Wellington City mayoral election, 1917

14 April 1917



Candidate	John Luke
Party	Citizens League
Popular vote	elected unopposed

Mayor before election

John Luke

Elected Mayor

John Luke

The Wellington City mayoral election, 1917 was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1917, elections were held for the Mayor of Wellington plus other local government positions including fifteen city councillors, also elected biannually. John Luke, the incumbent Mayor sought re-election and retained office unopposed with no other candidates emerging.^[1] The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.

Councillor results

Wellington local election, 1917^[2]^[3]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±
Citizens League	George Frost	7,411	72.90	-15.75
Citizens League	Robert Alexander Wright	7,024	69.09	+16.21
Citizens League	Arthur Richmond Atkinson	6,797	66.86	+13.20
Citizens League	Leonard McKenzie	6,498	63.92	+8.60
Citizens League	Martin Luckie	6,239	61.37	+19.03
Citizens League	William Bennett	6,011	59.13	+17.82
Citizens League	Alexander Veitch	6,011	59.13	+19.69
Citizens League	William Barber	5,754	56.60	-0.30
Citizens League	James Godber	5,738	56.44	+8.13
Independent	John Castle	5,386	52.98
Citizens League	John Shorland	5,258	51.72
Citizens League	Charles Norwood	5,201	51.16	+22.63
Citizens League	William Hildreth	5,034	49.52	-14.21
Citizens League	John Fitzgerald	4,922	48.42	+2.27
Citizens League	William Thompson	4,842	47.63	+7.46
Labour	John Hutcheson	4,551	44.77	-4.11
Citizens League	Thomas Bush	4,546	44.72
Independent	John Swan	4,439	43.66	+10.62
Labour	Harry Holland	4,403	43.31	+13.90
Labour	John Glover	3,995	39.30	+13.88
Labour	James McKenzie	3,961	38.96
Labour	Charles Henry Chapman	3,864	38.01
Independent	Edward Kennedy	3,695	36.35	+13.65
Independent	Francis McParland	3,682	36.22
Independent	John Jenkinson	3,584	35.25	+6.33
Labour	John Read	3,249	31.96	+14.88
Independent	William Wiles	3,078	30.28
Independent	Edward Perry	2,295	22.57

References

↑ "Biennial Election of Mayor". Evening Post. XCIII (89). 14 April 1917. p. 2. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
↑ "Wellington City Council". Free Lance. XVI (878). 4 May 1917. p. 7. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
↑ "The Citizens Ticket". Dominion. 10 (3059). 21 April 1917. p. 2. Retrieved 17 August 2016.

Mayors of Wellington City

Mayors

elected by councillors	George Hunter William Guyton Joseph Dransfield Charles Borlase William Sefton Moorhouse

elected at large	William Hutchison Joseph Dransfield George Allen William Hutchison George Fisher Arthur Winton Brown Samuel Brown John Duthie Charles Johnston Arthur Winton Brown Francis Bell Alfred Brandon Charles Luke George Fisher Francis Bell John Blair John Aitken Thomas William Hislop Alfred Newman Thomas Wilford David McLaren John Luke Robert Wright Charles Norwood George Troup Thomas Hislop Will Appleton Rob Macalister Frank Kitts Michael Fowler Ian Lawrence James Belich Fran Wilde Mark Blumsky Kerry Prendergast Celia Wade-Brown Justin Lester

Mayoral elections

Annual term	1875 1876† 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898

Biennial term	1899 1901 1903† 1905 1907 1909 1910‡ 1911† 1912‡ 1913 1915 1917† 1919 1921 1923 1925 1927 1929 1931 1933†

Triennial term	1935 1938 1941 1944 1947 1950 1953 1956 1959 1962 1965 1968 1971 1974 1977 1980 1983 1986 1989 1992 1995 1998 2001 2004 2007 2010 2013 2016

† Elected unopposed · ‡ By-election

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