1917 Napier mayoral election

November 2016 November 2016 1917 Napier mayoral election New Zealand Presidential no 1915 Napier City mayoral election 1915 1919 Napier City mayoral election 1919 25 April 1917 2,726 Henry Thomas Hill (cropped).jpg Henry Hill New Zealand Labour Party 1,561 57.26 File:Vigor Brown, 1910 (cropped).jpg Vigor Brown Independent politician 1,165 42.73 Mayor Vigor Brown Henry Hill The Napier mayoral election, 1917 was held to determine the next Mayor of Napier. At this time Napier held their local elections biennially. In 1915, elections were held for the Mayor of Napier plus other local government positions. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method. Background and candidates Finances were the major talking point of the contest. The council had an overdraft of around £20,000 caused by huge public works expenditure.http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=HAST19170503.2.8 Hastings Standard 2 Mayoralty of Napier 3 May 1917 27 May 2016 VII 109 Henry Hill Hill practiced law in Napier, but made his name as a school inspector and earning a good reputation for public service. He was elected as a Napier City Councillor in 1915.Campbell 1975 225 Hill was also a member of the Hawke's Bay Hospital Board, the Hawke's Bay Electric Power Board, the Napier High School board of governors.Matthews Kay Morris 2h36 Henry Hill 26 November 2016 Vigor Brown Vigor Brown was a prominent figure in Napier in the opening decades of the twentieth century. His career stretched back to 1898 when he was elected to both the Napier Harbour Board and the Napier Borough Council.Campbell 1975 225 He was the incumbent mayor, having held office for a decade when he was first elected in 1907. http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/3b53/1 Brown, John Vigor - Biography Axford C. Joy 1 September 2010 Dictionary of New Zealand Biography 8 December 2010 21 October 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20121021081652/http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/3b53/1 dead Results The following table gives the election results: Napier mayoral election, 1917http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=HAST19170501.2.2.3 Hastings Standard 1 Mayoral Elections 1 May 1917 27 May 2016 VII 107 New Zealand Labour Party Henry Hill 1,561 57.26 Independent politician Vigor Brown 1,165 42.74 396 14.52 2,726 Brown was the first to declare his intention to stand in the next mayoral election in 1919, with Hill then acceding to a requisition by ratepayers.Local Body Elections http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=HAST19190417.2.30 27 May 2016 Hastings Standard IX 105 17 April 1919 5 Brown defeated Hill by a very small margin; the initial count had him three votes ahead,Municipal Elections http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=HAST19190501.2.31 27 May 2016 Hastings Standard IX 115 1 May 1919 5 but in the final declaration, this increased to a sixteen vote victory (1818 votes versus 1802).A Close Contest http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=PBH19190505.2.59 27 May 2016 Poverty Bay Herald XLVI 14902 5 May 1919 7 Notes References Campbell M.D.N. Story of Napier, 1874-1974 1975 Martin Printing Company Napier Napier Mayoral Election, 1917 Napier Mayoral Election, 1917 Napier1917 Category:April 1917 in Oceania