1925 Lower Hutt mayoral election

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1925 Lower Hutt mayoral election
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 19231 May 1925 1927  
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Candidate Will Strand
Party Independent
Popular voteUnopposed

Mayor before election

Will Strand

Elected Mayor

Will Strand

The 1925 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 the nine borough councillors, also elected biennially. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.

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Background

The incumbent mayor, Will Strand, stood again for a second full term in office. No other candidates emerged and he was thusly declared elected unopposed. [1]

Councillor results

1925 Lower Hutt Borough Council election [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Citizens' Alexander McBain 1,217 89.41 +0.60
Citizens' Archibald Grierson 1,101 80.89 +47.47
Citizens' Ernest Hunt 1,075 78.98 +3.12
Independent Archibald Hobbs 1,065 78.25 -4.61
Citizens' Lemuel Thomas Watkins 1,045 76.78 +12.10
Citizens' Herbert George Teagle 1,033 75.90
Citizens' John Mitchell 981 72.07 +3.86
Independent Walter Meldrum 949 69.72 -1.43
Citizens' Edward Waldie 905 66.49
Citizens' David John Bews88565.02
Citizens' Edward Robert Norman68550.33
Independent Aaron Baker67549.59
Independent Edward Robinson Render60944.74

Notes

  1. "Borough of Lower Hutt – Mayoral Election, 1925". The Evening Post . Vol. CIX, no. 94. 23 April 1925. p. 2.
  2. "Borough of Lower Hutt - Election of Nine Councillors". The Evening Post . Vol. CIX, no. 100. 1 May 1925. p. 2.

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