1965 Lower Hutt mayoral election

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1965 Lower Hutt mayoral election
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  1962 9 October 1965 1968  
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Candidate Percy Dowse
Party Labour
Popular voteelected unopposed

Mayor before election

Percy Dowse

Elected Mayor

Percy Dowse

The 1965 Lower Hutt mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. The elections were held for the role of Mayor of Lower Hutt plus other local government positions including fifteen city councillors, also elected triennially. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.

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Background

The incumbent Mayor, Percy Dowse, sought re-election for a sixth term. He was returned unopposed as no other candidates nominated. [1] [2] Councillor John Kennedy-Good was encouraged by centre-right supporters to stand for mayor, but he declined to challenge Dowse, who he considered a good leader as well as a personal friend. [3] The Citizens' Association, while not contesting the mayoralty, stood a full ticket of council candidates, the first time they had done so since 1953. This was to avoid a repeat of the 1959-62 council where Citizens' endorsed Ratepayer Independents won a majority on the council, but were hampered by having little in the way of agreed policy. [4]

Councillor results

1965 Lower Hutt City Council election [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Chen Werry 6,020 61.35 +8.77
Labour Trevor Young 5,787 58.97 +3.37
Labour Wally Bugden 5,725 58.34 +9.86
Labour Sam Chesney 5,706 58.15 +3.75
Citizens' John Kennedy-Good 5,578 56.84 +9.63
Labour Alexander Campbell 5,573 56.79 +8.25
Labour Jessie Donald 5,499 56.04 +3.68
Labour Kitty Mildenhall 5,308 54.09
Citizens' Ted Holdaway 5,223 53.23 +7.71
Labour David Carrad 5,022 51.18
Labour William Harvey 4,953 50.47 +4.99
Citizens' Dave Hadley 4,910 50.04 +6.86
Labour Bert Sutherland 4,876 49.69 +4.44
Citizens' Don Lee 4,808 49.00 +7.99
Labour John Seddon 4,798 48.89
Labour Graeme Ronald Ross4,77648.67
Labour Joan Mary Pearce4,71348.03
Labour William Mouat McLaren4,67747.66+4.09
Citizens' Ted Gibbs4,43345.17
Citizens' Donald Boyd Kincaid4,42445.08
Labour William John Jarvis4,34544.28
Citizens' Arthur Ashley Cooper4,32144.03
Citizens' John Ross Wilkinson4,27843.59
Citizens' Stewart Forsyth Claxton4,26843.49
Citizens' James Kawarau Horn4,22843.09+3.04
Citizens' Hugh McKinnon Smith4,21042.90+2.78
Citizens' George Ernest Collin4,12242.00
Citizens' Irene Joan Gough4,02641.03
Citizens' Claude Swift3,99440.70
Citizens' Hazel Hohepina Snow3,76338.35
Independent Cyril Phelps2,87329.28-12.24

Notes

  1. "No Election for Them". The Evening Post . 8 October 1965.
  2. "Lower Hutt". The Evening Post . 11 October 1965. p. 22.
  3. Dekker, Diana (14 July 2005). "Hutt's parochial mayor". Dominion Post . p. 7.
  4. "Full Ticket From City Ratepayers". Hutt News . 18 November 1964. p. 7.
  5. "City of Lower Hutt - Declaration of Result of Poll". The Evening Post . 15 October 1965. p. 2.

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