Eden_(New_Zealand_electorate)

Eden (New Zealand electorate)

Eden (New Zealand electorate)

Former electorate in Auckland, New Zealand


Eden, a former New Zealand parliamentary electorate, lay in the general area of the suburb of Mount Eden in the city of Auckland.

Eden electorate boundaries between 1993 and 1996

Population centres

The 1870 electoral redistribution was undertaken by a parliamentary select committee based on population data from the 1867 census. Eight sub-committees were formed, with two members each making decisions for their own province; thus members set their own electorate boundaries. The number of electorates was increased from 61 to 72, and Eden was one of the new electorates.[1]

The electorate was urban, and comprised a number of inner-city suburbs in the central-south part of Auckland.

History

The Eden electorate was created in 1871 for the 5th Parliament.[2] The first elected representative was Robert James Creighton, who won the 1871 election.[3] He was succeeded in 1876 by Joseph Tole, who served until 1887.[4] In the 1879 election, Tole beat Frederick Whitaker.[5] Edwin Mitchelson won the 1887 election. He served three parliamentary terms until 1896, when he unsuccessfully contested the City of Auckland electorate.[6]

John Bollard was the next representative, elected in the 1896 election. He held the electorate until 1914.[7] In the 1899 election, he had a wafer-thin majority of just four votes over Malcolm Niccol.[8][9] Bollard was succeeded by James Parr, who won the 1914 election. Parr resigned on 26 March 1926, as he had been appointed as High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.

Rex Mason won the resulting 1926 by-election, as the Reform Party vote was split between two candidates. He held the electorate for the remainder of the term until 1928. He was succeeded by Arthur Stallworthy, who won in the 1928 election. He was defeated in 1935 by Bill Anderton, who held Eden until 1946, when he was elected for Auckland Central. Wilfred Fortune won Eden in 1946 and held the electorate for three terms until 1954, when he was defeated for the Onslow electorate.

Premier and Attorney-General Frederick Whitaker stood unsuccessfully for Eden in 1879; as did John Kerr in 1871.

The electorate was abolished in 1996, when it was replaced by the new MMP electorate of Epsom.

Members of Parliament

Eden was represented by 15 Members of Parliament.

Key

  Independent   Conservative   Reform   Labour   United   National

Election results

1993 election

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1990 election

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1987 election

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1984 election

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1981 election

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1978 election

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1975 election

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1972 election

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1969 election

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1966 election

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1963 election

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1960 election

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1957 election

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1954 election

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1951 election

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1949 election

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1946 election

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1943 election

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1938 election

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1935 election

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1931 election

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1928 election

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1926 by-election

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1925 election

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1922 election

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1919 election

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1914 election

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1899 election

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1893 election

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1890 election

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1887 election

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1879 election

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NB: Officially there are 731 ballot papers, 9 informal votes, and 2*2 duplicate votes. After removing 13 from consideration, 718 total valid votes were counted. So technically, turnout is 729 voters.

1876 election

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Notes

  1. Stone, R. C. J. "Whitaker, Frederick - Biography". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
  2. "The General Election, 1899". Wellington: Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives. 19 June 1900. p. 1. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
  3. Part 1: Votes recorded at each polling place (Technical report). New Zealand Chief Electoral Office. 1993.
  4. Part 1: Votes recorded at each polling place (Technical report). New Zealand Chief Electoral Office. 1990.
  5. Norton 1988, pp. 221.
  6. Norton 1988, pp. 220.
  7. "The New Zealand Official Year-Book, 1951–52". Statistics New Zealand. Archived from the original on 23 June 2012. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
  8. "The General Election, 1949". National Library. 1950. pp. 1–5, 8. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
  9. "The General Election, 1946". National Library. 1947. pp. 1–11, 14. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  10. "The General Election, 1943". National Library. 1944. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
  11. "Electoral". The New Zealand Herald. Vol. 80, no. 24713. 13 October 1943. p. 5. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
  12. "The General Election, 1938". National Library. 1939. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
  13. The General Election, 1935. National Library. 1936. pp. 1–35. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
  14. "Election Results". Auckland Star. Vol. LXII, no. 290. 8 December 1931. p. 3. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
  15. The General Election, 1928. Government Printer. 1929. p. 2. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
  16. "Auckland Seats". The New Zealand Herald. Vol. LXV, no. 20109. 21 November 1928. p. 13. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
  17. "Electoral". The New Zealand Herald. Vol. LXV, no. 20090. 30 October 1928. p. 4. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
  18. The General Election, 1925. Government Printer. 1926. p. 2. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
  19. The General Election, 1922. Government Printer. 1923. p. 2. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  20. Hislop, J. (1921). The General Election, 1919. National Library. pp. 1–6. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
  21. Hislop, J. (1915). The General Election, 1914. National Library. pp. 1–33. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
  22. "The General Elections". The Star. No. 6668. 14 December 1899. p. 2. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
  23. "The General Election, 1893". National Library. 1894. p. 1. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
  24. "The General Election". Otago Daily Times. 28 November 1893. p. 6. Retrieved 28 November 2013.
  25. "The General Election, 1890". National Library. 1891. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
  26. "Eden". Auckland Star. Vol. XVIII, no. 232. 3 October 1887. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  27. "Eden Election". The New Zealand Herald. Vol. XVI, no. 5558. 9 September 1879. p. 6. Retrieved 17 September 2017.
  28. "Story: Whitaker, Frederick". Te Ara. Retrieved 17 September 2017.
  29. "General Elections". The New Zealand Herald. Vol. XIII, no. 4419. 12 January 1876. p. 3. Retrieved 9 April 2017.

References

  • McRobie, Alan (1989). Electoral Atlas of New Zealand. Wellington: GP Books. ISBN 0-477-01384-8.
  • Scholefield, Guy (1925) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record (2nd ed.). Wellington: Govt. Printer.
  • Scholefield, Guy, ed. (1940). A Dictionary of New Zealand Biography : M–Addenda (PDF). Vol. II. Wellington: Department of Internal Affairs. Retrieved 6 October 2013.
  • Scholefield, Guy (1950) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1949 (3rd ed.). Wellington: Govt. Printer.
  • Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.
  • 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.

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