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1921 Patea By-election
The Patea by-election was a by-election in the New Zealand electorate of Patea, a rural seat on the west coast of the North Island. Background The by-election was held on 13 April 1921, and was precipitated by the resignation of sitting Reform member of parliament, Walter Powdrell. The Reform Party chose Edwin Dixon, the Mayor of Hawera, as their official candidate, and apparently Clutha Mackenzie was their second preference. Earlier, Thomas William McDonald announced his intention to stand for the Reform Party, however left without contesting the by-election. Labour candidate Lew McIlvride polled a small vote compared to Dixon and Morrison, however he was the only one of the three candidates who increased the vote for his party compared with and was rewarded with contesting a winnable seat in in Napier Napier may refer to: People * Napier (surname), including a list of people with that name * Napier baronets, five baronetcies and lists of the title holders Given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Edwin Dixon
Edwin Dixon (1867–1955) was a Reform Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand. Dixon served as mayor of Hāwera from 1915 to 1923. He won the Patea Patea ( ) is the third-largest town in South Taranaki District, New Zealand. It is on the western bank of the Pātea River, 61 kilometres north-west of Whanganui on . Hāwera is 27 km to the north-west, and Waverley 17 km to the east ... electorate in a 1921 by-election after the death of the previous MP, Walter Powdrell, but was defeated in the 1922 general election. In 1953, Dixon was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal. References 1867 births 1955 deaths Reform Party (New Zealand) MPs Unsuccessful candidates in the 1922 New Zealand general election Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives New Zealand MPs for North Island electorates Mayors of places in Taranaki {{NewZealand-mayor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis McIlvride
Lewis McIlvride (26 January 1882 – 9 November 1949) was a New Zealand Member of Parliament and trade unionist. Biography Early life and career McIlvride was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on 26 January 1882. He emigrated to Canada and was employed by the Canadian Pacific Railway company. In 1908 he left Canada and moved to New Zealand where he attained employment first with A. and G. Price of Thames, and later by the New Zealand Railways Department. In 1913 married Emily Jobe. Political career At the election he stood as the Labour Party candidate in the electorate, where he finished third. He then unsuccessfully contested the Patea by-election, a rural Taranaki seat, in 1921 as the Labour nominee. Of the three candidates, he came last with just under ten percent of the vote. While McIlvride polled a very small vote, he was the only one of the three candidates who increased the vote for his party compared with 1919. McIlvride represented the electorate in the New Ze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lew McIlvride
Lewis McIlvride (26 January 1882 – 9 November 1949) was a New Zealand Member of Parliament and trade unionist. Biography Early life and career McIlvride was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on 26 January 1882. He emigrated to Canada and was employed by the Canadian Pacific Railway company. In 1908 he left Canada and moved to New Zealand where he attained employment first with A. and G. Price of Thames, and later by the New Zealand Railways Department The New Zealand Railways Department, NZR or NZGR (New Zealand Government Railways) and often known as the "Railways", was a government department charged with owning and maintaining New Zealand's railway infrastructure and operating the railway .... In 1913 married Emily Jobe. Political career At the election he stood as the Labour Party candidate in the electorate, where he finished third. He then unsuccessfully contested the Patea by-election, a rural Taranaki seat, in 1921 as the Labour nominee. Of the three candidates, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Powdrell
Walter Dutton Powdrell (1872 – 9 March 1921) was a Reform Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand. Powdrell was born in Wairoa in 1872. He won the Patea electorate in 1919 Events January * January 1 ** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Pressburg (now Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia. ** HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off the c ..., and held it until he died in 1921. According to the Coroner's Report into the death, Powdrell fell from a building on 9 March 1921. The fall caused injuries to the spine, which led to death later in the day. The coroner decreed that "whether death was accident or design, there was no evidence." References 1872 births 1921 deaths Reform Party (New Zealand) MPs Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives New Zealand MPs for North Island electorates People from Wairoa {{NewZealand-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
By-election
A by-election, also known as a special election in the United States and the Philippines, a bye-election in Ireland, a bypoll in India, or a Zimni election (Urdu: ضمنی انتخاب, supplementary election) in Pakistan, is an election used to fill an office that has become vacant between general elections. A vacancy may arise as a result of an incumbent dying or resigning, or when the incumbent becomes ineligible to continue in office (because of a recall, election or appointment to a prohibited dual mandate, criminal conviction, or failure to maintain a minimum attendance), or when an election is invalidated by voting irregularities. In some cases a vacancy may be filled without a by-election or the office may be left vacant. Origins The procedure for filling a vacant seat in the House of Commons of England was developed during the Reformation Parliament of the 16th century by Thomas Cromwell; previously a seat had remained empty upon the death of a member. Cromwell de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Electorates
An electorate or electoral district ( mi, rohe pōti) is a geographical constituency used for electing a member () to the New Zealand Parliament. The size of electorates is determined such that all electorates have approximately the same population. Before 1996, all MPs were directly chosen for office by the voters of an electorate. In New Zealand's electoral system, 72 of the usually 120 seats in Parliament are filled by electorate members, with the remainder being filled from party lists in order to achieve proportional representation among parties. The 72 electorates are made up from 65 general and seven Māori electorates. The number of electorates increases periodically in line with national population growth; the number was increased from 71 to 72 starting at the 2020 general election. Terminology The Electoral Act 1993 refers to electorates as "electoral districts". Electorates are informally referred to as "seats", but technically the term '' seat'' refers to an electe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patea (New Zealand Electorate)
Patea is a former New Zealand electorate in south Taranaki. It existed from 1893 to 1963. Population centres In the 1892 electoral redistribution, population shift to the North Island required the transfer of one seat from the South Island to the north. The resulting ripple effect saw every electorate established in 1890 have its boundaries altered, and eight electorates were established for the first time, including Patea. The electorate was based on the town of Patea, which used to have a freezing-works for the preparation of meat for export until 1982. History This rural seat was first established for the 1893 election. George Hutchison was the first elected representative. He resigned in June 1901. Frederick Haselden won the 1 August 1901 by-election, but the seat was declared vacant in the following year. Walter Symes then held the electorate, from 1902 to the dissolution of Parliament in 1908. The 1908 election was won by George Pearce. He held the electorate for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Island
The North Island, also officially named Te Ika-a-Māui, is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the larger but much less populous South Island by the Cook Strait. The island's area is , making it the world's 14th-largest island. The world's 28th-most-populous island, Te Ika-a-Māui has a population of accounting for approximately % of the total residents of New Zealand. Twelve main urban areas (half of them officially cities) are in the North Island. From north to south, they are Whangārei, Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Rotorua, Gisborne, New Plymouth, Napier, Hastings, Whanganui, Palmerston North, and New Zealand's capital city Wellington, which is located at the south-west tip of the island. Naming and usage Although the island has been known as the North Island for many years, in 2009 the New Zealand Geographic Board found that, along with the South Island, the North Island had no official name. After a public consultation, the board officially ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reform Party (New Zealand)
The Reform Party, formally the New Zealand Political Reform League, was New Zealand's second major political party, having been founded as a conservative response to the original Liberal Party. It was in government between 1912 and 1928, and later formed a coalition with the United Party (a remnant of the Liberals), and then merged with United to form the modern National Party. Foundation The Liberal Party, founded by John Ballance and fortified by Richard Seddon, was highly dominant in New Zealand politics at the beginning of the 20th century. The conservative opposition, consisting only of independents, was disorganised and demoralised. It had no cohesive plan to counter the Liberal Party's dominance, and could not always agree on a single leader — it was described by one historian as resembling a disparate band of guerrillas, and presented no credible threat to continued Liberal Party rule. Gradually, however, the Liberals began to falter — the first blow came with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clutha Mackenzie
Sir Clutha Nantes Mackenzie (11 February 1895 – 30 March 1966) was a New Zealand politician and worker for the blind. He was briefly a Reform Party (New Zealand), Reform Party Member of Parliament. Biography Mackenzie was born in Balclutha, New Zealand, Balclutha in 1895. He was the youngest child of Sir Thomas Mackenzie, who was High Commissioner in London and was previously a New Zealand Liberal Party, Liberal politician (and Prime Minister in 1912). Mackenzie Jr. enlisted in the Army in World War I. He was blinded at Battle of Chunuk Bair, Chunuk Bair during the Gallipoli campaign and was sent to the No. 2 New Zealand General Hospital at Walton-on-Thames to convalesce. At the hospital he was one of the patients of his sister Mary, who was a member of the Voluntary Aid Detachment here. After recovering he was sent to the live with other blind soldiers in a house in Portland before attending St Dunstan's, the Institute for the Blind Soldiers and Sailors. At the institute he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas William McDonald
Thomas William McDonald (December 1869 – 14 August 1968), sometimes known as Colonel Mac, was a United Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand. Biography Early life McDonald was born in 1869 in Tasmania. His parents died when he was a child and he had to earn his own living from an early age. Because of this he could not continue to attend school and so was mostly self-educated. He enlisted in the Tasmanian Auxiliary Force and in his early twenties he moved to New Zealand in pursuit of a professional military career. He applied for the New Zealand Permanent Militia and while awaiting his enlistment worked as a bush feller. Once enlisted in the militia he became a third-class gunner. He worked his was up the ranks and became a commissioned officer in the New Zealand Staff Corps. In 1905 he was elected Mayor of Lower Hutt, defeating former mayor Walter Foster. While he was mayor there was a large fire which caused the loss of a block of shops. At the time Lower Hutt was relian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
