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1927 Auckland City mayoral election

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1927 Auckland City mayoral election

← 1925 27 April 1927 1929 →
Turnout21,197 (51.93%)
 
Candidate George Baildon Tom Bloodworth
Party Progressive Citizens' Labour
Popular vote 8,796 7,194
Percentage 41.49 33.93

Mayor before election

George Baildon

Elected mayor

George Baildon

The 1927 Auckland City mayoral election was part of the 1927 New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1927, 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.

Mayoralty results

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1927 Auckland mayoral election[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Citizens' George Baildon 8,796 41.49 −20.66
Labour Tom Bloodworth 7,194 33.93
Independent James Warnock 3,256 15.36
Independent Harold Schmidt 1,703 8.03 −29.82
Informal votes 248 1.16
Majority 1,602 7.55 −16.75
Turnout 21,197 51.93

Councillor results

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1927 Auckland local election[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Citizens' Frederick Brinsden 8,838 51.69
Progressive Citizens' Andrew Entrican 8,675 50.92 −1.40
Progressive Citizens' Matthew John Bennett 8,519 50.18 +4.39
Progressive Citizens' John Dempsey 8,481 50.01 +0.08
Progressive Citizens' Alfred Eady 8,407 49.66 −5.93
Independent Ellen Melville 8,138 48.39 −2.35
Independent John W. Court 7,871 47.13 −6.74
Progressive Citizens' John Allum 7,797 46.78 −3.56
Progressive Citizens' George Knight 7,563 45.67 −4.75
Labour Ted Phelan 7,492 45.34 +13.61
Progressive Citizens' Michael John Coyle 7,389 44.85 −0.98
Progressive Citizens' John Barr Patterson 7,224 44.08 +2.86
Progressive Citizens' Samuel Crookes 7,061 43.31 +3.48
Progressive Citizens' James Donald 6,976 42.91 −2.63
Labour George Davis 6,472 40.53
Progressive Citizens' George Ashley 6,369 40.04
Independent William Lang Casey 5,928 37.96
Labour Oscar McBrine 5,846 37.57
Independent Walter Harry Murray 5,788 37.30
Progressive Citizens' Alice Basten 5,726 37.01 +7.51
Progressive Citizens' Arthur Stallworthy 5,696 36.87
Progressive Citizens' George Brownlee 5,668 36.73 −0.49
Independent Alfred Hall Skelton 5,455 35.73
Independent George Grey Campbell 5,307 35.03
Progressive Citizens' Daniel Flynn 5,215 34.60
Labour Dick Barter 5,083 33.97 +4.05
Progressive Citizens' Harry Jenkins 4,929 33.25
Independent Ewen William Alison 4,925 33.23
Independent Finlay McLiver 4,923 33.22
Labour Jim Purtell 4,874 32.99
Labour Arthur Rosser 4,789 32.59
Independent William James Potter 4,788 32.58
Independent Thomas McNab 4,765 32.47
Labour Jeremiah James Sullivan 4,596 31.68
Independent Alexander Eccles 4,587 31.63
Independent William Hugh McKinney 4,461 31.04 −0.51
Labour Hector James Sutherland 4,432 30.90 +4.16
Labour Charles Stephen Morris 4,299 30.28
Labour Charles Arthur Watts 4,276 30.17 +4.49
Independent John Lundon 4,112 29.39
Labour Bernard Martin 3,995 28.84 +6.65
Labour Bernard Clews 3,922 28.50 +4.84
Independent George Leonard Brett 3,841 28.12
Independent John Brockie King 3,668 27.30
Labour William Edward Sill 3,488 26.45
Independent Martha Schmidt 3,404 26.05
Independent John Francis Shanly 3,389 25.98
Independent Dick Thompson 3,355 25.82 −10.43
Independent H. Oakley Browne 3,284 25.49
Progressive Citizens' Wilfred Skegg 3,154 24.87
Progressive Citizens' William Henry Nagle 2,916 23.75
Independent George Rochester Metcalfe 2,847 23.43 +8.24
Independent Percy McElwain 2,720 22.83
Independent Samuel Turkington 2,685 22.66
Independent Hallyburton Johnstone 2,630 22.40 −9.99
Independent Walter Glover 2,268 20.69 +3.67
Progressive Citizens' Thomas Clinton Pow 2,207 20.41
Independent Sydney Brown 2,104 19.92
Independent George Herbert Guy 1,618 17.63
Labour Bill Schramm 1,419 16.69
Independent Basil Howse 1,362 16.42

References

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  1. ^ a b "Electoral". Auckland Star. 4 May 1927. p. 5. Retrieved 21 January 2018.