1931 Auckland City mayoral election

1931 Auckland City mayoral election
Turnout	21,634 (44.87%)
Mayor before election; George Baildon;	Elected Mayor ; George Hutchison;

The 1931 Auckland City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1931, elections were held for the

first-past-the-post

electoral method.

Mayoralty results

1931 Auckland mayoral election^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Citizens Committee	George Hutchison	12,799	59.16
	Labour	Rex Mason	8,598	39.74
Informal votes			237	1.09	-0.17
Majority			4,201	19.41
Turnout			21,634	44.87

Councillor results

1931 Auckland local election^[1]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Citizens Committee	George Grey Campbell	11,966	55.31	+26.01
Citizens Committee	Harold Percy Burton	11,371	52.56	+27.71
Citizens Committee	Dawson Donaldson	11,029	50.97	+26.63
Citizens Committee	Leonard Coakley	10,902	50.39
Citizens Committee	Andrew Entrican	10,659	49.26	+13.83
Citizens Committee	Harry Jenkins	10,571	48.86
Citizens Committee	James Robertson	10,510	48.58
Citizens Committee	Matthew John Bennett	10,440	48.25	+17.60
Citizens Committee	Michael John Coyle	10,367	47.91	+22.66
Citizens Committee	Francis Leonard	10,298	47.60
Independent	Tom Bloodworth	10,241	47.33	-2.94
Citizens Committee	Ellen Melville	10,179	47.05	+17.88
Labour	Ted Phelan	10,169	47.00	+14.94
Independent	John Barr Patterson	9,929	45.89	+20.55
Citizens Committee	Alice Basten	9,902	45.77	+17.15
Independent	Walter Harry Murray	9,525	44.02	+6.73
Citizens Committee	Gideon Lawrence Taylor	9,367	43.29
Labour	Fred Bartram	9,215	42.59	+12.67
Independent	James Donald	8,975	41.48	+12.16
Citizens Committee	David Henry	8,879	41.04
Labour	Bernard Martin	8,501	39.29	+23.63
Citizens Committee	Robert Gracie Milligan	8,441	39.01
Independent	George McKendrick	8,351	38.60
Independent	George Brownlee	8,341	38.55	+8.76
Labour	John Thomas Jennings	8,319	38.45	+22.61
Citizens Committee	John Allum	8,100	37.44	+13.38
Independent	William Lang Casey	8,072	37.31	+7.64
Citizens Committee	Harold Tahana Thomas	7,903	36.53
Citizens Committee	Herbert Bellam	7,867	36.36	+16.20
Independent	John Lundon	7,799	36.04	+8.93
Labour	Arthur Rosser	7,568	34.98
Labour	Ernest Frank Andrews	7,545	34.87
Labour	Charles Arthur Watts	7,231	33.42
Labour	Joe Sayegh	6,548	30.26
Labour	Gordon Hultquist	6,345	29.32

References

^ ^a ^b "Local Body Elections". Vol. LXII, no. 110. The New Zealand Herald. 12 May 1931. p. 18. Retrieved 26 August 2017.

[Mayoralty-1] "Local Body Elections". Vol. LXII, no. 110. The New Zealand Herald. 12 May 1931. p. 18. Retrieved 26 August 2017.

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