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1968 Porirua mayoral election

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1968 Porirua mayoral election

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Turnout3,500
 
Candidate Whitford Brown Rairi Field
Party Independent Ind. Progressive
Popular vote 2,158 1,287
Percentage 61.65 36.77

Mayor before election

Whitford Brown

Elected mayor

Whitford Brown

The 1968 Porirua mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. The elections were held for the role of Mayor of Porirua plus other local government positions including ten city councillors, also elected triennially. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.

Background

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The incumbent Mayor, Whitford Brown, sought re-election for a third term. He was opposed by Rairi Christian Field, who had stood against Brown in 1962. He led an independent progressive ticket organised by the Progress for Porirua Association. Councillor Bill Arnold's wife, Maxine Arnold, was elected to the Porirua District Licensing Trust, believed to be the first woman in New Zealand to win a seat on a licensing trust.[1] Two successful council candidates on election night (Alf Mexted and John Stewart Kenward) were unseated with the counting of late votes.[2]

Mayoral results

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1968 Porirua mayoral election[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Whitford Brown 2,158 61.65 −26.29
Ind. Progressive Rairi Field 1,287 36.77
Informal votes 55 1.57 +1.00
Majority 871 24.88 −51.58
Turnout 3,500

Councillor results

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1968 Porirua City Council election[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Whitford Brown[nb 1] 1,815 64.68 −6.33
Labour Tutuira Wi Neera 1,629 58.05 +5.21
Ind. Progressive Puoho Katene 1,544 55.02
Independent Jill Nixon 1,495 53.27 −9.85
Labour George Moke 1,480 52.74
Labour Ted Taylor 1,477 52.63 +14.90
Independent Bill Arnold 1,475 52.56 +6.69
Labour Rex Willing 1,315 46.86
Ind. Progressive Hec Stuart 1,289 45.93
Ind. Progressive Mary Bannerman 1,273 45.36
Ind. Progressive Matuaiwi Solomon 1,270 45.26 +1.83
Independent Alf Mexted 1,260 44.90 −3.11
Independent John Stewart Kenward 1,236 44.04
Ind. Progressive Jim Slader 1,174 41.83
Ind. Progressive Malcolm John Frost 1,124 40.05
Ind. Progressive Michael Benefield 1,101 39.23
Labour Frank McIlwee 1,075 38.31
Ind. Progressive Robert Raymond Cater 1,058 37.70
Independent James Hamilton Wilson 978 34.85 −11.72
Ind. Progressive Richard John Neville Conway 871 31.04
Independent Maureen Shuker 839 29.90
Ind. Progressive Terence O'Connor 720 25.65
Independent Athol Royd Gardiner Clayton 693 24.69
Labour Sydney Leonard Elliott 667 23.77
Independent Robert Laird Scott 592 21.09
Communist Jack Manson 431 15.35 +1.94

Table footnotes:

  1. ^ As Brown won the Mayoralty his election to the council was voided and his seat was awarded to the highest polling unsuccessful candidate.

References

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  1. ^ "Family affair". The Dominion. 14 October 1968. p. 1.
  2. ^ "Election Night Winners Lose Porirua Seats". The Evening Post. 19 October 1968. p. 28.
  3. ^ "City of Porirua - Declaration of Result of Election — Mayor". The Evening Post. 23 October 1968. p. 2.
  4. ^ "City of Porirua - Declaration of Result of Election". The Evening Post. 23 October 1968. p. 2.