Electoral history of Michael Joseph Savage

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This is a summary of the electoral history of Michael Joseph Savage, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1935–40), Leader of the Labour Party (1933–40), and Member of Parliament for Auckland West (1919–40).

Parliamentary elections

General election, 1911: Auckland Central^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Albert Glover	4,061	53.20	-10.87
	Socialist	Michael Joseph Savage	1,800	23.58
	Independent	James Gleeson	1,171	15.34
	Reform	William Richardson	601	7.87
Informal votes			99	1.29	-0.92
Majority			2,261	29.62	-10.56
Turnout			7,633

General election, 1914: Auckland Central^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Albert Glover	4,053	56.93	+3.73
	Social Democrat	Michael Joseph Savage	1,751	24.59	+1.01
	Reform	William Richardson	1,315	18.47	+10.60
Informal votes			100	1.40
Majority			2,302	32.33
Turnout			7,119

General election, 1919: Auckland West^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Michael Joseph Savage	3,750	44.51
	Reform	Charles Frederick Bennett	3,270	38.81
	Liberal	Andrew Jack Entrican	1,404	16.66
Majority			480	5.69
Turnout			8,424

General election, 1922: Auckland West^[4]^[5]^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Michael Joseph Savage	5,649	56.53	+12.02
	Reform	John Farrell	4,345	43.47
Majority			1,304	13.04
Turnout			9,994

General election, 1925: Auckland West^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Michael Joseph Savage	5,677	52.19	-4.34
	Reform	Samuel Oldfield	5,201	47.81
Majority			476	4.38
Informal votes			122	1.11
Turnout			11,000	89.55
Registered electors			12,283

General election, 1928: Auckland West^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Michael Joseph Savage	5,361	47.01	-5.18
	United	R B Spiers	4,020	35.25
	Reform	Frank Adeane	2,021	17.72
Majority			1,341	11.76
Turnout			11,402

General election, 1931: Auckland West^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Michael Joseph Savage	6,442	62.93	+15.92
	United	Hugh Ross Mackenzie	1,925	18.80
	Reform	John Allum	1,870	18.27
Majority			4,517	44.12
Informal votes			63	0.61
Turnout			10,300	79.78
Registered electors			12,911

General election, 1935: Auckland West^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Michael Joseph Savage	8,567	72.93	+10.00
	United	Ernest David Stallworthy	2,387	20.32
	Democrat	Joseph Alexander Govan	792	6.74
Majority			6,180	52.61
Turnout			11,746

General election, 1938: Auckland West^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Michael Joseph Savage	11,591	75.88	+2.95
	National	John W. Kealy	3,584	23.46
Informal votes			100	0.65
Majority			8,007	52.41	-0.20
Turnout			15,275

	Name	Votes	Percentage
1933 Leadership election^[13]
	Michael Joseph Savage	24	100%

↑ "The General Election, 1911". National Library. 1912. pp. 1–14. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
↑ Hislop, J. (1915). The General Election, 1914. National Library. pp. 1–33. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
↑ Hislop, J. (1921). The General Election, 1919. National Library. pp. 1–6. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
↑ The New Zealand Official Year-Book. Government Printer. 1924. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
↑ McRobie 1989, pp. 83f.
↑ Hislop 1923, pp. 1–6.
↑ The General Election, 1925. Government Printer. 1926. p. 2. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
↑ Skinner, W. A. G. (1929). The General Election, 1928. Government Printer. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
↑ The General Election, 1931. Government Printer. 1932. p. 1. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
↑ The New Zealand Official Year-Book. Government Printer. 1936. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
↑ "The General Election, 1938". National Library. 1939. pp. 1–6. Retrieved 8 February 2012.
↑ Gustafson 1986, p. 114.
↑ Gustafson 1986, p. 153.

Gustafson, Barry (1986). From the Cradle to the Grave: A biography of Michael Joseph Savage. Auckland, New Zealand: Reed Methuen. ISBN 0-474-00138-5.

Michael Joseph Savage
23 March 1872 – 27 March 1940 Prime Minister of New Zealand (1935–40) • Leader of the Labour Party (1933–40) • Member of Parliament for Auckland West (1919–40)
Premiership	1935–1940
Elections	1935 1938
Leadership elections	1933
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