28th New Zealand Parliament
The 28th New Zealand Parliament was a term of the New Zealand Parliament. It was elected at the 1946 general election in November of that year.
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Overview | |||||
Legislative body | New Zealand Parliament | ||||
Term | 24 June 1947 – 21 October 1949 | ||||
Election | 1946 New Zealand general election | ||||
Government | First Labour Government | ||||
House of Representatives | |||||
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Members | 80 | ||||
Speaker of the House | Robert McKeen | ||||
Prime Minister | Peter Fraser | ||||
Leader of the Opposition | Sidney Holland | ||||
Legislative Council | |||||
Members | 36 (at start) 33 (at end) | ||||
Speaker of the Council | Bernard Martin from 29 June 1948 ––Mark Fagan until 31 December 1947 † | ||||
Leader of the Council | David Wilson | ||||
Sovereign | |||||
Monarch | HM George VI | ||||
Governor-General | HE Lt. Gen. The Lord Freyberg |
1946 general election
The 1946 general election was held on Tuesday, 26 November in the Māori electorates and on Wednesday, 27 November in the general electorates, respectively.[1] A total of 80 MPs were elected; 49 represented North Island electorates, 27 represented South Island electorates, and the remaining four represented Māori electorates.[2] 1,081,898 voters were enrolled and the official turnout at the election was 93.5%.[1]
Sessions
The 28th Parliament sat for five sessions, and was prorogued on 3 November 1949:[3]
Session | Opened | Adjouned |
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first | 24 June 1947 | 27 November 1947 |
second | 22 June 1948 | 3 December 1948 |
third | 28 June 1949 | 21 October 1949 |
Ministries
Peter Fraser of the Labour Party had been Prime Minister since 27 March 1940. He had formed the first Fraser Ministry on 1 April 1940 and the second Fraser Ministry on 30 April 1940.[4] The second Fraser Ministry remained in power until its defeat by the National Party at the 1949 election.[5][6]
Party standings
Party | Leader(s) | Seats at start | |
Labour Party | Peter Fraser | 44 | |
National Party | Sidney Holland | 38 |
Members
Initial MPs
The table below shows the results of the 1946 general election:
Key
Electorate | Incumbent | Winner | Majority | Runner up | |||
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General electorates | |||||||
Arch Hill | New electorate | Bill Parry[9] | 6,585 | Edward James Clark | |||
Ashburton | New electorate | Geoff Gerard | 1,453 | Mabel Newlands | |||
Auckland Central | Bill Parry[9] | Bill Anderton[10] | 3,478 | Leon Götz[11] | |||
Avon | Dan Sullivan | 5,180 | Robert Alexander McDowell | ||||
Awarua | George Richard Herron | 2,588 | Gilbert Gregory Mitchell | ||||
Bay of Plenty | Bill Sullivan[12] | 1,634 | Ray Boord[13][7] | ||||
Brooklyn | New electorate | Peter Fraser[14] | 3,935 | Stewart Hardy | |||
Buller | Paddy Webb | Jerry Skinner | 2,912 | Phil McDonald | |||
Central Otago | William Bodkin | 2,909 | Claude Charles Capell | ||||
Christchurch Central | New electorate | Robert Macfarlane | 4,420 | Alan J. Wills | |||
Clutha | James Roy | 2,140 | John Patrick Thompson | ||||
Dunedin Central | Peter Neilson | Phil Connolly | 2,000 | Stuart Sidey[15][7] | |||
Dunedin North | Robert Walls | 1,630 | Norman Jones[16] | ||||
Eden | Bill Anderton[10] | Wilfred Fortune[17] | 1,281 | Warren Freer[18][7] | |||
Egmont | Ernest Corbett[19] | 3,398 | Clarence Robert Parker | ||||
Fendalton | New electorate | Sidney Holland | 3,004 | Alan Williams | |||
Franklin | Jack Massey | 4,023 | Alex Gunn | ||||
Gisborne | David Coleman | 2,015 | Harry Barker[20] | ||||
Grey Lynn | Fred Hackett | 5,910 | Harold Stapleton Barry | ||||
Hamilton | Hilda Ross | 327 | John Granville | ||||
Hastings | New electorate | Ted Cullen | 483 | Eric Pryor[21] | |||
Hauraki | Andrew Sutherland | 2,891 | John William Neate | ||||
Hawke's Bay | Ted Cullen | Cyril Harker | 2,014 | Henry Edward Beattie | |||
Hobson | New electorate | Sidney Walter Smith | 3,580 | Hubert Knox Hatrick | |||
Hurunui | William Gillespie | 1,440 | John Mathison | ||||
Hutt | Walter Nash | 2,587 | Jim Vogel | ||||
Invercargill | William Denham | Ralph Hanan | 224 | William Denham | |||
Island Bay | New electorate | Robert McKeen | 3,958 | Herbert Edward Childs | |||
Karori | New electorate | Charles Bowden | 2,042 | Patrick Connolly McGavin | |||
Lyttelton | Terry McCombs | 1,543 | Ted Taylor[22] | ||||
Manawatu | Matthew Oram | 2,467 | Phil Holloway | ||||
Marlborough | Ted Meachen | Tom Shand | 179 | Ted Meachen | |||
Marsden | Alfred Murdoch | 2,149 | John Stewart | ||||
Miramar | New electorate | Bob Semple | 2,482 | Leonard Theodor Jacobsen[23] | |||
Mornington | New electorate | Wally Hudson | 4,681 | Lewis Donald McIver | |||
Mount Albert | New electorate | Arthur Shapton Richards | 1,857 | Frederick Ashley Hosking | |||
Mount Victoria | New electorate | Jack Marshall | 911 | Eugene Casey | |||
Napier | Tommy Armstrong | 1,845 | Alan John Price | ||||
Nelson | vacant[nb 1] | Edgar Neale | 585 | Cyril Harold Goodman | |||
New Plymouth | Ernest Aderman | 405 | George Nimmo | ||||
North Shore | New electorate | Martyn Finlay | 249 | Henry Thorne Morton[24] | |||
Oamaru | Arnold Nordmeyer | 232 | Thomas Ross Beatty | ||||
Onehunga | Arthur Osborne | 3,424 | William Kenneth King | ||||
Onslow | New electorate | Harry Combs | 1,578 | Philip Patrick Lynch | |||
Otahuhu | Charles Robert Petrie | 220 | Albert Murdoch | ||||
Otaki | Leonard Lowry | Jimmy Maher | 44 | Jim Thorn | |||
Pahiatua | Keith Holyoake | 3,697 | Otto Ernest Niederer | ||||
Palmerston North | Joe Hodgens | Ormond Wilson | 928 | Gus Mansford | |||
Parnell | New electorate | Duncan Rae | 206 | Bill Schramm | |||
Patea | William Sheat | 870 | Richard John O'Dea | ||||
Petone | New electorate | Mick Moohan | 4,019 | George London | |||
Piako | New electorate | Stan Goosman | 5,101 | Ben Waters | |||
Ponsonby | New electorate | Ritchie Macdonald | 3,431 | Peter E Dempsey[25] | |||
Raglan | Hallyburton Johnstone | Alan Baxter | 13 | Hallyburton Johnstone | |||
Rangitikei | Edward Gordon | 2,307 | John Capstick | ||||
Remuera | Ronald Algie | 4,410 | James Freeman | ||||
Riccarton | Jack Watts | Angus McLagan | 3,875 | Vic Wilson | |||
Rodney | New electorate | Clifton Webb | 2,850 | Alex Dixon | |||
Roskill | Arthur Shapton Richards | Frank Langstone | 155 | Roy McElroy[26] | |||
St Albans | New electorate | Jack Watts | 86 | Morgan Williams[27] | |||
St Kilda | New electorate | Fred Jones | 1,248 | Leonard James Tobin Ireland | |||
Selwyn | New electorate | John McAlpine | 472 | Alan Sharp | |||
Sydenham | New electorate | Mabel Howard | 6,746 | Ruric Hunter | |||
Tamaki | New electorate | Tom Skinner | 231 | John George Concanon Wales | |||
Tauranga | Frederick Doidge | 2,704 | Dudley Alexander Hill | ||||
Timaru | Clyde Carr | 520 | Jack Acland[28] | ||||
Waikato | Stan Goosman | Geoffrey Sim | 4,385 | John Dwyer | |||
Waimarino | Frank Langstone | Paddy Kearins | 681 | Norman Robert Hill | |||
Waimate | New electorate | David Campbell Kidd | 789 | William Roy Davison | |||
Wairarapa | Ben Roberts | Garnet Hercules Mackley | 235 | George Anders Hansen | |||
Waitakere | New electorate | Rex Mason | 2,797 | Archibald Morrison Laing | |||
Waitomo | Walter Broadfoot | 3,951 | Alan George Goldsmith | ||||
Wallace | Adam Hamilton | Tom Macdonald | 3,716 | David Johnston Munro | |||
Wanganui | Joe Cotterill | 1,934 | Eric Merewether | ||||
Wellington Central | Peter Fraser | Charles Henry Chapman | 1,680 | Agnes Louisa Weston[nb 2] | |||
Westland | James O'Brien | 4,716 | E Frank Chivers[31][32] | ||||
Māori electorates | |||||||
Eastern Maori | Tiaki Omana | 1,517 | Āpirana Ngata | ||||
Northern Maori | Tapihana Paraire Paikea | 2,555 | James Henare[33] | ||||
Southern Maori | Eruera Tirikatene | 581 | Vernon Ohaia Mason Thomas | ||||
Western Maori | Matiu Ratana | 6,491 | Hoeroa Marumaru[34] |
Table footnotes:
- Harry Atmore, the previous holder of the Nelson electorate, died on 20 August 1946
- Claude Weston died suddenly on 10 November 1946 and was replaced by his wife[29][30]
By-elections during 28th Parliament
There were a number of changes during the term of the 28th Parliament.
Electorate and by-election | Date | Incumbent | Cause | Winner | |||
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Avon | 1947 | 28 May | Dan Sullivan | Death | Jock Mathison | ||
Mount Albert | 1947 | 24 September | Arthur Richards | Death | Warren Freer | ||
Westland | 1947 | 3 December | James O'Brien | Death | Jim Kent |
Notes
- "General elections 1853–2005 - dates & turnout". Elections New Zealand. Archived from the original on 27 May 2010. Retrieved 10 December 2011.
- Scholefield 1950, p. 90.
- Scholefield 1950, p. 70.
- Scholefield 1950, p. 50.
- Scholefield 1950, pp. 50–51.
- Beaglehole, Tim. "Fraser, Peter". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 11 December 2011.
- "The General Election, 1946". National Library. 1947. pp. 1–11, 14. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
- "The Lists Close" (25951). Evening Star. 16 November 1946. p. 9.
- Wilson 1985, p. 225.
- Wilson 1985, p. 180.
- Gustafson 1986, p. 315.
- Wilson 1985, p. 237.
- Norton 1988, p. 200.
- Wilson 1985, p. 198.
- Norton 1988, p. 212.
- Gustafson 1986, pp. 323f.
- Wilson 1985, p. 197.
- Norton 1988, p. 220.
- Wilson 1985, p. 190.
- Milton-Tee, Ann. "Harry Heaton Barker". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
- Gustafson 1986, p. 382.
- Gustafson 1986, p. 387.
- "Public Notices". The Evening Post. CXXXVI (136). 6 December 1943. p. 4. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
- Gustafson 1986, p. 334.
- Gustafson 1986, pp. 360f.
- Gustafson 1986, p. 375.
- Wilson 1985, p. 245.
- Wilson 1985, p. 179.
- Gustafson 1986, p. 389.
- "Claude Horace Weston". Auckland War Memorial Museum. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
- "General Election". Auckland Star. LXXIV (203). 27 August 1943. p. 4. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
- "Chivers, E Frank, DSM, MID". Torpedo Bay Navy Museum. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
- Gustafson 1986, p. 367.
- Gustafson 1986, p. 377.
References
- Gustafson, Barry (1986). The First 50 Years : A History of the New Zealand National Party. Auckland: Reed Methuen. ISBN 0-474-00177-6.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Scholefield, Guy (1950) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1949 (3rd ed.). Wellington: Govt. Printer.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)