Electoral history of Peter Fraser

Peter Fraser in 1946.

This is a summary of the electoral history of Peter Fraser, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1940–49), Leader of the Labour Party (1940–50) and Member of Parliament for Wellington Central (1918–46) then Brooklyn (1946–50).

Parliamentary elections

1918 by-election

Wellington Central by-election, 1918^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Peter Fraser	2,668	56.54
	Independent Labour	Joe Mack	1,044	22.12
	Liberal	William Hildreth	784	16.61
	Independent	Harry Atmore	185	3.92
	Independent	Lindsay John Frederick Garmston	29	0.61
	Independent	William Cyril Tanner	9	0.19
Majority			1,624	34.41
Turnout			4,719	51.43	-33.04
Registered electors			9,176
	Labour gain from Liberal		Swing

1919 election

General election, 1919: Wellington Central^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Peter Fraser	4,486	57.33	+0.79
	Liberal	Frederick Pirani	3,430	42.67
Majority			1,146	14.64	-19.77
Turnout			7,826

1922 election

General election, 1922: Wellington Central^[3]^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Peter Fraser	5,827	64.73	+7.40
	Independent	William Bennett	1,625	18.05
	Liberal-Labour	Archibald Sievwright	1,550	17.21
Majority			4,202	46.67	+32.03
Informal votes			102	1.13
Turnout			9,002

1925 election

General election, 1925: Wellington Central^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Peter Fraser	5,459	64.02	-0.71
	Reform	Andrew Sloane	3,069	35.98
Majority			2,390	28.02	-18.65
Turnout			8,528

1928 election

General election, 1928: Wellington Central^[6]^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Peter Fraser	7,353	60.81	-3.21
	Reform	Andrew Sloane	3,895	32.21	-3.77
	Independent Labour	Margaret Young	843	6.97
Majority			3,458	28.60	+0.58
Informal votes			145	1.19
Turnout			12,236	83.61
Registered electors			14,635

1931 election

General election, 1931: Wellington Central^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Peter Fraser	6,308	57.26	-3.55
	United	Robert Darroch	3,837	34.83
	Independent	Edward William Nicolaus	688	6.25
	Communist	Richard Francis Griffin	183	1.66
Majority			2,471	22.43	-6.17
Informal votes			91	0.82	-0.37
Turnout			11,107	74.82	-8.79
Registered electors			14,845

1935 election

General election, 1935: Wellington Central^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Peter Fraser	7,673	69.43	12.17
	United/Reform	Will Mason	3,380	30.57
Majority			4,293	38.84	+16.41
Turnout			11,053

1938 election

General election, 1938: Wellington Central^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Peter Fraser	9,376	62.86	-6.19
	National	Will Appleton	5,539	37.14
Majority			3,837	25.73	-12.37
Informal votes			89	0.59
Turnout			15,004	86.74	+5.05
Registered electors			17,297

1943 election

General election, 1943: Wellington Central^[11]^[12]^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Peter Fraser	6,822	46.12	-16.74
	National	Will Appleton	5,616	37.97	+0.83
	Independent	Colin Scrimgeour	2,253	15.23
	Independent	William Julius Hyde	100	0.68
Majority			1,206	8.15	-17.57
Informal votes			223	1.49	+0.89
Turnout			15,014	80.59	+6.15
Registered electors			18,629

1946 election

General election, 1946: Brooklyn^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Peter Fraser	7,600	66.60	+20.48
	National	S Hardy	3,811	33.39
Majority			3,789	33.20	+25.05
Turnout			11,411

1949 election

General election, 1949: Brooklyn^[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Peter Fraser	7,176	63.91	-2.69
	National	Berta Burns	3,811	33.94
	Communist	Connie Birchfield	241	2.14
Majority			3,365	29.96	-3.24
Turnout			11,228

Leadership elections

1933 Deputy-leadership election

	Name	Votes	Percentage
1933 Deputy-leadership election
	Peter Fraser	24	100%

1940 Leadership election

	Name	Votes	Percentage
1940 Leadership election
	Peter Fraser	33	68.7%
	Gervan McMillan	12	25.0%
	Clyde Carr	3	6.2%

Notes

↑ "A victory for Labour". The Evening Post. XCVI (83). 4 October 1918. p. 3. Retrieved 15 March 2014.
↑ Hislop, J. (1921). The General Election, 1919. National Library. pp. 1–6. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
↑ The New Zealand Official Year-Book. Government Printer. 1924. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
↑ Hislop 1923, pp. 1–6.
↑ The General Election, 1925. Government Printer. 1926. p. 2. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
↑ The General Election, 1928. Government Printer. 1929. p. 6. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
↑ "Declaration of Result of Poll for the Electoral District of Wellington Central". New Zealand Truth (1200). 29 November 1928. p. 14. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
↑ "Declaration of Result of Poll for the Electoral District of Wellington Central". The Evening Post. CXII (140). 10 December 1931. p. 2. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
↑ The New Zealand Official Year-Book. Government Printer. 1936. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
↑ "The General Election, 1938". National Library. 1939. pp. 1–6. Retrieved 8 February 2012.
↑ "The General Election, 1943". National Library. 1944. p. 11. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
↑ "Results from all Electorates". Evening Post. CXXXVI (76). 27 September 1943. p. 6. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
↑ "City Nominations". Evening Post. CXXXVI (61). 9 September 1943. p. 9. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
↑ "The General Election, 1946". National Library. 1947. pp. 1–11, 14. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
↑ "The General Election, 1949". National Library. 1950. pp. 1–5, 8. Retrieved 3 January 2014.

References

Bassett, Michael; King, Michael (2000). Tomorrow Comes the Song: A Life of Peter Fraser. Auckland: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-029793-6.
Thorn, James (1952). Peter Fraser: New Zealand's Wartime Prime Minister. London: Odhams Press.

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