1986 Lower Hutt mayoral election

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1986 Lower Hutt mayoral election
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Turnout13,729 (31.00%)
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Candidate Glen Evans Alister Abernethy Gerald Bond
Party United Citizens Labour Combined Progressive
Popular vote6,4824,1642,770
Percentage47.2130.3220.17
Mayor before election

Sir John Kennedy-Good

Elected mayor

Glen Evans

The 1986 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 sixteen 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, Sir John Kennedy-Good, retired leaving an open race. [1] The United Citizens' chose former councillor Glen Evans over sitting councillor Gerald Bond to replace Kennedy-Good to lead the ticket. This caused a rift and Bond split from the United Citizens' to form his own Combined Progressive ticket. Labour's candidate from the previous election, councillor Alister Abernethy, contested the mayoralty again. [2] The United Citizens won in a landslide with majority of councillors and Evans winning the mayoralty against Abernethy in second. Bond came a distant third for mayor and lost his council and energy board seat. All of his ticket (which included several incumbents) were defeated. [3] Evans was expecting a closer result and had thought Bond would be a close second. [4]

Mayoral results

1986 Lower Hutt mayoral election [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
United Citizens Glen Evans 6,482 47.21
Labour Alister Abernethy 4,16430.32+6.67
Combined ProgressiveGerald Bond2,77020.17
Informal votes3132.27+0.83
Majority 2,31816.88
Turnout 13,72931.00−11.00

Councillor results

1986 Lower Hutt City Council election [6]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour John Terris 6,429 53.44 −7.03
United Citizens Teri Puketapu 6,297 52.34 −3.35
United Citizens Lawrie Woodley 6,271 52.13 +0.95
United Citizens Lucy Cole 6,252 51.97 −5.14
United Citizens Roger Twentyman 6,117 50.85 −2.19
Labour Alister Abernethy 6,076 50.51 +1.41
United Citizens Margaret Cousins 6,055 50.33 −0.11
United Citizens Ted Gibbs 6,004 49.91 +1.13
United Citizens Errol Baird 5,871 48.80 +2.03
United Citizens Pat Hall 5,857 48.69 +6.10
United Citizens Mary Bannerman 5,232 43.49
United Citizens Alison Lawson 5,164 42.92
United Citizens Peter Bates 4,992 41.49
United Citizens Margaret Ryan 4,933 41.00
United Citizens Pat Brosnan 4,785 39.77
United Citizens Noeline Matthews 4,538 37.72
United Citizens David Milson4,52937.65
Labour Ida Patel4,41136.67
Labour John Eaton4,41036.66−4.18
Labour Neville Pickering 4,38436.44−5.35
Combined ProgressiveGerald Bond4,37436.36−19.33
Labour Shirley Wilde4,32235.92
Labour Brenda Howell4,32035.91
Labour Richard Luke4,24135.25−4.01
Labour Peggy Clement4,20334.94
Labour J.B. Munro 4,09334.02
United Citizens Joan Monrad4,05033.66
Labour Tafa Malifa-Poutoa3,95232.85−1.96
Labour Patrick Braid3,86932.16
Labour John Collyns3,86232.10
Labour David Taylor3,77631.39−6.09
Labour Bryan Mockridge3,65030.34
Labour Tu Taramai3,58129.76
Combined Progressive Chen Werry 3,30727.49−20.32
Combined ProgressiveLois Riseley3,28527.30−28.02
Combined ProgressiveGovind Bhula2,73322.72
Combined ProgressivePat Fraser2,41620.08
Combined ProgressiveMollie Brown2,32119.29
Combined ProgressiveJim Allen2,11517.58
Combined ProgressiveRussell Kerr2,04316.98
Combined ProgressiveBruce Hayward1,96716.35
Combined ProgressiveRonald Campbell1,87215.56
Combined ProgressiveBerwyn Gibbons1,78114.80
Combined ProgressiveTony Sutcliffe1,75414.58
Combined ProgressiveRoger Wills1,73914.45
Combined ProgressiveBill East1,66513.84
Combined ProgressiveCornelius Anderson1,52512.67
Combined ProgressiveSeela Pea-Wall1,0428.66

Notes

  1. ↑ McGill 1991, p. 195.
  2. ↑ "Elections? What elections?". The Evening Post . 18 September 1986.
  3. ↑ "Landslide buries Bond team". The Evening Post . 13 October 1986. p. 5.
  4. ↑ Elphick, Michael (13 October 1986). "L Hutt's new Mayor expected closer race". The Evening Post . p. 5.
  5. ↑ "City of Lower Hutt - Declaration of Result of Election - Election of Mayor". The Evening Post . 20 October 1986. p. 42.
  6. ↑ "City of Lower Hutt - Declaration of Result of Election - Election of Councillors". The Evening Post . 20 October 1986. p. 42.

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