1917 Auckland City mayoral election

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1917 Auckland City mayoral election
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  1915 30 April 1917 1919  
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Candidate James Gunson
Party Citizens
Popular voteunopposed

Mayor before election

James Gunson

Elected Mayor

James Gunson

The 1917 Auckland City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1917, 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.

Contents

Incumbent mayor James Gunson was declared re-elected unopposed, with no other candidates emerging. [1]

Councillor results

1917 Auckland City Council election [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Citizens Andrew Entrican 5,36972.11+9.69
Citizens Patrick Nerheny 4,65361.83+11.05
Citizens Ellen Melville 4,64961.77+9.01
Citizens Harold D. Heather4,40858.31+13.17
Citizens William Holdsworth4,33157.20+15.04
Citizens George Knight4,24055.90+5.58
Citizens George Baildon 4,18555.11+9.57
Citizens James Alexander Warnock4,05753.27+8.07
Independent Ernest Davis 4,056 53.25 +7.59
Citizens Frederick Brinsden4,02652.82+17.58
Citizens Peter Mitchell Mackay3,93751.54+5.27
Citizens Edwin James Carr3,93051.44+13.42
Citizens Maurice Casey3,83450.07-0.66
Citizens Horatio Bagnall 3,81949.85+1.48
Citizens James Francis Hosking3,73948.70
Citizens Alfred Hall-Skelton3,69348.04+8.41
Citizens Jonathan Trevethick 3,52545.63+3.90
Citizens John Burton3,41344.02+7.17
Citizens John Barr Paterson3,36043.26
Citizens John Dempsey3,26741.92+3.04
Citizens Sydney Moore-Jones3,26141.83+8.12
Independent George William Murray [nb 1] 3,25841.79
Independent William Donald3,21941.23+9.26
Independent Arthur Rose3,19440.87+13.26
Independent Percy McElwain2,97737.76
Citizens William Augustus Thompson2,55231.65
Independent Labour Wesley Richards2,52431.25+9.84
Independent William Richardson2,49030.76+4.55
Independent Arthur Herrold2,30728.13
Independent Richard Singer1,97223.32

Table footnotes:

  1. Murray and Emily Maguire were appointed to fill vacancies on the council in 1918 caused by the deaths of Maurice Casey and Sydney Moore-Jones

Notes

  1. Bush 1971, pp. 594.
  2. "Election of Councillors". Vol. XXXVII, no. 36. Observer. 12 May 1917. p. 23. Retrieved 5 October 2018.

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