Election Enrolments Below Expectations

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30286, 12 November 1963, Page 6

Election Enrolments Below Expectations

(New Zealand Prese Association)

WELLINGTON, Nov. 11. Enrolments for the General Election are below expectations. For the 76 European constituencies there are 1,282,596 on the rolls, an increase of 27,108 on 1960. The Maori total of 49,256 shows an increase of 789. It appeared that the public had not responded as well as expected to appeals to enrol, said a spokesman for the Electoral Office. Neither the European nor the Maori enrolment had increased as much as expected on the basis of birth-rate and in the case of Europeans the net gain from immigration. The largest roll total in any constituency is in Waatemata, with 19,605 registered electors, and the smallest is Southern Maori with 10,301. The following are the total number of electors on the rolls for each of the 80 constituencies with figures for the 1960 election, where comparable, shown in the second

column:— Ashburton 17,972 16,007 Auckland Cen. 15,630 15,691 Avon 17.119 17,344 Awarua 17.119 17,341 Bay of Plenty 15,618 14,058 Buller 15,361 14,603 Chch. Cen. .. 17,096 14,833 Clutha 16,303 15,178 Dunedin Cen. 17,418 16,611 Dunedin Nth. 17,678 15,558 Eden 17,334 18,235 Egmont 15,114 13,959 Fendalton 17,904 18,790 Franklin 14,995 16,633 Gisborne 16,999 16,588 Grey Lynn .. 17,663 15,478 Hamilton 17,518 16,719 Hastings 17,620 18,312 Hauraki 15,806 15,194 Hawke’s Bay 15,291 14,233 Heretaunga .. 16,801 16,744 Hobson 15.199 15,386 Hutt 16,801 15,611 Invercargill .. 17,266 16.451 Island Bay .. 17,049 16.162 Karori 18,726 17,943 Lyttelton 17,825 17,860 Manawatu 16.033 15,888 Manukau 16,906 21,458 Manurewa .. 19.340 (n.c.> Marlborough . 16,637 15,867 Marsden 17,868 16.824 Miramar 18,498 16 508 Mornington (A) — 15,012 Mt. Albert .. 17,625 16.431 Napier 17.984 18,554 Nelson 17,736 17,721 New Lynn 16,627 (n.c.) N. Plymouth 17.981 19,031 North Shore 18.229 17,661

Onehunga 16.841 15,145 Onslow A — 19,039 Otago Cen. .. 16,030 12,767 Otahuhu (A) — 17,959 Otaki 18.239 16,948 Pahiatua 15.247 13 909 Pakuranga 17.001 (n.c.) Palm. North 17,831 17,445 Patea (Al —- 13.849 Petone 18.172 17.356 Piako 14,281 15,158 Ponsonby (A) — 16,959 Porirua 15.320 (n.c.) Raglan 15.445 14.526 Rangiora 16.253 (n.c.) Rangitikei 15,062 15,132 Remuera 17.905 17.160 Riccarton 17 553 17,251 Rodney 16,520 14.986 Roskill 18.020 17,014 Rotorua 15.917 18.400 St. Albans .. 18 247 17.586 St. Kilda 18,527 16,867 Selwyn 16.444 15,972 Stratford 15,234 14,375 Sydenham 18,310 16.171 Tamaki 17.351 18,112 Taupo 14.230 (n.c.) Tauranga 17.720 17,463 Timaru 18.022 16.874 Waikato (A) — 14,751 Waimarino .. 14.985 (n.c.) Waipa 15.051 17.461 Wairarapa 15.954 16.163 Waitakere 17,809 21,244 Waitaki 17.498 17.289 Waitemata 19.605 20.258 Waitomo 14.981 14.425 Wallace 16.375 14,419 Wanganui 17.156 16.241 Wgtn. Central 18 672 17.409 Westland 15.557 14,996 Maori Seats Eastern 13.962 14,060 Northern 11.697 11.667 Southern 10.301 9,319 Western 13.296 13,421 (A.) denotes abolished. (N.C.) denotes new stituency. con-