1915 Auckland City mayoral election

The 1915 Auckland City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1915, 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.

1915 Auckland City mayoral election
1 May 1915
Turnout14,684
 
Candidate James Gunson Robert Tudehope
Party Citizens Independent
Popular vote 8,643 5,801
Percentage 58.85 39.50
Mayor before election

James Parr

 Elected Mayor

James Gunson

Background

This was the first election following the Borough of Grey Lynn's amalgamation with Auckland City which saw the number of councillors increased from eighteen to twenty-one.[1]

Mayoralty results
1915 Auckland mayoral election[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Citizens James Gunson 8,643 58.85
Independent Robert Tudehope 5,801 39.50
Informal votes 240 1.63
Majority 2,842 19.35
Turnout 14,684

Councillor results
1915 Auckland local election[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Citizens Andrew Entrican 8,542 62.42 -12.81
Citizens Ellen Melville 7,220 52.76 +6.29
Citizens Patrick Nerheny 6,949 50.78 -14.43
Citizens Maurice Casey 6,942 50.73 -9.70
Citizens George Knight 6,886 50.32 -2.75
Citizens Horatio Bagnall 6,619 48.37 +6.50
Citizens Peter Mitchell Mackay 6,332 46.27 -5.05
Independent Ernest Davis 6,249 45.66
Citizens George Baildon 6,232 45.54
Citizens James Alexander Warnock 6,186 45.20
Citizens Harold D. Heather 6,177 45.14 -9.89
Citizens William Holdsworth 5,770 42.16
Citizens Jonathan Trevethick 5,711 41.73 -8.34
Citizens Alfred Hall-Skelton 5,423 39.63 -10.28
Independent John Dempsey 5,321 38.88
Citizens Edwin James Carr 5,203 38.02
Independent John Burton 5,043 36.85
Independent Ralph Thomas Michaels 4,860 35.51 -8.74
Independent Sydney Moore-Jones 4,613 33.71 -2.44
Independent George William Murray 4,531 33.11
Independent Frederick Brinsden 4,454 32.54
Citizens William Donald 4,376 31.97
Independent Arthur Anthony Rose 3,779 27.61
Independent Walter Harry Murray 3,648 26.65
Independent Percy Spender 3,620 26.45
Independent William Richardson 3,587 26.21
Social Democrat Michael Joseph Savage 3,580 26.16
Independent William Thompson 3,574 26.11 -9.12
Independent Charles Edgar Palmer 3,490 25.50
Social Democrat Tom Bloodworth 3,326 24.30
Independent Frederick David Parsons 3,292 24.05
Social Democrat Thomas Long 3,040 22.21 -14.20
Social Democrat Wesley Richards 2,930 21.41
Independent Joseph Zahara 2,426 17.72
Social Democrat Charles Arthur Watts 2,129 15.55
Social Democrat Oscar McBrine 2,010 14.68

Notes
  1. Bush 1971, pp. 599.
  2. "Election of Mayor". LII (15907). The New Zealand Herald. 3 May 1915. p. 3. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
  3. "Election of Councillors". XXXV (37). Observer. 22 May 1915. p. 18. Retrieved 30 September 2018.

References
  • Bush, Graham W. A. (1971). Decently and in Order: The Government of the City of Auckland 1840-1971. Auckland: Collins.
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