Otahuhu (New Zealand electorate)

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Otahuhu is a former New Zealand parliamentary electorate in the southern suburbs of the city of Auckland, from 1938 to 1963, and then from 1972 to 1984.

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The 1931 New Zealand census had been cancelled due to the Great Depression, so the 1937 electoral redistribution had to take ten years of population growth into account. The increasing population imbalance between the North and South Islands had slowed, and only one electorate seat was transferred from south to north. Five electorates were abolished, one former electorate (Onehunga) was re-established, and four electorates were created for the first time, including Otahuhu. [1]

For the purposes of the country quota, the 1936 census had determined that some 30% of the population lived in urban areas, and the balance in rural areas. [2] Since the 1969 election, the number of electorates in the South Island was fixed at 25, with continued faster population growth in the North Island leading to an increase in the number of general electorates. There were 84 electorates for the 1969 election, [3] and the 1972 electoral redistribution saw three additional general seats created for the North Island, bringing the total number of electorates to 87. [4] Together with increased urbanisation in Christchurch and Nelson, the changes proved very disruptive to existing electorates. [4] In the South Island, three electorates were abolished, and three electorates were newly created. [5] In the North Island, five electorates were abolished, two electorates were recreated (including Otahuhu), and six electorates were newly created. [6]

The Otahuhu electorate was located in the south of Auckland. Settlements that fell into the initial Otahuhu electorate were Howick, Papatoetoe, Mangere, Manurewa, and Brookby. [7]

History

The first representative, elected in 1938, was Charles Robert Petrie. In the previous parliamentary term, Petrie had represented the Hauraki electorate, which then had covered the South Auckland suburbs. [8] [9] Petrie retired in 1949. [8]

In the 1963 general election the seat was abolished and Bob Tizard stood in Pakuranga, so only represented Otahuhu from 16 March (after a by-election due to the death of James Deas) to 29 October 1963. He later returned to the seat when it was reconstituted. When it was abolished in 1984, he stood in Panmure.

Members of Parliament

Key

  Labour     National   

ElectionWinner
1938 election Charles Robert Petrie
1943 election
1946 election
1949 election Leon Götz
1951 election
1954 election James Deas
1957 election
1960 election
1963 by-election Bob Tizard
(Electorate abolished 1963–1972; see Pakuranga)
1972 election Bob Tizard (2nd period)
1975 election
1978 election
1981 election
(Electorate abolished in 1984; see Panmure)

Election results

1981 election

1981 general election: Otahuhu [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Bob Tizard 8,803 56.12 -0.98
National Stuart McDowell3,63923.20
Social Credit Ken Harris3,18920.33
Socialist Unity Ella Ayo540.34+0.20
Majority5,16432.92-2.35
Turnout 15,68582.77+25.17
Registered electors 18,950

1978 election

1978 general election: Otahuhu [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Bob Tizard 8,896 57.10 +1.30
National Ray Ah Chee4,13426.53
Social Credit Ken Harris2,28814.68
Values I M Johnson2361.51
Socialist Unity Ella Ayo230.14
Majority4,76230.57-6.68
Turnout 15,57757.60-19.10
Registered electors 27,041

1975 election

1975 general election: Otahuhu [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Bob Tizard 8,838 55.80 -12.55
National Lois Morris5,05331.90
Social Credit Patrick Ford1,0206.44
Values Peter Johnston8795.54
Socialist Unity Barbara Miller260.16
Independent Joseph Erwin Moosman220.13-0.25
Majority3,78523.89-20.35
Turnout 15,83876.70-10.43
Registered electors 20,648

1972 election

1972 general election: Otahuhu [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Bob Tizard 9,891 68.35
National D C Brooker3,48824.10
Social Credit E R James9356.46
New Democratic Catherine Mary Langstone1010.69
Independent Joseph Erwin Moosman560.38
Majority6,40344.24
Turnout 14,47187.13
Registered electors 16,608

1963 by-election

1963 Otahuhu by-election [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Bob Tizard 6,108 63.07
National Thomas Tucker3,45035.64-3.69
Communist Stan Hieatt1251.29+0.60
Majority2,65827.45
Turnout 9,68351.10-39.89
Registered electors 18,947
Labour hold Swing

1960 election

1960 general election: Otahuhu [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour James Deas 9,247 56.19 -2.82
National Thomas Tucker6,47339.33
Social Credit Allan Donovan6223.77
Communist Stan Hieatt1140.69
Majority2,77416.85-5.90
Turnout 16,45690.99-3.74
Registered electors 18,084

1957 election

1957 general election: Otahuhu [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour James Deas 8,927 59.01 +7.15
National Clive Haszard5,48536.26
Social Credit Frederick Coles Jordan7144.72-0.84
Majority3,44222.75+11.28
Turnout 15,12694.73+1.63
Registered electors 15,966

1954 election

1954 general election: Otahuhu [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour James Deas 8,162 51.86 +8.04
National Leonard Bradley6,35640.38
Social Credit Frederick Coles Jordan8755.56
Independent Rita Violet Fulljames3442.18
Majority1,80611.47
Turnout 15,73793.10+1.39
Registered electors 16,902

1951 election

1951 general election: Otahuhu [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
National Leon Götz 9,668 56.18 +2.13
Labour James Deas 7,54043.82
Majority2,12812.36+4.26
Turnout 17,20891.71-3.82
Registered electors 18,762

1949 election

1949 general election: Otahuhu [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
National Leon Götz 8,493 54.05
Labour Alex Dixon7,21845.95
Majority1,2758.10
Turnout 15,71195.53+1.35
Registered electors 16,445

1946 election

1946 general election: Otahuhu [13]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Charles Robert Petrie 6,957 50.81 +3.89
National Albert Murdoch6,73749.19
Majority2201.60-1.88
Turnout 13,69494.18+5.24
Registered electors 14,539

1943 election

1943 general election: Otahuhu [14] [15]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Charles Robert Petrie 6,251 46.92 -11.95
National Gordon Hamilton5,78743.43
Democratic Labour Clare Jowsey8116.08
Real Democracy Cyril James Mahon 3452.58
Informal votes1280.96+0.66
Majority4643.48-15.53
Turnout 13,32288.94-4.82
Registered electors 14,977

1938 election

1938 general election: Otahuhu [16]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Charles Robert Petrie 7,020 58.87
National Kenneth Tennent4,75339.86
Informal votes360.30
Majority2,26719.01
Turnout 11,92493.76
Registered electors 12,717

Notes

  1. ↑ McRobie 1989, pp. 87–92.
  2. ↑ McRobie 1989, p. 91.
  3. ↑ McRobie 1989, p. 111.
  4. 1 2 McRobie 1989, p. 115.
  5. ↑ McRobie 1989, pp. 112, 116.
  6. ↑ McRobie 1989, pp. 111, 115.
  7. ↑ McRobie 1989, p. 90.
  8. 1 2 Wilson 1985, p. 226.
  9. ↑ McRobie 1989, p. 86.
  10. 1 2 3 4 Norton 1988, p. 301.
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 Norton 1988, p. 300.
  12. ↑ "The General Election, 1949". National Library. 1950. pp. 1–5, 8. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
  13. ↑ "The General Election, 1946". National Library. 1947. pp. 1–11, 14. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  14. ↑ "The General Election, 1943". National Library. 1944. p. 11. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
  15. ↑ "Electoral". The New Zealand Herald . Vol. 80, no. 24713. 13 October 1943. p. 5. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
  16. ↑ "The General Election, 1938". National Library. 1939. pp. 1–6. Retrieved 8 February 2012.

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