Tauranga by-election, 1993

17 April 1993 (1993-04-17)

Turnout

12,631


Candidate	Winston Peters	Greg Pittams
Party	Independent	McGillicuddy Serious
Popular vote	11,458	271
Percentage	90.71	2.15

Tauranga in relation to New Zealand

Member before election

Winston Peters
National

Elected Member

Winston Peters
Independent

The Tauranga by-election was a by-election in the New Zealand electorate of Tauranga, a city in New Zealand's North Island. It took place on 17 April 1993, and was precipitated by the resignation from parliament of sitting MP Winston Peters. Peters, who had been increasingly at odds with his National Party colleagues, had resigned both from his party and from Parliament. He contested the seat as an independent.^[1]

None of the major parties contested this election, claiming the upcoming general election was close enough to make the by-election nothing but a publicity stunt. The National Party did not propose a candidate to replace Peters. As expected, Peters won a massive majority, receiving just over ninety percent of the vote. While Peters' grip on Tauranga was so secure at the time that no one believed he would lose, there was some question about what his margin would have been had the other parties challenged him. The distant runner-up in the election was a member of the McGillicuddy Serious Party, a joke party.

Results

The following table gives the election results:

Tauranga by-election, 1993^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Winston Peters	11,458	90.71
	McGillicuddy Serious	Greg Pittams	271	2.15
	Independent	Peter Wakeman	190	1.50
	HFA	G J Barham	185	1.46
	Silent Majority	P R Watson	184	1.46
	Independent	I M Baikie	109	0.86
	Natural Law	L Lee	101	0.80
	HEMP	A G Bedford	55	0.44
	Blokes' Liberation Front	R S Tengblad	29	0.23
	Aotearoa Partnership	R A Campbell	25	0.20
	Christ's Ambassadors Union	Victor Bryers	24	0.19
Majority			11,187	88.57
Informal votes			449	3.43
Turnout			13,080	49.08
Registered electors			26,651

References

↑ Levy, Danya (28 November 2011). "Winston Peters aims to lead the opposition". The Dominion Post. Retrieved 28 February 2012.
↑ Election results 1993, pp. 175f.

Part 1: Votes recorded at each polling place (Technical report). Chief Electoral Office. 1993.

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