1909 Auckland City mayoral election

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1909 Auckland City mayoral election
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  1908 24 April 1909 1910  
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Candidate Charles Grey
Party Independent
Popular voteUnopposed

Mayor before election

Charles Grey

Elected Mayor

Charles Grey

The 1909 Auckland City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1909, elections were held for the Mayor of Auckland plus other local government positions including fifteen city councillors. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.

The Mayor of Auckland City was the directly elected head of the Auckland City Council, the municipal government of Auckland City, New Zealand. The office existed from 1871 to 2010, when the Auckland City Council and mayoralty was abolished and replaced with the Auckland Council and the Mayor of Auckland.

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Background

Incumbent mayor Charles Grey re-elected unopposed. Grey had been elected by the council to fill the vacancy for the mayoralty remainder of the previous term following the resignation of Arthur Myers. [1]

Charles Grey (mayor) New Zealand mayor

Charles Grey, was a New Zealand businessman and politician who was Mayor of Auckland City from 1909 to 1910.

Arthur Myers New Zealand politician

Sir Arthur Mielziner Myers was a New Zealand politician. He was Mayor of Auckland City from 1905 to 1909, Member of the House of Representatives from 1910 to 1921, and a Cabinet Minister. Today he is remembered mainly for the public works constructed in Auckland during his term as Mayor, and partly from his donations, including Grafton Bridge and Myers Park.

Councillor results

1909 Auckland local election [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Citizens Andrew Entrican 3,24570.10+7.36
Citizens Lemuel Bagnall 3,21269.38+13.83
Citizens James Parr 3,20669.25+15.47
Citizens James Mennie3,15668.17
Citizens Peter Mitchell Mackay3,14067.83+20.37
Citizens Robert Tudehope3,08866.70
Independent Maurice Casey 3,059 66.08 +18.70
Independent George Knight 2,989 64.57 +11.96
Citizens George Tutt2,64257.07
Citizens Patrick Nerheny 2,60956.36
Citizens Herbert Smeeton2,59756.10+9.67
Independent George Read 2,570 55.51
Citizens John Patterson 2,53854.82+20.45
Citizens William Thompson2,21047.74
Citizens Moncrieff Murray McCallum2,18547.20
Citizens Henry Shaw 2,18147.11
Citizens Frederick Gaudin2,17346.94
Independent Ralph Thomas Michaels1,86240.22
Citizens John Francis Pullen1,61134.80
Ind. Labour League George Davis 1,44031.10+12.46
Ind. Labour League Thomas Long1,02822.20
Independent Daniel Finnane81617.62
Independent William Black74316.05

Notes

  1. Bush 1971, pp. 594.
  2. "Biennial Election of Councillors". XLVI (14047). The New Zealand Herald. 29 April 1909. p. 4. Retrieved 16 September 2018.

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