Wellington North (New Zealand electorate)
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Wellington North was, from 1905 to 1946, a parliamentary electorate within the area encompassing New Zealand's capital, Wellington. The electorate was represented by four Members of Parliament.
Through the City Single Electorates Act, 1903, the three-member electorates of the four main centres were split again, and this became effective at the end of the 15th Parliament and was thus used for the 1905 election. The City of Wellington electorate was split into the Wellington East, Wellington Central, and Wellington North electorates.[1] The electorate covered areas north of the central city. For the purpose of the country quota, the electorate has always been regarded as fully urban.[2] In the 1937 electoral redistribution, Somes Island was transferred from the Hutt to the Wellington North electorate.[3]
Charles Hayward Izard of the Liberal Party was the electorate's first representative from 1905 to 1908,[4] when he was defeated by Alexander Herdman.[5] Herdman had previously represented the Mount Ida electorate. He joined the Reform Party but resigned from Parliament in February 1918.[6]
Herdman was succeeded by John Luke of the Reform Party in the resulting 1918 by-election.[7] In the 1928 election, Luke was defeated by Charles Chapman of the Labour Party. Chapman represented the electorate from 1928 to 1946, and moved to the Wellington Central electorate when Wellington North was abolished.[8]
Members of Parliament
The electorate was represented by four Members of Parliament:[9]
Key
Liberal Conservative Reform Labour
Election | Winner | |
---|---|---|
1905 election | Charles Hayward Izard | |
1908 election | Alexander Herdman | |
1911 election | ||
1914 election | ||
1918 by-election | John Luke | |
1919 election | ||
1922 election | ||
1925 election | ||
1928 election | Charles Chapman | |
1931 election | ||
1935 election | ||
1938 election | ||
1943 election | ||
(electorate abolished 1946; see Onslow) |
- ^ McRobie 1989, pp. 66ff.
- ^ McRobie 1989, p. 71.
- ^ McRobie 1989, pp. 90f.
- ^ Wilson 1985, p. 207.
- ^ Wilson 1985, p. 204, 207.
- ^ Wilson 1985, p. 204.
- ^ Wilson 1985, p. 213.
- ^ Wilson 1985, p. 189.
- ^ Wilson 1985, p. 276.
- ^ "Public Notices". The Evening Post. Vol. CXXXVI, no. 136. 6 December 1943. p. 4. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
- ^ "The General Election, 1938". National Library. 1939. p. 5. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
- ^ The General Election, 1935. National Library. 1936. pp. 1–35. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
- ^ "Declaration of Result of Poll for the Electoral District of Wellington North". The Evening Post. Vol. CXII, no. 140. 10 December 1931. p. 2. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
- ^ The General Election, 1928. Government Printer. 1929. p. 6. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
- ^ The General Election, 1925. Government Printer. 1926. p. 2. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
- ^ The General Election, 1922. Government Printer. 1923. p. 2. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
- ^ Hislop, J. (1921). The General Election, 1919. National Library. pp. 1–6. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
- ^ "Wellington North". Colonist. Vol. LX, no. 14665. 20 March 1918. p. 1. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ "Wellington North electorate". Free Lance. Vol. XVII, no. 919. 22 February 1918. p. 9. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
- ^ Hislop, J. (1915). The General Election, 1914. National Library. pp. 1–33. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
- ^ "The General Election, 1911". National Library. 1912. pp. 1–14. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
- ^ "The General Election, 1908". National Library. 1909. pp. 1–34. Retrieved 14 April 2012.
- ^ "The General Election, 1905". National Library. 1906. pp. 1–6. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
- McRobie, Alan (1989). Electoral Atlas of New Zealand. Wellington: GP Books. ISBN 0-477-01384-8.
- Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.