Electoral history of Peter Fraser
This is a summary of the electoral history of Peter Fraser, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1940–49), Leader of the Labour Party (1940–50) and Member of Parliament for Wellington Central (1918–46) then Brooklyn (1946–50).
Parliamentary elections
1918 by-election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Peter Fraser | 2,668 | 56.54 | ||
Independent Labour | Joe Mack | 1,044 | 22.12 | ||
Liberal | William Hildreth | 784 | 16.61 | ||
Independent | Harry Atmore | 185 | 3.92 | ||
Independent | Lindsay John Frederick Garmston | 29 | 0.61 | ||
Independent | William Cyril Tanner | 9 | 0.19 | ||
Majority | 1,624 | 34.41 | |||
Turnout | 4,719 | 51.43 | -33.04 | ||
Registered electors | 9,176 | ||||
Labour gain from Liberal | Swing |
1919 election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Peter Fraser | 4,486 | 57.33 | +0.79 | |
Liberal | Frederick Pirani | 3,430 | 42.67 | ||
Majority | 1,146 | 14.64 | -19.77 | ||
Turnout | 7,826 |
1922 election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Peter Fraser | 5,827 | 64.73 | +7.40 | |
Independent | William Bennett | 1,625 | 18.05 | ||
Liberal–Labour | Archibald Sievwright | 1,550 | 17.21 | ||
Majority | 4,202 | 46.67 | +32.03 | ||
Informal votes | 102 | 1.13 | |||
Turnout | 9,002 |
1925 election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Peter Fraser | 5,459 | 64.02 | -0.71 | |
Reform | Andrew Sloane | 3,069 | 35.98 | ||
Majority | 2,390 | 28.02 | -18.65 | ||
Turnout | 8,528 |
1928 election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Peter Fraser | 7,353 | 60.81 | -3.21 | |
Reform | Andrew Sloane | 3,895 | 32.21 | -3.77 | |
Independent Labour | Margaret Young | 843 | 6.97 | ||
Majority | 3,458 | 28.60 | +0.58 | ||
Informal votes | 145 | 1.19 | |||
Turnout | 12,236 | 83.61 | |||
Registered electors | 14,635 |
1931 election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Peter Fraser | 6,308 | 57.26 | -3.55 | |
United | Robert Darroch | 3,837 | 34.83 | ||
Independent | Edward William Nicolaus | 688 | 6.25 | ||
Communist | Richard Francis Griffin | 183 | 1.66 | ||
Majority | 2,471 | 22.43 | -6.17 | ||
Informal votes | 91 | 0.82 | -0.37 | ||
Turnout | 11,107 | 74.82 | -8.79 | ||
Registered electors | 14,845 |
1935 election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Peter Fraser | 7,673 | 69.43 | 12.17 | |
United/Reform | Will Mason | 3,380 | 30.57 | ||
Majority | 4,293 | 38.84 | +16.41 | ||
Turnout | 11,053 |
1938 election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Peter Fraser | 9,376 | 62.86 | -6.19 | |
National | Will Appleton | 5,539 | 37.14 | ||
Majority | 3,837 | 25.73 | -12.37 | ||
Informal votes | 89 | 0.59 | |||
Turnout | 15,004 | 86.74 | +5.05 | ||
Registered electors | 17,297 |
1943 election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Peter Fraser | 6,822 | 46.12 | -16.74 | |
National | Will Appleton | 5,616 | 37.97 | +0.83 | |
Independent | Colin Scrimgeour | 2,253 | 15.23 | ||
Independent | Julius Hyde | 100 | 0.68 | ||
Majority | 1,206 | 8.15 | -17.57 | ||
Informal votes | 223 | 1.49 | +0.89 | ||
Turnout | 15,014 | 80.59 | +6.15 | ||
Registered electors | 18,629 |
1946 election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Peter Fraser | 8,216 | 65.75 | ||
National | Stewart Hardy | 4,281 | 34.45 | ||
Majority | 3,935 | 31.48 | |||
Turnout | 12,497 | 87.09 | |||
Registered electors | 14,349 |
1949 election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Peter Fraser | 7,176 | 63.91 | -1.84 | |
National | Berta Burns | 4,220 | 37.58 | ||
Communist | Connie Birchfield | 241 | 2.14 | ||
Majority | 2,956 | 26.32 | -5.16 | ||
Turnout | 11,228 | 85.73 | -1.36 | ||
Registered electors | 13,096 |
Local elections
1923 mayoral election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Civic League | Robert Alexander Wright | 10,876 | 42.30 | -23.30 | |
Labour | Peter Fraser | 10,603 | 41.24 | ||
Independent | Leonard McKenzie | 4,228 | 16.44 | ||
Majority | 273 | 1.06 | -29.60 | ||
Turnout | 25,707 |
1933 by-election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Peter Fraser | 11,607 | 48.92 | ||
Civic League | Robert Alexander Wright | 11,288 | 47.58 | ||
Independent | John Castle | 517 | 2.17 | ||
Communist | Richard Webb | 311 | 1.31 | -13.8 | |
Majority | 319 | 1.34 | |||
Turnout | 23,723 |
Leadership elections
1933 Deputy-leadership election
Labour Party deputy-leadership election 1933 | |||
---|---|---|---|
Candidate | Votes | % | |
Peter Fraser | 24 | 100.0 | |
Turnout | 24 | N/A | |
1940 Leadership election
Labour Party leadership election 1940 | |||
---|---|---|---|
Candidate | Votes | % | |
Peter Fraser | 33 | 68.7 | |
Gervan McMillan | 12 | 25.0 | |
Clyde Carr | 3 | 6.2 | |
Majority | 21 | 34.4 | |
Turnout | 48 | N/A | |
Notes
- ↑ "A victory for Labour". The Evening Post. XCVI (83). 4 October 1918. p. 3. Retrieved 15 March 2014.
- ↑ Hislop, J. (1921). The General Election, 1919. National Library. pp. 1–6. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
- ↑ The New Zealand Official Year-Book. Government Printer. 1924. Archived from the original on 21 January 2015. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
- ↑ Hislop 1923, pp. 1–6.
- ↑ The General Election, 1925. Government Printer. 1926. p. 2. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
- ↑ The General Election, 1928. Government Printer. 1929. p. 6. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
- ↑ "Declaration of Result of Poll for the Electoral District of Wellington Central". New Zealand Truth (1200). 29 November 1928. p. 14. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
- ↑ "Declaration of Result of Poll for the Electoral District of Wellington Central". The Evening Post. CXII (140). 10 December 1931. p. 2. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
- ↑ The New Zealand Official Year-Book. Government Printer. 1936. Archived from the original on 1 May 2012. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
- ↑ "The General Election, 1938". National Library. 1939. pp. 1–6. Retrieved 8 February 2012.
- ↑ "The General Election, 1943". National Library. 1944. p. 11. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
- ↑ "Results from all Electorates". Evening Post. CXXXVI (76). 27 September 1943. p. 6. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
- ↑ "City Nominations". Evening Post. CXXXVI (61). 9 September 1943. p. 9. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
- ↑ "The General Election, 1946". National Library. 1947. pp. 1–11, 14. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
- ↑ "The General Election, 1949". National Library. 1950. pp. 1–5, 8. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
- ↑ "Wellington City Council". Evening Post. CV (107). 7 May 1923. p. 2. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
- ↑ "Labour Win". Auckland Star. LXIV (152). 30 June 1933. p. 12. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
References
- Bassett, Michael; King, Michael (2000). Tomorrow Comes the Song: A Life of Peter Fraser. Auckland: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-029793-6.
- Thorn, James (1952). Peter Fraser: New Zealand's Wartime Prime Minister. London: Odhams Press.
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