Otahuhu by-election, 1963

Otahuhu by-election, 1963
16 March 1963
Turnout 51.2%

 
Candidate Bob Tizard Thomas Tucker
Party Labour National
Popular vote 6,108 3,450
Percentage 63.1 35.6
Member before election

James Deas
Labour

 Elected Member

Bob Tizard
Labour

The Otahuhu by-election 1963 was a by-election held in the Otahuhu electorate in Auckland during the term of the 33rd New Zealand Parliament, on 16 March 1963.

The by-election was caused by the death of incumbent MP James Deas of the Labour Party on 27 January 1963.[1] The by-election was won by Bob Tizard, also of the Labour Party.[2] As the electorate was to be abolished and replaced by the Pakuranga electorate at the 1963 election election, Tizard represented it from 16 March to 29 October only.[2]

Results

The following table gives the election results:

Otahuhu by-election, 1963[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Bob Tizard 6,108 63.1
National Thomas Tucker 3,450 35.6 -3.7
Communist Stan Hieatt 125 1.3 +0.6
Majority 2,658 27.5
Turnout 18,947 51.2 -40.3
Labour hold Swing

Notes

  1. ↑ Wilson 1985, p. 192.
  2. 1 2 Wilson 1985, p. 240.
  3. ↑ Norton 1988, p. 300.

References

  • Norton, Clifford (1988). New Zealand parliamentary election results, 1946–1987. Wellington: Victoria University of Wellington Department of Political Science. ISBN 0-475-11200-8.
  • Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.
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