Wellington Suburbs and Country

Wellington Suburbs and Country is a former parliamentary electorate in Wellington, New Zealand, from 1911 to 1919. The electorate was combined from Wellington Suburbs and Wellington Country electorates.

Population centres

In the 1911 electoral redistribution, the North Island gained a further seat from the South Island due to faster population growth. In addition, there were substantial population movements within each island, and significant changes resulted from this. Only four electorates were unaltered, five electorates were abolished, one former electorate was re-established, and four electorates, including Wellington Suburbs and Country, were created for the first time.^[1]

Through the 1911 electoral redistribution, the Wellington North and Wellington East electorates gained small but relatively populous areas from the Wellington Suburbs electorate, which was abolished. The vast majority of the latter's area went to the new Wellington Suburbs and Country, but large areas were also gained from the Otaki and Hutt electorates. Settlements that had been covered by the Wellington Suburbs electorate include Miramar Peninsula, Makara, Makara Beach, Johnsonville, Ohariu Valley, and Tawa. All these were also included in the Wellington Suburbs and Country electorate, and settlements that were gained included Haywards (from the Hutt electorate), and Judgeford, Pauatahanui, Titahi Bay, and Pukerua Bay (all from the Otaki electorate).^[1]

The Wellington Suburbs electorate had gone "dry" in 1909 after the 1908 election, so the new electorate was also "dry". This and the transfer to an electorate with which they had "no community of interest whatever" led to objections to the transfer from the Pauatahanui area to their former Otaki MP William Field ("a man interested in farming") and to the Prime Minister Sir Joseph Ward, to no avail. The area had five hotels serving the Cobb & Co coaches which went north through the settlement, and their bars were closed.^[2]

In the 1918 electoral redistribution, the Wellington Suburbs and Country electorate was abolished again, and its area split between the Wellington Suburbs and the Otaki electorates.^[3] These changes became effective with the 1919 election.^[4]

History

The Wellington Suburbs and Country electorate was represented by two Members of Parliament.^[5]

Members of Parliament

Key

Reform

Election	Winner
1911 election		William Henry Dillon Bell^[6]
1914 election		Robert Alexander Wright^[7]
(Abolished 1919; see Wellington Suburbs and Otaki)

Election results

1911 election

General election, 1911: Wellington Suburbs and Country, first ballot^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Reform	Francis Fisher	2,987	39.71
	Liberal	Robert Fletcher	2,983	39.66
	Independent	Tom Young	1,372	18.24
	Independent	Frank Freeman	180	2.39
Majority			4	0.05
Informal votes			121	1.58
Turnout			7,643	70.89
Registered electors			10,781

General election, 1911: Wellington Suburbs and Country, second ballot^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Reform	Francis Fisher	3,813	50.87
	Liberal	Robert Fletcher	3,682	49.13
Majority			131	1.75
Informal votes			19	0.25
Turnout			7,514	69.70
Registered electors			10,781

Notes

1 2 McRobie 1989, pp. 71–76.
↑ Reilly 2013, p. 86-87.
↑ McRobie 1989, pp. 74–79.
↑ McRobie 1989, p. 79.
↑ Wilson 1985, p. 276.
↑ Wilson 1985, p. 183.
↑ Wilson 1985, p. 247.
↑ AtoJs 1911 election 1912, p. 7.
↑ AtoJs 1911 election 1912, p. 3.

References

McRobie, Alan (1989). Electoral Atlas of New Zealand. Wellington: GP Books. ISBN 0-477-01384-8.
Mansfield, F. W. (1912). The General Election, 1911. National Library. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
Reilly, Helen (2013). Pauatahanui: A local history. Wellington: Pauatahanui Residents Association. ISBN 978-0-473-25439-1.
Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.

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