1917 Auckland City mayoral election

The 1917 Auckland City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1917, 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.

1917 Auckland City mayoral election
30 April 1917
 
Candidate James Gunson
Party Citizens
Popular vote unopposed
Mayor before election

James Gunson

 Elected Mayor

James Gunson

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

Councillor results
1917 Auckland local election[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Citizens Andrew Entrican 5,369 72.11 +9.69
Citizens Patrick Nerheny 4,653 61.83 +11.05
Citizens Ellen Melville 4,649 61.77 +9.01
Citizens Harold D. Heather 4,408 58.31 +13.17
Citizens William Holdsworth 4,331 57.20 +15.04
Citizens George Knight 4,240 55.90 +5.58
Citizens George Baildon 4,185 55.11 +9.57
Citizens James Alexander Warnock 4,057 53.27 +8.07
Independent Ernest Davis 4,056 53.25 +7.59
Citizens Frederick Brinsden 4,026 52.82 +17.58
Citizens Peter Mitchell Mackay 3,937 51.54 +5.27
Citizens Edwin James Carr 3,930 51.44 +13.42
Citizens Maurice Casey 3,834 50.07 -0.66
Citizens Horatio Nelson Bagnall 3,819 49.85 +1.48
Citizens James Francis Hosking 3,739 48.70
Citizens Alfred Hall-Skelton 3,693 48.04 +8.41
Citizens Jonathan Trevethick 3,525 45.63 +3.90
Citizens John Burton 3,413 44.02 +7.17
Citizens John Barr Paterson 3,360 43.26
Citizens John Dempsey 3,267 41.92 +3.04
Citizens Sydney Moore-Jones 3,261 41.83 +8.12
Independent George William Murray[nb 1] 3,258 41.79
Independent William Donald 3,219 41.23 +9.26
Independent Arthur Rose 3,194 40.87 +13.26
Independent Percy McElwain 2,977 37.76
Citizens William Augustus Thompson 2,552 31.65
Independent Labour Wesley Richards 2,524 31.25 +9.84
Independent William Richardson 2,490 30.76 +4.55
Independent Arthur Herrold 2,307 28.13
Independent Richard Singer 1,972 23.32

Table footnotes:

  1. Murray and Emily Maguire were appointed to fill vacancies on the council in 1918 caused by the deaths of Maurice Casey and Sydney Moore-Jones

Notes
  1. Bush 1971, pp. 594.
  2. "Election of Councillors". XXXVII (36). Observer. 12 May 1917. p. 23. Retrieved 5 October 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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