Wellington City mayoral election, 1927

3 May 1927


Turnout	23,043

Candidate	George Troup	Charles Henry Chapman
Party	Civic League	Labour
Popular vote	12,549	10,494
Percentage	54.45	45.55

Mayor before election

Charles Norwood

Elected Mayor

George Troup

The Wellington City mayoral election, 1927 was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1927, elections were held for the Mayor of Wellington plus other local government positions including fifteen councillors. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.

Mayoralty results

Wellington mayoral election, 1927^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Civic League	George Troup	12,549	54.45
	Labour	Charles Henry Chapman	10,494	45.55	-1.58
Majority			2,055	8.91
Turnout			23,043

Councillor results

Wellington local election, 1927^[1]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±
Civic League	Thomas Hislop	11,575	50.23
Civic League	William Gaudin	11,479	49.81
Civic League	George Mitchell	11,435	49.62
Civic League	William Bennett	11,340	49.60	-1.42
Labour	Bob Semple	11,286	48.77	+8.46
Civic League	Henry Bennett	11,223	48.70	-0.80
Civic League	Martin Luckie	10,984	47.66	-0.03
Civic League	John Burns	10,823	46.96	+5.31
Civic League	Herbert Huggins	10,664	46.27	+3.6
Independent	John Caughley	10,415	45.19
Independent	Richard McVilly	10,415	45.19
Labour	Robert McKeen	10,288	44.64	+4.26
Civic League	Frank Meadowcroft	10,165	44.11	-2.17
Civic League	Benjamin Burn	10,036	43.55	-1.20
Civic League	John Aston	9,600	41.66	-3.34
Labour	John Glover	9,084	39.42	+4.91
Civic League	Frederick Manton	8,902	38.63
Labour	Walter Nash	8,816	38.25
Civic League	John Wallace	7,629	33.10
Independent	James Doherty	7,503	32.56
Civic League	Charlton Morpeth	7,393	32.08
Independent	Gilbert Fownes	7,353	31.90
Labour	Walter Bromley	7,287	31.62
Labour	Tom Brindle	7,198	31.23	-1.41
Labour	Andrew Parlane	7,174	31.13
Labour	Tom Young	7,101	31.13	-3.14
Labour	Lawrence Hennessy	7,004	30.81	+2.81
Independent	Allison Murray	6,102	26.48
Independent	Charles Baker	6,000	26.03
Independent	Percy Brady	4,345	18.85
Independent	Archibald Whitelaw	4,245	18.42
Independent	Frederick Freeman	3,704	16.07

References

1 2 "Election Notices". Evening Post. CXIII (103). 4 May 1927. p. 6. Retrieved 22 July 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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