Auckland City mayoral election, 1941

Auckland City mayoral election, 1941
17 May 1941
Turnout 32,969 (50.19%)

 
Candidate John Allum Joe Sayegh
Party Citizens & Ratepayers Labour
Popular vote 16,353 15,010
Percentage 49.60 45.52
Mayor before election

Ernest Davis

 Elected Mayor

John Allum

The Auckland City mayoral election, 1941 was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1941, 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.

Background

The election saw deputy-mayor John Allum defeating the Labour nominee Joe Sayegh who suffered defeat for the third time in succession. Sayegh did not stand for the council as an inducement to vote for him as mayor, but he was elected to the Harbour Board and Hospital Board.

The only successful Labour candidate for the council was Mary Dreaver, with the Citizens & Ratepayers ticket winning all other council seats.

Mayoralty results

Auckland mayoral election, 1941[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Citizens & Ratepayers John Allum 16,353 49.60
Labour Joe Sayegh 15,010 45.52 +11.91
Independent Charles Bailey 1,082 3.28
Independent James William Payne 218 0.66 -0.24
Informal votes 306 0.92 -0.26
Majority 1,343 4.07
Turnout 32,969 50.19 -11.31

Councillor results

Auckland local election, 1941[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Citizens & Ratepayers Leonard Coakley 17,215 52.21 +0.60
Citizens & Ratepayers Arthur Bailey 16,805 50.97 -5.50
Citizens & Ratepayers Reginald Judson 16,504 50.05 +1.54
Citizens & Ratepayers Fred Ambler 16,305 49.45
Citizens & Ratepayers Ellen Melville 16,251 49.29 +0.22
Citizens & Ratepayers Harold Percy Burton 15,782 47.86 +0.44
Citizens & Ratepayers William Forrest Fowlds 15,671 47.53
Citizens & Ratepayers William Brockway Darlow 15,604 47.32
Citizens & Ratepayers Harry Butcher 15,443 46.84 +4.38
Citizens & Ratepayers Wilfred Fortune 15,383 46.65
Citizens & Ratepayers Sidney Takle 15,210 46.13
Labour Mary Dreaver 15,137 45.91 -1.30
Citizens & Ratepayers Keith Buttle 14,984 45.44
Citizens & Ratepayers Roy McElroy 14,890 45.16 +1.84
Citizens & Ratepayers Charles Jackson Garland 14,853 45.05
Citizens & Ratepayers Alan St. Clair Brown 14,668 44.49 +1.48
Citizens & Ratepayers Frederick George Farrell 14,628 44.36
Citizens & Ratepayers Claude James Lovegrove 14,572 44.19
Citizens & Ratepayers Reginald Stanley Harrop 14,469 43.88
Citizens & Ratepayers Michael Joseph Moodabe 14,402 43.68
Citizens & Ratepayers Alan Monteith Doull 14,001 42.46
Labour Jeremiah James Sullivan 13,858 42.03 -2.63
Labour Bill Anderton 13,838 41.97 -3.94
Citizens & Ratepayers William Power 13,771 41.76
Labour Peter Carr 13,647 41.39 -1.88
Labour Fred Young 13,021 39.49 -2.82
Labour Donald Campbell 13,010 39.46
Labour Paul Richardson 12,841 38.94
Labour Robert Boswell 12,794 38.80
Labour Elizabeth Wynn 12,520 37.97 -2.18
Labour John Stewart 12,445 37.74 -2.44
Labour Frederick George Beer 12,286 37.26
Labour George Gordon Grant 12,167 36.90
Labour Charles Stephen Morris 12,052 36.55
Labour Joseph Glen Kennerley 11,879 36.03 -2.12
Labour Harold Callagher 11,688 35.45
Labour Charles James Matthew 11,646 35.32 -2.99
Labour Harry Gordon Staley 11,558 35.05 -1.67
Labour Esric Hunter 11,461 34.76
Independent Richard Armstrong 3,186 9.66 -34.17
Communist Gordon Watson 2,363 7.16
Communist George Jackson 1,875 5.68
Independent Patricia Hurd 1,724 5.22
Independent James William Payne 1,715 5.20
Communist Henry Mornington Smith 1,626 4.93

References

  1. 1 2 "Electoral". The New Zealand Herald. LXXVIII (23973). 24 May 1941. p. 3. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
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