32nd New Zealand Parliament
32nd Parliament of New Zealand | |||||
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Parliament House, Wellington | |||||
Overview | |||||
Legislative body | New Zealand Parliament | ||||
Term | 21 January 1958 – 28 October 1960 | ||||
Election | 1957 New Zealand general election | ||||
Government | Second Labour Government | ||||
House of Representatives | |||||
Members | 80 | ||||
Speaker of the House | Robert Macfarlane | ||||
Prime Minister | Walter Nash | ||||
Leader of the Opposition | Keith Holyoake | ||||
Sovereign | |||||
Monarch | HM Elizabeth II | ||||
Governor-General | HE The Viscount Cobham |
The 32nd New Zealand Parliament was a term of the New Zealand Parliament. It was elected at the 1957 general election on 30 November of that year.
1957 general election
The 1957 general election was held on Saturday, 30 November.[1] A total of 80 MPs were elected; 51 represented North Island electorates, 25 represented South Island electorates, and the remaining four represented Māori electorates; this was a gain of one electorate for the North Island from the South Island since the 1954 election.[2] 1,252,329 voters were enrolled and the official turnout at the election was 92.9%.[1]
Sessions
The 32nd Parliament sat for four sessions (there were two sessions in 1958), and was prorogued on 28 October 1960.[3]
Session | Opened | Adjourned |
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first | 21 January 1958 | 31 January 1958 |
second | 10 June 1958 | 3 October 1958 |
third | 24 June 1959 | 23 October 1959 |
fourth | 22 June 1960 | 28 October 1960 |
Ministries
The National Party under Sidney Holland had been in power since the 1949 election as the first National Government, and Holland remained in charge until he stepped down due to ill health in September 1957 some two months prior to the 1957 election. Holland was succeeded by Keith Holyoake, but the Labour Party narrowly defeated National at the 1957 election, and the government changed in mid-December of that year. Walter Nash formed the Nash Ministry, which was in power from 12 December 1957 until the defeat of the second Labour Government at the next election in 1960.[4]
Overview of seats
The table below shows the number of MPs in each party following the 1957 election and at dissolution:
Affiliation | Members | ||
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At 1957 election | At dissolution | ||
Labour Government | 41 | 41 | |
National Opposition | 39 | 39 | |
Total | 80 | 80 | |
Working Government majority | 2 | 2 |
Notes
- The Working Government majority is calculated as all Government MPs less all other parties.
Initial composition of the 32nd Parliament
The table below shows the results of the 1957 general election:
Key
Electorate | Incumbent | Winner | Majority | Runner up | |||
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General electorates | |||||||
Ashburton | Geoff Gerard | 1,769 | George Glassey | ||||
Auckland Central | Bill Anderton | 3,856 | Aileen Joyce | ||||
Avon | John Mathison | 6,100 | William Ernest Olds | ||||
Awarua | George Herron | Gordon Grieve | 1,636 | J P Wyatt[6] | |||
Bay of Plenty | Percy Allen | 910 | Godfrey Santon | ||||
Buller | Jerry Skinner | 2,677 | Norman Leon Bensemann | ||||
Christchurch Central | Robert Macfarlane | 4,071 | Colin McLachlan | ||||
Clutha | James Roy | 1,490 | Joseph Fahey [nb 1] | ||||
Dunedin Central | Phil Connolly | 1,778 | Marcus Anderson | ||||
Dunedin North | Ethel McMillan | 3,408 | George Terry | ||||
Eden | Duncan Rae | 498 | Ian Watkins[8] | ||||
Egmont | Ernest Corbett | William Sheat | 2,697 | Clarence Robert Parker | |||
Fendalton | Sidney Holland | Jack Watts | 824 | Lawrence Godfrey Graham White[9] | |||
Franklin | Jack Massey | Alfred E. Allen | 4,241 | Christopher Mountford | |||
Gisborne | Reginald Keeling | 1,182 | Arthur MacPherson | ||||
Grey Lynn | Fred Hackett | 5,785 | Bernard Griffiths | ||||
Hamilton | Hilda Ross | 1,110 | Ben Waters | ||||
Hastings | Ted Keating | 1,070 | Arthur Heafy Sievewright | ||||
Hauraki | Arthur Kinsella | 1,161 | Brevat William Dynes | ||||
Hawkes Bay | Cyril Harker | 2,858 | Leonard Thomas Fischer | ||||
Heretaunga | Phil Holloway | 5,117 | Allan McCready | ||||
Hobson | Sidney Smith | 3,134 | Colin Moyle | ||||
Hurunui | William Gillespie | 1,749 | Lyn Christie | ||||
Hutt | Walter Nash | 4,430 | Lance Adams-Schneider | ||||
Invercargill | Ralph Hanan | 679 | Thomas Francis Doyle | ||||
Island Bay | Arnold Nordmeyer | 4,209 | Saul Goldsmith[10] | ||||
Karori | Jack Marshall | 3,061 | Keith Spry | ||||
Lyttelton | Harry Lake | Norman Kirk | 567 | Harry Lake | |||
Manawatu | Matthew Oram | Blair Tennent | 1,575 | Patrick Kelliher | |||
Manukau | Leon Götz | 159 | Cyril Douglas Stamp | ||||
Marlborough | Tom Shand | 1,782 | Roy Evans | ||||
Marsden | Don McKay | 2,088 | Mervyn Allan Hosking | ||||
Miramar | Bill Fox | 2,077 | Clevedon Costello | ||||
Mornington | Wally Hudson | 2,817 | Walter MacDougall | ||||
Mt Albert | Warren Freer | 3,987 | Geoffrey Taylor | ||||
Napier | Jim Edwards | 2,413 | Raymond Vincent Foster | ||||
Nelson | Edgar Neale | Stan Whitehead | 509 | Colin Wilson Martin | |||
New Plymouth | Ernest Aderman | 657 | Ron Barclay | ||||
North Shore | Dean Eyre | 462 | Peter Lawrence Smith | ||||
Onehunga | Hugh Watt | 5,686 | Donald Watson | ||||
Onslow | Henry May | 2,675 | Kevin O'Brien [11] | ||||
Otago Central | Jack George | 2,788 | J H Rapson | ||||
Otahuhu | James Deas | 3,442 | Clive Haszard | ||||
Otaki | Jimmy Maher | 1,122 | Cyril Shamy | ||||
Pahiatua | Keith Holyoake | 4,020 | William Erle Rose | ||||
Palmerston North | Philip Skoglund | 1,348 | Bill Brown | ||||
Patea | Roy Jack | 902 | Benjamin R. Winchcombe | ||||
Petone | Mick Moohan | 4,159 | Dan Riddiford | ||||
Piako | New electorate | Stan Goosman | 3,812 | Alistair Walker | |||
Ponsonby | Ritchie Macdonald | 6,592 | Gordon Frederick Smith | ||||
Raglan | Hallyburton Johnstone | Douglas Carter | 161 | Alan Baxter | |||
Rangitikei | Norman Shelton | 2,983 | Stephen Malcolm Roberton | ||||
Remuera | Ronald Algie | 4,766 | Russell Gordon Penney | ||||
Riccarton | Mick Connelly | 2,867 | Deena V. Sergel[12] | ||||
Rodney | Jack Scott | 3,112 | George Webber | ||||
Roskill | John Rae | Arthur Faulkner | 2,117 | John Rae | |||
Rotorua | Ray Boord | 2,009 | Murray Linton | ||||
Selwyn | John McAlpine | 1,731 | Stanley Marshall Cook | ||||
St Albans | Jack Watts | Neville Pickering | 501 | Eric Philip Wills [13] | |||
St Kilda | Jim Barnes | Bill Fraser | 791 | Jim Barnes | |||
Stratford | Thomas Murray | 3,172 | J M Deegan | ||||
Sydenham | Mabel Howard | 6,450 | Oliver G. Moody | ||||
Tamaki | Eric Halstead | Bob Tizard | 589 | Eric Halstead | |||
Tauranga | George Walsh | 3,342 | Oliver Liddell | ||||
Timaru | Clyde Carr | 2,954 | Alfred Davey | ||||
Waikato | Geoffrey Sim | 2,013 | Arthur John Ingram | ||||
Waipa | Stan Goosman | Hallyburton Johnstone | 1,813 | Albert Clifford Tucker | |||
Wairarapa | Bert Cooksley | 1,058 | Bob Wilkie[14] | ||||
Waitakere | Rex Mason | 3,682 | Leonard Bradley | ||||
Waitaki | New electorate | Thomas Hayman | 1,618 | A G Braddock | |||
Waitemata | Norman King | 2,191 | Robert Muldoon | ||||
Waitomo | David Seath | 2,474 | Vic Haines | ||||
Wallace | Tom Macdonald | Brian Talboys | 4,319 | John Reid | |||
Wanganui | Joe Cotterill | 1,419 | Alice Kathleen Maclean | ||||
Wellington Central | Frank Kitts | 1,685 | Max Wall | ||||
Westland | Jim Kent | 4,745 | Fred Boustridge | ||||
Māori electorates | |||||||
Eastern Maori | Tiaki Omana | 4,197 | Wiremu Hoete Maxwell | ||||
Northern Maori | Tapihana Paikea | 4,310 | Timothy James Davis | ||||
Southern Maori | Eruera Tirikatene | 4,383 | Thomas Stratton | ||||
Western Maori | Iriaka Rātana | 5,553 | Pei Te Hurinui Jones |
Table footnotes:
- ^ The previous Labour candidate, Bruce Waters, died the day before the general election, so the election in Clutha was postponed to 18 January 1958[7]
By-elections during 32nd Parliament
There was one by-election during the term of the 32nd Parliament.
Electorate and by-election | Date | Incumbent | Cause | Winner | |||
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Hamilton | 1959 | 2 May | Dame Hilda Ross | Death | Lance Adams-Schneider |
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. 86–88.
- ^ Norton 1988, pp. ?.
- ^ Norton 1988, p. 197.
- ^ Norton 1988, p. 209.
- ^ Norton 1988, p. 220.
- ^ Norton 1988, p. 224.
- ^ Gustafson 1986, pp. 364f.
- ^ Gustafson 1986, p. 381.
- ^ Gustafson 1986, p. 386.
- ^ Gustafson 1986, p. 390.
- ^ Espiner, Guyon (3 March 2012). "Profile: Labour deputy Grant Robertson". New Zealand Listener. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
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.