35th New Zealand Parliament

35th Parliament of New Zealand
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Parliament House, Wellington
Overview
Legislative body	New Zealand Parliament
Term	26 April 1967 – 24 October 1969
Election	1966 New Zealand general election
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

Main article: 1966 New Zealand 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]

Session	Opened	Adjourned
first	26 April 1967	24 November 1967
second	26 June 1968	19 December 1968
third	15 May 1969	24 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.

Initial composition of the 35th Parliament

The table below shows the results of the 1966 general election:

Key

  National   Labour   Social Credit

Electorate results for the 1966 New Zealand general election[5]

Electorate	Incumbent		Winner		Majority	Runner up
General electorates
Ashburton		Geoff Gerard		Rob Talbot	983		John Srhoy
Auckland Central		Norman Douglas			2,562		Marie Quinn
Avon		John Mathison			5,232		Dick Dawson
Awarua		Gordon Grieve			3,222		M E Booker
Bay of Plenty		Percy Allen			3,596		Leonard Thomas Fischer
Buller		Bill Rowling			1,822		Ernie King
Christchurch Central		Robert Macfarlane			1,409		Fred Francis
Clutha		Peter Gordon			3,312		Les McKay
Dunedin Central		Brian MacDonell			1,245		John Farry
Dunedin North		Ethel McMillan			2,833		George Barry Gerard
Eden		John Rae			2,548		John William Stewart
Egmont		William Sheat		Venn Young	3,262		H N Johnston
Fendalton		Harry Lake			2,271		Bruce Barclay
Franklin		Alfred E. Allen			5,083		Ron Ng-Waishing
Gisborne		Esme Tombleson			1,432		Bob MacDonald
Grey Lynn		Ritchie Macdonald			4,399		Horace Alexander Nash
Hamilton		Lance Adams-Schneider			2,225		Bob Reese
Hastings		Duncan MacIntyre			2,129		Sonja Davies
Hauraki		Arthur Kinsella			2,336		Henry Uttinger
Hawkes Bay		Richard Harrison			3,915		L K Evans
Heretaunga		Ron Bailey			2,647		Ian Ross
Hobson		Logan Sloane		Vernon Cracknell	490		Logan Sloane
Hutt		Sir Walter Nash			1,949		John Kennedy-Good
Invercargill		Ralph Hanan			2,396		Noel Valentine
Island Bay		Arnold Nordmeyer			2,806		Saul Goldsmith[6]
Karori		Jack Marshall			5,270		Peter Blizard
Lyttelton		Norman Kirk			2,121		Peter de Latour
Manawatu		Blair Tennent		Les Gandar	2,298		Ernie Hemmingsen
Manukau		Colin Moyle			2,728		Max Louis Peers
Manurewa		Phil Amos			2,389		B F Kimpton
Marlborough		Tom Shand			732		Gerry Wall
Marsden		Don McKay			4,077		O J Lewis
Miramar		Bill Fox		Bill Young	146		Bill Fox
Mt Albert		Warren Freer			2,654		Tom Hibbert
Napier		Jim Edwards		Gordon Christie	393		Maurice Kidson
Nelson		Stan Whitehead			2,045		Edwin Slack
New Lynn		Rex Mason		Jonathan Hunt	3,727		Kevin Patrick Lynch
New Plymouth		Ernest Aderman		Ron Barclay	78		Brian Clark
North Shore		Dean Eyre		George Gair	1,108		Michael Bassett
Onehunga		Hugh Watt			4,265		Daphne Double
Otago Central		Jack George			2,305		Brian Griffiths
Otaki		Allan McCready			3,575		Glen Herbert
Pahiatua		Keith Holyoake			5,291		F M O'Brien
Pakuranga		Bob Tizard			2,259		Victor David Thompson
Palmerston North		Bill Brown			259		Joe Walding
Petone		Mick Moohan			2,607		Joe Miller
Piako		Geoffrey Sim		Jack Luxton	3,884		Myles Edward Barroclough
Porirua		Henry May			1,928		Rick Stevenson
Raglan		Douglas Carter			1,659		Ronald Nelson Little
Rangiora		Lorrie Pickering			957		Te Rino Tirikatene
Rangitikei		Norman Shelton			4,005		Russell Wiseman
Remuera		Ronald Algie		Allan Highet	6,660		Bill Nairn
Riccarton		Mick Connelly			2,725		Ian Wilson
Rodney		Jack Scott			2,722		Nevern McConachy
Roskill		Arthur Faulkner			3,822		Anthony Cook
Rotorua		Harry Lapwood			2,298		Frank Knipe
St Albans		Bert Walker			2,575		Ted Adcock
St Kilda		Bill Fraser			2,809		R M Hall
Selwyn		John McAlpine		Colin McLachlan	2,597		Thomas Kelvin Campbell
Stratford		David Thomson			4,115		David Butler
Sydenham		Mabel Howard			3,947		Helen Garrett
Tamaki		Robert Muldoon			2,827		Kevin Ryan
Taupo		Rona Stevenson			258		Barry Gustafson
Tauranga		George Walsh			2,299		Olive Smuts-Kennedy
Timaru		Sir Basil Arthur			3,108		Norman Stanley Brown
Waimarino		Roy Jack			2,491		Shaun Alex Cameron
Waipa		Leslie Munro			3,081		Neil Roger David Shewan
Wairarapa		Haddon Donald			533		Jack Williams
Waitakere		Martyn Finlay			3,813		Peter Wilkinson
Waitaki		Allan Dick			2,009		Stan Rodger
Waitemata		Norman King			3,832		Terry Power
Waitomo		David Seath			4,442		Arthur John Ingram
Wallace		Brian Talboys			3,965		Aubrey Begg
Wanganui		George Spooner			908		John Grace
Wellington Central		Dan Riddiford			1,713		Rolland O'Regan
Westland		Paddy Blanchfield			4,041		George Ferguson
Māori electorates
Eastern Maori		Puti Tipene Watene			3,121		Arnold Reedy [7]
Northern Maori		Matiu Rata			4,297		F R Wilcox
Southern Maori		Eruera Tirikatene			3,832		Baden Pere
Western Maori		Iriaka Rātana			5,580		Timi Te Heuheu

By-elections during 35th Parliament

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

Electorate and by-election		Date	Incumbent		Cause	Winner
Southern Maori	1967	11 March		Sir 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		Sir Walter Nash	Death		Trevor Young

Notes

1. "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.
5. Norton 1988.
6. Gustafson 1986, pp. 364f.
7. Gustafson 1986, p. 383.

References

• Gustafson, Barry (1986). The First 50 Years : A History of the New Zealand National Party. Auckland: Reed Methuen. ISBN 0-474-00177-6.
• Norton, Clifford (1988). New Zealand Parliamentary Election Results 1946-1987: Occasional Publications No 1, Department of Political Science. Wellington: Victoria University of Wellington. ISBN 0-475-11200-8.
• Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.