WELLINGTON CITY ELECTIONS
All Seats to Citizens
GENERAL SWING FROM LABOUR
Labour Avas most decisively defeated in the Wellington City municipal elections. Mr. Hislop was re-elected Mayor with a margin of almost 9000 votes over Mr. McKeen, and Citizens' candidates secured every seat on the City Council, Hospital Board, and Harbour Board. The poll was a small one, little more than half the 60,000 enrolled city electors recording their votes.
In the Hutt Valley, Mr. J. W. Andrews was re-elected Mayor of LoAver Hutt with a substantial majority over his Labour opponent, and Mr. G. London (Citizens), who is on active service, was returned unopposed as Mayor of Petone. Labour has no seats on the Lower Hutt City Council and has lost one of its former three seats on the Petone Borough Council. Here also the polling was light.
There are now Citizens' ticket Majors in all four main centres, and the swing from Labour has been shown to be general throughout the Dominion.
sort of thing that we take it as it comes."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 116, 19 May 1941, Page 9
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174WELLINGTON CITY ELECTIONS Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 116, 19 May 1941, Page 9
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