1974 Auckland City mayoral election
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The 1974 Auckland City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1974, elections were held for the
first-past-the-post
electoral method.
Background
Incumbent Mayor Dove-Myer Robinson was re-elected seeing off a challenge from Labour Party candidate Jim Anderton, who won a seat on the council despite losing the mayoralty. Grahame Sims, the retiring town clerk, ran for mayor and accused Robinson of being a Citizens & Ratepayers stooge. This followed the C&R deputy mayor Lindo Ferguson endorsing Robinson for the mayoralty. Sims called it "seat warming", insinuating Ferguson would run for mayor at the next election.[1]
Mayoralty results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent | Dove-Myer Robinson | 19,762 | 49.55 | -40.80 | |
Labour | Jim Anderton | 12,717 | 31.90 | ||
Independent | Grahame Sims | 6,241 | 15.64 | ||
Informal votes | 1,161 | 2.91 | |||
Majority | 7,045 | 17.66 | -67.68 | ||
Turnout | 39,881 | 43.44 | +7.17 |
Councillor results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Citizens & Ratepayers
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Lindo Ferguson | 22,761 | 58.78 | +9.33 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers
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Harry Dansey | 21,219 | 54.80 | +3.46 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers
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Lindsay Adams | 20,599 | 53.19 | -1.87 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers
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Colin Kay | 20,506 | 52.95 | +3.11 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers
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Norman Ambler
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20,491 | 52.92 | ||
Citizens & Ratepayers
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Eric Salmon | 20,164 | 52.07 | -1.41 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers
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Jolyon Firth | 19,759 | 51.03 | +2.24 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers
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Sheila Horton | 19,749 | 51.00 | ||
Citizens & Ratepayers
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Mel Tronson | 19,348 | 49.96 | -2.64 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers
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John Strevens | 19,129 | 49.40 | +1.59 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers
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Ian McKinnon | 18,792 | 48.53 | +0.50 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers
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Paddy Walker | 18,510 | 47.80 | ||
Labour | Catherine Tizard | 18,440 | 47.62 | +2.53 | |
Labour | Jim Anderton | 18,034 | 46.57 | ||
Citizens & Ratepayers
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Gordon Barnaby | 17,926 | 46.29 | +3.26 | |
Citizens & Ratepayers
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Rev. Selwyn Dawson | 17,374 | 44.87 | ||
Citizens & Ratepayers
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Kenneth Sydney Dobson | 17,300 | 44.67 | ||
Citizens & Ratepayers
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Allan Charles Coulam | 16,469 | 42.53 | ||
Citizens & Ratepayers
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Fred Hill | 16,101 | 41.58 | ||
Citizens & Ratepayers
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Bill Clark | 16,020 | 41.37 | ||
Citizens & Ratepayers
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Cec Field | 15,250 | 39.38 | ||
Citizens & Ratepayers
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Nanu Lelaulu | 15,116 | 39.03 | ||
Citizens & Ratepayers
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Reginald Rikys | 14,169 | 36.59 | ||
Labour | Alex Dreaver
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14,138 | 36.51 | -7.74 | |
Labour | Helen Clark | 13,928 | 35.97 | ||
Labour | John Prebble | 13,169 | 34.01 | ||
Labour | Richard Northey | 13,162 | 33.99 | +1.91 | |
Labour | Betty Wark | 13,063 | 33.73 | +5.20 | |
Labour | David Lange | 12,370 | 31.94 | ||
Labour | Barbara Devonshire | 11,718 | 30.26 | ||
Labour | Michael Roger Stenson | 11,304 | 29.19 | +0.12 | |
Labour | Frank Haigh | 11,190 | 28.89 | ||
Labour | Titewhai Harawira | 11,161 | 28.82 | ||
Labour | Brian Francis Healy | 10,794 | 27.87 | ||
Labour | Bruce Hucker | 10,734 | 27.72 | ||
Labour | Roderick Murray Carter | 10,664 | 27.54 | -1.21 | |
Labour | Mary Nacey | 10,556 | 27.26 | ||
Values | Reg Clough | 10,326 | 26.66 | ||
Labour | Barry McLean | 9,862 | 25.47 | ||
Labour | Garth Houltham | 9,770 | 25.23 | ||
Labour | Marion McQuoid | 9,387 | 24.24 | -0.32 | |
Labour | Christopher Pickett | 9,106 | 23.51 | ||
Labour | Ua Tamarua | 9,035 | 23.33 | ||
Labour | William Forbes-Hamilton | 8,992 | 23.22 | ||
Values | Elizabeth Glasgow | 7,597 | 19.62 | ||
Values | Raewyn Gwenith Braggins | 5,812 | 15.01 | ||
Values | Andrew Quail | 5,614 | 14.49 | ||
Values | Francis Rex Hamlin | 5,562 | 14.36 | ||
Values | Terry Mann | 5,452 | 14.08 | ||
Independent | Peter van Gessel | 2,990 | 7.72 | ||
Socialist Unity
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Bill Andersen | 2,533 | 6.54 | -5.25 | |
Socialist Unity
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George Jackson | 1,769 | 4.56 | -3.72 | |
Socialist Unity
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Joseph Telford | 1,535 | 3.96 | ||
Socialist Unity
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Leonard Thomas Gale | 1,232 | 3.18 |
Notes
- ^ Edgar 2012.
- ^ "Declaration of Result of Election". The New Zealand Herald. 22 October 1974. p. 19.
- ^ "Declaration of Result of Election". The New Zealand Herald. 23 October 1974. p. 16.
References
- Edgar, John (2012). Urban Legend: Sir Dove-Meyer Robinson. Hodder Moa.