1944 Auckland City mayoral election

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1944 Auckland City mayoral election
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  1941 27 May 1944 1947  
Turnout37,011
  John Allum.jpg W T Anderton.jpg
Candidate John Allum Bill Anderton
Party Citizens & Ratepayers Labour
Popular vote17,71211,319
Percentage47.8530.58

Mayor before election

John Allum

Elected Mayor

John Allum

The 1944 Auckland City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1944, 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.

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Mayoralty results

1944 Auckland mayoral election [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Citizens & Ratepayers John Allum 17,71247.85-1.75
Labour Bill Anderton 11,31930.58
Independent Victor Macky 7,66220.70
Informal votes3180.85+0.07
Majority6,39317.27+13.20
Turnout 37,011

Councillor results

1944 Auckland local election [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±
Citizens & Ratepayers Leonard Coakley20,47155.31+3.10
Citizens & Ratepayers Reginald Judson 19,73553.32+3.27
Citizens & Ratepayers Wilfred Fortune 19,71653.27+6.62
Citizens & Ratepayers Fred Ambler 19,39152.39+2.94
Citizens & Ratepayers Harold Percy Burton18,57750.19+2.33
Citizens & Ratepayers Arthur Bailey18,51850.03-0.94
Citizens & Ratepayers Ellen Melville 18,39449.69+0.40
Citizens & Ratepayers Claude James Lovegrove18,29349.42+5.23
Citizens & Ratepayers John W. Kealy 17,95848.52
Citizens & Ratepayers Sidney Takle17,95548.51+2.38
Citizens & Ratepayers William Forrest Fowlds17,89548.35+0.82
Citizens & Ratepayers Alan St. Clair Brown17,78848.06+3.57
Citizens & Ratepayers Keith Buttle 17,64347.66+2.22
Citizens & Ratepayers Frederick George Farrell17,55247.42+3.06
Citizens & Ratepayers Reginald Stanley Harrop17,39246.99+3.11
Citizens & Ratepayers Roy McElroy 17,34846.87+1.71
Citizens & Ratepayers Joan Rattray17,13246.28
Citizens & Ratepayers Joyce William Hyland16,35944.20
Citizens & Ratepayers Howard Edward Gray Matthews16,35644.19
Citizens & Ratepayers Archibald Ewing Brownlie15,96543.13
Citizens & Ratepayers Michael Joseph Moodabe 15,69642.40-1.28
Labour Mary Dreaver 15,55842.03-3.88
Labour Bill Anderton 14,30638.65-3.32
Labour Alfred Ernest Brownhill13,46236.37
Labour Jeremiah James Sullivan13,34136.04-5.99
Labour Donald Campbell13,26335.83-3.63
Labour Beatrice Joan Beer13,06335.29
Labour Paul Richardson12,73234.40-4.54
Labour Fred Young 12,62934.12-5.37
Labour Elizabeth Wynn12,56333.94-4.03
Labour Alfred Gilbert11,82531.94
Labour Tom Skinner 11,70031.61
Labour William Reginald Taylor11,65931.50
Labour Joseph Glen Kennerley11,62731.41-4.62
Labour Inez Freeman11,54231.18
Labour Raymond Hector Hieatt11,53431.16
Labour William Bekker10,99429.70
Labour Frank Williams10,98829.68
Labour Albert Harwood Berry10,97129.64
Independent Tom Bloodworth 8,77923.71
Communist George Jackson7,04519.03+13.35
Communist Johnny Mitchell6,55017.69
Independent Charles Bailey4,60012.42
Independent Donald Wallace MacClure3,75610.14
Independent Dermott Hall Skelton3,5969.71
Independent Charles Patrick Belton2,8717.75
Independent Joseph Alexander Govan2,3156.25
Independent Albert John Mason2,2606.10
Independent James Alexander Ritchie2,0845.63
Independent Edward James Clark2,0505.53

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References

  1. 1 2 "Local Body Elections". LXXV (136). Auckland Star. 10 June 1944. p. 9. Retrieved 10 May 2017.