1974 Auckland City mayoral election

1974 Auckland City mayoral election

←  1971 12 October 1974 1977  →
Turnout	39,881 (43.44%)
Candidate Dove-Myer Robinson Jim Anderton Party Independent Labour Popular vote 19,762 12,717 Percentage 49.55 31.90
Mayor before election Dove-Myer Robinson Elected mayor Dove-Myer Robinson

The 1974 Auckland City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1974, 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.

Background

Incumbent Mayor Dove-Myer Robinson was re-elected seeing off a challenge from Labour Party candidate Jim Anderton, who won a seat on the council despite losing the mayoralty. Grahame Sims, the retiring town clerk, ran for mayor and accused Robinson of being a Citizens & Ratepayers stooge. This followed the C&R deputy mayor Lindo Ferguson endorsing Robinson for the mayoralty. Sims called it "seat warming", insinuating Ferguson would run for mayor at the next election. ^[1]

Mayoralty results

1974 Auckland mayoral election ^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Dove-Myer Robinson	19,762	49.55	−40.80
	Labour	Jim Anderton	12,717	31.90
	Independent	Grahame Sims	6,241	15.64
Informal votes			1,161	2.91
Majority			7,045	17.66	−67.68
Turnout			39,881	43.44	+7.17

Councillor results

1974 Auckland City Council election ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Citizens & Ratepayers	Lindo Ferguson	22,761	58.78	+9.33
	Citizens & Ratepayers	Harry Dansey	21,219	54.80	+3.46
	Citizens & Ratepayers	Lindsay Adams	20,599	53.19	−1.87
	Citizens & Ratepayers	Colin Kay	20,506	52.95	+3.11
	Citizens & Ratepayers	Norman Ambler	20,491	52.92
	Citizens & Ratepayers	Eric Salmon	20,164	52.07	−1.41
	Citizens & Ratepayers	Jolyon Firth	19,759	51.03	+2.24
	Citizens & Ratepayers	Sheila Horton	19,749	51.00
	Citizens & Ratepayers	Mel Tronson	19,348	49.96	−2.64
	Citizens & Ratepayers	John Strevens	19,129	49.40	+1.59
	Citizens & Ratepayers	Ian McKinnon	18,792	48.53	+0.50
	Citizens & Ratepayers	Paddy Walker	18,510	47.80
	Labour	Catherine Tizard	18,440	47.62	+2.53
	Labour	Jim Anderton	18,034	46.57
	Citizens & Ratepayers	Gordon Barnaby	17,926	46.29	+3.26
	Citizens & Ratepayers	Rev. Selwyn Dawson	17,374	44.87
	Citizens & Ratepayers	Kenneth Sydney Dobson	17,300	44.67
	Citizens & Ratepayers	Allan Charles Coulam	16,469	42.53
	Citizens & Ratepayers	Fred Hill	16,101	41.58
	Citizens & Ratepayers	Bill Clark	16,020	41.37
	Citizens & Ratepayers	Cec Field	15,250	39.38
	Citizens & Ratepayers	Nanu Lelaulu	15,116	39.03
	Citizens & Ratepayers	Reginald Rikys	14,169	36.59
	Labour	Alex Dreaver	14,138	36.51	−7.74
	Labour	Helen Clark	13,928	35.97
	Labour	John Prebble	13,169	34.01
	Labour	Richard Northey	13,162	33.99	+1.91
	Labour	Betty Wark	13,063	33.73	+5.20
	Labour	David Lange	12,370	31.94
	Labour	Barbara Devonshire	11,718	30.26
	Labour	Michael Roger Stenson	11,304	29.19	+0.12
	Labour	Frank Haigh	11,190	28.89
	Labour	Titewhai Harawira	11,161	28.82
	Labour	Brian Francis Healy	10,794	27.87
	Labour	Bruce Hucker	10,734	27.72
	Labour	Roderick Murray Carter	10,664	27.54	−1.21
	Labour	Mary Nacey	10,556	27.26
	Values	Reg Clough	10,326	26.66
	Labour	Barry McLean	9,862	25.47
	Labour	Garth Houltham	9,770	25.23
	Labour	Marion McQuoid	9,387	24.24	−0.32
	Labour	Christopher Pickett	9,106	23.51
	Labour	Ua Tamarua	9,035	23.33
	Labour	William Forbes-Hamilton	8,992	23.22
	Values	Elizabeth Glasgow	7,597	19.62
	Values	Raewyn Gwenith Braggins	5,812	15.01
	Values	Andrew Quail	5,614	14.49
	Values	Francis Rex Hamlin	5,562	14.36
	Values	Terry Mann	5,452	14.08
	Independent	Peter van Gessel	2,990	7.72
	Socialist Unity	Bill Andersen	2,533	6.54	−5.25
	Socialist Unity	George Jackson	1,769	4.56	−3.72
	Socialist Unity	Joseph Telford	1,535	3.96
	Socialist Unity	Leonard Thomas Gale	1,232	3.18

Notes

1. Edgar 2012.
2. "Declaration of Result of Election". The New Zealand Herald . 22 October 1974. p. 19 (Section 2).
3. "Declaration of Result of Election". The New Zealand Herald . 23 October 1974. p. 16 (Section 3).

References

• Edgar, John (2012). Urban Legend: Sir Dove-Meyer Robinson. Hodder Moa. ISBN   9781869712747.
• Bush, Graham W.A. (1991). Advance in Order: The Auckland City Council from Centenary to Reorganisation 1971-1989. Auckland City Council. ISBN   0908834039.