Electoral history of Richard Seddon

This is a summary of the electoral history of Richard Seddon, Prime Minister of New Zealand, (1893–1906).

Parliamentary elections

1876 general election: Hokitika^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Edmund Barff	648	30.71
	Independent	Charles Button	586	27.77
	Independent	Robert Reid	527	24.98
	Independent	Richard Seddon	343	16.26
	Independent	Conrad Hoos	6	0.28
Majority			59^{[nb 1]}
Registered electors			1,547^[2]^{[nb 2]}

1879 general election: Hokitika^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Robert Reid	917	33.09	+8.11
	Independent	Richard Seddon	800	28.87	+12.61
	Independent	Peter Dungan^[4]	561	20.25
	Independent	Edmund Barff	403	14.54	−16.17
	Independent	Hamilton Cuming^[4]	90	3.25
Majority			239^{[nb 1]}	8.63
Turnout			2,771
Registered electors			1,823^[2]^{[nb 2]}

1881 general election, Kumara^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Richard Seddon	700	52.88
	Independent	Edwin Blake	624	47.12
Majority			76	5.74
Turnout			1,324	58.40
Registered electors			2,267

1884 general election, Kumara^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Richard Seddon	667	57.31	+4.33
	Independent	Edwin Blake	497	42.69	−4.43
Majority			170	14.60	+8.86
Turnout			1,164	62.61	+4.21
Registered electors			1,859

1887 general election, Kumara^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Richard Seddon	*Unopposed*
Registered electors			1,816

1890 general election: Westland^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Richard Seddon	1,098	59.10
	Conservative	Joseph Grimmond	760	40.90
Majority			338	18.19
Turnout			1,858	73.06
Registered electors			2,543

1893 general election: Westland^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Richard Seddon	*Unopposed*
Registered electors			4,186

1896 general election: Westland^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Richard Seddon	2,707	76.66
	Conservative	Joseph Grimmond	824	23.34
Majority			1,883	53.33
Turnout			3,531
Registered electors			4,508

1899 general election: Westland^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Richard Seddon	*Unopposed*
Registered electors			4,427

1902 general election: Westland^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Richard Seddon	2,983	92.63
	Independent	Frank Isitt	237	7.36
Majority			2,746	85.27
Turnout			3,220	69.87
Registered electors			4,608

1905 general election: Westland^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Richard Seddon	3,420	92.05	−0.58
	Independent	Harry Cowin	240	6.46
Informal votes			55	1.48
Majority			3,180	85.59	+0.32
Turnout			3,715	81.07	+11.20
Registered electors			4,582

^ ^a ^b As two members were elected, majority is the difference between the second and third candidate.
^ ^a ^b Electors had two votes each.

^ "Declaration of the Poll". West Coast Times. No. 3219. 19 January 1876. p. 2. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
^ ^a ^b McRobie 1989, p. 44.
^ "Hokitika District Election". West Coast Times. No. 3260. 11 September 1879. p. 2. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
^ ^a ^b "West Coast Times". West Coast Times. No. 3234. 12 August 1879. p. 2. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
^ Cooper, G. S. (1882). Votes Recorded for Each Candidate. Government Printer. Retrieved 24 October 2015.
^ Cooper, G. S. (1884). The General Election, 1884. National Library. pp. 1–3. Retrieved 24 December 2014.
^ "The General Election, 1887". National Library. 1887. pp. 1–4. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
^ "The General Election, 1890". National Library. 1891. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
^ The General Election, 1893. Government Printer. 1894. p. 1. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
^ "Electoral District of Westland". West Coast Times. No. 10438. 17 December 1896. p. 3. Retrieved 13 January 2014.
^ "The General Election, 1899". Wellington: Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives. 19 June 1900. p. 1. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
^ "The General Election, 1902". National Library. 1903. pp. 1–4. Retrieved 8 February 2012.
^ The General Election, 1905. National Library. 1906. p. 1. Retrieved 4 December 2014.

McRobie, Alan (1989). Electoral Atlas of New Zealand. Wellington: GP Books. ISBN 0-477-01384-8.
Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.