1933 Christchurch mayoral election

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1933 Christchurch mayoral election
Christchurch COA pre-1949.jpg
 19313 May 1933 1935  
Turnout29,249
  Daniel Giles Sullivan (1941).jpg No image.png
Candidate Dan Sullivan Lancelot Walker
Party Labour Independent
Popular vote18,34510,389
Percentage62.7235.51

Mayor before election

Dan Sullivan

Elected Mayor

Dan Sullivan

The 1933 Christchurch mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1933, election were held for the Mayor of Christchurch plus 16 councillors and other local government positions.

Contents

Background

Sitting mayor Dan Sullivan sought re-election for a second term. The Citizens' Association, whose leaders had cooperated well with Sullivan during the term, decided not to put up an opposing candidate "... the Citizens' Association's leading councillors declined to stand against Sullivan and only a somewhat eccentric Independent, Lancelot Walker, opposed him. Walker favoured some grandiose schemes and Sullivan appeared safely conservative in comparison." [1]

Mayoral results

The following table gives the election results:

1933 Christchurch mayoral election [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Dan Sullivan 18,345 62.72
Independent Lancelot Charles Walker10,38935.51
Informal votes5151.76
Majority7,95627.20
Turnout 29,249

Council results

The following table gives the overall party strengths and vote distribution.

Election results by Party [3]
PartyCandidatesTotal votesPercentageAveragesSeats won
Labour 1312,23543.738747
Citizens' 1210,51037.578766
Independent 93,22511.523582
Socialist 51,7786.353561
Communist 31170.41390

The following table gives the initial candidate preferences totals and sorted by the vote distribution after the 720th (final) count.

1933 Christchurch City Council election [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour John Archer 5,494 19.63
Citizens' Ernest Andrews 2,416 8.63
Citizens' John Beanland 2,235 7.98
Labour Elizabeth McCombs 2,171 7.76
Independent Francis Thomas Evans 1,763 6.30
Socialist Tommy Armstrong 1,5495.53
Labour Jack Barnett 389 1.39
Labour Mabel Howard 845 3.02
Citizens' Melville Lyons 1,098 3.92
Citizens' William Hayward 1,071 3.82
Citizens' Thomas Milliken 1,009 3.60
Labour John Mathison 988 3.53
Labour Thomas Henry Butterfield 373 1.33
Labour George Thomas Thurston 377 1.34
Citizens' Thomas Andrews 396 1.41
Independent Henry Thacker 586 2.09
Citizens' Annie Fraer 1,3514.82
Labour Edward Parlane1,0873.88
Citizens' Bill MacGibbon 9423.36
Citizens' John Nicholas De Feu8453.02
Independent George Thomas Baker6302.25
Citizens' Richard John Bickerton Dalley5762.05
Labour Arthur Edwin Tongue5712.04
Labour Robert Macfarlane 4451.59
Citizens' Kathleen Moore3201.14
Labour Alfred John Beauchamp3031.08
Labour Reg Stillwell2811.00
Independent William James Boyce2600.92
Citizens' John James Hurley2260.80
Socialist William Berryman1980.70
Independent Charles Seymour Trillo1400.50
Independent Silas McAlister1320.47
Socialist William Henry Bayard1300.46
Labour Joseph William Roberts1180.42
Communist Robert Macdonald1010.36
Socialist Ferguson Hamilton Grant750.26
Independent Edwin Philpott Crowther560.20
Independent Charles John McKay520.18
Communist Richard Henry Ellis450.16
Independent Philip Richard Needham290.10
Socialist Leonard Frank Warburton260.09
Communist Albert John Patterson150.05

Notes

  1. Watson 1989, p. 138.
  2. "Local Elections - Mr Sullivan Retains the Mayoralty". The Press . Vol. LXIX, no. 20846. 4 May 1933. p. 10.
  3. "City Council". The Press . Vol. LXIX, no. 20846. 4 May 1933. p. 10.
  4. "New Council - Exact Representation Given". The Star . Vol. XLIV, no. 758. 11 May 1933. p. 16.

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