1944 Auckland City mayoral election

1944 Auckland City mayoral election

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Turnout37,011 (51.50%)
 
Candidate John Allum Bill Anderton
Party Citizens & Ratepayers Labour
Popular vote 17,712 11,319
Percentage 47.85 30.58

Mayor before election

John Allum

Elected mayor

John Allum

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.

Background

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Citizens & Ratepayers

The Citizens & Ratepayers Association selected incumbent mayor John Allum to contest the mayoralty for a second term.[1]

Labour

The Labour Party had three people nominated for the mayoralty:

  • Bill Anderton, MP for Eden since 1935 and former city councillor (1935–41)
  • Mary Dreaver, A city councillor since 1938 and former MP for Waitemata (1941–43)
  • Joe Sayegh, Labour's mayoral candidate at the previous three elections and former city councillor (1933–41)

Despite a recent announcement that Sayegh had declined to be a candidate for any public office at the elections his name was put forward by the Auckland East branch of the Labour Party. At the candidate selection meeting Anderton was selected as Labour's mayoral candidate.[2]

Others

Victor Macky, a member of the Auckland Hospital Board, announced his intention to stand as an independent mayoral candidate.[3] His wife Edna had stood unsuccessfully for the city council in 1929.[4]

Mayoralty results

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1944 Auckland mayoral election[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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 51.50 +0.31

Councillor results

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1944 Auckland local election[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
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 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 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

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  1. ^ "Full Tickets – Citizens' Candidates". Auckland Star. Vol. LXXV, no. 62. 14 March 1944. p. 2.
  2. ^ "Labour's Choice – Auckland Mayoralty". Auckland Star. Vol. LXXV, no. 99. 28 April 1944. p. 6.
  3. ^ "Auckland Elections". The Northern Advocate. 18 March 1944. p. 2.
  4. ^ "Electoral". The New Zealand Herald. Vol. LXVI, no. 20248. 7 May 1929. p. 20.
  5. ^ a b "Local Body Elections". Auckland Star. Vol. LXXV, no. 136. 10 June 1944. p. 9. Retrieved 10 May 2017.