Wellington City mayoral election, 1911

20 April 1911



Candidate	Thomas Wilford
Party	Citizens League
Popular vote	elected unopposed

Mayor before election

Thomas Wilford

Elected Mayor

Thomas Wilford

The Wellington City mayoral election, 1911 was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1911, elections were held for the Mayor of Wellington plus other local government positions including fifteen city councillors, also elected biannually. Thomas Wilford, the incumbent Mayor sought re-election and retained office unopposed with no other candidates emerging.^[1] The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.

Councillor results

Wellington local election, 1911^[2]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±
Citizens League	Robert Fletcher	10,900	71.17	-13.46
Citizens League	William Barber	9,298	60.71
Labour (original)	Alfred Hindmarsh	8,037	52.48	-3.46
Citizens League	John Fitzgerald	8,000	52.23	-1.79
Labour (original)	David McLaren	7,788	50.85	-20.11
Citizens League	Falk Cohen	7,711	50.35	-17.21
Citizens League	George Shirtcliffe	7,291	47.61	-19.68
Citizens League	Arthur Richmond Atkinson	7,272	47.48	-21.00
Citizens League	John Smith	7,057	46.08
Independent	John Fuller Jr.	6,955	45.41
Citizens League	James Godber	6,378	41.64
Citizens League	James Trevor	6,301	41.14	-12.91
Independent	Leonard McKenzie	6,247	40.79	+0.02
Citizens League	George Frost	6,198	40.47	-6.91
Independent	Robert Cameron	6,113	39.91
Citizens League	William Bennett	5,483	35.80	-4.82
Citizens League	William Thompson	5,346	34.90
Labour (original)	Elijah Carey	4,939	32.25	+10.02
Labour (original)	Michael Reardon	4,926	32.16	+9.52
Labour (original)	Thomas Smith	4,832	31.55
Citizens League	Arthur Hunt	4,766	31.12
Citizens League	John Castle	4,439	28.98
Labour (original)	William Joseph Jordan	4,227	27.60
Citizens League	Stanislaus Moran	4,080	26.64
Labour (original)	George Reyling	3,968	25.91
Independent	Joseph Mandel	3,813	24.89
Labour (original)	Ivor Hazell	3,808	24.86
Independent	Walter Bedford	2,800	18.28
Independent	Edwin Gallichan	2,683	17.51
Independent	Charles McIntyre	2,223	14.51
Independent	John Jenkinson	2,185	14.26
Independent	Vilhelm Jensen	1,804	11.78	-1.82
Independent	Arthur Fullford	1,791	11.69	-21.81
Independent	Andrew Hornblow	1,637	10.68
Independent	Henry Bodley	1,482	9.67
Independent	Charles Thorpe	990	6.46

References

↑ Butterworth, Susan. "Wilford, Thomas Mason - Biography". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 17 December 2011.
↑ "Wellington City Council". Evening Post. LXXXI (99). 28 April 1911. p. 8. Retrieved 12 May 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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