Electoral history of Peter Fraser

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Peter Fraser

Leader of the Labour Party

Prime Minister of New Zealand

Elections

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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

1918 Wellington Central by-election[1]
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

1919 general election: Wellington Central[2]
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

1922 general election: Wellington Central[3][4]
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

1925 general election: Wellington Central[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Peter Fraser 5,459 64.02 −0.71
Reform Dunbar Sloane 3,069 35.98
Majority 2,390 28.02 −18.65
Turnout 8,528

1928 election

1928 general election: Wellington Central[6][7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Peter Fraser 7,353 60.81 −3.21
Reform Dunbar 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

1931 general election: Wellington Central[8]
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

1935 general election: Wellington Central[9]
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

1938 general election: Wellington Central[10]
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

1943 general election: Wellington Central[11][12][13]
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

1946 general election: Brooklyn[14]
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

1949 general election: Brooklyn[15]
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 local elections

1923 Wellington City mayoral election[16]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Civic League Robert Wright 10,876 42.30 −23.30
Labour Peter Fraser 10,603 41.24
Independent Len McKenzie 4,228 16.44
Majority 273 1.06 −29.60
Turnout 25,707

1933 council by-election

1933 Wellington City Council by-election[17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Peter Fraser 11,607 48.64
Citizens' Robert Wright 11,288 47.31
Independent John Castle 517 2.16
Communist Richard Webb 311 1.30 −13.81
Informal votes 136 0.57
Majority 319 1.33
Turnout 23,859 42.94

1933 local elections

Wellington Harbour Board, Wellington[18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Peter Fraser 13,068 57.79
Labour Charles Chapman 12,661 55.99 +6.03
Citizens' Charles Norwood 11,199 49.53 −6.21
Labour Bob Semple 11,028 48.77
Citizens' William Bennett 10,702 47.33
Citizens' Francis Arthur Mcindoe 9,799 43.33
Citizens' Robert Nimmo 8,069 35.68
Labour Michael Walsh 7,992 35.34 +7.67
Independent Robert Darroch 4,204 18.59
Informal votes 1,180 5.21 +0.01
Turnout 22,610

1935 local elections

Wellington Harbour Board, Wellington[19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Peter Fraser 25,428 66.30 +8.51
Labour Charles Chapman 21,627 56.39 +0.40
Labour Robert McKeen 21,380 55.75
Labour Bob Semple 21,142 55.13
Citizens' Charles Norwood 17,920 46.72 −2.81
Citizens' Will Appleton 16,663 43.45
Citizens' Robert Nimmo 14,651 38.20 −2.52
Citizens' Hubert Nathan 13,815 36.02
Informal votes 770 2.00 −3.21
Turnout 38,349

Leadership elections

1933 Deputy-leadership election

Labour Party deputy-leadership election 1933
Candidate Votes %
Peter Fraser 24 100.0
Turnout 24 —

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 —

Notes

  1. ^ "A victory for Labour". The Evening Post. Vol. XCVI, no. 83. 4 October 1918. p. 3. Retrieved 15 March 2014.
  2. ^ Hislop, J. (1921). The General Election, 1919. National Library. pp. 1–6. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
  3. ^ The New Zealand Official Year-Book. Government Printer. 1924. Archived from the original on 21 January 2015. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
  4. ^ Hislop 1923, pp. 1–6.
  5. ^ The General Election, 1925. Government Printer. 1926. p. 2. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
  6. ^ The General Election, 1928. Government Printer. 1929. p. 6. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
  7. ^ "Declaration of Result of Poll for the Electoral District of Wellington Central". New Zealand Truth. No. 1200. 29 November 1928. p. 14. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
  8. ^ "Declaration of Result of Poll for the Electoral District of Wellington Central". The Evening Post. Vol. CXII, no. 140. 10 December 1931. p. 2. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
  9. ^ The New Zealand Official Year-Book. Government Printer. 1936. Archived from the original on 1 May 2012. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
  10. ^ "The General Election, 1938". National Library. 1939. pp. 1–6. Retrieved 8 February 2012.
  11. ^ "The General Election, 1943". National Library. 1944. p. 11. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
  12. ^ "Results from all Electorates". Evening Post. Vol. CXXXVI, no. 76. 27 September 1943. p. 6. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
  13. ^ "City Nominations". Evening Post. Vol. CXXXVI, no. 61. 9 September 1943. p. 9. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
  14. ^ "The General Election, 1946". National Library. 1947. pp. 1–11, 14. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  15. ^ "The General Election, 1949". National Library. 1950. pp. 1–5, 8. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
  16. ^ "Wellington City Council". Evening Post. Vol. CV, no. 107. 7 May 1923. p. 2. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
  17. ^ "Labour Win". Auckland Star. Vol. LXIV, no. 152. 30 June 1933. p. 12. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  18. ^ "Wellington Harbour Board". The Evening Post. Vol. CXV, no. 110. 12 May 1933. p. 2. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
  19. ^ "The Harbour Board". The Evening Post. Vol. CXIX, no. 108. 9 May 1935. p. 14. Retrieved 3 July 2018.

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