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The Auckland City mayoral election, 1977 was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1977, 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 Dove-Myer Robinson was re-elected seeing off a challenges from Labour Party candidate Jim Anderton, former councillor Colin Kay and Citizens & Ratepayers nominee Mel Tronson.
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.
James Patrick Anderton was a New Zealand politician who led a succession of left-wing parties after leaving the Labour Party in 1989.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Independent | Dove-Myer Robinson | 17,773 | 42.66 | -6.89 | |
Labour | Jim Anderton | 12,140 | 29.14 | -2.76 | |
Independent | Colin Kay | 7,340 | 17.61 | ||
Citizens & Ratepayers | Mel Tronson | 4,266 | 10.24 | ||
Independent | Matthew Connor | 150 | 0.36 | ||
Majority | 5,633 | 13.52 | |||
Turnout | 41,659 | 40.32 | -3.12 | ||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Citizens & Ratepayers | Norman Ambler | 23,073 | 55.38 | +2.46 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers | Sue Picot | 22,891 | 54.94 | ||
Citizens & Ratepayers | Sheila Marie Horton | 22,780 | 54.68 | +3.68 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers | Paddy Walker | 22,161 | 53.19 | +5.39 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers | Jolyon Firth | 22,092 | 53.03 | +2.00 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers | Harold Goodman | 21,981 | 52.76 | ||
Citizens & Ratepayers | Walter Stevens | 21,140 | 50.74 | +1.34 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers | Ian McKinnon | 20,736 | 49.77 | +1.24 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers | Clive Edwards | 20,642 | 49.54 | ||
Labour | Catherine Tizard | 20,576 | 49.39 | +1.77 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers | Rev. Selwyn Dawson | 20,056 | 48.14 | +3.27 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers | Gordon Barnaby | 20,039 | 48.10 | +1.81 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers | Hilton James Barrett | 20,029 | 48.07 | ||
Citizens & Ratepayers | Max Tongue | 19,356 | 46.46 | ||
Citizens & Ratepayers | Emmett Charles Keenan | 18,909 | 45.38 | ||
Citizens & Ratepayers | Trevor Rogers | 18,721 | 44.93 | ||
Citizens & Ratepayers | Herbert Dyer | 18,687 | 44.85 | ||
Citizens & Ratepayers | Maxwell Johnson | 18,594 | 44.63 | ||
Citizens & Ratepayers | Cec Field | 18,348 | 44.04 | +4.86 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers | Bob Johnson | 17,701 | 42.49 | ||
Citizens & Ratepayers | Roland Edward Barnes | 16,580 | 39.79 | ||
Citizens & Ratepayers | William Clark | 16,580 | 39.79 | -1.58 | |
Labour | Helen Clark | 16,475 | 39.54 | +3.57 | |
Labour | Alex Dreaver | 15,297 | 36.71 | +0.20 | |
Labour | Margaret Wilson | 15,084 | 36.20 | ||
Labour | Richard Northey | 14,294 | 34.31 | +0.32 | |
Labour | Maisie Fitton | 13,750 | 33.00 | ||
Labour | Glenda Joy Fryer | 13,684 | 32.84 | ||
Labour | Felicity Christine Lynch | 13,475 | 32.34 | ||
Labour | Brian Francis Healy | 13,122 | 31.49 | +3.62 | |
Labour | Sofi Pua | 13,081 | 31.40 | ||
Labour | Audie Cooke-Pennefather | 12,911 | 30.99 | ||
Labour | Helena Rae Philson | 12,872 | 30.89 | ||
Labour | Elsa J. Smith | 12,790 | 30.70 | ||
Labour | John Clearwater | 12,563 | 30.15 | ||
Labour | Audrey Marion Sharp | 12,512 | 30.03 | ||
Labour | Michael Roger Stenson | 12,364 | 29.67 | +0.48 | |
Labour | Michael Joseph Gourley | 12,351 | 29.64 | ||
Labour | Graeme Mark Hansen | 12,344 | 29.63 | ||
Labour | Sydney Jackson | 12,040 | 28.90 | ||
Labour | Cecil David Vinson Perkins | 11,395 | 27.35 | ||
Independent | Matthew Connor | 7,429 | 17.83 | ||
Socialist Unity | Bill Andersen | 3,513 | 8.43 | +1.89 | |
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