Electoral history of Robert Muldoon

This is a summary of the electoral history of Robert Muldoon, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1975–84), Leader of the National Party (1974–84), and Member of Parliament for Tamaki (1960–91).

Parliamentary elections

1954 general election: Mount Albert^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Warren Freer	8,441	57.81	+5.59
	National	Robert Muldoon	5,215	35.72
	Social Credit	Walter Crispin	943	6.45
Majority			3,226	22.09	+17.65
Turnout			14,599	92.22	+1.66
Registered electors			15,830

General election, 1957: Waitemata^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Norman King	8,771	53.52	+6.99
	National	Robert Muldoon	6,580	40.15
	Social Credit	Byrt Jordan	1,036	6.32	−3.09
Majority			2,191	13.37	+10.89
Turnout			16,387	94.83	+3.20
Registered electors			17,280

General election, 1960: Tamaki^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National	Robert Muldoon	8,728	53.58
	Labour	Bob Tizard	7,580	46.54	−4.07
	Social Credit	Eric Ernest McGowan	352	2.16
	Communist	Rita Smith	77	0.47
Majority			1,148	7.04
Turnout			16,287	89.85	−6.22
Registered electors			18,125

General election, 1963: Tamaki^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National	Robert Muldoon	9,645	59.10	+5.52
	Labour	Norman Finch	5,891	36.09
	Social Credit	Joseph F. Richards	382	2.34
	Liberal	Robert Arthur Allen	307	1.88
	Communist	Donald McEwan	94	0.57
Majority			3,754	23.00	+15.96
Turnout			16,319	92.97	+3.12
Registered electors			17,552

General election, 1966: Tamaki^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National	Robert Muldoon	9,248	55.37	−3.73
	Labour	Kevin Ryan	6,421	38.44
	Social Credit	Keith Harold Arthur Branch	1,032	6.17
Majority			2,827	16.92	−6.08
Turnout			16,701	85.64	−7.33
Registered electors			19,501

General election, 1969: Tamaki^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National	Robert Muldoon	11,513	65.14	+9.77
	Labour	Alfred David Bolton	5,425	30.69
	Social Credit	Keith Harold Arthur Branch	496	2.80	−3.37
	Independent	Gladys May Thorpy	239	1.35
Majority			6,088	34.44	+17.52
Turnout			17,673	90.70	+5.06
Registered electors			19,485

General election, 1972: Tamaki^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National	Robert Muldoon	10,146	57.77	−7.37
	Labour	Alan Hedger	5,556	31.63
	Values	Graeme Raymond Jessup	876	4.98
	Social Credit	James Robinson	714	4.06
	Socialist Unity	Bill Andersen	108	0.61
	Socialist Party	Ernie Higdon	83	0.47
	Independent National	George Mullenger	48	0.27
	New Democratic	Ian Upton	31	0.17
Majority			4,590	26.13	−8.31
Turnout			17,562	90.99	−0.29
Registered electors			19,301

General election, 1975: Tamaki^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National	Robert Muldoon	11,836	62.38	+4.61
	Labour	Tim Kaye	5,101	26.88
	Values	Brent Impey	1,258	6.63
	Social Credit	David Stevens	725	3.82
	Socialist Unity	Bill Andersen	39	0.20	−0.41
	Socialist Party	Ernie Higdon	12	0.06	−0.41
Majority			6,735	35.50	+9.37
Turnout			18,971	84.30	−6.69
Registered electors			22,502

General election, 1978: Tamaki^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National	Robert Muldoon	11,814	56.69	−5.69
	Labour	Audie Cooke-Pennefather	5,504	26.41
	Social Credit	Les Tasker	2,360	11.32
	Values	J Woolnough	791	3.79
	Progressive National	D Harden	276	1.32
	Socialist Unity	Bill Andersen	62	0.29	+0.09
	Independent	P T P Grace	22	0.10
	United	A H Greig	8	0.03
Majority			6,310	30.28	−5.22
Turnout			20,837	68.33	−15.97
Registered electors			30,491

General election, 1981: Tamaki^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National	Robert Muldoon	11,543	53.51	−3.18
	Labour	Richard Northey	6,390	29.62
	Social Credit	John Stevens	3,449	15.98
	Socialist Unity	Bill Andersen	188	0.87	+0.58
Majority			5,153	23.88	−6.40
Turnout			21,570	88.56	+20.23
Registered electors			24,356

General election, 1984: Tamaki^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National	Robert Muldoon	10,414	46.35	−7.16
	Labour	Robin Tulloch	6,656	29.62
	NZ Party	John Hodgson	4,545	20.23
	Social Credit	Eddie Hagen	616	2.74
	Values	Brett Cunningham	93	0.41
	Women's	Sandi Hall	89	0.39
	Independent	D B Butler	51	0.22
Majority			3,758	16.72	−7.16
Turnout			22,464	91.29	+2.73
Registered electors			24,607

General election, 1987: Tamaki^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National	Robert Muldoon	10,466	52.03	+5.68
	Labour	Carl Harding	8,519	42.35
	Democrats	Richard John Pittams	668	3.32
	NZ Party	D T Roberts	343	1.70
	Values	Bruce Symondson	119	0.59
Majority			1,947	9.67	−7.05
Turnout			20,115	84.79	−6.50
Registered electors			23,721

1990 general election: Tamaki^[5]^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National	Robert Muldoon	12,191	58.93	+6.90
	Labour	Malcolm Johnston	4,599	22.23
	Green	Richard Green	2,633	12.73
	NewLabour	Bill Logue	789	3.81
	McGillicuddy Serious	Craig Thomas Young	183	0.88
	Democrats	Craig Douglas Thomas	134	0.65
	Social Credit	Charles Thomas Willoughby	67	0.32
	Independent	Matthew Ford Elliot	49	0.23
	Independent	Victor Bryers	44	0.21
Majority			7,592	36.70	+27.03
Turnout			20,689	85.65	−0.86
Registered electors			24,154

	Name	Votes	Percentage
	Jack Marshall	26	59.10%
	Robert Muldoon	18	40.90%

^ Norton 1988, p. 280.
^ Norton 1988, pp. 379.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Norton 1988, pp. 353.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Norton 1988, pp. 354.
^ Part 1: Votes recorded at each polling place (Technical report). New Zealand Chief Electoral Office. 1990.
^ Gustafson, Barry (2000), His way: a biography of Robert Muldoon, Auckland University Press, pp. 464–465, ISBN 9781869402365, retrieved 8 March 2014

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.