1947 Lower Hutt mayoral election

1947 Lower Hutt mayoral election

← 1944 19 November 1947 1949 →
Turnout11,626 (49.04%)
 
Candidate Ernst Peterson Hay Harry Saunders
Party Citizens' Labour
Popular vote 6,109 5,453
Percentage 52.54 46.91

Mayor before election

Ernst Peterson Hay

Elected mayor

Ernst Peterson Hay

The 1947 Lower Hutt mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. The elections were held for the role of Mayor of Lower Hutt plus other local government positions including twelve city councillors, also elected triennially. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.

Background

[edit]

The winner of the previous mayoral election, Jack Andrews, resigned towards the end of his fifth term. The council did not hold a by-election due to the closeness to the regularly scheduled election and instead the councillors elected Ernst Peterson Hay in June 1947 to finish the remainder of the term.[1] Hay stood in the election where he was opposed by Labour's Henry "Harry" Saunders who was the chairman of the Boulcott School Committee and president of the Epuni-Waiwhetu branch of the Labour Party. Taking place during a period of rapid population growth in the area, it was the first election after the addition of the new suburb of Taita.[2] Hay won the mayoralty and Saunders was elected a member of both the Hutt Valley Electric Power Board and Petone and Lower Hutt Gas Board, serving for just over a year until his death in December 1948.[3]

Mayoral results

[edit]
1947 Lower Hutt mayoral election[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Citizens' Ernst Peterson Hay 6,109 52.54
Labour Harry Saunders 5,453 46.91
Informal votes 64 0.55 −0.27
Majority 656 5.64
Turnout 11,626 49.04 −4.11

Councillor results

[edit]
1947 Lower Hutt local election[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Harry Horlor 6,195 57.36 +9.58
Citizens' Jim Vogel 6,052 56.03
Labour Bella Logie 5,788 53.59 +10.89
Citizens' Will Giltrap 5,723 52.99
Labour Percy Dowse 5,715 52.91
Citizens' William Gregory 5,660 52.40 +1.64
Labour Hughie Gilbert Burrell 5,617 52.00
Citizens' Eric Rothwell 5,546 51.35 +4.77
Citizens' Frank Lonsdale 5,531 51.21 +5.55
Citizens' Briton Matthews 5,433 50.30 +28.15
Citizens' Herbert Beazley 5,392 49.92
Labour Trevor Young 5,373 49.75
Citizens' Herbert Muir 5,360 49.62 +0.01
Citizens' George Austad 5,302 49.09
Citizens' Dick Simpson 5,206 48.20
Labour Īhāia Puketapu 5,199 48.13
Citizens' Charles Howard Hain 5,139 47.58
Citizens' Horace George Lewis 5,137 47.56 +4.65
Labour Jessie Woods 5,002 46.31
Labour Andrew James Tate 4,935 45.69
Labour Robert Henry Ellis 4,902 45.38
Labour Ronald George Maxwell 4,877 45.15
Labour Norman Stanislaus Wilson 4,701 43.52
Labour Ron Woolford 4,484 41.51
Independent Aden Seafield Lyons 1,234 11.42 +3.90

Notes

[edit]
  1. ^ "Mr. Hay New Mayor". The Hutt News. Vol. 21, no. 2. 11 June 1947. p. 7.
  2. ^ McGill 1991, pp. 154.
  3. ^ "Obituary - Mr. Henry Saunders". Hutt News. Vol. XII, no. 25. 8 December 1948. p. 7.
  4. ^ a b "Local Body Election - Mr. Hay Elected Mayor". Hutt News. Vol. XXI, no. 25. 26 November 1947. p. 7.

References

[edit]
  • Millar, David P. (1972). Once Upon a Village: A History of Lower Hutt 1819-1965. Lower Hutt: New Zealand University Press & LHCC. OCLC 154232923.
  • McGill, David (1991). Lower Hutt – The First Garden City. Petone, New Zealand: Lower Hutt City Council. ISBN 1-86956-003-5.