25th New Zealand Parliament

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The 25th New Zealand Parliament was a term of the Parliament of New Zealand. It opened on 25 March 1936, following the 1935 election. It was dissolved on 16 September 1938 in preparation for 1938 election.

The 25th Parliament was notable in that it was the first time the Labour Party had a parliamentary majority and formed a government. The new Prime Minister was Michael Joseph Savage. The opposition consisted of the United Party and the Reform Party, which merged to form the National Party in 1936.

The 25th Parliament consisted of eighty representatives, each elected from separate geographical electorates. As the 1935 elections had been a landslide victory for the Labour Party, the 25th Parliament was dominated by Labour MPs — 53 of the 80 were members of the Labour Party. The main opposition consisted of a coalition of the Reform Party, the United Party, and three independents, having a total of 19 MPs. Part way through the 25th Parliament, Reform and United took their coalition to the next step, and merged into a single group. This was called the National Party. The smaller Country Party and Ratana movement had two MPs each, and there were four independents not aligned with the coalition. The Democrat Party, despite winning a significant portion of the vote, did not hold any seats.

Contents 1 Party standings 2 Electoral boundaries 3 Members 3.1 Initial MPs 3.2 New MPs 3.3 Summary of changes

[edit] Party standings

	Party	Leader(s)	Seats at start
	Labour Party	Michael Joseph Savage	53
	Reform Party	Gordon Coates	9
	United Party	George Forbes	7
	Country Party	Harold Rushworth	2
	Ratana	Eruera Tirikatene	2
	Independents		7

[edit] Electoral boundaries

[edit] Members

[edit] Initial MPs

	Name	Party	Electorate	Term
	Anderton, Bill	Labour	Eden	First
	Armstrong, Hubert	Labour	Christchurch East	Fifth
	Atmore, Harry	Independent	Nelson	Seventh
	Barclay, James	Labour	Marsden	First
	Barnard, Bill	Labour	Napier	Third
	Barnes, David	Labour	Waitaki	First
	Barrell, Charles	Labour	Hamilton	First
	Bodkin, William	United	Central Otago	Third
	Broadfoot, Walter	United	Waitomo	Third
	Burnett, Charles	Labour	Tauranga	First
	Burnett, Thomas	Reform	Temuka	Sixth
	Campbell, Archibald	Labour	Chalmers	First
	Carr, Clyde	Labour	Timaru	Third
	Chapman, Charles	Labour	Wellington North	Third
	Christie, Hubert	Labour	Waipawa	First
	Coates, Gordon	Reform	Kaipara	Eighth
	Cobbe, John	United	Oroua	Third
	Coleman, David	Labour	Gisborne	Second
	Cotterill, Joseph	Labour	Wanganui	First
	Coulter, Robert	Labour	Waikato	First
	Cullen, Edward	Labour	Hawkes Bay	First
	Denham, William	Labour	Invercargill	First
	Dickie, Harold	Reform	Patea	Fourth
	Endean, William	Reform	Parnell	Third
	Forbes, George	United	Hurunui	Ninth
	Fraser, Peter	Labour	Wellington Central	Seventh
	Hamilton, Adam	Reform	Wallace	Fifth
	Hargest, James	Independent	Awarua	Second
	Henare, Taurekareka	Reform	Northern Maori	Seventh
	Herring, Horace	Labour	Mid-Canterbury	First
	Hodgens, Joseph	Labour	Palmerston	First
	Holland, Sidney	Reform	Christchurch North	First
	Holyoake, Keith	Reform	Motueka	Second
	Howard, Edwin	Labour	Christchurch South	Sixth
	Hultquist, Gordon	Labour	Bay of Plenty	First
	Hunter, Clifford	Labour	Manawatu	First
	Jones, Frederick	Labour	Dunedin South	Second
	Jordan, William	Labour	Manukau	Fifth
	Kyle, Herbert	Reform	Riccarton	Fourth
	Langstone, Frank	Labour	Waimarino	Fourth
	Lee, John A.	Labour	Grey Lynn	Fourth
	Lowry, Leonard	Labour	Otaki	First
	Lyon, Jack	Labour	Waitemata	First
	Martin, William	Labour	Raglan	Third
	Mason, Rex	Labour	Auckland Suburbs	Fourth
	McCombs, Terry	Labour	Lyttelton	Second
	McDougall, David	Independent	Mataura	Third
	McKeen, Robert	Labour	Wellington South	Fifth
	McMillan, Girvan	Labour	Dunedin West	First
	Meachen, Edwin	Labour	Wairau	First
	Moncur, Alexander	Labour	Rotorua	First
	Munro, James Wright	Labour	Dunedin North	Fifth
	Nash, Walter	Labour	Hutt	Third
	Neilson, Peter	Labour	Dunedin Central	First
	Ngata, Apirana	United	Eastern Maori	Tenth
	Nordmeyer, Arnold	Labour	Oamaru	First
	O'Brien, James	Labour	Westland	Fourth
	Parry, William	Labour	Auckland Central	Sixth
	Petrie, Charles	Labour	Hauraki	First
	Polson, William	Independent*	Stratford	Third
	Ransom, Ethelbert	United	Pahiatua	Fifth
	Ratana, Toko	Ratana	Western Maori	First
	Richards, Arthur	Labour	Roskill	Second
	Roberts, Benjamin	Labour	Wairarapa	First
	Robertson, John	Labour	Masterton	Second
	Roy, James	Independent*	Clutha	First
	Rushworth, Harold	Country	Bay of Islands	Fourth
	Savage, Michael Joseph	Labour	Auckland West	Sixth
	Schramm, Frederick	Labour	Auckland East	Second
	Semple, Bob	Labour	Wellington East	Fourth
	Sexton, Arthur	Country	Franklin	First
	Smith, Sydney	United	New Plymouth	Sixth
	Sullivan, Daniel	Labour	Avon	Sixth
	Thorn, James	Labour	Thames	First
	Tirikatene, Eruera	Ratana	Southern Maori	Independent
	Webb, Paddy	Labour	Buller	Fifth
	Wilkinson, Charles	Independent	Egmont	Fifth
	Williams, Charles	Labour	Kaiapoi	First
	Wilson, Ormond	Labour	Rangitikei	First
	Wright, Robert	Independent	Wellington Suburbs	Eighth

* Three MPs (Hargest, Polson, and Roy) were aligned with the United-Reform coalition, but do not appear to have been members of either United or Reform.

[edit] New MPs

	Name	Party	Electorate	Term
	Osborne, Arthur	Labour	Manukau	First

[edit] Summary of changes

• William Jordan, the Labour MP for Manukau, resigned in 1936. He was replaced by Arthur Osborne, also of the Labour Party.
• In 1936, the Reform Party and the United Party merged, becoming the National Party. The three independents who supported the Reform-United coalition also joined the new group.