30th New Zealand Parliament
30th Parliament of New Zealand | |||||
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Parliament House, Wellington | |||||
Overview | |||||
Legislative body | New Zealand Parliament | ||||
Term | 25 September 1951 – 1 October 1954 | ||||
Election | 1951 New Zealand general election | ||||
Government | First National Government | ||||
House of Representatives | |||||
Members | 80 | ||||
Speaker of the House | Matthew Oram | ||||
Prime Minister | Sidney Holland | ||||
Leader of the Opposition | Walter Nash | ||||
Sovereign | |||||
Monarch | HM Elizabeth II — HM George VI until 6 February 1952 | ||||
Governor-General | HE Lt. Gen. The Lord Norrie from 2 December 1952 — HE Lt. Gen. The Lord Freyberg until 15 August 1952 |
The 30th New Zealand Parliament was a term of the New Zealand Parliament. It was elected at the 1951 general election on 1 September of that year.
1951 general election
The 1951 general election was held on Saturday, 1 September.[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; this was the same distribution used since the 1946 election.[2] 1,205,762 voters were enrolled and the official turnout at the election was 89.1%.[1]
Sessions
The 30th Parliament sat for five sessions (there were two sessions in 1954), and was prorogued on 4 October 1954.[3]
Session | Opened | Adjourned |
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first | 25 September 1951 | 6 December 1951 |
second | 25 June 1952 | 24 October 1952 |
third | 8 April 1953 | 27 November 1953 |
fourth | 12 January 1954 | 13 January 1954 |
fifth | 22 June 1954 | 1 October 1954 |
Ministries
The National Party under Sidney Holland had been in power since the 1949 election, and Holland remained in charge until 1957, when he stepped down due to ill health.[4]
Overview of seats
The table below shows the number of MPs in each party following the 1951 election and at dissolution:
Affiliation | Members | ||
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At 1951 election | At dissolution | ||
National Government | 50 | 50 | |
Labour Opposition | 30 | 30 | |
Total | 80 | 80 | |
Working Government majority | 20 | 20 |
Notes
- The Working Government majority is calculated as all Government MPs less all other parties.
Initial composition of the 30th Parliament
The 1951 election saw the governing National Party re-elected with a twenty-seat margin, a substantial improvement on the twelve-seat margin it previously held. National won fifty seats compared with the Labour Party's thirty.[5] The popular vote was closer, however, with National winning 54% to Labour's 46%.[6] No seats were won by minor party candidates or by independents.[7] This was the last New Zealand general election in which any party has ever captured a majority of the popular vote.[6] Key
Labour National
Electorate | Incumbent | Winner | Majority | Runner up | |||
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General electorates | |||||||
Arch Hill | Bill Parry | John Stewart | 3,965 | Paddy Hope | |||
Ashburton | Geoff Gerard | 2,867 | William Erle Rose | ||||
Auckland Central | Bill Anderton | 2,168 | Peter Hillyer | ||||
Avon | John Mathison | 4,212 | Douglas Warren Russell | ||||
Awarua | George Herron | 3,755 | Neville Pickering | ||||
Bay of Plenty | Bill Sullivan | 4,047 | Godfrey Santon | ||||
Brooklyn | Arnold Nordmeyer | 1,826 | Charles William Clift | ||||
Buller | Jerry Skinner | 1,227 | Phil McDonald | ||||
Central Otago | William Bodkin | 3,620 | T A Rodgers | ||||
Christchurch Central | Robert Macfarlane | 4,103 | Alma Schumacher | ||||
Clutha | James Roy | 3,583 | J M Sanders | ||||
Dunedin Central | Phil Connolly | 373 | Walter MacDougall | ||||
Dunedin North | Robert Walls | 307 | Donald Cameron | ||||
Eden | Wilfred Fortune | 2,802 | John Ronald Burfitt | ||||
Egmont | Ernest Corbett | 4,896 | Brian Edgar Richmond | ||||
Fendalton | Sidney Holland | 4,366 | Philip John Alley | ||||
Franklin | Jack Massey | 5,358 | Arthur Faulkner | ||||
Gisborne | Reginald Keeling | Harry Dudfield | 338 | Reginald Keeling | |||
Grey Lynn | Fred Hackett | 3,813 | Harold Barry | ||||
Hamilton | Hilda Ross | 2,252 | Ben Waters | ||||
Hastings | Sydney Jones | 1,138 | Henry Edward Beattie | ||||
Hauraki | Andy Sutherland | 4,468 | Brevat William Dynes | ||||
Hawke's Bay | Cyril Harker | 4,153 | A Lowe | ||||
Hobson | Sidney Smith | 5,337 | Norman King | ||||
Hurunui | William Gillespie | 2,921 | Ed Cassidy | ||||
Hutt | Walter Nash | 2,248 | Jack Andrews | ||||
Invercargill | Ralph Hanan | 2,123 | F G Spurdle | ||||
Island Bay | Robert McKeen | 1,680 | James Duncan | ||||
Karori | Charles Bowden | 3,453 | Jim Bateman | ||||
Lyttelton | Terry McCombs | Harry Lake | 133 | Terry McCombs[note 1] | |||
Manawatu | Matthew Oram | 3,465 | B A Rodgers | ||||
Marlborough | Tom Shand | 2,452 | Ted Meachen | ||||
Marsden | Alfred Murdoch | 4,001 | Mervyn Allan Hosking | ||||
Miramar | Bob Semple | 301 | Cuthbert Taylor | ||||
Mornington | Wally Hudson | 3,783 | Richard Philling | ||||
Mount Albert | Warren Freer | 604 | Reg Judson | ||||
Mount Victoria | Jack Marshall | 2,198 | Frank Kitts | ||||
Napier | Tommy Armstrong | Peter Tait | 44 | Tommy Armstrong[note 2] | |||
Nelson | Edgar Neale | 2,831 | Stan Whitehead | ||||
New Plymouth | Ernest Aderman | 2,335 | Clarence Robert Parker | ||||
North Shore | Dean Eyre | 2,155 | Richard Wrathall | ||||
Oamaru | Thomas Hayman | 1,315 | C J Ryan | ||||
Onehunga | Arthur Osborne | 1,966 | Leonard Bradley | ||||
Onslow | Harry Combs | 1,106 | John S Meadowcroft[9] | ||||
Otahuhu | Leon Götz | 2,128 | James Deas | ||||
Otaki | Jimmy Maher | 1,142 | Phil Holloway | ||||
Pahiatua | Keith Holyoake | 4,598 | Owen Jones | ||||
Palmerston North | Blair Tennent | 200 | Joe Hodgens[note 3] | ||||
Parnell | Duncan Rae | 1,587 | Hugh Watt[10] | ||||
Patea | William Sheat | 2,467 | Frederick William Finer | ||||
Petone | Mick Moohan | 2,135 | Norm Croft | ||||
Piako | Stan Goosman | 6,364 | Gilbert Parsons Kenah | ||||
Ponsonby | Ritchie Macdonald | 1,504 | Peter Dempsey[11] | ||||
Raglan | Hallyburton Johnstone | 1,766 | James Harrison Wilson | ||||
Rangitikei | Edward Gordon | 3,677 | F A Dalzell | ||||
Remuera | Ronald Algie | 5,346 | Bob Tizard | ||||
Riccarton | Angus McLagan | 2,265 | Eric Philip Wills[12] | ||||
Rodney | Clifton Webb | 4,893 | Arthur Laurence Leaming | ||||
Roskill | John Rae | 440 | Pat Curran | ||||
St Albans | Jack Watts | 1,415 | John Bernard Mora | ||||
St Kilda | Fred Jones | Jim Barnes | 336 | Fred Jones | |||
Selwyn | John McAlpine | 1,836 | Jim Barclay | ||||
Sydenham | Mabel Howard | 4,403 | Albert Hugh Stott | ||||
Tamaki | Eric Halstead | 1,461 | Tom Skinner | ||||
Tauranga | Frederick Doidge | George Walsh | 5,400 | Hillary Joseph Pickett | |||
Timaru | Clyde Carr | 564 | William Leslie Richards | ||||
Waikato | Geoffrey Sim | 6,369 | William Henry Bayly | ||||
Waimarino | Paddy Kearins | 67 | Arthur MacPherson | ||||
Waimate | David Kidd | 2,232 | A G Braddick | ||||
Wairarapa | Bert Cooksley | 2,032 | George Anders Hansen | ||||
Waitakere | Rex Mason | 641 | Robert Tapper | ||||
Waitomo | Walter Broadfoot | 5,286 | J Dwyer | ||||
Wallace | Tom Macdonald | 5,060 | J W Cleary | ||||
Wanganui | Joe Cotterill | 226 | Ernest Victor O'Keefe | ||||
Wellington Central | Charles Chapman | 277 | Berta Burns | ||||
Westland | Jim Kent | 2,325 | Isabella Catherine Brown | ||||
Māori electorates | |||||||
Eastern Maori | Tiaki Omana | 3,706 | Turi Carroll | ||||
Northern Maori | Tapihana Paikea | 2,132 | James Henare[13] | ||||
Southern Maori | Eruera Tirikatene | 659 | William Beaton | ||||
Western Maori | Iriaka Rātana | 7,352 | Hoeroa Marumaru |
Table footnotes:
- ^ Terry McCombs was first on election night, but lost when special votes were included
- ^ Tommy Armstrong was first on election night, but lost when special votes were included
- ^ Joe Hodgens was first on election night, but lost when special votes were included
By-elections during 30th Parliament
There were a number of changes during the term of the 30th Parliament.
Electorate and by-election | Date | Incumbent | Cause | Winner | |||
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Dunedin North | 1953 | 12 December | Robert Walls | Death | Ethel McMillan | ||
Onehunga | 1953 | 19 December | Arthur Osborne | Death | Hugh Watt | ||
Onslow | 1954 | 7 July | Harry Combs | Death | Henry May | ||
Patea | 1954 | 31 July | William Sheat | Resignation | William Sheat |
Notes
- ^ a b "General elections 1853–2005 – dates & turnout". Elections New Zealand. Archived from the original on 27 May 2010. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
- ^ Wilson 1985, p. 173.
- ^ Wilson 1985, p. 142.
- ^ Wilson 1985, pp. 86–87.
- ^ Wilson 1985, pp. 287–288.
- ^ a b Wilson 1985, p. 290.
- ^ Wilson 1985, p. 288.
- ^ "The New Zealand Official Year-Book, 1951–52". Statistics New Zealand. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
- ^ Gustafson 1986, p. 378.
- ^ Norton 1988, p. 314.
- ^ Gustafson 1986, pp. 360f.
- ^ Gustafson 1986, p. 390.
- ^ Gustafson 1986, p. 247.
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.
- Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.