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Waitemata (New Zealand electorate)

Waitemata was a New Zealand parliamentary electorate, from 1871 to 1946, and then from 1954 to 1978. It was represented by 18 members of parliament.

Population centres

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The Waitemata electorate was created in the 1870 electoral redistribution based on 1867 New Zealand census data and was used in its initial form for the 1871 election.[1] It was located north of the various urban Auckland electorates and south of the Rodney electorate.[2] The following settlements were included in its initial area: Cornwallis, Huia, Parau, Laingholm, Titirangi, Waiatarua, Oratia, Piha, Henderson Valley, Swanson, Rānui, Waitākere township, Taupaki, Kumeū, Hobsonville, Whenuapai, Takapuna, and Helensville.[2]

The First Labour Government was defeated in the 1949 election and the incoming National Government changed the Electoral Act, with the electoral quota once again based on total population as opposed to qualified electors, and the tolerance was increased to 7.5% of the electoral quota. There was no adjustments in the number of electorates between the South and North Islands, but the law changes resulted in boundary adjustments to almost every electorate through the 1952 electoral redistribution; only five electorates were unaltered.[3] Five electorates were reconstituted (including Waitemata) and one was newly created, and a corresponding six electorates were abolished; all of these in the North Island.[4] These changes took effect with the 1954 election.[5]

History

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The electorate existed from 1871 to 1946, and from 1954 to 1978.[6]

Early members were Thomas Henderson 1871–1874 (resigned),[7] Gustav von der Heyde 1874–1875 (unseated on petition),[8] John Sangster Macfarlane 1876–1879 (defeated),[9] Reader Wood 1879–1881 (retired),[10] William John Hurst 1881–1886 (died),[11] Richard Monk 1886–1890 (defeated),[12] and Jackson Palmer 1890–1893 (defeated).[13]

The election of Richard Monk, who stood again in 1893, was declared invalid.[12] From 1894 to 1896 Waitemata was held by future Prime Minister William Massey, until he transferred to Franklin.[14] Richard Monk held the electorate for the period 1896–1902.[12] The seat was then held by Ewen Alison from 1902 to 1908,[15] Leonard Phillips from 1908 to 1911,[16] and Alexander Harris from 1911 to 1935.[17]

In 1946 Henry Thorne Morton, who had held the seat from 1943, was defeated for North Shore.[18]

Members of Parliament

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Waitemata was represented by 18 Members of Parliament.[6]

Key

  Independent   Independent Liberal   Conservative   Reform   Labour   National

Election Winner
1871 election Thomas Henderson
1st 1874 by-election Gustav von der Heyde
2nd 1874 by-election
1876 election John Macfarlane
1879 election Reader Wood
1881 election William Hurst
1884 election
1886 by-election Richard Monk
1887 election
1890 election Jackson Palmer
1893 election Richard Monk
1894 by-election William Massey
1896 election Richard Monk
1899 election
1902 election Ewen Alison
1905 election
1908 election Leonard Phillips
1911 election Alexander Harris
1914 election
1919 election
1922 election
1925 election
1928 election
1931 election
1935 election Jack Lyon
1938 election
1941 by-election Mary Dreaver
1943 election Henry Morton
(electorate abolished 1946–1954, see North Shore)
1954 election Norman King
1957 election
1960 election
1963 election
1966 election
1969 election Frank Gill
1972 election Michael Bassett
1975 election Dail Jones
(electorate abolished 1978, see Helensville)

Election results

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1975 election

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1975 general election: Waitemata[19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
National Dail Jones 8,965 46.94
Labour Michael Bassett 7,580 36.69 −17.21
Social Credit Gordon McCormick 1,460 7.64 −0.38
Values Steve Covacich 1,046 5.47
Independent Gordon Bree 44 0.23
Majority 1,385 7.25
Turnout 19,095 77.75 −10.91
Registered electors 24,557

1972 election

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1972 general election: Waitemata[19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Michael Bassett 8,083 53.90 +10.91
National Ray La Varis 5,539 36.93
Social Credit Gordon McCormick 1,203 8.02
New Democratic John Robert Neil 106 0.70
Liberal Reform Robert John Hannaford 65 0.43
Majority 2,544 16.96
Turnout 14,996 88.66 −1.72
Registered electors 16,913

1969 election

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1969 general election: Waitemata[19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
National Frank Gill 8,804 48.82
Labour Michael Bassett 7,752 42.99
Social Credit Alex Davidson 1,475 8.18
Majority 1,052 5.83
Turnout 18,031 90.38 +4.08
Registered electors 19,950

1966 election

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1966 general election: Waitemata[19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Norman King 11,624 53.09 −2.03
National Terry Power 7,792 35.59
Social Credit Joseph F. Richards 2,476 11.31
Majority 3,832 17.50 −0.89
Turnout 21,892 86.30 −2.24
Registered electors 25,365

1963 election

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1963 general election: Waitemata[19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Norman King 9,686 55.12 +5.30
National Butch Pugh 6,767 38.51
Social Credit Byrt Jordan 954 5.42 −0.91
Communist Basil James Holmes 164 0.93
Majority 2,919 16.61 −9.88
Turnout 17,571 88.54 −2.60
Registered electors 19,845

1960 election

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1960 general election: Waitemata[19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Norman King 9,241 49.82 −3.70
National Jolyon Firth 7,992 43.09
Social Credit Byrt Jordan 1,174 6.33 +0.01
Communist Hugh John McLeod 139 0.74
Majority 1,249 6.73 −6.64
Turnout 18,546 91.14 −3.69
Registered electors 20,348

1957 election

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1957 general election: Waitemata[19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Norman King 8,771 53.52 +6.99
National Robert Muldoon 6,580 40.15
Social Credit Byrt Jordan 1,036 6.32 −3.09
Majority 2,191 13.37 +10.89
Turnout 16,387 94.83 +3.20
Registered electors 17,280

1954 election

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1954 general election: Waitemata[19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Norman King 7,234 46.53
National Hubert Morrison 6,847 44.04
Social Credit Byrt Jordan 1,463 9.41
Majority 387 2.48
Turnout 15,544 91.63
Registered electors 16,963

1943 election

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1943 general election: Waitemata[20]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
National Henry Morton 6,451 42.22
Labour Mary Dreaver 6,130 40.12 −4.76
Democratic Labour Karl Benjamin Ansley 976 6.38
Independent William C. Hewitt 204 1.33
Informal votes 127 0.83 +0.10
Majority 321 2.10
Turnout 15,277 94.62
Registered electors 16,144

1941 by-election

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1941 Waitemata by-election[21][22]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Mary Dreaver 4,396 44.88
Independent National William Brockway Darlow 3,884 39.65
Democratic Labour Norman Douglas 940 9.59
Independent Peter Robertson Gardner 414 4.22
Independent Henry Thomas Head 88 0.89
Informal votes 72 0.73 −0.14
Majority 512 5.22
Turnout 9,794

1938 election

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1938 general election: Waitemata[23]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Jack Lyon 7,806 57.95 +6.43
National John Ernest Close 5,545 41.16
Informal votes 118 0.87 −0.84
Majority 2,261 16.78 −4.24
Turnout 13,469 94.19 +2.31
Registered electors 14,299

1935 election

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1935 general election: Waitemata[24][25]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Jack Lyon 6,578 51.52
Independent Alexander Harris 3,894 30.50 −22.38
Democrat Alan Walter Donald 2,045 16.02
United John Guiniven 252 1.97
Majority 2,684 21.02 −1.46
Informal votes 222 1.71 +1.37
Turnout 12,991 91.88 +10.91
Registered electors 14,139

1931 election

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1931 general election: Waitemata[26]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Alexander Harris 5,593 52.88 +12.28
Labour Arthur Osborne 3,215 30.40 +8.85
United William Brockway Darlow[27] 1,769 16.72
Majority 2,378 22.48 +19.75
Informal votes 36 0.34 −0.28
Turnout 10,613 80.97 −4.87
Registered electors 13,107

1928 election

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1928 general election: Waitemata[28][29]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Alexander Harris 4,683 40.59 −17.24
United Reginald Henry Greville 4,368 37.86
Labour Arthur Osborne 2,485 21.54 −7.16
Majority 315 2.73 −26.40
Informal votes 72 0.62 +0.11
Turnout 11,608 85.84 −4.84
Registered electors 13,523

1925 election

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1925 general election: Waitemata[30]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Reform Alexander Harris 7,101 57.84 +11.74
Labour Arthur Osborne 3,524 28.70
Liberal Thomas Lamont 1,653 13.46
Majority 3,577 29.13 +16.36
Informal votes 63 0.51 −0.30
Turnout 12,341 90.68 +1.00
Registered electors 13,610

1922 election

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1922 general election: Waitemata[31][32]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Reform Alexander Harris 4,586 46.10 −12.34
Liberal Frank Henry Burbush 3,315 33.32
Labour Robert Frederick Way[33] 2,047 20.58
Majority 1,271 12.78 −4.11
Informal votes 81 0.81 −0.59
Turnout 10,029 89.67 +6.21
Registered electors 11,184

1919 election

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1919 general election: Waitemata[34]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Reform Alexander Harris 4,911 58.44 +2.65
Liberal Arthur Edwin Greenslade[35] 3,492 41.56
Majority 1,419 16.89 +5.31
Informal votes 119 1.40 +0.32
Turnout 8,522 83.46 −1.22
Registered electors 10,211

1914 election

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1914 general election: Waitemata[36]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Reform Alexander Harris 4,881 55.79 +2.98
Liberal Henry Cromwell Tewsley[37] 3,868 44.21
Majority 1,013 11.58 +5.96
Informal votes 95 1.07 +0.91
Turnout 8,844 84.68 +2.37
Registered electors 10,444

1911 election

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1911 general election: Waitemata, first ballot[38]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal William Joseph Napier 3,064 42.40 +0.01
Reform Alexander Harris 2,787 38.57
Independent Ewen Alison 1,375 19.03
Majority 277 3.83 −11.34
Informal votes 142 1.93
Turnout 7,368 83.64 +6.66
Registered electors 8,809
1911 general election: Waitemata, second ballot[39]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Reform Alexander Harris 3,823 52.81 +14.24
Liberal William Joseph Napier 3,416 47.19 4.79
Majority 407 5.62 +1.79
Informal votes 12 0.17 −1.76
Turnout 7,251 82.31 −1.33
Registered electors 8,809

1908 election

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1908 general election: Waitemata, first ballot[40]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Leonard Phillips 2,946 49.50
Liberal William Joseph Napier 2,059 34.59
Liberal Henry Wakeford Wilding 673 11.31
Independent Theophilus Wake 274 4.60
Majority 887 14.90 −3.47
Turnout 5,952 77.02 −8.03
Registered electors 7,728
1908 general election: Waitemata, second ballot[41]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Leonard Phillips 3,426 57.56 +8.06
Liberal William Joseph Napier 2,523 42.39 +7.80
Majority 903 15.17 +0.27
Turnout 5,949 76.98 −0.04
Registered electors 7,728

1905 election

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1905 general election: Waitemata[42]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Ewen Alison 3,128 59.19 +0.49
Liberal Cecil Clinkard 2,157 40.81
Majority 971 18.37 +0.98
Informal votes 84 1.56
Turnout 5,369 85.05 +14.02
Registered electors 6,313

1902 election

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1902 general election: Waitemata[43][44]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Ewen Alison 2,409 58.70
Liberal Alexander John Hatfield[45] 1,695 41.30
Majority 714 17.40 +3.92
Turnout 4,104 71.03 +2.53
Registered electors 5,778

1899 election

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1899 general election: Waitemata[46][47]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Richard Monk 1,713 51.29
Liberal Edwin Ford 1,263 37.81
Liberal Charles Newman 364 10.90
Majority 450 13.47
Turnout 3,340 68.50
Registered electors 4,876

1894 by-election

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1894 Waitemata by-election[48]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative William Massey 1,619 52.82
Independent Liberal Jackson Palmer 1,446 47.17
Majority 173 5.64
Turnout 3,065

1890 election

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1890 general election: Waitemata[49]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Liberal Jackson Palmer 752 53.22
Conservative Richard Monk 661 46.77
Majority 91 6.44
Turnout 1,413 39.92
Registered electors 3,539

1886 Waitemata by-election

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1886 Waitemata by-election[50][51][52]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Richard Monk 736 69.83
Independent Harry Farnall 312 29.60
Majority 424 40.23
Informal votes 6
Turnout 1054

September 1874 Waitemata by-election

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September 1874 Waitemata by-election[53]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Gustav von der Heyde 271 56.46
Independent John Sangster Macfarlane 209 43.53
Majority 62 12.92
Turnout 480

July 1874 Waitemata by-election

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July 1874 Waitemata by-election[54]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Gustav von der Heyde 287 54.77
Independent John Sangster Macfarlane 237 45.23
Majority 50 9.54
Turnout 524

Notes

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References

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