1911 Wellington City Mayoral Election
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The 1911 Wellington City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1911, elections were held for the
Mayor of Wellington The Mayor of Wellington is the head of the municipal government of the City of Wellington. The mayor presides over the Wellington City Council. The mayor is directly elected using the Single Transferable Vote method of proportional representat ...
plus other local government positions including fifteen city councillors, also elected biannually.
Thomas Wilford Sir Thomas Mason Wilford (20 June 1870 – 22 June 1939) was a New Zealand politician. He held the seats of Wellington Suburbs then Hutt continuously for thirty years, from 1899 to 1929. Wilford was leader of the New Zealand Liberal Party, and ...
, the incumbent Mayor sought re-election and retained office unopposed with no other candidates emerging. The polling was conducted using the standard
first-past-the-post In a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast thei ...
electoral method.


Councillor results


References

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