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The 1923 Wellington City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1923, elections were held for the Mayor of Wellington plus other local government positions including fifteen city councillors. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.
Incumbent mayor Robert Wright was narrowly re-elected for a second term seeing off a strong challenge from local Labour MP Peter Fraser, the closest election result Wellington had ever seen. [1] It would remain the narrowest Mayoral election in Wellington until 2010.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Civic League | Robert Wright | 10,876 | 42.30 | -23.30 | |
| Labour | Peter Fraser | 10,603 | 41.24 | ||
| Independent | Len McKenzie | 4,228 | 16.44 | ||
| Majority | 273 | 1.06 | -29.60 | ||
| Turnout | 25,707 | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Civic League | George Mitchell | 14,375 | 55.91 | ||
| Civic League | William Gaudin | 13,174 | 51.24 | -2.90 | |
| Civic League | Henry Bennett | 12,748 | 49.58 | ||
| Civic League | William Bennett | 12,674 | 49.30 | -4.22 | |
| Civic League | Martin Luckie | 12,468 | 48.50 | -3.38 | |
| Civic League | Thomas Forsyth | 12,377 | 48.14 | -2.76 | |
| Civic League | Benjamin Burn | 12,087 | 47.01 | ||
| Civic League | John Burns | 11,838 | 46.04 | +0.75 | |
| Civic League | Frank Meadowcroft | 11,798 | 45.89 | +22.98 | |
| Labour | Charles Henry Chapman | 11,375 | 44.24 | +8.51 | |
| Civic League | John Aston | 10,830 | 42.12 | ||
| Civic League | William Thompson | 10,782 | 41.94 | -2.19 | |
| Labour | Alec Monteith | 10,306 | 40.09 | +9.65 | |
| Civic League | Alexander Parton | 10,152 | 39.49 | +5.34 | |
| Civic League | Annie McVicar | 10,060 | 39.13 | +1.66 | |
| Labour | Robert McKeen | 9,911 | 38.55 | +17.58 | |
| Labour | Alexander Croskery | 9,898 | 38.50 | +10.36 | |
| Civic League | Herbert Huggins | 9,603 | 37.35 | ||
| Civic League | Colin Crump | 9,563 | 37.19 | ||
| Labour | John Glover | 9,509 | 36.98 | +5.82 | |
| Labour | Tom Young | 9,302 | 36.18 | +8.03 | |
| Labour | James McKenzie | 8,754 | 34.05 | +7.92 | |
| Labour | Tom Brindle | 8,519 | 33.13 | +3.99 | |
| Independent | John Castle | 8,234 | 32.03 | ||
| Labour | Michael Walsh | 7,947 | 30.91 | +5.63 | |
| Independent | Lewis Glover | 7,473 | 29.06 | ||
| Independent | Harold Dyson | 7,107 | 27.64 | ||
| Independent | Clarence Snow | 7,056 | 27.44 | ||
| Labour | Walter Bromley | 6,971 | 27.11 | ||
| Labour | Laurence Hennessy | 6,907 | 26.86 | ||
| Independent | Joseph Trim | 6,535 | 25.42 | ||
| Independent | James Doherty | 4,344 | 16.89 | ||
| Independent | Andrew Hornblow | 4,304 | 16.74 | +3.10 | |
| Independent | George Baylis | 3,714 | 14.44 | -2.81 | |
| Independent | Henry Bodley | 3,533 | 13.74 | ||
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