1894 Waitemata by-election

New Zealand by-election April 2024 April 2022 1894 Waitemata by-election New Zealand 1894 presidential 1893 New Zealand general election 1893 general 1896 New Zealand general election 1896 general 1894 04 09 y 100px William Massey Conservative (New Zealand) 1,619 52.82 105px Jackson Palmer Independent Liberal FBEC5D 1,446 47.17 Member Richard Monk William Massey Conservative (New Zealand) Conservative (New Zealand) The 1894 Waitemata by-election was a by-election held on 9 April 1894 during the 12th New Zealand Parliament in the rural North Island seat of the Waitemata. The contest was won by the independent conservative candidate William Massey. Massey somewhat narrowly beat the Liberal candidate Jackson Palmer recording only a 173-vote majority. Background The seat was declared vacant when sitting MP Richard Monk had his election declared void.Wilson 1985 220 Opposition supporters in the Waitemata area sent a telegram to Massey asking him to stand in the by-election on their behalf. Massey was allegedly atop a haystack when the telegram arrived and it was passed up to him on a pitchfork. He decided to accept.Gustafson Barry 2m39 Massey, William Ferguson 10 December 2011 Barry Gustafson Massey's nomination for the election also came under scrutiny, with a written objection being lodged against him on the alleged ground that one of the men who nominated him was not qualified to do so.Poverty Bay Herald Waitemata Seat 3 XXI 6942 4 April 1894 Massey was supported by the National Association.Ward Elizabeth ‘For Light and Liberty’ The Origins and Early Development of the Reform Party, 1887-1915 2018 PhD Massey University https://mro.massey.ac.nz/server/api/core/bitstreams/06c0f4e2-1d03-4e05-ba4b-3f05bd8c3d4c/content 57 Massey's only opponent was Paeroa lawyer Jackson Palmer, an Independent Liberal, who had won the Waitemata seat previously, in the 1890 election.Wilson 1985 225 Fellow conservative Eden George also intended to stand, but ultimately withdrew from the contest. William Joseph Napier also had received a requisition from electors to stand.The Waitemata Election http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=TS18940324.2.67.11 11 May 2012 The Star 24 March 1894 4907 6 Results The following table gives the election results: Monk won the electorate again in 1896, and retired in 1902.Wilson 1985 220 Massey stood successfully for Franklin in 1896 and was to stay in Parliament for the remaining 31 years of his life, serving as Prime Minister (1912–25). Palmer would later win the seat of Ohinemuri in the election of 1899.Wilson 1985 225 Notes References Wilson James Oakley New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 4th First ed. published 1913 1985 V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer Wellington 154283103 Waitemata 1894 Category:1894 elections in New Zealand Category:Politics of the Auckland Region