1941_Bay_of_Plenty_by-election

1941 Bay of Plenty by-election

1941 Bay of Plenty by-election

New Zealand by-election

The Bay of Plenty by-election of 1941 was a by-election for the electorate of Bay of Plenty held on 13 December 1941 during the 26th New Zealand Parliament. The by-election resulted from the death of the previous member Gordon Hultquist of the Labour Party who was killed in World War II.

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The by-election was won by Bill Sullivan of the National Party; Labour lost a seat.

Campaign

Initially there was speculation that there would be no election necessary and that the National Party would not stand a candidate after the death of an MP on service in wartime (as happened in the Waitemata by-election).[1] This was not to be the case and National stood their candidate from the 1938 election and former Mayor of Whakatane Bill Sullivan.[2]

The Labour Party selected Charles Mills, a baker, as their candidate. He was an elected member of the Poverty Bay Electric Power Board and had been a campaign organiser for Hultquist in Bay of Plenty in both the 1935 and 1938 elections.[3]

The incipient Democratic Labour Party (DLP), who had recently formed a branch in the electorate in Opotiki, also contemplated standing a candidate.[4] However the DLP did not contest the seat.

Results

The following table gives the election results:

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References

  1. [1]
    Contest Assured. Vol. LXVIII. 11 November 1941. p. 4. Retrieved 8 October 2020. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  2. [2]
    Bay of Plenty Seat - National Party's Candidate. Vol. LXXVII. 21 November 1941. p. 6. Retrieved 8 October 2020. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  3. [3]
    Labour Nominee. Vol. LXVIII. 19 November 1941. p. 6. Retrieved 8 October 2020. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  4. [4]
    Bay of Plenty Seat. Vol. LXVIII. 17 November 1941. p. 3. Retrieved 8 October 2020. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  5. [5]
    "Declaration of Result of Poll". Bay of Plenty Beacon. Vol. 4, no. 199. 5 January 1942. p. 1. Retrieved 23 December 2015.


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