28th New Zealand Parliament
28th Parliament of New Zealand | |||||
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Parliament House, Wellington | |||||
Overview | |||||
Legislative body | New Zealand Parliament | ||||
Term | 24 June 1947 – 21 October 1949 | ||||
Election | 1946 New Zealand general election | ||||
Government | First Labour Government | ||||
House of Representatives | |||||
Members | 80 | ||||
Speaker of the House | Robert McKeen | ||||
Prime Minister | Peter Fraser | ||||
Leader of the Opposition | Sidney Holland | ||||
Legislative Council | |||||
Members | 36 (at start) 33 (at end) | ||||
Speaker of the Council | Bernard Martin from 29 June 1948 — Mark Fagan until 31 December 1947 † | ||||
Leader of the Council | David Wilson | ||||
Sovereign | |||||
Monarch | HM George VI | ||||
Governor-General | HE Lt. Gen. The Lord Freyberg |
The 28th New Zealand Parliament was a term of the New Zealand Parliament. It was elected at the 1946 general election in November of that year.
1946 general election
The 1946 general election was held on Tuesday, 26 November in the Māori electorates and on Wednesday, 27 November in the general electorates, respectively.[1] A total of 80 MPs were elected; 49 represented North Island electorates, 27 represented South Island electorates, and the remaining four represented Māori electorates.[2] 1,081,898 voters were enrolled and the official turnout at the election was 93.5%.[1]
Sessions
The 28th Parliament sat for three sessions, and was prorogued on 3 November 1949:[3]
Session | Opened | Adjourned |
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first | 24 June 1947 | 27 November 1947 |
second | 22 June 1948 | 3 December 1948 |
third | 28 June 1949 | 21 October 1949 |
Ministries
Peter Fraser of the Labour Party had been Prime Minister since 27 March 1940. He had formed the first Fraser Ministry on 1 April 1940 and the second Fraser Ministry on 30 April 1940.[4] The second Fraser Ministry remained in power until its defeat by the National Party at the 1949 election.[5][6]
Party standings
[7]
Party | Leader(s) | Seats | |
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Labour Party | Peter Fraser | 42 | |
National Party | Sidney Holland | 38 |
Members
Initial MPs
The table below shows the results of the 1946 general election:
Key
Electorate | Incumbent | Winner | Majority | Runner up | |||
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General electorates | |||||||
Arch Hill | New electorate | Bill Parry[10] | 6,585 | Edward James Clark | |||
Ashburton | New electorate | Geoff Gerard | 1,453 | Mabel Newlands | |||
Auckland Central | Bill Parry[10] | Bill Anderton[11] | 3,478 | Leon Götz[12] | |||
Avon | Dan Sullivan | 5,180 | Robert Alexander McDowell | ||||
Awarua | George Richard Herron | 2,588 | Gilbert Gregory Mitchell | ||||
Bay of Plenty | Bill Sullivan[13] | 1,634 | Ray Boord[14][8] | ||||
Brooklyn | New electorate | Peter Fraser[15] | 3,935 | Stewart Hardy | |||
Buller | Paddy Webb | Jerry Skinner | 2,912 | Phil McDonald | |||
Central Otago | William Bodkin | 2,909 | Claude Charles Capell | ||||
Christchurch Central | New electorate | Robert Macfarlane | 4,420 | Alan J. Wills | |||
Clutha | James Roy | 2,140 | John Patrick Thompson | ||||
Dunedin Central | Peter Neilson | Phil Connolly | 2,000 | Stuart Sidey[16][8] | |||
Dunedin North | Robert Walls | 1,630 | Norman Jones[17] | ||||
Eden | Bill Anderton[11] | Wilfred Fortune[18] | 1,281 | Warren Freer[19][8] | |||
Egmont | Ernest Corbett[20] | 3,398 | Clarence Robert Parker | ||||
Fendalton | New electorate | Sidney Holland | 3,004 | Alan Williams | |||
Franklin | Jack Massey | 4,023 | Alex Gunn | ||||
Gisborne | David Coleman | 2,015 | Harry Barker[21] | ||||
Grey Lynn | Fred Hackett | 5,910 | Harold Stapleton Barry | ||||
Hamilton | Hilda Ross | 327 | Jack Granville | ||||
Hastings | New electorate | Ted Cullen | 483 | Eric Pryor[22] | |||
Hauraki | Andy Sutherland | 2,891 | John William Neate | ||||
Hawke's Bay | Ted Cullen | Cyril Harker | 2,014 | Henry Edward Beattie | |||
Hobson | New electorate | Sidney Walter Smith | 3,580 | Hubert Knox Hatrick | |||
Hurunui | William Gillespie | 1,440 | John Mathison | ||||
Hutt | Walter Nash | 2,587 | Jim Vogel | ||||
Invercargill | William Denham | Ralph Hanan | 224 | William Denham | |||
Island Bay | New electorate | Robert McKeen | 3,958 | Herbert Edward Childs | |||
Karori | New electorate | Charles Bowden | 2,042 | Patrick Connolly McGavin | |||
Lyttelton | Terry McCombs | 1,543 | Ted Taylor[23] | ||||
Manawatu | Matthew Oram | 2,467 | Phil Holloway | ||||
Marlborough | Ted Meachen | Tom Shand | 179 | Ted Meachen | |||
Marsden | Alfred Murdoch | 2,149 | John Stewart | ||||
Miramar | New electorate | Bob Semple | 2,482 | Len Jacobsen | |||
Mornington | New electorate | Wally Hudson | 4,681 | Lewis Donald McIver | |||
Mount Albert | New electorate | Arthur Shapton Richards | 1,857 | Frederick Ashley Hosking | |||
Mount Victoria | New electorate | Jack Marshall | 911 | Eugene Casey | |||
Napier | Tommy Armstrong | 1,845 | Alan John Price | ||||
Nelson | vacant[nb 1] | Edgar Neale | 585 | Cyril Harold Goodman | |||
New Plymouth | Ernest Aderman | 405 | George Nimmo | ||||
North Shore | New electorate | Martyn Finlay | 249 | Henry Thorne Morton[24] | |||
Oamaru | Arnold Nordmeyer | 232 | Thomas Ross Beatty | ||||
Onehunga | Arthur Osborne | 3,424 | William Kenneth King | ||||
Onslow | New electorate | Harry Combs | 1,578 | Philip Patrick Lynch | |||
Otahuhu | Charles Robert Petrie | 220 | Albert Murdoch | ||||
Otaki | Leonard Lowry | Jimmy Maher | 44 | Jim Thorn | |||
Pahiatua | Keith Holyoake | 3,697 | Otto Ernest Niederer | ||||
Palmerston North | Joe Hodgens | Ormond Wilson | 928 | Gus Mansford | |||
Parnell | New electorate | Duncan Rae | 206 | Bill Schramm | |||
Patea | William Sheat | 870 | Richard John O'Dea | ||||
Petone | New electorate | Mick Moohan | 4,019 | George London | |||
Piako | New electorate | Stan Goosman | 5,101 | Ben Waters | |||
Ponsonby | New electorate | Ritchie Macdonald | 3,431 | Peter E Dempsey[25] | |||
Raglan | Hallyburton Johnstone | Alan Baxter | 13 | Hallyburton Johnstone | |||
Rangitikei | Edward Gordon | 2,307 | John Capstick | ||||
Remuera | Ronald Algie | 4,410 | James Freeman | ||||
Riccarton | Jack Watts | Angus McLagan | 3,875 | Vic Wilson | |||
Rodney | New electorate | Clifton Webb | 2,850 | Alex Dixon | |||
Roskill | Arthur Shapton Richards | Frank Langstone | 155 | Roy McElroy[26] | |||
St Albans | New electorate | Jack Watts | 86 | Morgan Williams[27] | |||
St Kilda | New electorate | Fred Jones | 1,248 | Leonard James Ireland | |||
Selwyn | New electorate | John McAlpine | 472 | Alan Sharp | |||
Sydenham | New electorate | Mabel Howard | 6,746 | Ruric Hunter | |||
Tamaki | New electorate | Tom Skinner | 231 | John George Concanon Wales | |||
Tauranga | Frederick Doidge | 2,704 | Dudley A. Hill | ||||
Timaru | Clyde Carr | 520 | Jack Acland[28] | ||||
Waikato | Stan Goosman | Geoffrey Sim | 4,385 | John Dwyer | |||
Waimarino | Frank Langstone | Paddy Kearins | 681 | Norman Robert Hill | |||
Waimate | New electorate | David Campbell Kidd | 789 | William Roy Davison | |||
Wairarapa | Ben Roberts | Garnet Mackley | 235 | George Anders Hansen | |||
Waitakere | New electorate | Rex Mason | 2,797 | Archibald Morrison Laing | |||
Waitomo | Walter Broadfoot | 3,951 | Alan George Goldsmith | ||||
Wallace | Adam Hamilton | Tom Macdonald | 3,716 | David Munro | |||
Wanganui | Joe Cotterill | 1,934 | Eric Merewether | ||||
Wellington Central | Peter Fraser | Charles Chapman | 1,680 | Agnes Weston[nb 2] | |||
Westland | James O'Brien | 4,716 | Frank Chivers[31][32] | ||||
Māori electorates | |||||||
Eastern Maori | Tiaki Omana | 1,517 | Āpirana Ngata | ||||
Northern Maori | Tapihana Paraire Paikea | 2,555 | James Henare[33] | ||||
Southern Maori | Eruera Tirikatene | 581 | Vernon Ohaia Mason Thomas | ||||
Western Maori | Matiu Ratana | 6,491 | Hoeroa Marumaru[34] |
Table footnotes:
- ^ Harry Atmore, the previous holder of the Nelson electorate, died on 20 August 1946
- ^ Claude Weston died suddenly on 10 November 1946 and was replaced by his wife[29][30]
By-elections during 28th Parliament
There were a number of changes during the term of the 28th Parliament.
Electorate and by-election | Date | Incumbent | Cause | Winner | |||
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Avon | 1947 | 28 May | Dan Sullivan | Death | Jock Mathison | ||
Mount Albert | 1947 | 24 September | Arthur Richards | Death | Warren Freer | ||
Westland | 1947 | 3 December | James O'Brien | Death | Jim Kent |
Notes
- ^ a b "General elections 1853–2005 - dates & turnout". Elections New Zealand. Archived from the original on 27 May 2010. Retrieved 10 December 2011.
- ^ Scholefield 1950, p. 90.
- ^ Scholefield 1950, p. 70.
- ^ Scholefield 1950, p. 50.
- ^ Scholefield 1950, pp. 50–51.
- ^ Beaglehole, Tim. "Fraser, Peter". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 11 December 2011.
- ^ "1890–1993 general elections | Elections". elections.nz. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
- ^ a b c d "The General Election, 1946". National Library. 1947. pp. 1–11, 14. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
- ^ "The Lists Close". No. 25951. Evening Star. 16 November 1946. p. 9.
- ^ a b Wilson 1985, p. 225.
- ^ a b Wilson 1985, p. 180.
- ^ Gustafson 1986, p. 315.
- ^ Wilson 1985, p. 237.
- ^ Norton 1988, p. 200.
- ^ Wilson 1985, p. 198.
- ^ Norton 1988, p. 212.
- ^ Gustafson 1986, pp. 323f.
- ^ Wilson 1985, p. 197.
- ^ Norton 1988, p. 220.
- ^ Wilson 1985, p. 190.
- ^ Milton-Tee, Ann. "Harry Heaton Barker". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
- ^ Gustafson 1986, p. 382.
- ^ Gustafson 1986, p. 387.
- ^ Gustafson 1986, p. 334.
- ^ Gustafson 1986, pp. 360f.
- ^ Gustafson 1986, p. 375.
- ^ Wilson 1985, p. 245.
- ^ Wilson 1985, p. 179.
- ^ Gustafson 1986, p. 389.
- ^ "Claude Horace Weston". Auckland War Memorial Museum. Retrieved 9 July 2022 – via Online Cenotaph.
- ^ "General Election". Auckland Star. Vol. LXXIV, no. 203. 27 August 1943. p. 4. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
- ^ "Chivers, E Frank, DSM, MID". Torpedo Bay Navy Museum. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
- ^ Gustafson 1986, p. 367.
- ^ Gustafson 1986, p. 377.
References
- Gustafson, Barry (1986). The First 50 Years : A History of the New Zealand National Party. Auckland: Reed Methuen. ISBN 0-474-00177-6.
- Norton, Clifford (1988). New Zealand Parliamentary Election Results 1946–1987: Occasional Publications No 1, Department of Political Science. Wellington: Victoria University of Wellington. ISBN 0-475-11200-8.
- Scholefield, Guy (1950) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1949 (3rd ed.). Wellington: Govt. Printer.
- Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.