Electoral history of Arnold Nordmeyer
This is a summary of the electoral history of Arnold Nordmeyer, Leader of the Labour Party (1963–65) and Member of Parliament for Oamaru (1935–49), Brooklyn (1951–54) & Island Bay (1954–69).
Parliamentary elections
1935 election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Arnold Nordmeyer | 5,296 | 50.93 | ||
United | John MacPherson | 4,154 | 39.94 | -1.53 | |
Democrat | H G Hill | 948 | 9.11 | ||
Informal votes | 136 | 1.30 | +0.92 | ||
Majority | 1,142 | 10.98 | |||
Turnout | 10,398 | 92.36 | +3.84 | ||
Registered electors | 11,257 | ||||
1938 election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Arnold Nordmeyer | 5,971 | 53.07 | +3.14 | |
National | Michael Francis Edward Cooney | 5,213 | 46.33 | ||
Informal votes | 66 | 0.58 | -0.72 | ||
Majority | 758 | 6.73 | -4.25 | ||
Turnout | 11,250 | 95.33 | +2.97 | ||
Registered electors | 11,801 | ||||
1943 election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Arnold Nordmeyer | 5,151 | 47.81 | -5.26 | |
National | T R Beatty | 5,026 | 46.65 | ||
Democratic Labour | G Barclay | 339 | 3.14 | ||
People's Movement | G P Cuttriss | 167 | 1.55 | ||
Informal votes | 90 | 0.83 | +0.25 | ||
Majority | 125 | 1.16 | -5.57 | ||
Turnout | 10,773 | 96.67 | +1.34 | ||
Registered electors | 11,143 | ||||
1946 election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Arnold Nordmeyer | 7,079 | 50.6 | +2.8 | |
National | T R Beatty | 6,847 | 49.0 | +2.4 | |
Independent Liberal | G P Cuttriss | 56 | 0.4 | -1.51 | |
Informal votes | 53 | 0.3 | -0.5 | ||
Majority | 232 | 1.6 | +0.5 | ||
Turnout | 14,035 | 94.8 | -1.8 | ||
Registered electors | 14,736 | ||||
1949 election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
National | Thomas Hayman | 7,415 | 54.6 | ||
Labour | Arnold Nordmeyer | 6,721 | 45.4 | -3.1 | |
Informal votes | 64 | 0.4 | +0.1 | ||
Majority | 694 | 5.0 | |||
Turnout | 14,950 | 95.0 | +0.2 | ||
Registered electors | 15,658 | ||||
1951 by-election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Arnold Nordmeyer | 5,287 | 63.6 | ||
National | Leonard Theodor Jacobsen[8] | 2,902 | 34.9 | ||
Communist | Connie Birchfield | 129 | 1.5 | ||
Majority | 2385 | 28.7 | |||
Turnout | 8,318 | 63.6 | |||
Registered electors | 13,077 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
1951 election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Arnold Nordmeyer | 6,375 | 58.4 | -5.2 | |
National | C W Clift | 4,549 | 41.6 | ||
Majority | 1,826 | 16.8 | -11.9 | ||
Turnout | 13,077 | 84.2 | |||
1954 election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Arnold Nordmeyer | 8,594 | 60.5 | ||
National | J M Whitta | 5,159 | 33.7 | ||
Social Credit | D J F Gardiner | 821 | 5.8 | ||
Communist | Ron Smith | 120 | 0.8 | ||
Majority | 3,824 | 27.6 | |||
Turnout | 16,833 | 85.3 | -1.1 | ||
1957 election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Arnold Nordmeyer | 9,368 | 61.2 | +0.7 | |
National | Saul Goldsmith | 5,159 | 33.7 | ||
Social Credit | E B Elliott | 683 | 4.4 | ||
Communist | Ray Nunes | 105 | 0.7 | ||
Majority | 4,209 | 27.5 | -0.1 | ||
Turnout | 16,792 | 92.3 | +7.0 |
1960 election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Arnold Nordmeyer | 7,459 | 53.3 | -7.9 | |
National | Fairlie Fergus Curry | 5,668 | 40.5 | ||
Social Credit | J A Cameron | 748 | 5.3 | ||
Communist | Ron Smith | 128 | 0.9 | ||
Majority | 1,791 | 12.8 | -14.3 | ||
Turnout | 16,290 | 86.6 | -7.7 | ||
1963 election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Arnold Nordmeyer | 8,372 | 54.9 | +1.6 | |
National | Fairlie Fergus Curry | 5,984 | 39.3 | -1.2 | |
Social Credit | J A Cameron | 711 | 4.7 | -0.6 | |
Communist | Ron Smith | 164 | 1.1 | +0.2 | |
Majority | 2,388 | 15.6 | +2.8 | ||
Turnout | 17,419 | 88.0 | +1.4 | ||
1966 election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Arnold Nordmeyer | 7,267 | 53.7 | -1.2 | |
National | Saul Goldsmith | 4,461 | 33.0 | ||
Social Credit | K A Marshall | 1,487 | 11.0 | ||
Ind. Social Credit | J A Cameron | 174 | 1.2 | -3.5 | |
Communist | Ron Smith | 139 | 1.1 | ±0 | |
Majority | 2,806 | 20.7 | +4.9 | ||
Turnout | 17,147 | 79.6 | -8.4 | ||
Leadership elections
1954 Leadership election
Name | Votes | Percentage | |
---|---|---|---|
Walter Nash | 15 | 62.5% | |
Arnold Nordmeyer | 9 | 37.5% |
1963 Leadership election
Name | Votes | Percentage | |
---|---|---|---|
Arnold Nordmeyer | 34 | 100% |
1965 Leadership election
Name | Votes | Percentage | |
---|---|---|---|
Norman Kirk | 25 | 71.4% | |
Arnold Nordmeyer | 10 | 28.6% |
Notes
- ↑ The General Election, 1935. National Library. 1936. pp. 1–35. 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.
- ↑ "Public Notices". The Evening Post. CXXXVI (136). 6 December 1943. p. 4. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
- ↑ "The New Zealand Official Year-Book, 1951–52". Statistics New Zealand. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Norton 1988, pp. 255.
References
- Norton, Clifford (1988). New Zealand Parliamentary Election Results 1946–1987: Occasional Publications No 1, Department of Political Science. Wellington: Victoria University of Wellington. ISBN 0-475-11200-8.
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