Wanganui by-election, 1893

9 June 1893 (1893-06-09)



Candidate	Archibald Willis	Gilbert Carson
Party	Liberal	Conservative
Popular vote	1,031	622
Percentage	62.37	37.62

Member before election

John Ballance
Liberal

Elected Member

Archibald Willis
Liberal

The Wanganui by-election of 1893 was a by-election held on 9 June 1893 during the 11th New Zealand Parliament in the central North Island seat of Wanganui.

The election was held due to death of sitting Member, Prime Minister John Ballance. The contest for his former seat was won by his longtime friend and business partner Archibald Willis, who received support from the constituents by keeping the "Ballance tradition" alive.^[1]

Results

The following table gives the election results:

Wanganui by-election, 1893^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Archibald Willis	1,031	62.37
	Conservative	Gilbert Carson	622	37.62
Majority			409	24.74
Turnout			1,653

Notes

↑ McIvor 1989, p. 241.
↑ "Wanganui Election". Woodville Examiner. VIII (2054). 12 June 1893. p. 3. Retrieved 1 April 2016.

References

McIvor, Timothy (1989). The Rainmaker: A biography of John Ballance journalist and politician 1839–1893. Auckland: Heinemann Reed. ISBN 0-7900-0024-5.

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