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The Auckland City mayoral election, 1968 was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1968, 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.
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.
Incumbent Mayor Roy McElroy of the Citizens & Ratepayers ticket was defeated by his predecessor Dove-Myer Robinson. Labour Party councillor George Forsyth ran again for a second time, however he was refused official party endorsement as Labour officials preferred Robinson as Mayor to McElroy and thought fielding their own candidate would allow McElroy to be re-elected on a split vote. Robinson's promise of a "rapid rail" system to ease Auckland's mounting traffic problems was a major talking point. A new ticket, the Civic Action Party was set up as an anti-rapid rail group, some of whose members were former local body politicians. [1]
Roy Granville McElroy was a New Zealand lawyer and politician, who served as mayor of Auckland City from 1965 to 1968.
Sir Dove-Myer Robinson was Mayor of Auckland City from 1959 to 1965 and from 1968 to 1980, the longest tenure of any holder of the office. He was a colourful character and became affectionately known across New Zealand as "Robbie". He was one of several Jewish mayors of Auckland, although he rejected Judaism as a teenager and became a lifelong atheist. He has been described as a "slight, bespectacled man whose tiny stature was offset by a booming voice and massive ego".
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.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Independent | Dove-Myer Robinson | 18,484 | 57.53 | ||
Citizens & Ratepayers | Roy McElroy | 12,512 | 38.94 | ||
Independent Labour | George Forsyth | 1,132 | 3.53 | ||
Majority | 5,972 | 18.58 | |||
Turnout | 32,128 | 45.14 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Citizens & Ratepayers | Eric Armishaw | 20,817 | 64.79 | +22.62 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers | Arapeta Awatere | 20,271 | 63.09 | +2.08 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers | Sir Keith Park | 20,218 | 62.92 | +3.48 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers | Lincoln Laidlaw | 19,208 | 59.78 | ||
Citizens & Ratepayers | Winifred Delugar | 19,071 | 59.35 | +8.08 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers | Alfred Glasse | 18,443 | 57.40 | +1.28 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers | Max Tongue | 18,226 | 56.72 | +5.61 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers | John Dale | 17,678 | 55.02 | -1.58 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers | Winifred Holland | 17,635 | 54.88 | ||
Citizens & Ratepayers | Harold Watts | 16,543 | 51.49 | -0.97 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers | Ian McKinnon | 16,497 | 51.34 | -5.87 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers | Mel Tronson | 15,652 | 48.71 | -2.37 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers | Eric Percy Salmon | 15,427 | 48.01 | ||
Independent | Fred Ambler | 15,164 | 47.19 | +0.94 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers | George Russell Tutt | 14,583 | 45.39 | -1.99 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers | Lindo Ferguson | 14,446 | 44.96 | ||
Citizens & Ratepayers | Jolyon Firth | 14,357 | 44.68 | ||
Citizens & Ratepayers | Alan Alcorn | 14,337 | 44.62 | ||
Labour | Alex Dreaver | 13,772 | 42.86 | +5.91 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers | William Clark | 13,687 | 42.60 | -6.13 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers | Thomas Roy Sussex | 13,374 | 41.62 | -0.11 | |
Civic Action | Allan Tattersfield | 13,347 | 41.54 | ||
Citizens & Ratepayers | Raymond George Watkins | 12,778 | 39.77 | ||
Civic Action | Ngapere Hopa | 11,451 | 35.64 | ||
Citizens & Ratepayers | Matiu te Hau | 11,396 | 35.47 | ||
Civic Action | Paul Cavanagh | 11,393 | 35.46 | ||
Labour | Graham Neil Caldwell | 10,771 | 33.52 | ||
Labour | Roy Turner | 10,721 | 33.36 | ||
Civic Action | Michael Hart | 10,701 | 33.30 | ||
Independent Labour | George Forsyth | 10,444 | 32.50 | ||
Civic Action | Warwick Watts | 10,302 | 32.06 | ||
Civic Action | Charles Harris | 10,002 | 31.13 | ||
Labour | Thomas Edward Price | 9,479 | 29.50 | ||
Civic Action | Terrence Way | 9,085 | 28.27 | ||
Labour | Richard Northey | 8,228 | 25.61 | ||
Labour | Edward Arthur Scott | 7,688 | 23.92 | ||
Independent | Albert Edward Bailey | 7,620 | 23.71 | ||
Citizens & Ratepayers | Ante Mate Katavich | 7,380 | 22.97 | ||
Civic Action | Joseph Stanley | 6,993 | 21.76 | ||
Labour | Graeme Philip Peters | 6,846 | 21.30 | ||
Civic Action | Herbert Romaniuk | 6,716 | 20.90 | ||
Civic Action | Nonu Lelaulu | 6,441 | 20.04 | ||
Socialist Unity | Rita Smith | 4,937 | 15.36 | ||
Socialist Unity | Bill Andersen | 4,596 | 14.30 | ||
Socialist Unity | George Jackson | 4,443 | 13.82 | ||
Socialist Unity | Harry Alexander Ostler | 2,839 | 8.83 | ||
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