1986 Auckland City mayoral election

1986 Auckland City mayoral election
Turnout	42,247
Mayor before election; Catherine Tizard ;	Elected Mayor; Catherine Tizard ;

Last updated July 01, 2019

The 1986 Auckland City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1986, elections were held for the Mayor of Auckland plus other local government positions including twenty city councillors. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.

The Mayor of Auckland City was the directly elected head of the Auckland City Council, the municipal government of Auckland City, New Zealand. The office existed from 1871 to 2010, when the Auckland City Council and mayoralty was abolished and replaced with the Auckland Council and the Mayor of Auckland.

Background

Incumbent Labour Party Mayor Catherine Tizard was re-elected for a second term with a substantial majority over former Citizens & Ratepayers councillor Marie Quinn, while the council saw a landslide result to the Citizens & Ratepayers ticket.

The New Zealand Labour Party, or simply Labour, is a centre-left political party in New Zealand. The party's platform programme describes its founding principle as democratic socialism, while observers describe Labour as social-democratic and pragmatic in practice. It is a participant of the international Progressive Alliance.

Dame Catherine Anne Tizard is a New Zealand politician who served as Mayor of Auckland City from 1983 to 1990, and the 16th Governor-General of New Zealand from 1990 to 1996. She was the first woman to hold either office.

Electoral reforms were implemented at the 1986 municipal elections, the method of electing councillors at large which had been used for decades was replaced with a ward system of local electoral districts.^[1]

At-large is a designation for members of a governing body who are elected or appointed to represent the whole membership of the body, rather than a subset of that membership. At-large voting is in contrast to voting by electoral districts.

A ward is a local authority area, typically used for electoral purposes. Wards are usually named after neighbourhoods, thoroughfares, parishes, landmarks, geographical features and in some cases historical figures connected to the area. It is common in the United States for wards to simply be numbered.

Mayoralty results

The following table gives the election results:

1986 Auckland mayoral election^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Catherine Tizard	32,064	75.89	+41.52
	Independent	Marie Quinn	10,183	24.11
Majority			21,881	51.79	+42.56
Turnout			42,247

Ward results

Candidates were also elected from wards to the Auckland City Council.

Auckland City Council was the local government authority for Auckland City, New Zealand, from 1871 to 1 November 2010, when it and Auckland's six other city and district councils were amalgamated to form the Auckland Council. It was an elected body representing the 404,658 residents of the city, which included some of the Hauraki Gulf islands, such as Waiheke Island and Great Barrier Island. It was chaired by the Mayor of Auckland City.

	Party/ticket	Councillors
	Citizens & Ratepayers	15
	Labour	4
	Independent	1

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References

↑ "Local elections on ward basis". The Evening Post . 9 October 1984.
↑ "Election 86 Results". The New Zealand Herald. 13 October 1986. p. 2.

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[1] "Local elections on ward basis". The Evening Post . 9 October 1984.

[2] "Election 86 Results". The New Zealand Herald. 13 October 1986. p. 2.