The 1925 Auckland City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1925, elections were held for the Mayor of Auckland plus other local government positions including twenty-one city councillors. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method. As part of the elections, ratepayers voted on loan schemes to the value of £ NZ750,000, the largest of which (£ NZ340,000) was for the proposed Auckland Civic Centre. The Auckland Civic Centre was supported by the outgoing mayor and those city councillors who stood for re-election, plus George Baildon who won the mayoralty. Baildon's opponent, Harold Schmidt, was an opponent of the loan. The voters were happy to support those candidates who supported the scheme but they did not approve the loan and the scheme did not go ahead.[1][2]
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| Turnout | 15,003 | |||||||||||||||
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Mayoralty results
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Progressive Citizens' | George Baildon | 9,325 | 62.15 | ||
| Independent | Harold Schmidt | 5,678 | 37.85 | ||
| Majority | 3,647 | 24.30 | |||
| Turnout | 15,003 | ||||
Councillor results
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Labour | Tom Bloodworth | 8,862 | 59.06 | −5.39 | |
| Progressive Citizens' | John W. Court | 8,083 | 53.87 | ||
| Progressive Citizens' | James Warnock | 7,888 | 52.57 | −13.73 | |
| Progressive Citizens' | Andrew Entrican | 7,851 | 52.32 | −10.12 | |
| Progressive Citizens' | Ellen Melville | 7,614 | 50.74 | −0.77 | |
| Progressive Citizens' | George Knight | 7,565 | 50.42 | −16.39 | |
| Progressive Citizens' | John Allum | 7,553 | 50.34 | −12.17 | |
| Progressive Citizens' | John Dempsey | 7,491 | 49.93 | −10.19 | |
| Progressive Citizens' | John William Hardley | 7,286 | 48.56 | −15.55 | |
| Progressive Citizens' | Matthew John Bennett | 6,871 | 45.79 | −15.79 | |
| Progressive Citizens' | Charles Frederick Bennett | 6,851 | 45.66 | ||
| Progressive Citizens' | Michael John Coyle | 6,583 | 43.87 | ||
| Progressive Citizens' | Alfred Eady | 6,561 | 43.73 | ||
| Progressive Citizens' | James Donald | 6,383 | 42.54 | −11.85 | |
| Progressive Citizens' | John Barr Patterson | 6,185 | 41.22 | −12.38 | |
| Progressive Citizens' | James Robertson | 6,185 | 41.22 | −7.04 | |
| Progressive Citizens' | Samuel Crookes | 5,976 | 39.83 | −13.55 | |
| Progressive Citizens' | Frederick Brinsden | 5,819 | 38.78 | −18.74 | |
| Progressive Citizens' | George Brownlee | 5,585 | 37.22 | ||
| Progressive Citizens' | Dick Thompson | 5,440 | 36.25 | −15.38 | |
| Labour | Ted Phelan | 4,761 | 31.73 | −0.07 | |
| Progressive Citizens' | William Hugh McKinney | 4,734 | 31.55 | ||
| Labour | Dick Barter | 4,490 | 29.92 | −1.46 | |
| Progressive Citizens' | Harold Clement Jones | 4,452 | 29.67 | ||
| Independent | Alice Basten | 4,427 | 29.50 | ||
| Labour | Hector James Sutherland | 4,013 | 26.74 | ||
| Labour | Charles Arthur Watts | 3,854 | 25.68 | +0.18 | |
| Independent | Harry Jenkins | 3,684 | 24.55 | ||
| Independent | John Furness | 3,656 | 24.36 | ||
| Independent | Alfred Coutts | 3,650 | 24.32 | ||
| Labour | Bernard Clews | 3,550 | 23.66 | +7.33 | |
| Labour | Frederick Cox | 3,534 | 23.55 | ||
| Labour | William Moxsom | 3,384 | 22.55 | +6.81 | |
| Labour | Bernard Martin | 3,330 | 22.19 | −9.98 | |
| Labour | Samuel Richard Goodman | 3,051 | 20.33 | ||
| Independent | Thomas Leopold Thompson | 2,830 | 18.86 | ||
| Independent | Frederick David Parsons | 2,593 | 17.28 | ||
| Independent | Walter Howard Dawson | 2,549 | 16.98 | ||
| Independent | Walter Glover | 2,554 | 17.02 | +14.33 | |
| Independent | George Metcalfe | 2,280 | 15.19 | ||
| Independent | Daniel Bradley | 2,218 | 14.78 | ||
| Independent | Hallyburton Johnstone | 1,862 | 12.41 | ||
| Independent | Samuel Zobel | 1,690 | 11.26 | ||
| Independent | Alexander Troup | 1,565 | 10.43 | ||
References
edit- ^ Stacpoole, John. "Gunson, James Henry". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
- ^ "Municipal elections". The New Zealand Herald. Vol. LXII, no. 19006. 1 May 1925. p. 11. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
- ^ "Local Body Elections". No. 19468. Otago Daily Times. 1 May 1925. p. 8. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
- ^ "Electoral". Vol. LXII, no. 19008. The New Zealand Herald. 4 May 1925. p. 16. Retrieved 26 August 2017.