1929 Auckland City mayoral election

1929 Auckland City mayoral election

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Turnout	23,990
Candidate George Baildon Tom Bloodworth Party Progressive Citizens' Labour Popular vote 7,595 6,679 Percentage 31.65 27.84
Mayor before election George Baildon Elected mayor George Baildon

The 1929 Auckland City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1929, 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.

Mayoralty results

1929 Auckland mayoral election ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Citizens'	George Baildon	7,595	31.65	−9.84
	Labour	Tom Bloodworth	6,679	27.84	−6.09
	Independent	Hubert Earle Vaile	5,187	21.62
	Independent	Walter Harry Murray	4,226	17.61
Informal votes			303	1.26	−0.10
Majority			916	3.81	−3.75
Turnout			23,990

Councillor results

1929 Auckland City Council election ^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Tom Bloodworth	12,061	50.27	−5.29
	Progressive Citizens'	George Hutchison	11,310	47.14
	Independent	Walter Harry Murray	8,946	37.29	−0.01
	Progressive Citizens'	Andrew Entrican	8,502	35.43	−15.49
	Progressive Citizens'	John Dempsey	7,758	32.33	−17.68
	Labour	Ted Phelan	7,692	32.06	−13.28
	Progressive Citizens'	George Ashley	7,359	30.67	−9.37
	Progressive Citizens'	Matthew John Bennett	7,354	30.65	−19.53
	Labour	Fred Bartram	7,179	29.92
	Progressive Citizens'	George Brownlee	7,147	29.79	−6.94
	Independent	William Lang Casey	7,118	29.67	−8.29
	Independent	James Donald	7,035	29.32	−13.59
	Progressive Citizens'	George Grey Campbell	7,030	29.30	−5.73
	Independent	Ellen Melville	6,998	29.17	−19.22
	Independent	Alice Basten	6,868	28.62	−8.39
	Progressive Citizens'	Brent Llewellyn Bagnall	6,748	28.12
	Independent	Balfour Mears Irvine	6,550	27.30
	Independent	John Lundon	6,505	27.11	−2.28
	Independent	John Barr Patterson	6,081	25.34	−18.74
	Independent	Michael John Coyle	6,059	25.25	−19.60
	Independent	Harold Percy Burton	5,963	24.85
	Independent	Dawson Donaldson	5,840	24.34
	Independent	Alfred Hall Skelton	5,795	24.15	−11.58
	Progressive Citizens'	John Allum	5,774	24.06	−22.72
	Progressive Citizens'	Thomas McNab	5,771	24.05	−8.42
	Independent	Samuel Crookes	5,723	23.85	−19.46
	Independent	Claude James Lovegrove	5,586	23.28
	Labour	Oscar McBrine	5,428	22.62	−15.95
	Progressive Citizens'	Sidney Takle	5,271	21.97
	Labour	Edna Macky	5,190	21.63
	Progressive Citizens'	Percy John Goldfinch	5,038	21.00
	Independent	Leonard Bailey Busfield	5,004	20.85
	Progressive Citizens'	John W. Kealy	4,997	20.82
	Independent	John William Carr	4,983	20.77
	Labour	John Stacey Adeane	4,927	20.53
	Independent	Albert Glover	4,925	20.52
	Progressive Citizens'	William Hugh McKinney	4,919	20.50	−10.54
	Independent	Almond Edmund Marsden Dunningham	4,870	20.30
	Progressive Citizens'	Herbert Bellam	4,837	20.16
	Labour	Dick Barter	4,761	19.84	−14.13
	Progressive Citizens'	John Francis Shanly	4,712	19.64	−6.34
	Labour	Jim Purtell	4,517	18.82	−14.17
	Independent	Duncan Carmichael Fraser	4,492	18.72
	Independent	Harold Schmidt	4,470	18.63
	Independent	George Leonard Brett	4,371	18.22	−9.90
	Independent	Hallyburton Johnstone	4,349	18.12	−4.28
	Labour	Alice Cassie	4,257	17.74
	Labour	Hugh Campbell	4,148	17.29
	Labour	John Oliver Liddell	3,990	16.63
	Labour	Bill Schramm	3,980	16.59	−0.10
	Independent	James Grace	3,976	16.57
	Independent	Frederick Waterston Matthews	3,916	16.32
	Independent	James Francis Hosking	3,820	15.92
	Labour	John Thomas Jennings	3,794	15.84
	Progressive Citizens'	Dick Thompson	3,776	15.73	−10.09
	Labour	Bernard Martin	3,759	15.66	−13.18
	Independent	George Russell Magee	3,572	14.88
	Independent	Isaac Gelston Gray	3,319	13.83
	Progressive Citizens'	Arthur Gilbert Quartley	3,087	12.86
	Independent	John Heard Ansell	2,999	12.50
	Independent	Walter Thomas Smith	2,962	12.34
	Independent	George Rochester Metcalfe	2,934	12.23	−11.20
	Labour	Harry Gordon Staley	2,881	12.00
	Independent	Harry Percival Taylor	2,613	10.89
	Labour	Paul Richardson	2,218	9.24
	Independent	John Jolley Thomas	1,312	5.46
	Independent	Harry Woodroff	1,073	4.47

References

1. "Electoral". The New Zealand Herald . Vol. LXVI, no. 20248. 7 May 1929. p. 20. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
2. "Electoral". The New Zealand Herald . Vol. LXVI, no. 20248. 7 May 1929. p. 20. Retrieved 26 August 2017.