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1919 Auckland City mayoral election

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1919 Auckland City mayoral election

← 1917 30 April 1919 1921 →
 
Candidate James Gunson
Party Citizens
Popular vote unopposed

Mayor before election

James Gunson

Elected mayor

James Gunson

The 1919 Auckland City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1919, 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.

Incumbent mayor James Gunson was declared re-elected unopposed, with no other candidates emerging.[1]

Councillor results

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1919 Auckland City Council election[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Citizens Andrew Entrican 5,549 67.87 −4.24
Citizens Ellen Melville 5,210 63.42 +1.65
Citizens Harold D. Heather 4,896 59.30 −0.99
Citizens William Holdsworth 4,808 58.14 −0.94
Labour Tom Bloodworth 4,798 58.01
Independent Ernest Davis 4,754 57.43 +4.18
Citizens Horatio Bagnall 4,681 56.47 +6.62
Citizens Emily Maguire 4,680 56.46
Citizens George Knight 4,631 55.82 −0.08
Citizens James Alexander Warnock 4,557 54.85 −1.58
Citizens Patrick Nerheny 4,551 54.77 −7.06
Citizens Peter Mitchell Mackay 4,380 52.52 0.98
Labour Michael Joseph Savage 4,338 51.97
Citizens George Baildon 4,188 50.01 −5.10
Citizens John Burton 4,134 49.29 −5.27
Citizens John Dempsey 4,133 49.28 +7.36
Citizens John Barr Paterson 4,104 48.90 +5.64
Citizens Alfred Hall-Skelton 4,047 48.15 +0.11
Labour George Davis 3,781 44.65
Citizens Jonathan Trevethick 3,488 40.81 −4.82
Citizens Frederick Brinsden 3,486 40.78 −12.04
Independent James Francis Hosking 3,412 39.81 −8.89
Labour Ted Phelan 3,275 38.01
Labour Robert Frederick Way 3,067 35.28
Labour Oscar McBrine 3,048 35.03
Labour James Horace Mortenson 2,819 32.02
Labour William Moxsom 2,806 31.85
Labour Bernard Martin 2,802 31.80
Citizens Paul Richardson 2,786 31.59
Citizens William Augustus Thompson 2,781 31.52 −0.13
Labour James Aggers 2,771 31.39
Labour Peter Fraser Cooper 2,687 30.29
Labour Charles Arthur Watts 2,671 30.08
Labour John Douglas Robertson 2,519 28.08
Labour Jim Purtell 2,463 27.34
Labour James Frederick Derrick 2,452 27.20
Labour James Coswill 2,401 26.53
Labour Alfred Jackson 2,370 26.12
Labour George Thomas Jones 2,345 25.79
Independent Percy McElwain 2,296 25.15 −12.61
Independent George William Murray 2,276 24.89
Labour Henry Buckler 2,248 24.52
Independent Arthur Rose 2,130 22.97 −17.90
Independent Ernest George Lilly 2,063 22.09
Independent Thomas Buxton 1,927 20.30
Labour Arthur Rosser 1,830 19.03
Independent James Joiner 1,008 8.23
Independent John Jolly Thomas 836 5.97
Independent Robert Richmond 616 3.09

References

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  1. ^ "Election of Mayor". Vol. XXXIX, no. 34. Observer. 26 April 1919. p. 22. Retrieved 6 December 2017.
  2. ^ "Electoral". Vol. LVI, no. 17157. The New Zealand Herald. 10 May 1919. p. 12. Retrieved 6 December 2017.