Wellington City mayoral election, 1938

May 1938


Turnout	42,860

Candidate	Thomas Hislop	Charles Henry Chapman
Party	Civic League	Labour
Popular vote	24,368	18,198
Percentage	56.85	42.45

Mayor before election

Thomas Hislop

Elected Mayor

Thomas Hislop

The Wellington City mayoral election, 1938 was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1938, elections were held for the Mayor of Wellington plus other local government positions including fifteen city councillors. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.

The contest resulted in the re-election of incumbent Thomas Hislop who defeated his only competitor Charles Henry Chapman of the Labour Party. Chapman had unsuccessfully run for Mayor three times prior, in 1915, 1925 and 1927. He also stood as a councillor and was successful.^[1]

Mayoralty results

Wellington mayoral election, 1938^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Civic League	Thomas Hislop	24,368	56.85	+3.77
	Labour	Charles Henry Chapman	18,198	42.45
Informal votes			294	0.68
Majority			6,170	14.39	+8.31
Turnout			42,860

Councillor results

Wellington local election, 1938^[1]^[3]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±
Civic League	Robert Alexander Wright	23,530	54.89	+2.64
Labour	Robert McKeen	23,458	54.73	-8.16
Labour	Charles Henry Chapman	22,142	51.66	-12.13
Civic League	Will Appleton	22,096	51.55	+2.57
Civic League	Malcolm Fraser	21,945	51.20
Civic League	William Gaudin	21,609	50.41	+3.97
Civic League	Martin Luckie	21,513	50.19	+4.46
Civic League	William Duncan	21,103	49.23	+3.78
Labour	Peter Butler	20,896	48.75	-2.05
Civic League	Leonard McKenzie	20,852	48.65	+2.87
Labour	Tom Brindle	20,486	47.79	-2.34
Labour	Margaret Semple	20,410	47.62
Civic League	Thomas Forsyth	20,113	46.92	+2.98
Labour	Adam Black	19,817	46.23	+0.56
Civic League	Robert McAlister	19,689	45.93	+4.33
Civic League	Malcolm Galloway	19,465	45.41
Civic League	Vincent Ward	19,424	45.31
Labour	Andrew Parlane	19,016	44.36	-0.85
Labour	John Read	18,719	43.67	+0.37
Labour	James Collins	18,371	42.86	+2.70
Civic League	Malcolm McCaul	18,347	42.80
Labour	Kenneth Baxter	18,210	42.48
Civic League	Noel Nelson	18,180	42.41
Labour	John Tucker	17,991	41.97	+0.32
Civic League	Richard McVilly	17,922	41.81
Labour	Michael Walsh	17,858	41.66	-0.12
Civic League	John McLean	17,730	41.36
Labour	Caryll Hay	17,497	40.82	+0.38
Labour	William Broadley	17,191	40.10
Labour	Herbert Swindell	16,608	38.74
Independent	Leslie Austin	8,656	20.19
Independent	Jessie Probyn	2,214	5.16

References

1 2 "Wellington City Council". Evening Post. CXXV (115). 18 May 1938. p. 4. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
↑ "Election Recounts". Evening Post. CXXV (114). 17 May 1938. p. 12. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
↑ "Who's Who for the Elections". Evening Post. CXXV (107). 9 May 1938. p. 6. Retrieved 27 October 2016.

Mayors of Wellington City

Mayors

elected by councillors	George Hunter William Guyton Joseph Dransfield Charles Borlase William Sefton Moorhouse

elected at large	William Hutchison Joseph Dransfield George Allen William Hutchison George Fisher Arthur Winton Brown Samuel Brown John Duthie Charles Johnston Arthur Winton Brown Francis Bell Alfred Brandon Charles Luke George Fisher Francis Bell John Blair John Aitken Thomas William Hislop Alfred Newman Thomas Wilford David McLaren John Luke Robert Wright Charles Norwood George Troup Thomas Hislop Will Appleton Rob Macalister Frank Kitts Michael Fowler Ian Lawrence James Belich Fran Wilde Mark Blumsky Kerry Prendergast Celia Wade-Brown Justin Lester

Mayoral elections

Annual term	1875 1876† 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898

Biennial term	1899 1901 1903† 1905 1907 1909 1910‡ 1911† 1912‡ 1913 1915 1917† 1919 1921 1923 1925 1927 1929 1931 1933†

Triennial term	1935 1938 1941 1944 1947 1950 1953 1956 1959 1962 1965 1968 1971 1974 1977 1980 1983 1986 1989 1992 1995 1998 2001 2004 2007 2010 2013 2016

† Elected unopposed · ‡ By-election

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