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The 1962 Lower Hutt mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. The elections were held for the role of Mayor of Lower Hutt plus other local government positions including fifteen city councillors, also elected triennially. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.
The incumbent Mayor, Percy Dowse, sought re-election for a fifth term. Dowse was opposed by the deputy mayor George Llewellyn Barker who stood as an independent candidate. Barker had been a councillor and member of the Wellington Harbour Board since 1959 and had recently contested the parliamentary seat of Hutt at the 1960 election for the National Party. Just as in the previous two elections the Citizens' Association did not stand an official ticket of candidates and endorsed a slate of independents. The Ratepayer Independents lost all but three seats with the Labour Party regaining their majority on the council. [1] The main issue of the previous election was the council's finances with Dowse criticised over a NZ£75,000 loan for the second stage of the Maungaraki development. Since then the financial situation had been evaluated and the City Treasurer's report in April 1961 established that the council's accounts were healthy with the Ratepayer Independents criticisms being over-exaggerated. This news helped Dowse and Labour make a strong comeback in the election. [2]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Labour | Percy Dowse | 8,367 | 61.58 | +1.07 | |
| Independent | George Barker | 5,137 | 37.81 | ||
| Informal votes | 82 | 0.60 | -1.93 | ||
| Majority | 3,230 | 23.77 | +0.21 | ||
| Turnout | 13,586 | 45.28 | +6.46 | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Labour | Trevor Young | 7,554 | 55.60 | -14.84 | |
| Labour | Sam Chesney | 7,391 | 54.40 | +0.64 | |
| Labour | Chen Werry | 7,144 | 52.58 | -15.14 | |
| Labour | Jessie Donald | 7,114 | 52.36 | -14.96 | |
| Labour | Joe Aspell | 6,850 | 50.41 | ||
| Labour | Alexander Campbell | 6,595 | 48.54 | ||
| Labour | Walter Gordon Bugden | 6,587 | 48.48 | -16.18 | |
| Labour | Walter Fraser | 6,525 | 48.02 | -0.53 | |
| Labour | Wally Mildenhall | 6,524 | 48.02 | -1.79 | |
| Independent | John Kennedy-Good | 6,415 | 47.21 | ||
| Independent | Ted Holdaway | 6,185 | 45.52 | ||
| Labour | William Harvey | 6,179 | 45.48 | ||
| Labour | Bert Sutherland | 6,149 | 45.25 | -2.41 | |
| Labour | William Mouat McLaren | 5,920 | 43.57 | -2.82 | |
| Independent | Dave Hadley | 5,867 | 43.18 | -8.67 | |
| Independent | James Roderick Murray | 5,864 | 43.16 | ||
| Independent | Stan Frost | 5,709 | 42.02 | ||
| Independent | Donald Marshall Wilson | 5,693 | 41.90 | -11.51 | |
| Independent Labour | James McDonald | 5,685 | 41.84 | -27.31 | |
| Independent | Cyril Phelps | 5,642 | 41.52 | -15.08 | |
| Labour | Allan Patrick Ryan | 5,574 | 41.02 | -1.82 | |
| Independent | Don Lee | 5,572 | 41.01 | ||
| Independent | Harold George Cole | 5,510 | 40.55 | ||
| Independent | Hugh McKinnon Smith | 5,451 | 40.12 | ||
| Independent | James Kawarau Horn | 5,442 | 40.05 | ||
| Labour | Joseph Stanislaus O'Brien | 5,436 | 40.01 | -1.14 | |
| Independent | Keith Lewis Thomas | 5,334 | 39.26 | -13.39 | |
| Labour | Morris Gordon Castree | 5,132 | 37.77 | ||
| Independent | Alwin Atkinson | 4,829 | 35.54 | -23.89 | |
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