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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.
The Citizens & Ratepayers Association selected incumbent mayor John Allum to contest the mayoralty for a second term. [1]
The Labour Party had three people nominated for the mayoralty:
Despite a recent announcement that Sayegh had declined to be a candidate for any public office at the elections his name was put forward by the Auckland East branch of the Labour Party. At the candidate selection meeting Anderton was selected as Labour's mayoral candidate. [2]
Victor Macky, a member of the Auckland Hospital Board, announced his intention to stand as an independent mayoral candidate. [3] His wife Edna had stood unsuccessfully for the city council in 1929. [4]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Citizens & Ratepayers | John Allum | 17,712 | 47.85 | -1.75 | |
| Labour | Bill Anderton | 11,319 | 30.58 | ||
| Independent | Victor Macky | 7,662 | 20.70 | ||
| Informal votes | 318 | 0.85 | +0.07 | ||
| Majority | 6,393 | 17.27 | +13.20 | ||
| Turnout | 37,011 | 51.50 | +0.31 | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Citizens & Ratepayers | Leonard Coakley | 20,471 | 55.31 | +3.10 | |
| Citizens & Ratepayers | Reginald Judson | 19,735 | 53.32 | +3.27 | |
| Citizens & Ratepayers | Wilfred Fortune | 19,716 | 53.27 | +6.62 | |
| Citizens & Ratepayers | Fred Ambler | 19,391 | 52.39 | +2.94 | |
| Citizens & Ratepayers | Harold Percy Burton | 18,577 | 50.19 | +2.33 | |
| Citizens & Ratepayers | Arthur Bailey | 18,518 | 50.03 | -0.94 | |
| Citizens & Ratepayers | Ellen Melville | 18,394 | 49.69 | +0.40 | |
| Citizens & Ratepayers | Claude James Lovegrove | 18,293 | 49.42 | +5.23 | |
| Citizens & Ratepayers | John W. Kealy | 17,958 | 48.52 | ||
| Citizens & Ratepayers | Sidney Takle | 17,955 | 48.51 | +2.38 | |
| Citizens & Ratepayers | William Fowlds | 17,895 | 48.35 | +0.82 | |
| Citizens & Ratepayers | Alan St. Clair Brown | 17,788 | 48.06 | +3.57 | |
| Citizens & Ratepayers | Keith Buttle | 17,643 | 47.66 | +2.22 | |
| Citizens & Ratepayers | Frederick George Farrell | 17,552 | 47.42 | +3.06 | |
| Citizens & Ratepayers | Reginald Harrop | 17,392 | 46.99 | +3.11 | |
| Citizens & Ratepayers | Roy McElroy | 17,348 | 46.87 | +1.71 | |
| Citizens & Ratepayers | Joan Rattray | 17,132 | 46.28 | ||
| Citizens & Ratepayers | Joyce William Hyland | 16,359 | 44.20 | ||
| Citizens & Ratepayers | Howard Edward Gray Matthews | 16,356 | 44.19 | ||
| Citizens & Ratepayers | Archibald Ewing Brownlie | 15,965 | 43.13 | ||
| Citizens & Ratepayers | Michael Joseph Moodabe | 15,696 | 42.40 | -1.28 | |
| Labour | Mary Dreaver | 15,558 | 42.03 | -3.88 | |
| Labour | Bill Anderton | 14,306 | 38.65 | -3.32 | |
| Labour | Alfred Ernest Brownhill | 13,462 | 36.37 | ||
| Labour | Jeremiah James Sullivan | 13,341 | 36.04 | -5.99 | |
| Labour | Donald Campbell | 13,263 | 35.83 | -3.63 | |
| Labour | Beatrice Joan Beer | 13,063 | 35.29 | ||
| Labour | Paul Richardson | 12,732 | 34.40 | -4.54 | |
| Labour | Fred Young | 12,629 | 34.12 | -5.37 | |
| Labour | Elizabeth Wynn | 12,563 | 33.94 | -4.03 | |
| Labour | Alfred Gilbert | 11,825 | 31.94 | ||
| Labour | Tom Skinner | 11,700 | 31.61 | ||
| Labour | William Reginald Taylor | 11,659 | 31.50 | ||
| Labour | Joseph Glen Kennerley | 11,627 | 31.41 | -4.62 | |
| Labour | Inez Freeman | 11,542 | 31.18 | ||
| Labour | Raymond Hector Hieatt | 11,534 | 31.16 | ||
| Labour | William Bekker | 10,994 | 29.70 | ||
| Labour | Frank Williams | 10,988 | 29.68 | ||
| Labour | Albert Harwood Berry | 10,971 | 29.64 | ||
| Independent | Tom Bloodworth | 8,779 | 23.71 | ||
| Communist | George Jackson | 7,045 | 19.03 | +13.35 | |
| Communist | Johnny Mitchell | 6,550 | 17.69 | ||
| Independent | Charles Bailey | 4,600 | 12.42 | ||
| Independent | Donald Wallace MacClure | 3,756 | 10.14 | ||
| Independent | Dermott Hall Skelton | 3,596 | 9.71 | ||
| Independent | Charles Patrick Belton | 2,871 | 7.75 | ||
| Independent | Joseph Alexander Govan | 2,315 | 6.25 | ||
| Independent | Albert John Mason | 2,260 | 6.10 | ||
| Independent | James Alexander Ritchie | 2,084 | 5.63 | ||
| Independent | Edward James Clark | 2,050 | 5.53 | ||
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