Wellington North (New Zealand electorate)


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For the former Canadian electoral district, see Wellington North.

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

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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)
  1. ^ McRobie 1989, pp. 66ff.
  2. ^ McRobie 1989, p. 71.
  3. ^ McRobie 1989, pp. 90f.
  4. ^ Wilson 1985, p. 207.
  5. ^ Wilson 1985, p. 204, 207.
  6. ^ Wilson 1985, p. 204.
  7. ^ Wilson 1985, p. 213.
  8. ^ Wilson 1985, p. 189.
  9. ^ Wilson 1985, p. 276.
  10. ^ "Public Notices". The Evening Post. Vol. CXXXVI, no. 136. 6 December 1943. p. 4. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
  11. ^ "The General Election, 1938". National Library. 1939. p. 5. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
  12. ^ The General Election, 1935. National Library. 1936. pp. 1–35. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
  13. ^ "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.
  14. ^ The General Election, 1928. Government Printer. 1929. p. 6. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
  15. ^ The General Election, 1925. Government Printer. 1926. p. 2. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
  16. ^ The General Election, 1922. Government Printer. 1923. p. 2. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  17. ^ Hislop, J. (1921). The General Election, 1919. National Library. pp. 1–6. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
  18. ^ "Wellington North". Colonist. Vol. LX, no. 14665. 20 March 1918. p. 1. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  19. ^ "Wellington North electorate". Free Lance. Vol. XVII, no. 919. 22 February 1918. p. 9. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  20. ^ Hislop, J. (1915). The General Election, 1914. National Library. pp. 1–33. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
  21. ^ "The General Election, 1911". National Library. 1912. pp. 1–14. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
  22. ^ "The General Election, 1908". National Library. 1909. pp. 1–34. Retrieved 14 April 2012.
  23. ^ "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.