1965 Lower Hutt mayoral election

none April 2024 1965 Lower Hutt mayoral election New Zealand Presidential no 1962 Lower Hutt mayoral election 1962 1968 Lower Hutt mayoral election 1968 9 October 1965 200x200px Percy Dowse New Zealand Labour Party elected unopposed Mayor Percy Dowse Percy Dowse The 1965 Lower Hutt mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. The elections were held for the role of Mayor of Lower Hutt plus other local government positions including fifteen city councillors, also elected triennially. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method. Background The incumbent Mayor, Percy Dowse, sought re-election for a sixth term. He was returned unopposed as no other candidates nominated. It was the first time in 74 years that a mayor had been elected without a poll in Lower Hutt.https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19650917.2.137 Mayor of Lower Hutt Unopposed The Evening Post 17 September 1965 13 https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19651011.2.203.2 Lower Hutt The Evening Post 11 October 1965 22 Councillor John Kennedy-Good was encouraged by centre-right supporters to stand for mayor, but he declined to challenge Dowse, who he considered a good leader as well as a personal friend.Diana Dekker Hutt's parochial mayor 14 July 2005 Dominion Post 7 The Citizens' Association, while not contesting the mayoralty, stood a full ticket of council candidates, the first time they had done so since 1953. This was to avoid a repeat of the 1959-62 council where Citizens' endorsed Ratepayer Independents won a majority on the council, but were hampered by having little in the way of agreed policy.Full Ticket From City Ratepayers Hutt News 18 November 1964 7 Councillor results 1965 Lower Hutt City Council electionhttps://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19651015.2.11.4 City of Lower Hutt - Declaration of Result of Poll The Evening Post 15 October 1965 2 New Zealand Labour Party Chen Werry 6,020 61.35 +8.77 New Zealand Labour Party Trevor Young 5,787 58.97 +3.37 New Zealand Labour Party Wally Bugden 5,725 58.34 +9.86 New Zealand Labour Party Sam Chesney 5,706 58.15 +3.75 Lower Hutt Citizens' Association John Kennedy-Good 5,578 56.84 +9.63 New Zealand Labour Party Alexander Campbell 5,573 56.79 +8.25 New Zealand Labour Party Jessie Donald 5,499 56.04 +3.68 New Zealand Labour Party Kitty Mildenhall 5,308 54.09 Lower Hutt Citizens' Association Ted Holdaway 5,223 53.23 +7.71 New Zealand Labour Party David Carrad 5,022 51.18 New Zealand Labour Party William Harvey 4,953 50.47 +4.99 Lower Hutt Citizens' Association Dave Hadley 4,910 50.04 +6.86 New Zealand Labour Party Bert Sutherland 4,876 49.69 +4.44 Lower Hutt Citizens' Association Don Lee 4,808 49.00 +7.99 New Zealand Labour Party John Seddon 4,798 48.89 New Zealand Labour Party Graeme Ronald Ross 4,776 48.67 New Zealand Labour Party Joan Mary Pearce 4,713 48.03 New Zealand Labour Party William Mouat McLaren 4,677 47.66 +4.09 Lower Hutt Citizens' Association Ted Gibbs 4,433 45.17 Lower Hutt Citizens' Association Donald Kincaid 4,424 45.08 New Zealand Labour Party William John Jarvis 4,345 44.28 Lower Hutt Citizens' Association Arthur Ashley Cooper 4,321 44.03 Lower Hutt Citizens' Association John Ross Wilkinson 4,278 43.59 Lower Hutt Citizens' Association Stewart Forsyth Claxton 4,268 43.49 Lower Hutt Citizens' Association James Kawarau Horn 4,228 43.09 +3.04 Lower Hutt Citizens' Association Hugh McKinnon Smith 4,210 42.90 +2.78 Lower Hutt Citizens' Association George Ernest Collin 4,122 42.00 Lower Hutt Citizens' Association Joan Gough 4,026 41.03 Lower Hutt Citizens' Association Claude Swift 3,994 40.70 Lower Hutt Citizens' Association Hazel Hohepina Snow 3,763 38.35 Independent politician Cyril Phelps 2,873 29.28 -12.24 Notes References Millar David P. Once Upon a Village: A History of Lower Hutt 1819-1965 1972 New Zealand University Press & LHCC Lower Hutt 154232923 McGill David Lower Hutt – The First Garden City Lower Hutt City Council 1991 Petone, New Zealand 1-86956-003-5 Category:Mayoral elections in Lower Hutt Category:1965 elections in New Zealand Category:Politics of the Wellington Region