The Auckland West by-election of 1940 was a by-election for the electorate of
Auckland West held on 18 May 1940 during the
26th New Zealand Parliament
The 26th New Zealand Parliament was a term of the New Zealand Parliament. It was elected at the 1938 general election in October of that year.
1938 general election
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. The by-election resulted from the death on 27 March 1940 of the previous member
Michael Joseph Savage, the revered prime minister whose terminal illness had not been made public.
Background
The by-election was won by
Peter Carr; also of the
Labour Party. The other aspirants for the Labour nomination were Charles Bailey,
Mary Dreaver
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Biography
Early life
She was born in Dunedin, the oldest of 13 children of Alexander Manson Bain and Hanna Kiely. She married A ...
, L. W. Holt, N. E. Herring, John Thomas Jennings, Thomas Percival McCready, Winnifred Moore,
Joe Sayegh,
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and Jeremiah James Sullivan.
Because of the war, the
National Party did not nominate a candidate, and four of the five candidates who stood against the
Labour
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candidate lost their deposit. The freshly forged
Democratic Labour Party (DLP) by expelled Labour rebel
John A. Lee
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Lee was elected as a me ...
also abstained from contesting. Lee's chief lieutenant
Norman Douglas was approached by the DLP to contest the by-election in an effort to boost the new party's publicity, but Douglas declined to stand.
Results
The following table gives the election results:
Four of the six candidates lost their deposits.
In 1946, Carr also died in office.
Wilfred Fortune, who stood as an independent, subsequently became a
National
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candidate (1943) and MP (1946) for the
Eden electorate.
Notes
References
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*''New Zealand Official Yearbook 1941'' p825
Auckland West 1940
1940 elections in New Zealand
Politics of the Auckland Region
1940s in Auckland
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