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1931 Wellington City mayoral election

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1931 Wellington City mayoral election

← 1929 8 May 1931 1933 →
Turnout25,799 (56.20%)
 
Candidate Thomas Hislop Martin Luckie
Party Civic League Independent
Popular vote 13,593 11,678
Percentage 52.68 45.26

Mayor before election

George Troup

Elected mayor

Thomas Hislop

The 1931 Wellington City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1931, elections were held for the Mayor of Wellington plus other local government positions including fifteen city councillors. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.

Background

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Mayor George Troup declined to stand for a third term. Councillor Thomas Hislop was selected as his replacement to stand for the Civic League. The Labour Party did not stand a mayoral candidate, the first time they had not done so since 1917. An election was necessitated when the deputy mayor Martin Luckie accepted the request of a deputation of citizens to run for mayor.[1]

Mayoralty results

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1931 Wellington mayoral election[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Civic League Thomas Hislop 13,593 52.68
Independent Martin Luckie 11,678 45.26
Informal votes 528 2.04 −1.26
Majority 1,915 7.42
Turnout 25,799 56.20 +0.45

Councillor results

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1931 Wellington City Council election[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Civic League William Bennett 12,766 49.48 +1.66
Civic League Will Appleton 12,453 48.26
Civic League William Gaudin 12,452 48.25 −0.20
Labour Charles Chapman 12,425 48.16 +2.96
Civic League Thomas Forsyth 11,290 43.76 −0.67
Civic League Herbert Huggins 10,576 40.99 −2.20
Labour Bob Semple 10,395 40.29 +0.81
Labour Robert McKeen 10,332 40.04 −1.73
Civic League Jacob McEldowney 9,966 38.62
Civic League Frank Meadowcroft 9,808 38.01 −6.99
Civic League John Burns 9,514 36.87 +5.53
Civic League William Duncan 9,282 35.97
Civic League Sydney Holm 8,852 34.31
Civic League John Wallace 8,480 32.86
Independent Jim McDonald 8,351 32.36
Civic League George Mitchell 8,186 31.72 −6.72
Independent Paul Hoskins 7,764 30.09
Civic League George Stewart 7,343 28.46
Independent Herbert Price 7,304 28.31
Labour William Atkinson 7,029 27.24 −2.14
Independent James Sievwright 6,890 26.70
Independent Robert Bothamley 6,829 26.47
Labour John Read 6,632 25.70 −3.31
Labour Tom Brindle 6,624 25.67 −4.03
Labour Andrew Parlane 6,548 25.38 −1.79
Labour Jim Collins 6,511 25.23
Labour Peter Butler 6,390 24.76 −1.46
Civic League Amy Kane 6,287 24.36
Labour Michael Walsh 6,252 24.23 1.97
Labour Lawrence Hennessy 6,206 24.05
Labour Jim Thorn 5,956 23.08
Independent Samuel Martin 5,841 22.64
Independent Annie McVicar 5,556 21.53
Labour Sarah Snow 5,316 20.60
Civic League Charles Lethaby 4,831 18.72

References

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  1. ^ "The Mayoralty – Mr. Luckie To Stand". The Evening Post. Vol. CXI, no. 83. 9 April 1931. p. 13.
  2. ^ a b "Election Notices". The Evening Post. Vol. CXI, no. 112. 14 May 1931. p. 6. Retrieved 27 July 2016.