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The 1956 Auckland City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1956, 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.
Mayor John Luxford was challenged over his claim of wasteful expenditure by the Council by former Town Clerk Tom Ashby who claimed Luxford had not remedied the problem with the programmes he had initiated. Ashby was endorsed by the United Independents electoral ticket after Luxford had joined the Citizens & Ratepayers ticket after a falling out with Robinson and his United Independent colleagues who had backed him in his 1953 campaign. The United Independents vote fell, losing their balance of power, with the Citizens & Ratepayers regaining their council majority once again. [1]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Independent | Tom Ashby | 12,017 | 35.55 | ||
| Citizens & Ratepayers | John Luxford | 11,274 | 33.35 | -17.71 | |
| Labour | John Stewart | 10,333 | 30.57 | ||
| Informal votes | 171 | 0.50 | -1.33 | ||
| Majority | 743 | 2.19 | |||
| Turnout | 33,795 | 42.97 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Mary Dreaver | 14,546 | 43.04 | +3.71 | |
| Citizens & Ratepayers | Keith Buttle | 14,095 | 41.70 | +5.62 | |
| Citizens & Ratepayers | Fred Ambler | 13,130 | 38.85 | -3.76 | |
| Citizens & Ratepayers | Winifred Delugar | 12,885 | 38.12 | ||
| Citizens & Ratepayers | Tom Bloodworth | 12,790 | 37.84 | +4.34 | |
| Labour | James Neil Bradley | 12,720 | 37.63 | +7.14 | |
| Labour | Alex Dreaver | 12,453 | 36.84 | +5.64 | |
| Citizens & Ratepayers | John Whittaker | 12,414 | 36.73 | +2.57 | |
| Citizens & Ratepayers | Reg Savory | 12,083 | 35.75 | -2.27 | |
| Citizens & Ratepayers | Albert Edward Bailey | 12,005 | 35.52 | ||
| Citizens & Ratepayers | Howard Hunter | 11,868 | 35.11 | +4.54 | |
| Labour | George Forsyth | 11,631 | 34.41 | +3.24 | |
| United Independents | Dove-Myer Robinson | 11,553 | 34.18 | -6.30 | |
| Citizens & Ratepayers | John Carpenter | 11,489 | 33.99 | ||
| United Independents | Eric Armishaw | 11,475 | 33.95 | +0.05 | |
| Citizens & Ratepayers | Brian Kingston | 11,274 | 33.35 | ||
| United Independents | Ken Cumberland | 11,183 | 33.09 | +1.01 | |
| Citizens & Ratepayers | Max Tongue | 11,178 | 33.07 | ||
| Labour | Pat Curran | 10,924 | 32.32 | -0.47 | |
| Labour | Clarence George Beer | 10,830 | 32.04 | ||
| Citizens & Ratepayers | Fred Glasse | 10,662 | 31.54 | ||
| Citizens & Ratepayers | Geoffrey Myers [nb 1] | 10,557 | 31.23 | +7.35 | |
| Labour | Ronald Akersten | 10,544 | 31.19 | +1.57 | |
| Labour | William Grant-Mackie | 10,516 | 31.11 | ||
| Labour | Isabella Stancliff | 10,504 | 31.08 | ||
| Citizens & Ratepayers | John Dale | 10,487 | 31.03 | ||
| Labour | Agnes Johnston | 10,274 | 30.40 | -6.24 | |
| Citizens & Ratepayers | Mel Tronson | 10,194 | 30.16 | ||
| Citizens & Ratepayers | Edward Henderson | 10,127 | 29.96 | ||
| United Independents | Val Chapman | 9,979 | 29.52 | ||
| Labour | Arthur Clark | 9,975 | 29.51 | ||
| Citizens & Ratepayers | Thomas Bennett | 9,973 | 29.49 | ||
| Labour | Frederick Johnston | 9,941 | 29.41 | +2.11 | |
| Citizens & Ratepayers | Frederick Merritt | 9,900 | 29.29 | ||
| Labour | Dudley Ashford | 9,896 | 29.28 | ||
| United Independents | Joseph Moodabe | 9,873 | 29.21 | ||
| Labour | Alexander Meldrum | 9,859 | 29.17 | ||
| Labour | Alexander Grant | 9,824 | 29.06 | -0.93 | |
| Labour | Edith Williams | 9,700 | 28.70 | +0.82 | |
| Labour | Mary Phillips | 9,663 | 28.59 | ||
| Labour | James Booth | 9,649 | 28.55 | ||
| Labour | Charles Apps | 9,477 | 28.04 | ||
| Labour | Norman Finch | 9,222 | 27.28 | -0.41 | |
| Labour | Cyril William Avenell | 8,841 | 26.16 | ||
| Citizens & Ratepayers | Gideon Rodger | 8,797 | 26.03 | +3.51 | |
| Citizens & Ratepayers | William Tailby | 8,694 | 25.72 | ||
| United Independents | Eric Boggs | 8,652 | 25.60 | ||
| Citizens & Ratepayers | Walter Reevely | 8,308 | 24.58 | ||
| United Independents | Matt Te Hau | 8,013 | 23.71 | ||
| United Independents | Harold Watts | 7,962 | 23.55 | ||
| United Independents | Vernon Brown | 7,808 | 23.10 | -5.79 | |
| United Independents | Robert Wright | 7,545 | 22.32 | ||
| United Independents | Mary Jackson | 7,265 | 21.49 | -6.15 | |
| United Independents | Charles Fisher | 7,241 | 21.42 | ||
| United Independents | John Northey | 7,122 | 21.07 | ||
| United Independents | Berin Spiro | 6,903 | 20.42 | ||
| United Independents | Wallace Fountain | 6,885 | 20.37 | ||
| United Independents | Alister Martin | 6,387 | 18.89 | ||
| United Independents | Lionel Albert | 6,345 | 18.77 | ||
| Citizens & Ratepayers | Laurie Gluckman | 6,309 | 18.66 | ||
| United Independents | David Wilkie | 6,170 | 18.25 | ||
| United Independents | Glassford Glover Walter Gray | 6,095 | 18.03 | ||
| United Independents | Charles Collier | 5,764 | 17.05 | ||
| Independent | Richard Armstrong | 2,222 | 6.57 | -3.71 | |
| Independent | George Mullenger | 1,927 | 5.70 | -0.46 | |
| Communist | Rita Smith | 1,803 | 5.33 | +0.95 | |
| Communist | Bill Andersen | 1,698 | 5.02 | +0.18 | |
| Communist | Donald McEwan | 1,593 | 4.71 | +0.41 | |
| Independent | Frank Dunn | 1,531 | 4.53 | ||
Table footnotes:
Sir Dove-Myer Robinson was Mayor of Auckland City from 1959 to 1965 and from 1968 to 1980, the longest tenure of any holder of the office. He was a colourful character and became affectionately known across New Zealand as "Robbie". He was one of several Jewish mayors of Auckland, although he rejected Judaism as a teenager and became a lifelong atheist. He has been described as a "slight, bespectacled man whose tiny stature was offset by a booming voice and massive ego".
Communities and Residents (C&R) is a right-leaning local body ticket in Auckland, New Zealand. It was formed in 1938 as Citizens & Ratepayers, with a view to controlling the Auckland City Council and preventing left-leaning Labour Party control. It controlled the council most of the time from World War II until the council was merged into the Auckland Council in 2010. It changed its name from "Citizens & Ratepayers" to "Communities and Residents" in 2012.
Thomas William Mark Ashby was a New Zealand local body administrator and Mayor of Auckland City from 1956 to 1957.
Kenneth Brailey Cumberland was a New Zealand geography academic and local-body politician.
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