 1 August 2013 .
^ "The General Election, 1908" . National Library . 1909. pp. 1–34. Retrieved 14 April 2012 .
^ The General Election, 1905 . p. 3. Retrieved 26 November 2015 .
^ The General Election, 1902 . National Library . 1903. p. 1. Retrieved 4 December 2014 .
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