1915 Auckland City mayoral election

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1915 Auckland City mayoral election
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  1914 1 May 1915 1917  
Turnout14,684
  James Gunson.jpg Robert Tudehope.jpg
Candidate James Gunson Robert Tudehope
Party Citizens Independent
Popular vote8,6435,801
Percentage58.8539.50

Mayor before election

James Parr

Elected Mayor

James Gunson

The 1915 Auckland City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1915, 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.

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Background

This was the first election following the Borough of Grey Lynn's amalgamation with Auckland City which saw the number of councillors increased from eighteen to twenty-one. [1]

Mayoralty results

1915 Auckland mayoral election [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Citizens James Gunson 8,64358.85
Independent Robert Tudehope5,80139.50
Informal votes2401.63
Majority2,84219.35
Turnout 14,684

Councillor results

1915 Auckland City Council election [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Citizens Andrew Entrican 8,54262.42-12.81
Citizens Ellen Melville 7,22052.76+6.29
Citizens Patrick Nerheny 6,94950.78-14.43
Citizens Maurice Casey6,94250.73-9.70
Citizens George Knight6,88650.32-2.75
Citizens Horatio Bagnall 6,61948.37+6.50
Citizens Peter Mitchell Mackay6,33246.27-5.05
Independent Ernest Davis 6,249 45.66
Citizens George Baildon 6,23245.54
Citizens James Alexander Warnock6,18645.20
Citizens Harold D. Heather6,17745.14-9.89
Citizens William Holdsworth5,77042.16
Citizens Jonathan Trevethick 5,71141.73-8.34
Citizens Alfred Hall-Skelton5,42339.63-10.28
Independent John Dempsey 5,321 38.88
Citizens Edwin James Carr5,20338.02
Independent John Burton 5,043 36.85
Independent Ralph Thomas Michaels 4,860 35.51 -8.74
Independent Sydney Moore-Jones 4,613 33.71 -2.44
Independent George William Murray 4,531 33.11
Independent Frederick Brinsden 4,454 32.54
Citizens William Donald4,37631.97
Independent Arthur Anthony Rose3,77927.61
Independent Walter Harry Murray3,64826.65
Independent Percy Spender3,62026.45
Independent William Richardson3,58726.21
Social Democrat Michael Joseph Savage 3,58026.16
Independent William Thompson3,57426.11-9.12
Independent Charles Edgar Palmer3,49025.50
Social Democrat Tom Bloodworth 3,32624.30
Independent Frederick David Parsons3,29224.05
Social Democrat Thomas Long3,04022.21-14.20
Social Democrat Wesley Richards2,93021.41
Independent Joseph Zahara2,42617.72
Social Democrat Charles Arthur Watts2,12915.55
Social Democrat Oscar McBrine2,01014.68

Notes

  1. Bush 1971, pp. 599.
  2. "Election of Mayor". Vol. LII, no. 15907. The New Zealand Herald. 3 May 1915. p. 3. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
  3. "Election of Councillors". Vol. XXXV, no. 37. Observer. 22 May 1915. p. 18. Retrieved 30 September 2018.

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