34th New Zealand Parliament

The 34th New Zealand Parliament was a term of the New Zealand Parliament. It was elected at the 1963 general election on 30 November of that year.

34th Parliament of New Zealand
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Parliament House, Wellington
Overview
Legislative body	New Zealand Parliament
Term	10 June 1964 – 29 October 1966
Election	1963 New Zealand general election
Government	Second National Government
House of Representatives
Members	80
Speaker of the House	Ronald Algie
Prime Minister	Keith Holyoake
Leader of the Opposition	Norman Kirk ––Arnold Nordmeyer until 16 December 1965
Sovereign
Monarch	HM Elizabeth II
Governor-General	HE Brigadier Sir Bernard Edward Fergusson

1963 general election

Main article: 1963 New Zealand general election

The 1963 general election was held on Saturday, 30 November.[1] A total of 80 MPs were elected; 52 represented North Island electorates, 24 represented South Island electorates, and the remaining four represented Māori electorates; this was a gain of one electorate for the North Island from the South Island since the 1960 election.[2] 1,345,836 voters were enrolled and the official turnout at the election was 89.6%.[1]

Sessions

The 34th Parliament sat for three sessions, and was prorogued on 21 October 1966.[3]

Session	Opened	Adjouned
first	10 June 1964	4 December 1964
second	27 May 1965	1 November 1965
third	26 May 1966	21 October 1966

Ministries

The National Party had come to power at the 1960 election, and Keith Holyoake had formed the second Holyoake Ministry on 12 December 1960, which stayed in power until Holyoake stepped down in early 1972. The second National Government remained in place until its defeat at the 1972 election towards the end of that year.[4]

Overview of seats

The table below shows the number of MPs in each party following the 1963 election and at dissolution:

Affiliation		Members
		At 1963 election	At dissolution
	National Government	45	45
	Labour Opposition	35	35
Total		80	80
Working Government majority		10	10

Notes

• The Working Government majority is calculated as all Government MPs less all other parties.

Initial composition of the 34th Parliament

The table below shows the results of the 1963 general election:

Key

  National     Labour     Social Credit  

Electorate results for the 1963 New Zealand general election[5]

Electorate	Incumbent		Winner		Majority	Runner up
General electorates
Ashburton		Geoff Gerard			3,419		Albert George Braddick
Auckland Central		Norman Douglas			3,227		John Strevens
Avon		John Mathison			5,117		Stanley Lester Dodwell
Awarua		Gordon Grieve			3,373		Noel Valentine
Bay of Plenty		Percy Allen			3,025		P E Riden
Buller		Bill Rowling			1,671		Ernie King
Christchurch Central		Robert Macfarlane			1,915		David John Patchett
Clutha		Peter Gordon			3,595		Les McKay
Dunedin Central		Phil Connolly		Brian MacDonell	1,170		George Robert Thorn[6]
Dunedin North		Ethel McMillan			2,524		Edgar Whittleston
Eden		John Rae			3,335		Frank Knipe
Egmont		William Sheat			3,047		John Seddon
Fendalton		Harry Lake			2,740		Bruce Barclay
Franklin		Alfred E. Allen			5,848		Ron Ng-Waishing[7]
Gisborne		Esme Tombleson			902		Bob MacDonald[8]
Grey Lynn		Reginald Keeling		Ritchie Macdonald	5,240		Jolyon Firth
Hamilton		Lance Adams-Schneider			2,642		J M Cairns
Hastings		Duncan MacIntyre			1,944		Ted Keating
Hauraki		Arthur Kinsella			2,873		George Broad
Hawkes Bay		Cyril Harker		Richard Harrison	3,518		J G Woolf [9]
Heretaunga		Ron Bailey			2,135		Bob Kimmins
Hobson		Logan Sloane			31		Vernon Cracknell[nb 1]
Hutt		Walter Nash			3,648		Vere Edward Hampson-Tindale
Invercargill		Ralph Hanan			1,934		O J Henderson
Island Bay		Arnold Nordmeyer			2,388		Fairlie Fergus Curry
Karori		Jack Marshall			4,020		Keith Spry
Lyttelton		Norman Kirk			2,677		Tom Flint
Manawatu		Blair Tennent			2,513		Leonard Thomas Fischer
Manukau		Leon Götz		Colin Moyle	759		Henry Christopher Pryor
Manurewa	New electorate			Phil Amos	1,524		Leon Götz
Marlborough		Tom Shand			2,111		W G Kenyon
Marsden		Don McKay			3,942		O J Lewis
Miramar		Bill Fox			416		Bill Young
Mt Albert		Warren Freer			3,018		Jeffrey Lloyd Reid
Napier		Jim Edwards			785		D O Haskell
Nelson		Stanley Whitehead			2,610		Peter Malone
New Lynn	New electorate			Rex Mason	3,052		C A McLeod
New Plymouth		Ernest Aderman			474		Ron Barclay
North Shore		Dean Eyre			2,757		Reginald Keeling
Onehunga		Hugh Watt			5,127		J P Mason
Otago Central		John George			2,675		Stan Rodger
Otaki		Allan McCready			3,014		George McDonald
Pahiatua		Keith Holyoake			5,733		E J Hemmingsen
Pakuranga	New electorate			Bob Tizard	2,015		Roland Mainwaring Neville-White
Palmerston North		Bill Brown			772		Philip Skoglund
Petone		Mick Moohan			2,448		Peter Love
Piako		Stan Goosman		Geoffrey Sim	5,526		N R D Shewan
Porirua	New electorate			Henry May	3,161		Joseph Walter Miller
Raglan		Douglas Carter			1,850		Henry Uttinger
Rangiora	New electorate			Herbert Pickering	1,425		Te Rino Tirikatene
Rangitikei		Norman Shelton			4,307		Russell Wiseman
Remuera		Ronald Algie			7,001		Frederick Nelson Goodall
Riccarton		Mick Connelly			2,550		Ian Wilson
Rodney		Jack Scott			4,320		Chris Pickett
Roskill		Arthur Faulkner			3,216		Thomas Tucker
Rotorua		Harry Lapwood			2,217		James Phillip Cranston
Selwyn		John McAlpine			3,371		Francis Edward Smith
St Albans		Bert Walker			2,501		John Palmer
St Kilda		Bill Fraser			2,597		Kevin John Marlow
Stratford		Thomas Murray		David Thomson	4,590		J McLafferty
Sydenham		Mabel Howard			5,399		Derek Quigley
Tamaki		Robert Muldoon			3,754		Norman Finch
Taupo	New electorate			Rona Stevenson	275		Arthur John Ingram
Tauranga		George Walsh			4,545		Gordon Walker Stanley Hardaker
Timaru		Basil Arthur			2,831		M J O'Reilly
Waimarino	New electorate			Roy Jack	1,785		Olive Smuts-Kennedy
Waipa		Hallyburton Johnstone		Leslie Munro	3,165		Ronald Nelson Little
Wairarapa		Bert Cooksley		Haddon Donald	501		Jack Williams
Waitaki		Allan Dick			2,019		K S Lysaght
Waitakere		Rex Mason		Martyn Finlay	2,895		Horace Alexander Nash
Waitemata		Norman King			2,919		A G E Pugh
Waitomo		David Seath			4,655		H C Brown
Wallace		Brian Talboys			5,740		J S Reid
Wanganui		George Spooner			1,397		John Grace
Wellington Central		Dan Riddiford			1,508		Frank Kitts
Westland		Paddy Blanchfield			4,925		Winston Austin Reynolds
Māori electorates
Eastern Maori		Tiaki Omana		Puti Tipene Watene	2,566		Arnold Reedy[10]
Northern Maori		Matiu Rata			2,123		James Henare
Southern Maori		Eruera Tirikatene			4,978		Ben Couch
Western Maori		Iriaka Ratana			5,096		Pei Te Hurinui Jones

The 34th Parliament was the first term of parliament during which there were no by-elections held.

Notes

1. Vernon Cracknell was first on election night, but lost when special votes were included

References

1. "General elections 1853–2005 - dates & turnout". Elections New Zealand. Archived from the original on 27 May 2010. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
2. Wilson 1985, p. 173.
3. Wilson 1985, p. 142.
4. Wilson 1985, pp. 89–92.
5. Norton 1988, pp. ?.
6. Norton 1988, p. 212.
7. "Interview with Ron Ng-Waishing". National Library of New Zealand. 1994. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
8. Norton 1988, p. 228.
9. Norton 1988, p. 240.
10. Gustafson 1986, p. 383.

Sources

• 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)
• 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)