Electoral history of Arnold Nordmeyer

Arnold Nordmeyer in the 1950s.

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

General election, 1935: Oamaru^[1]
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

General election, 1938: Oamaru^[2]
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

General election, 1943: Oamaru^[3]^[4]^[5]
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

General election, 1946: Oamaru^[6]
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

General election, 1949: Oamaru^[7]
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

Brooklyn by-election, 1951
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

General election, 1951: Brooklyn^[9]
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

General election, 1954: Island Bay^[10]
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

General election, 1957: Island Bay^[10]
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

General election, 1960: Island Bay^[10]
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

General election, 1963: Island Bay^[10]
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

General election, 1966: Island Bay^[10]
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

	Name	Votes	Percentage
1963 Leadership election
	Arnold Nordmeyer	34	100%

↑ 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.

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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