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Turnout | 23,240 (46.82%) | |||||||||||||||
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The 1950 Dunedin mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1950, elections were held for the Mayor of Dunedin plus other local government positions including twelve city councillors. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.
Donald Cameron, the incumbent Mayor, declined to run for a third term. He was succeeded by councillor Len Wright who narrowly defeated the Labour Party candidate Hubert Brown. There was also a swing against the Citizens' association on the city council with both the Labour Party and Citizens' tickets winning six seats each. [1]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Citizens' | Len Wright | 12,000 | 51.63 | ||
Labour | Hubert Brown | 11,119 | 47.85 | ||
Informal votes | 121 | 0.52 | +0.14 | ||
Majority | 881 | 3.79 | |||
Turnout | 23,240 | 46.82 | -18.15 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Gervan McMillan | 12,776 | 54.97 | +7.45 | |
Labour | Michael Connelly | 12,673 | 54.53 | +9.47 | |
Labour | Fred Jones | 12,496 | 53.76 | ||
Labour | Hubert Brown | 12,361 | 53.18 | ||
Citizens' | Jim Barnes | 12,207 | 52.52 | +0.97 | |
Citizens' | Charlie Hayward | 12,129 | 52.19 | -0.09 | |
Citizens' | Robert Forsyth-Barr | 11,990 | 51.59 | -0.92 | |
Labour | Ethel McMillan | 11,928 | 51.32 | +8.87 | |
Labour | Alister Abernethy | 11,619 | 49.99 | ||
Citizens' | William Taverner | 11,598 | 49.90 | -2.09 | |
Citizens' | Norman Douglas Anderson | 11,467 | 49.34 | -2.48 | |
Citizens' | Eric Anderson | 11,463 | 49.32 | -4.54 | |
Citizens' | Stuart Sidey | 11,443 | 49.23 | -1.21 | |
Citizens' | Milton Rowley Aldridge | 11,398 | 49.04 | ||
Citizens' | William Stewart Armitage | 11,285 | 48.55 | -1.44 | |
Labour | Bill Fraser | 10,943 | 47.08 | ||
Citizens' | Robert Abraham Wilkie | 10,826 | 46.58 | ||
Labour | James Harrison | 10,817 | 46.54 | ||
Citizens' | Frederick Allan Keane | 10,808 | 46.50 | ||
Labour | Jack Stead | 10,749 | 46.25 | ||
Citizens' | Norman Duncan McKinlay | 10,651 | 45.83 | ||
Labour | Henry McManus | 10,548 | 45.38 | ||
Labour | John Harold Patrick Belfield | 10,111 | 43.50 | ||
Labour | Alphonso Daniel Hennessey | 9,451 | 40.66 | ||
Communist | Edgar Wilson Hunter | 1,474 | 6.34 | ||
Communist | Samuel Ikin | 913 | 3.92 | -1.47 | |
Frederick Jones was a New Zealand trade unionist, Member of Parliament and the Defence Minister during World War II. His biographer stated that Jones "...symbolised the ordinary Labour man: modest, hard working, patient, tolerant, and above all, loyal."
Walter Arthur Hudson was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.
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