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1941 Bay of Plenty by-election

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1941 Bay of Plenty by-election
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13 December 1941
Turnout7,699 (83.48%)
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Candidate Bill Sullivan Charles Mills
Party National Labour
Popular vote4,6753,024
Percentage60.7239.27

MP before election

Gordon Hultquist
Labour

Elected MP

Bill Sullivan
National

The Bay of Plenty by-election of 1941 was a by-election for the electorate of Bay of Plenty held on 13 December 1941 during the 26th New Zealand Parliament. The by-election resulted from the death of the previous member Gordon Hultquist of the Labour Party who was killed in World War II.

Contents

The by-election was won by Bill Sullivan of the National Party; Labour lost a seat.

Campaign

Initially there was speculation that there would be no election necessary and that the National Party would not stand a candidate after the death of an MP on service in wartime (as happened in the Waitemata by-election). [1] This was not to be the case and National stood their candidate from the 1938 election and former Mayor of Whakatane Bill Sullivan. [2]

The Labour Party selected Charles Mills, a baker, as their candidate. He was an elected member of the Poverty Bay Electric Power Board and had been a campaign organiser for Hultquist in Bay of Plenty in both the 1935 and 1938 elections. [3]

The incipient Democratic Labour Party (DLP), who had recently formed a branch in the electorate in Ōpōtiki, also contemplated standing a candidate. [4] However the DLP did not contest the seat.

Results

The following table gives the election results:

1941 Bay of Plenty by-election [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
National Bill Sullivan 4,675 60.72 +11.91
Labour Charles Mills3,02439.27
Informal votes1361.76+1.11
Majority 1,65121.44
Turnout 7,69983.48−9.03
Registered electors 9,222

References

  1. "Contest Assured". Gisborne Herald . Vol. LXVIII, no. 20610. 11 November 1941. p. 4. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
  2. "Bay of Plenty Seat - National Party's Candidate". The Press . Vol. LXXVII, no. 23492. 21 November 1941. p. 6. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
  3. "Labour Nominee". Gisborne Herald . Vol. LXVIII, no. 20617. 19 November 1941. p. 6. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
  4. "Bay of Plenty Seat". Gisborne Herald . Vol. LXVIII, no. 20615. 17 November 1941. p. 3. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
  5. "Declaration of Result of Poll". Bay of Plenty Beacon. Vol. 4, no. 199. 5 January 1942. p. 1. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
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