35th New Zealand Parliament

35th Parliament of New Zealand
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Overview
Term 26 April 1967 – 24 October 1969
Election New Zealand general election, 1966
Government Second National Government
House of Representatives
Members 80
Speaker of the House Roy Jack
Prime Minister Keith Holyoake
Leader of the Opposition Norman Kirk
Sovereign
Monarch HM Elizabeth II
Governor-General Sir Arthur Porritt from 1 December 1967
––HE Brigadier Sir Bernard Edward Fergusson until 20 October 1967

The 35th New Zealand Parliament was a term of the New Zealand Parliament. It was elected at the 1966 general election on 26 November of that year.

1966 general election

The 1966 general election was held on Saturday, 26 November.[1] A total of 80 MPs were elected; 52 represented North Island electorates, 24 represented South Island electorates, and the remaining four represented Māori electorates; this was the same distribution used since the 1963 election.[2] 1,409,600 voters were enrolled and the official turnout at the election was 86.0%.[1]

Sessions

The 35th Parliament sat for three sessions, and was prorogued on 24 October 1969.[3]

SessionOpenedAdjouned
first26 April 196724 November 1967
second26 June 196819 December 1968
third15 May 196924 October 1969

Ministries

The National Party had come to power at the 1960 election, and Keith Holyoake had formed the second Holyoake Ministry on 12 December 1960, which stayed in power until Holyoake stepped down in early 1972. The second National Government remained in place until its defeat at the 1972 election towards the end of that year.[4]


Overview of seats

The table below shows the number of MPs in each party following the 1966 election and at dissolution:

Affiliation Members
At 1966 election At dissolution
National 44 43
Government total
Labour Opposition 35 36
Social Credit 1 1
Opposition total 36 37
Total
 80 80
Working Government majority 8 6

Notes

  • The Working Government majority is calculated as all Government MPs less all other parties.

By-elections during 35th Parliament

There were a number of changes during the term of the 35th Parliament.

Electorate and by-electionDateIncumbentCauseWinner
Southern Maori 1967 11 March Eruera Tirikatene Death Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan
Fendalton 1967 15 April Harry Lake Death Eric Holland
Petone 1967 15 April Michael Moohan Death Fraser Colman
Eastern Maori 1967 12 August Puti Tipene Watene Death Paraone Reweti
Palmerston North 1967 2 December Bill Brown Death Joe Walding
Hutt 1968 3 August Walter Nash Death Trevor Young

Notes

  1. 1 2 "General elections 1853–2005 - dates & turnout". Elections New Zealand. Archived from the original on 27 May 2010. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
  2. ↑ Wilson 1985, p. 173.
  3. ↑ Wilson 1985, p. 142.
  4. ↑ Wilson 1985, pp. 89–92.

References

  • Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.
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