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30th New Zealand Parliament

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30th Parliament of New Zealand
29th Parliament 31st Parliament
Overview
Legislative bodyNew Zealand Parliament
Term25 September 1951 – 1 October 1954
Election1951 New Zealand general election
GovernmentFirst National Government
House of Representatives
Members80
Speaker of the HouseMatthew Oram
Prime MinisterSidney Holland
Leader of the OppositionWalter Nash
Sovereign
MonarchHM Elizabeth II
— HM George VI until 6 February 1952
Governor-GeneralHE Lt. Gen. The Lord Norrie from 2 December 1952
— HE Lt. Gen. The Lord Freyberg until 15 August 1952

The 30th New Zealand Parliament was a term of the New Zealand Parliament. It was elected at the 1951 general election on 1 September of that year.

1951 general election

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The 1951 general election was held on Saturday, 1 September.[1] A total of 80 MPs were elected; 49 represented North Island electorates, 27 represented South Island electorates, and the remaining four represented Māori electorates; this was the same distribution used since the 1946 election.[2] 1,205,762 voters were enrolled and the official turnout at the election was 89.1%.[1]

Sessions

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The 30th Parliament sat for five sessions (there were two sessions in 1954), and was prorogued on 4 October 1954.[3]

Session Opened Adjourned
first 25 September 1951 6 December 1951
second 25 June 1952 24 October 1952
third 8 April 1953 27 November 1953
fourth 12 January 1954 13 January 1954
fifth 22 June 1954 1 October 1954

Ministries

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The National Party under Sidney Holland had been in power since the 1949 election, and Holland remained in charge until 1957, when he stepped down due to ill health.[4]

Overview of seats

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The table below shows the number of MPs in each party following the 1951 election and at dissolution:

Affiliation Members
At 1951 election At dissolution
National Government 50 50
Labour Opposition 30 30
Total
80 80
Working Government majority 20 20

Notes

  • The Working Government majority is calculated as all Government MPs less all other parties.

Initial composition of the 30th Parliament

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The 1951 election saw the governing National Party re-elected with a twenty-seat margin, a substantial improvement on the twelve-seat margin it previously held. National won fifty seats compared with the Labour Party's thirty.[5] The popular vote was closer, however, with National winning 54% to Labour's 46%.[6] No seats were won by minor party candidates or by independents.[7] This was the last New Zealand general election in which any party has ever captured a majority of the popular vote.[6] Key
  Labour   National

Electorate results for the 1951 New Zealand general election[8]
Electorate Incumbent Winner Majority Runner up
General electorates
Arch Hill Bill Parry John Stewart 3,965 Paddy Hope
Ashburton Geoff Gerard 2,867 William Erle Rose
Auckland Central Bill Anderton 2,168 Peter Hillyer
Avon John Mathison 4,212 Douglas Warren Russell
Awarua George Herron 3,755 Neville Pickering
Bay of Plenty Bill Sullivan 4,047 Godfrey Santon
Brooklyn Arnold Nordmeyer 1,826 Charles William Clift
Buller Jerry Skinner 1,227 Phil McDonald
Central Otago William Bodkin 3,620 T A Rodgers
Christchurch Central Robert Macfarlane 4,103 Alma Schumacher
Clutha James Roy 3,583 J M Sanders
Dunedin Central Phil Connolly 373 Walter MacDougall
Dunedin North Robert Walls 307 Donald Cameron
Eden Wilfred Fortune 2,802 John Ronald Burfitt
Egmont Ernest Corbett 4,896 Brian Edgar Richmond
Fendalton Sidney Holland 4,366 Philip John Alley
Franklin Jack Massey 5,358 Arthur Faulkner
Gisborne Reginald Keeling Harry Dudfield 338 Reginald Keeling
Grey Lynn Fred Hackett 3,813 Harold Barry
Hamilton Hilda Ross 2,252 Ben Waters
Hastings Sydney Jones 1,138 Henry Edward Beattie
Hauraki Andy Sutherland 4,468 Brevat William Dynes
Hawke's Bay Cyril Harker 4,153 A Lowe
Hobson Sidney Smith 5,337 Norman King
Hurunui William Gillespie 2,921 Ed Cassidy
Hutt Walter Nash 2,248 Jack Andrews
Invercargill Ralph Hanan 2,123 F G Spurdle
Island Bay Robert McKeen 1,680 James Duncan
Karori Charles Bowden 3,453 Jim Bateman
Lyttelton Terry McCombs Harry Lake 133 Terry McCombs[note 1]
Manawatu Matthew Oram 3,465 B A Rodgers
Marlborough Tom Shand 2,452 Ted Meachen
Marsden Alfred Murdoch 4,001 Mervyn Allan Hosking
Miramar Bob Semple 301 Cuthbert Taylor
Mornington Wally Hudson 3,783 Richard Philling
Mount Albert Warren Freer 604 Reg Judson
Mount Victoria Jack Marshall 2,198 Frank Kitts
Napier Tommy Armstrong Peter Tait 44 Tommy Armstrong[note 2]
Nelson Edgar Neale 2,831 Stan Whitehead
New Plymouth Ernest Aderman 2,335 Clarence Robert Parker
North Shore Dean Eyre 2,155 Richard Wrathall
Oamaru Thomas Hayman 1,315 C J Ryan
Onehunga Arthur Osborne 1,966 Leonard Bradley
Onslow Harry Combs 1,106 John S Meadowcroft[9]
Otahuhu Leon Götz 2,128 James Deas
Otaki Jimmy Maher 1,142 Phil Holloway
Pahiatua Keith Holyoake 4,598 Owen Jones
Palmerston North Blair Tennent 200 Joe Hodgens[note 3]
Parnell Duncan Rae 1,587 Hugh Watt[10]
Patea William Sheat 2,467 Frederick William Finer
Petone Mick Moohan 2,135 Norm Croft
Piako Stan Goosman 6,364 Gilbert Parsons Kenah
Ponsonby Ritchie Macdonald 1,504 Peter Dempsey[11]
Raglan Hallyburton Johnstone 1,766 James Harrison Wilson
Rangitikei Edward Gordon 3,677 F A Dalzell
Remuera Ronald Algie 5,346 Bob Tizard
Riccarton Angus McLagan 2,265 Eric Philip Wills[12]
Rodney Clifton Webb 4,893 Arthur Laurence Leaming
Roskill John Rae 440 Pat Curran
St Albans Jack Watts 1,415 John Bernard Mora
St Kilda Fred Jones Jim Barnes 336 Fred Jones
Selwyn John McAlpine 1,836 Jim Barclay
Sydenham Mabel Howard 4,403 Albert Hugh Stott
Tamaki Eric Halstead 1,461 Tom Skinner
Tauranga Frederick Doidge George Walsh 5,400 Hillary Joseph Pickett
Timaru Clyde Carr 564 William Leslie Richards
Waikato Geoffrey Sim 6,369 William Henry Bayly
Waimarino Paddy Kearins 67 Arthur MacPherson
Waimate David Kidd 2,232 A G Braddick
Wairarapa Bert Cooksley 2,032 George Anders Hansen
Waitakere Rex Mason 641 Robert Tapper
Waitomo Walter Broadfoot 5,286 J Dwyer
Wallace Tom Macdonald 5,060 J W Cleary
Wanganui Joe Cotterill 226 Ernest Victor O'Keefe
Wellington Central Charles Chapman 277 Berta Burns
Westland Jim Kent 2,325 Isabella Catherine Brown
Māori electorates
Eastern Maori Tiaki Omana 3,706 Turi Carroll
Northern Maori Tapihana Paikea 2,132 James Henare[13]
Southern Maori Eruera Tirikatene 659 William Beaton
Western Maori Iriaka Rātana 7,352 Hoeroa Marumaru

Table footnotes:

  1. ^ Terry McCombs was first on election night, but lost when special votes were included
  2. ^ Tommy Armstrong was first on election night, but lost when special votes were included
  3. ^ Joe Hodgens was first on election night, but lost when special votes were included

By-elections during 30th Parliament

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There were a number of changes during the term of the 30th Parliament.

Electorate and by-election Date Incumbent Cause Winner
Dunedin North 1953 12 December Robert Walls Death Ethel McMillan
Onehunga 1953 19 December Arthur Osborne Death Hugh Watt
Onslow 1954 7 July Harry Combs Death Henry May
Patea 1954 31 July William Sheat Resignation William Sheat

Notes

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  1. ^ a b "General elections 1853–2005 – dates & turnout". Elections New Zealand. Archived from the original on 27 May 2010. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
  2. ^ Wilson 1985, p. 173.
  3. ^ Wilson 1985, p. 142.
  4. ^ Wilson 1985, pp. 86–87.
  5. ^ Wilson 1985, pp. 287–288.
  6. ^ a b Wilson 1985, p. 290.
  7. ^ Wilson 1985, p. 288.
  8. ^ "The New Zealand Official Year-Book, 1951–52". Statistics New Zealand. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
  9. ^ Gustafson 1986, p. 378.
  10. ^ Norton 1988, p. 314.
  11. ^ Gustafson 1986, pp. 360f.
  12. ^ Gustafson 1986, p. 390.
  13. ^ Gustafson 1986, p. 247.

References

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  • 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.