Ashley was a New Zealand electorate situated north of Christchurch. It was in use from 1866 to 1902, and was replaced with the Hurunui electorate.
In the 1865 electoral redistribution, the House of Representatives focussed its review of electorates to South Island electorates only, as the Otago gold rush had caused significant population growth, and a redistribution of the existing population. Fifteen additional South Island electorates were created, including Ashley, and the number of Members of Parliament was increased by 13 to 70. [1]
The Ashley electorate was formed from a corner of Cheviot electorate, and included the towns of Ashley, Amberley, and Oxford. The electorate's boundaries remained roughly the same until the 1881 election, when it expanded slightly into Kaiapoi electorate and Amberley was returned to Cheviot. In the 1887 election, the electorate expanded westwards into Cheviot's southern tip. In the 1890 election, Cheviot itself was abolished, and the majority of its territory was absorbed into Ashley — to compensate, territory was taken from Ashley in the south and given to Kaiapoi. In the 1893 election, Ashley expanded further north, taking the town of Kaikōura from Wairau electorate, but ceded Oxford to Kaiapoi in the south. In the 1902 election, Ashley was dissolved, being replaced with an electorate called Hurunui, covering much the same area.
The first representative was Lancelot Walker, who won the 1866 election unopposed. [2] Walker resigned in the following year [3] and was succeeded by Henry Tancred in the 1867 by-election; Tancred was also unopposed. [4] [5] Tancred retired at the end of the parliamentary term in 1870 [4] and was succeeded by John Evans Brown, who won the election against two others. [6] [7] At the 1876 election, Brown was challenged by William Miles Maskell, who had been one of his opponents in 1871, but Brown retained his seat. [8]
For the 1879 election, three candidates contested the election, with William Sefton Moorhouse gaining an absolute majority. [9] The 1881 election was contested by five candidates, with William Fisher Pearson the winner. [10] In the 1884 election, Pearson had a dominant win over one challenger. [11]
In the 1890 election, the electorate was contested by Richard Meredith, James Dupré Lance and John George Knight, [12] who received 648, 611 and 137 votes, respectively. Meredith was thus declared elected. [13]
Key
Election | Winner | |
---|---|---|
1866 election | Lancelot Walker | |
1867 by-election | Henry Tancred [4] | |
1871 election [14] | John Brown | |
1876 election [15] | ||
1879 election [16] | William Moorhouse | |
1881 election | William Pearson | |
1884 election | ||
1887 election | ||
1888 by-election | John Verrall | |
1890 election | Richard Meredith | |
1893 election | ||
1896 election | ||
1899 election | ||
(Electorate abolished in 1902; see Hurunui) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Richard Meredith | 1,943 | 61.98 | +11.34 | |
Conservative | Thomas Caverhill | 1,192 | 38.02 | ||
Majority | 751 | 23.96 | +12.87 | ||
Turnout | 3,135 | 70.15 | −12.51 | ||
Registered electors | 4,469 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Richard Meredith | 1,700 | 50.64 | −8.20 | |
Conservative | Henry Fear Reece | 1,328 | 39.56 | ||
Liberal | George Renner | 329 | 9.80 | ||
Majority | 372 | 11.08 | |||
Turnout | 3,357 | 82.66 | +12.25 | ||
Registered electors | 4,061 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Richard Meredith | 1,668 | 58.84 | +12.61 | |
Conservative | David Duncan Macfarlane | 1,078 | 38.02 | ||
Liberal | David Dick | 89 | 3.14 | ||
Majority | 590 | 20.81 | +18.51 | ||
Turnout | 2,835 | 70.42 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Richard Meredith | 643 | 46.22 | ||
Independent | James Dupré Lance | 611 | 43.92 | ||
Liberal | John George Knight | 137 | 9.84 | ||
Majority | 38 | 2.73 | |||
Turnout | 1,391 | 55.90 | |||
Registered electors | 2,488 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | John Verrall | 234 | 33.86 | +21.67 | |
Independent | Alfred Saunders | 232 | 33.57 | ||
Independent | Marmaduke Dixon [24] [25] | 225 | 32.56 | ||
Majority | 2 | 0.29 | −27.21 | ||
Turnout | 691 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | William Fisher Pearson | 501 | 57.65 | −25.28 | |
Independent | Robert Luke Higgins | 262 | 30.15 | ||
Independent | John Verrall | 106 | 12.20 | ||
Majority | 239 | 27.50 | −38.36 | ||
Turnout | 869 | 58.96 | 25.03 | ||
Registered electors | 1,474 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | William Fisher Pearson | 413 | 82.93 | +38.01 | |
Independent | Peter Duncan | 85 | 17.07 | ||
Majority | 328 | 65.86 | +44.51 | ||
Turnout | 498 | 33.92 | −25.18 | ||
Registered electors | 1,468 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | William Fisher Pearson | 385 | 44.92 | ||
Independent | James Guild | 202 | 23.57 | ||
Independent | Marmaduke Dixon | 158 | 18.44 | ||
Independent | James Alexander Cunningham | 104 | 12.14 | +3.44 | |
Independent | William Patterson | 8 | 0.93 | ||
Majority | 183 | 21.35 | 11.61 | ||
Turnout | 857 | 59.10 | |||
Registered electors | 1,450 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | William Sefton Moorhouse | 337 | 50.52 | ||
Independent | Walpole Cheshire Fendall | 272 | 40.78 | ||
Independent | James Alexander Cunningham | 58 | 8.70 | ||
Majority | 65 | 9.75 | −5.72 | ||
Informal votes | |||||
Turnout | 686 | ||||
Registered electors |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | John Evans Brown | 265 | 57.73 | +4.30 | |
Independent | William Miles Maskell | 194 | 42.27 | +21.33 | |
Majority | 71 | 15.47 | −12.34 | ||
Turnout | 459 | ||||
Registered electors |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | John Evans Brown | 171 | 53.44 | ||
Independent | Albert Charles Gray | 82 | 25.63 | ||
Independent | William Miles Maskell | 67 | 20.94 | ||
Majority | 89 | 27.81 | |||
Turnout | 320 | ||||
Registered electors |
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