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The 1935 Wellington City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1935, 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.
Incumbent mayor Thomas Hislop stood for a third-term, the first mayor to do so since Sir John Luke in 1915. His opponent was Bob Semple, a Labour councillor and MP for Wellington East. During the campaign, Semple received slanderous allegations of being an Atheist, which he denied stating "If the people of the world followed the philosophy of Jesus there would be no poverty...". [1]
For the second election in a row, Labour won a majority of the vote, but could not win a majority of seats. [2] However, Labour did win one more seat than in 1933 and then went on to win a by-election soon after increase their representation further. [3]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Citizens' | Thomas Hislop | 21,583 | 52.46 | ||
| Labour | Bob Semple | 19,249 | 46.79 | ||
| Informal votes | 307 | 0.74 | |||
| Majority | 2,334 | 5.67 | |||
| Turnout | 41,139 | 60.49 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Labour | Peter Fraser | 28,362 | 68.94 | +20.30 | |
| Labour | Charles Chapman | 26,049 | 63.31 | −3.11 | |
| Labour | Robert McKeen | 25,571 | 62.15 | −2.22 | |
| Citizens' | Robert Wright | 22,450 | 54.57 | +7.26 | |
| Labour | Peter Butler | 20,646 | 50.18 | +6.32 | |
| Labour | Tom Brindle | 20,345 | 49.45 | +3.56 | |
| Citizens' | William Bennett | 19,930 | 48.44 | −4.10 | |
| Citizens' | John Burns | 19,063 | 46.33 | +1.88 | |
| Citizens' | Will Appleton | 19,036 | 46.27 | −1.95 | |
| Citizens' | William Gaudin | 18,944 | 46.04 | −6.85 | |
| Citizens' | Martin Luckie | 18,616 | 45.25 | −3.54 | |
| Citizens' | Len McKenzie | 18,579 | 45.16 | −2.85 | |
| Labour | Adam Black | 18,559 | 45.11 | +4.88 | |
| Citizens' | Herbert Huggins | 18,467 | 44.88 | −2.27 | |
| Citizens' | William Duncan | 18,309 | 44.50 | −2.43 | |
| Labour | Andrew Parlane [nb 1] | 18,271 | 44.41 | +1.75 | |
| Labour | Alexander Croskery | 18,143 | 44.10 | ||
| Labour | Michael Reardon | 18,043 | 43.85 | ||
| Citizens' | Thomas Forsyth | 17,827 | 43.33 | −3.16 | |
| Labour | John Read | 17,648 | 42.89 | ||
| Labour | Jim Collins | 17,327 | 42.11 | +1.57 | |
| Labour | Michael Walsh | 16,970 | 41.25 | +1.46 | |
| Labour | John Tucker | 16,963 | 41.23 | +1.99 | |
| Citizens' | Robert Macalister | 16,892 | 41.06 | −2.23 | |
| Labour | Caryll Hay | 16,343 | 39.72 | +0.90 | |
| Labour | James Ranson | 16,270 | 39.54 | −0.21 | |
| Citizens' | Paul Hoskins | 15,592 | 37.90 | +3.94 | |
| Communist | Charlie Brooks | 3,310 | 8.04 | ||
| Communist | John Joseph Robinson | 2,994 | 7.27 | ||
| Communist | Connie Rawcliffe | 2,695 | 6.55 | ||
| Communist | Albert Birchfield | 2,680 | 6.51 | ||
| Communist | Miles Ormerod | 2,153 | 5.23 | ||
Table footnotes:
Robert Semple was a union leader and later Minister of Public Works for the first Labour Government of New Zealand. He is also known for creating the Bob Semple tank.
Sir Francis Joseph Kitts was a New Zealand politician. Originally from the South Island, he served in the military and later was a civil servant before entering politics with the Labour Party. He was the Member of Parliament for Wellington Central between 1954 and 1960. He was also the longest-serving Mayor of Wellington, holding the post from 1956 to 1974. He was also a member at various times of several other local bodies and was still an elected official at his death.
Robert McKeen was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party. He was Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Sir William Appleton was a New Zealand local body politician, advertising agent and leading company director. He was Mayor of Wellington for two terms from 1944 to 1950 after serving as a city councillor from 1931 to 1944. He was knighted in 1950.
Thomas Charles Atkinson Hislop (29 November 1888 – 21 June 1965) was a New Zealand politician, lawyer, and diplomat. He served as the mayor of Wellington from 1931 to 1944.
Robert Alexander Wright was the Mayor of Wellington from 1921 to 1925, and a New Zealand politician of the Reform Party.
Melville Edwin Lyons, sometimes called Tiny, was briefly a Reform Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand until his election was declared void. A journalist by trade, he became involved in local politics in Christchurch after having served in WWI. He was Deputy Mayor of Christchurch for six years under mayor Ernest Andrews.
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