32nd_New_Zealand_Parliament

32nd New Zealand Parliament

32nd New Zealand Parliament

Term of the Parliament of New Zealand

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.

Quick Facts Overview, Legislative body ...

1957 general election

Main article: 1957 New Zealand 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]

More information Session, Opened ...

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:

More information Affiliation, Members ...

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

  Labour   National

More information Electorate, Incumbent ...

Table footnotes:

  1. [N 1]
    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.

More information Electorate and by-election, Date ...

Notes

  1. [1]
    "General elections 1853–2005 - dates & turnout". Elections New Zealand. Archived from the original on 27 May 2010. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
  2. [2]
    Wilson 1985, p. 173.
  3. [3]
    Wilson 1985, p. 142.
  4. [4]
    Wilson 1985, pp. 86–88.
  5. [5]
    Norton 1988, pp. ?.
  6. [6]
    Norton 1988, p. 197.
  7. [7]
    Norton 1988, p. 209.
  8. [8]
    Norton 1988, p. 220.
  9. [9]
    Norton 1988, p. 224.
  10. [10]
    Gustafson 1986, pp. 364f.
  11. [11]
    Gustafson 1986, p. 381.
  12. [12]
    Gustafson 1986, p. 386.
  13. [13]
    Gustafson 1986, p. 390.
  14. [14]
    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.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article 32nd_New_Zealand_Parliament, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.