1941 Auckland City mayoral election
17 May 1941
Turnout32,969 (50.19%)
 
Candidate John Allum Joe Sayegh
Party Citizens & Ratepayers Labour
Popular vote 16,353 15,010
Percentage 49.60 45.52
Mayor before election

Sir Ernest Davis

 Elected Mayor

John Allum

The 1941 Auckland City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1941, elections were held for the Mayor of Auckland plus other local government positions including twenty-one city councillors. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.

The election saw deputy-mayor John Allum defeating the Labour nominee Joe Sayegh who suffered defeat for the third time in succession. Sayegh did not stand for the council as an inducement to vote for him as mayor, but he was elected to the Harbour Board and Hospital Board. The only successful Labour candidate for the council was Mary Dreaver, with the Citizens & Ratepayers ticket winning all other council seats.

Background

Citizens & Ratepayers

The incumbent mayor Sir Ernest Davis declined to seek a further term. After Davis' retirement the deputy mayor John Allum and councillor Arthur Bailey were seen as likely replacements as the Citizens & Ratepayers Association nominee for mayor.[1] At a meeting chaired by James Donald the Citizens & Ratepayers Association committee selected Allum as the mayoral candidate.[2]

Labour

The Labour Party had six people nominated for the mayoralty:

  • Bill Anderton, MP for Eden since 1935 and former city councillor (1935-41)
  • Mary Dreaver, a Hospital Board member since 1931 city councillor since 1938
  • Jim Purtell, secretary of the Trades and Labour Council and former city councillor (1936-38)
  • Joe Sayegh, Labour's mayoral candidate at the previous two elections and former city councillor (1933-41)
  • Bill Schramm, MP for Auckland East since 1931
  • John Stewart, former city councillor (1935-38)

Sayegh was elected as the Labour candidate at a selection meeting of party delegates.[3]

Others

Two independent candidates also stood. James William Payne, who stood for mayor in 1938, and Charles Bailey, formerly a Labour city councillor from 1933 to 1938.[4]

Mayoralty results

1941 Auckland mayoral election[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Citizens & Ratepayers John Allum 16,353 49.60
Labour Joe Sayegh 15,010 45.52 +11.91
Independent Charles Bailey 1,082 3.28
Independent James William Payne 218 0.66 -0.24
Informal votes 306 0.92 -0.26
Majority 1,343 4.07
Turnout 32,969 50.19 -11.31

Councillor results

1941 Auckland City Council election[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Citizens & Ratepayers Leonard Coakley 17,215 52.21 +0.60
Citizens & Ratepayers Arthur Bailey 16,805 50.97 -5.50
Citizens & Ratepayers Reginald Judson 16,504 50.05 +1.54
Citizens & Ratepayers Fred Ambler 16,305 49.45
Citizens & Ratepayers Ellen Melville 16,251 49.29 +0.22
Citizens & Ratepayers Harold Burton 15,782 47.86 +0.44
Citizens & Ratepayers William Fowlds 15,671 47.53
Citizens & Ratepayers William Brockway Darlow 15,604 47.32
Citizens & Ratepayers Harry Butcher 15,443 46.84 +4.38
Citizens & Ratepayers Wilfred Fortune 15,383 46.65
Citizens & Ratepayers Sidney Takle 15,210 46.13
Labour Mary Dreaver 15,137 45.91 -1.30
Citizens & Ratepayers Keith Buttle 14,984 45.44
Citizens & Ratepayers Roy McElroy 14,890 45.16 +1.84
Citizens & Ratepayers Jack Garland 14,853 45.05
Citizens & Ratepayers Alan Brown 14,668 44.49 +1.48
Citizens & Ratepayers Frederick George Farrell 14,628 44.36
Citizens & Ratepayers Claude James Lovegrove 14,572 44.19
Citizens & Ratepayers Reginald Harrop 14,469 43.88
Citizens & Ratepayers Michael Joseph Moodabe 14,402 43.68
Citizens & Ratepayers Alan Doull 14,001 42.46
Labour Jeremiah James Sullivan 13,858 42.03 -2.63
Labour Bill Anderton 13,838 41.97 -3.94
Citizens & Ratepayers William Power 13,771 41.76
Labour Peter Carr 13,647 41.39 -1.88
Labour Fred Young 13,021 39.49 -2.82
Labour Donald Campbell 13,010 39.46
Labour Paul Richardson 12,841 38.94
Labour Robert Boswell 12,794 38.80
Labour Elizabeth Wynn 12,520 37.97 -2.18
Labour John Stewart 12,445 37.74 -2.44
Labour Frederick George Beer 12,286 37.26
Labour George Gordon Grant 12,167 36.90
Labour Charles Stephen Morris 12,052 36.55
Labour Joseph Glen Kennerley 11,879 36.03 -2.12
Labour Harold Callagher 11,688 35.45
Labour Charles James Matthew 11,646 35.32 -2.99
Labour Harry Gordon Staley 11,558 35.05 -1.67
Labour Esric Hunter 11,461 34.76
Independent Richard Armstrong 3,186 9.66 -34.17
Communist Gordon Watson 2,363 7.16
Communist George Jackson 1,875 5.68
Independent Patricia Hurd 1,724 5.22
Independent James William Payne 1,715 5.20
Communist Henry Mornington Smith 1,626 4.93

References

  1. ↑ "Probable Candidates". The New Zealand Herald. Vol. LXXVIII, no. 23888. 12 February 1941. p. 11.
  2. ↑ "City Election - Candidates Chosen". The New Zealand Herald. Vol. LXXVIII, no. 23899. 25 February 1941. p. 9.
  3. ↑ "Sayegh Once More To Be Mayoralty Candidate". The Northern Advocate. 20 March 1941. p. 3.
  4. ↑ "Nominations". Auckland Star. Vol. LXXII, no. 104. 5 May 1941. p. 8.
  5. 1 2 "Electoral". The New Zealand Herald. Vol. LXXVIII, no. 23973. 24 May 1941. p. 3. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
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