1923 Wellington mayoral election

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1923 Wellington City mayoral election
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←  1921 27 April 1923 1925  →
Turnout25,707 (59.26%)
  Robert Alexander Wright.jpg Peter Fraser.jpg No image.png
Candidate Robert Wright Peter Fraser Len McKenzie
Party Civic League Labour Independent
Popular vote10,87610,6034,228
Percentage42.3041.2416.44
Mayor before election

Robert Wright

Elected mayor

Robert Wright

The 1923 Wellington City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1923, elections were held for the Mayor of Wellington plus other local government positions including fifteen city councillors. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.

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Background

Incumbent mayor Robert Wright was narrowly re-elected for a second term seeing off a strong challenge from local Labour MP Peter Fraser, the closest election result Wellington had ever seen. [1] It would remain the narrowest Mayoral election in Wellington until 2010.

Mayoralty results

1923 Wellington mayoral election [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Civic League Robert Wright 10,876 42.30 −23.30
Labour Peter Fraser 10,60341.24
Independent Len McKenzie4,22816.44
Majority 2731.06−29.60
Turnout 25,70759.26+7.36

Councillor results

1923 Wellington City Council election [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Civic League George Mitchell 14,375 55.91
Civic League William Gaudin 13,174 51.24 −2.90
Civic League Henry Bennett 12,748 49.58
Civic League William Bennett 12,674 49.30 −4.22
Civic League Martin Luckie 12,468 48.50 −3.38
Civic League Thomas Forsyth 12,377 48.14 −2.76
Civic League Benjamin Burn 12,087 47.01
Civic League John Burns 11,838 46.04 +0.75
Civic League Frank Meadowcroft 11,798 45.89 +22.98
Labour Charles Chapman 11,375 44.24 +8.51
Civic League John Aston 10,830 42.12
Civic League William Thompson 10,782 41.94 −2.19
Labour Alec Monteith 10,306 40.09 +9.65
Civic League Alexander Parton 10,152 39.49 +5.34
Civic League Annie McVicar 10,060 39.13 +1.66
Labour Robert McKeen 9,91138.55+17.58
Labour Alexander Croskery 9,89838.50+10.36
Civic League Herbert Huggins9,60337.35
Civic League Colin Crump9,56337.19
Labour John Glover 9,50936.98+5.82
Labour Tom Young 9,30236.18+8.03
Labour James McKenzie8,75434.05+7.92
Labour Tom Brindle 8,51933.13+3.99
Independent John Castle8,23432.03
Labour Michael Walsh7,94730.91+5.63
Independent Lewis Glover7,47329.06
Independent Harold Dyson7,10727.64
Independent Clarence Snow7,05627.44
Labour Walter Bromley6,97127.11
Labour Laurence Hennessy6,90726.86
Independent Joseph Trim6,53525.42
Independent James Doherty4,34416.89
Independent Andrew Hornblow4,30416.74+3.10
Independent George Baylis3,71414.44−2.81
Independent Henry Bodley3,53313.74

References

  1. ↑ "The Mayoralty". The Evening Post . Vol. CV, no. 99. 27 April 1923. p. 4. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Wellington City Council". The Evening Post . Vol. CV, no. 107. 7 May 1923. p. 2. Retrieved 16 June 2016.


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