Wellington City mayoral election, 1909

29 April 1909


Turnout	13,411

Candidate	Alfred Newman	Thomas Wilford	Francis Fisher
Party	Independent	Independent	Independent
Popular vote	4,523	4,240	3,208
Percentage	33.72	31.61	23.92

Mayor before election

Thomas William Hislop

Elected Mayor

Alfred Newman

The Wellington City mayoral election, 1909 was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1909, elections were held for the Mayor of Wellington plus other local government positions including fifteen city councillors. Thomas William Hislop, the incumbent Mayor, did not seek re-election. Alfred Newman was elected to office as the new Mayor of Wellington, beating four other contenders. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.

Mayoralty results

Wellington mayoral election, 1909^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Independent	Alfred Newman	4,523	33.72
	Independent	Thomas Wilford	4,240	31.61	-2.75
	Independent	Francis Fisher	3,208	23.92
	Ind. Labour League	John Rigg	824	6.14
	Independent	Frederick Bolton	616	4.59
Majority			283	2.11
Turnout			13,411

Councillor results

Wellington local election, 1909^[1]^[2]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±
Independent	John Luke	8,074	84.63	+10.16
Independent	Robert Fletcher	7,256	76.05	+19.01
Independent	Thomas Ballinger	7,218	75.60	+9.11
Ind. Labour League	David McLaren	6,770	70.96	+7.50
Independent	Arthur Richmond Atkinson	6,533	68.48
Independent	Falk Cohen	6,446	67.56	+9.99
Independent	George Shirtcliffe	6,420	67.29	+17.15
Independent	Walter Morrah	6,330	66.35	+11.35
Independent	John Smith Jr.	6,320	66.24	+9.54
Independent	Thomas Carmichael	6,062	63.54	+6.16
Independent	James Devine	5,796	60.75
Ind. Labour League	Alfred Hindmarsh	5,337	55.94	-0.79
Independent	James Trevor	5,157	54.05	+11.78
Independent	John Fitzgerald	5,154	54.02
Independent	George Frost	4,521	47.38	+2.34
Independent	James Dykes	3,969	41.60
Independent	Herbert Seaton	3,913	41.01
Independent	Arthur Hume	3,897	40.84
Independent	Leonard McKenzie	3,894	40.81
Independent	William Bennett	3,876	40.62
Independent	Arthur Fullford	3,196	33.50	+9.53
Independent	Albert Casey	3,097	32.46
Ind. Labour League	Charles Henry Chapman	2,860	29.97
Independent	Wilfred Higginbottom	2,595	27.20
Ind. Labour League	Albert Cooper	2,448	25.66	-7.08
Ind. Labour League	William Hampton	2,439	25.56	-5.97
Independent	John Aston	2,422	25.38
Ind. Labour League	Michael Reardon	2,160	22.64	-7.95
Independent	Robert McKenzie	2,140	22.43
Ind. Labour League	Elijah Carey	2,102	22.03
Ind. Labour League	William Noot	1,924	20.16
Independent	Charles Monaghan	1,482	15.53
Independent	Vilhelm Jensen	1,298	13.60

References

1 2 "Mayoral Elections". Evening Post. LXXVII (100). 29 April 1909. p. 8. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
↑ "Mayoral Elections". Evening Post. LXXVII (98). 27 April 1909. p. 8. Retrieved 26 August 2016.

Mayors of Wellington City

Mayors

elected by councillors	George Hunter William Guyton Joseph Dransfield Charles Borlase William Sefton Moorhouse

elected at large	William Hutchison Joseph Dransfield George Allen William Hutchison George Fisher Arthur Winton Brown Samuel Brown John Duthie Charles Johnston Arthur Winton Brown Francis Bell Alfred Brandon Charles Luke George Fisher Francis Bell John Blair John Aitken Thomas William Hislop Alfred Newman Thomas Wilford David McLaren John Luke Robert Wright Charles Norwood George Troup Thomas Hislop Will Appleton Rob Macalister Frank Kitts Michael Fowler Ian Lawrence James Belich Fran Wilde Mark Blumsky Kerry Prendergast Celia Wade-Brown Justin Lester

Mayoral elections

Annual term	1875 1876† 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898

Biennial term	1899 1901 1903† 1905 1907 1909 1910‡ 1911† 1912‡ 1913 1915 1917† 1919 1921 1923 1925 1927 1929 1931 1933†

Triennial term	1935 1938 1941 1944 1947 1950 1953 1956 1959 1962 1965 1968 1971 1974 1977 1980 1983 1986 1989 1992 1995 1998 2001 2004 2007 2010 2013 2016

† Elected unopposed · ‡ By-election

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