1965 Lower Hutt mayoral election

1965 Lower Hutt mayoral election
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Candidate Percy Dowse
Party Labour
Popular vote elected unopposed
Mayor before election

Percy Dowse

 Elected mayor

Percy Dowse

The 1965 Lower Hutt mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. The elections were held for the role of Mayor of Lower Hutt plus other local government positions including fifteen city councillors, also elected triennially. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.

Background

The incumbent Mayor, Percy Dowse, sought re-election for a sixth term. He was returned unopposed as no other candidates nominated.[1][2] Councillor John Kennedy-Good was encouraged by centre-right supporters to stand for mayor, but he declined to challenge Dowse, who he considered a good leader as well as a personal friend.[3] The Citizens' Association, while not contesting the mayoralty, stood a full ticket of council candidates, the first time they had done so since 1953. This was to avoid a repeat of the 1959-62 council where Citizens' endorsed Ratepayer Independents won a majority on the council, but were hampered by having little in the way of agreed policy.[4]

Councillor results

1965 Lower Hutt City Council election[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Chen Werry 6,020 61.35 +8.77
Labour Trevor Young 5,787 58.97 +3.37
Labour Wally Bugden 5,725 58.34 +9.86
Labour Sam Chesney 5,706 58.15 +3.75
Citizens' John Kennedy-Good 5,578 56.84 +9.63
Labour Alexander Campbell 5,573 56.79 +8.25
Labour Jessie Donald 5,499 56.04 +3.68
Labour Kitty Mildenhall 5,308 54.09
Citizens' Ted Holdaway 5,223 53.23 +7.71
Labour David Carrad 5,022 51.18
Labour William Harvey 4,953 50.47 +4.99
Citizens' Dave Hadley 4,910 50.04 +6.86
Labour Bert Sutherland 4,876 49.69 +4.44
Citizens' Don Lee 4,808 49.00 +7.99
Labour John Seddon 4,798 48.89
Labour Graeme Ronald Ross 4,776 48.67
Labour Joan Mary Pearce 4,713 48.03
Labour William Mouat McLaren 4,677 47.66 +4.09
Citizens' Ted Gibbs 4,433 45.17
Citizens' Donald Boyd Kincaid 4,424 45.08
Labour William John Jarvis 4,345 44.28
Citizens' Arthur Ashley Cooper 4,321 44.03
Citizens' John Ross Wilkinson 4,278 43.59
Citizens' Stewart Forsyth Claxton 4,268 43.49
Citizens' James Kawarau Horn 4,228 43.09 +3.04
Citizens' Hugh McKinnon Smith 4,210 42.90 +2.78
Citizens' George Ernest Collin 4,122 42.00
Citizens' Irene Joan Gough 4,026 41.03
Citizens' Claude Swift 3,994 40.70
Citizens' Hazel Hohepina Snow 3,763 38.35
Independent Cyril Phelps 2,873 29.28 −12.24

Notes

  1. ^ "No Election for Them". The Evening Post. 8 October 1965.
  2. ^ "Lower Hutt". The Evening Post. 11 October 1965. p. 22.
  3. ^ Dekker, Diana (14 July 2005). "Hutt's parochial mayor". Dominion Post. p. 7.
  4. ^ "Full Ticket From City Ratepayers". Hutt News. 18 November 1964. p. 7.
  5. ^ "City of Lower Hutt - Declaration of Result of Poll". The Evening Post. 15 October 1965. p. 2.

References

  • Millar, David P. (1972). Once Upon a Village: A History of Lower Hutt 1819-1965. Lower Hutt: New Zealand University Press & LHCC. OCLC 154232923.
  • McGill, David (1991). Lower Hutt – The First Garden City. Petone, New Zealand: Lower Hutt City Council. ISBN 1-86956-003-5.