Onslow (New Zealand electorate)

Onslow was a New Zealand parliamentary electorate, from 1946 to 1963, and then from 1993 to 1996 in the Wellington area. It was represented by three Members of Parliament.

Onslow electorate boundaries between 1993 and 1996.

Population centres

The 1941 New Zealand census had been postponed due to World War II, so the 1946 electoral redistribution had to take ten years of population growth and movements into account. The North Island gained a further two electorates from the South Island due to faster population growth. The abolition of the country quota through the Electoral Amendment Act, 1945 reduced the number and increased the size of rural electorates. None of the existing electorates remained unchanged, 27 electorates were abolished, eight former electorates were re-established, and 19 electorates were created for the first time, including Onslow.[1]

The electorate covered the northern suburbs of the city of Wellington, i.e. Ngaio, Khandallah and Johnsonville. The name Onslow comes from the former Borough of Onslow which covered Wadestown until April 1907 its south ward and its most populous area[2] and the remaining Khandallah Ngaio areas until they too joined Wellington City in 1919.

History

The electorate was established for the 1946 election.

The unsuccessful National candidate in 1954 was Wilfred Fortune, who had represented Eden in Auckland from 1946 to 1954.

The electorate lasted until the 1963 election, when the Karori electorate was established.

The electorate was re-established in the 1993 election to replace Ohariu. Peter Dunne, who had previously represented the Ohariu electorate, was the successful candidate.[3] For the first MMP election, the 1996 election, it was renamed back to Ohariu-Belmont, and included Belmont in the Hutt Valley.

Members of Parliament

The Onslow electorate was represented by three Members of Parliament.[4]

Key

Labour Independent Future United NZ

Elections	Winner
1946 election		Harry Combs
1949 election
1951 election
1954 by-election		Henry May
1954 election
1957 election
1960 election
(Electorate abolished 1963–1993)
1993 election		Peter Dunne



(Electorate abolished in 1996; see Ohariu-Belmont)

Election results

1993 election

1993 general election: Onslow[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Peter Dunne	9,096	41.61
	National	George Mathew	8,031	36.74
	Alliance	Phillida Bunkle	3,077	14.07
	NZ First	Elisabeth Burgess	682	3.12
	Christian Heritage	Colin Byford	457	2.09
	Independent	Sarah Lysaght	296	1.35
	McGillicuddy Serious	Thomas Barker	130	0.59
	Natural Law	Mary-Anne McGregor	62	0.28
	Independent	Keith Leslie Stewart	24	0.10
Majority			1,065	4.87
Turnout			21,855	86.98
Registered electors			25,126

1960 election

1960 general election: Onslow[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Henry May	8,670	45.25	-10.72
	National	Maida Clark	7,880	41.12
	Social Credit	Eric Elliott	920	4.80
	Communist	Sydney Smith	101	0.52
Majority			790	4.12	-12.73
Turnout			17,571	91.70	-2.99
Registered electors			19,160

1957 election

1957 general election: Onslow[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Henry May	8,882	55.97	+7.20
	National	Kevin O'Brien	6,207	39.11
	Social Credit	Frederick Buckley	779	4.90
Majority			2,675	16.85	+13.65
Turnout			15,868	94.69	+5.08
Registered electors			16,757

1954 election

1954 general election: Onslow[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Henry May	7,898	48.77
	National	Wilfred Fortune	7,379	45.56
	Social Credit	Barney Thomas Daniel	916	5.65
Majority			519	3.20
Turnout			16,193	89.61
Registered electors			18,070

1954 by-election

1954 Onslow by-election: Onslow[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Henry May	*unopposed*

1951 election

1951 general election: Onslow[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Harry Combs	9,539	53.08	-6.76
	National	John S. Meadowcroft	8,433	46.92	+0.64
Majority			1,106	6.15	-6.12
Turnout			17,972	90.62	-4.44
Registered electors			19,831

1949 election

1949 general election: Onslow[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Harry Combs	9,391	59.84	+4.27
	National	John S. Meadowcroft	7,464	47.56
Majority			1,927	12.27	+1.15
Turnout			15,693	86.18	-6.64
Registered electors			18,209

1946 election

1946 general election: Onslow[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Harry Combs	7,880	55.57
	National	Philip Patrick Lynch	6,302	44.43
Majority			1,578	11.12
Turnout			14,182	92.82
Registered electors			15,278

Notes

McRobie 1989, pp. 91–96.
Municipal Consolidation. Evening Post, 16 May 1907 page 6
Rutherford, Hamish; Pryor, Nicole (8 June 2013). "Peter Dunne: Out in the cold". Stuff. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
Wilson 1985, p. 269.
Part 1: Votes recorded at each polling place (Technical report). New Zealand Chief Electoral Office. 1993. pp. 12, 161.
Norton 1988, pp. 297.
"The New Zealand Official Year-Book, 1951–52". Statistics New Zealand. Archived from the original on 23 June 2012. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
"The General Election, 1949". National Library. 1950. pp. 1–5, 8. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
"The General Election, 1946". National Library. 1947. pp. 1–11, 14. Retrieved 1 January 2014.

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References

McRobie, Alan (1989). Electoral Atlas of New Zealand. Wellington: GP Books. ISBN 0-477-01384-8.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)
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)

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[FOOTNOTEMcRobie198991–96-1] McRobie 1989, pp. 91–96.

[2] Municipal Consolidation. Evening Post, 16 May 1907 page 6

[Out_in_the_cold-3] Rutherford, Hamish; Pryor, Nicole (8 June 2013). "Peter Dunne: Out in the cold". Stuff. Retrieved 30 December 2013.

[FOOTNOTEWilson1985269-4] Wilson 1985, p. 269.

[5] Part 1: Votes recorded at each polling place (Technical report). New Zealand Chief Electoral Office. 1993. pp. 12, 161.

[FOOTNOTENorton1988297-6] Norton 1988, pp. 297.

[7] "The New Zealand Official Year-Book, 1951–52". Statistics New Zealand. Archived from the original on 23 June 2012. Retrieved 19 November 2012.

[8] "The General Election, 1949". National Library. 1950. pp. 1–5, 8. Retrieved 3 January 2014.

[9] "The General Election, 1946". National Library. 1947. pp. 1–11, 14. Retrieved 1 January 2014.

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