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href="#2023_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1</span> <span>2023 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2023_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2020_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2020_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2</span> <span>2020 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2020_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2017_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2017_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.3</span> <span>2017 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2017_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2014_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2014_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.4</span> <span>2014 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2014_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2011_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2011_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.5</span> <span>2011 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2011_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2008_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2008_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.6</span> <span>2008 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2008_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2005_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2005_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.7</span> <span>2005 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2005_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1999_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1999_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.8</span> <span>1999 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1999_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1993_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1993_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.9</span> <span>1993 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1993_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1990_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1990_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.10</span> <span>1990 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1990_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1987_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1987_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.11</span> <span>1987 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1987_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1984_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1984_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.12</span> <span>1984 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1984_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1981_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1981_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.13</span> <span>1981 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1981_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1978_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1978_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.14</span> <span>1978 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1978_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1975_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1975_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.15</span> <span>1975 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1975_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1972_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1972_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.16</span> <span>1972 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1972_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1969_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1969_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.17</span> <span>1969 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1969_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1966_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1966_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.18</span> <span>1966 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1966_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1963_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1963_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.19</span> <span>1963 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1963_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1960_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1960_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.20</span> <span>1960 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1960_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1957_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1957_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.21</span> <span>1957 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1957_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1954_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1954_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.22</span> <span>1954 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1954_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1951_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1951_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.23</span> <span>1951 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1951_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1949_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1949_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.24</span> <span>1949 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1949_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1946_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1946_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.25</span> <span>1946 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1946_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1943_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1943_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.26</span> <span>1943 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1943_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1938_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1938_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.27</span> <span>1938 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1938_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1935_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1935_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.28</span> <span>1935 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1935_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1931_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1931_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.29</span> <span>1931 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1931_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1928_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1928_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.30</span> <span>1928 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1928_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1925_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1925_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.31</span> <span>1925 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1925_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1922_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1922_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.32</span> <span>1922 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1922_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1919_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1919_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.33</span> <span>1919 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1919_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1914_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1914_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.34</span> <span>1914 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1914_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1911_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1911_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.35</span> <span>1911 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1911_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1908_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1908_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.36</span> <span>1908 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1908_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1899_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1899_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.37</span> <span>1899 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1899_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1893_by-election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1893_by-election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.38</span> <span>1893 by-election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1893_by-election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1890_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1890_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.39</span> <span>1890 election</span> </div> </a> <ul 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id="toc-1879_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1879_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.43</span> <span>1879 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1879_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1876_by-election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1876_by-election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.44</span> <span>1876 by-election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1876_by-election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1867_by-election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1867_by-election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.45</span> <span>1867 by-election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1867_by-election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" 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style="font-weight: bold;">Single-member constituency<br />for the <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_House_of_Representatives" title="New Zealand House of Representatives">New Zealand House of Representatives</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Whanganui_electorate,_2014.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Outline map" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Whanganui_electorate%2C_2014.svg/120px-Whanganui_electorate%2C_2014.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="144" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Whanganui_electorate%2C_2014.svg/180px-Whanganui_electorate%2C_2014.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Whanganui_electorate%2C_2014.svg/240px-Whanganui_electorate%2C_2014.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="666" data-file-height="800" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Location of Whanganui within <a 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MP</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Carl_Bates" title="Carl Bates">Carl Bates</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Whanganui</b> (known as <b>Wanganui</b> until 1996) is a New Zealand parliamentary <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_electorates" title="New Zealand electorates">electorate</a>. It was first established in 1860 for the <a href="/wiki/3rd_New_Zealand_Parliament" title="3rd New Zealand Parliament">3rd Parliament</a> and has existed continuously since then. </p><p>It is held by <a href="/wiki/Carl_Bates" title="Carl Bates">Carl Bates</a> of the <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National Party</a>, who won it in the <a href="/wiki/2023_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2023 New Zealand general election">2023 general election</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Establishment">Establishment</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Establishment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the 1860 electoral redistribution, the <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_House_of_Representatives" title="New Zealand House of Representatives">House of Representatives</a> increased the number of representatives by 12, reflecting the immense population growth since the original electorates were established in 1853. The redistribution created 15 additional electorates with between one and three members, and the <a href="/wiki/Wanganui_and_Rangitikei_(New_Zealand_electorate)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wanganui and Rangitikei (New Zealand electorate)">Wanganui and Rangitikei</a> electorate was split into two separate electorates: the <a href="/wiki/Rangitikei_(New_Zealand_electorate)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rangitikei (New Zealand electorate)">Rangitikei</a> electorate and the Wanganui electorate, with one member each.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcRobie198932f_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcRobie198932f-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Population_centres">Population centres</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Population centres"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The current electorate is based on the urban area of <a href="/wiki/Whanganui" title="Whanganui">Whanganui</a>, the towns <a href="/wiki/%C5%8Cpunake" title="Ōpunake">Ōpunake</a> and <a href="/wiki/H%C4%81wera" title="Hāwera">Hāwera</a>, and smaller centres <a href="/wiki/Kaponga" title="Kaponga">Kaponga</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eltham" title="Eltham">Eltham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Normanby,_Taranaki" title="Normanby, Taranaki">Normanby</a>, <a href="/wiki/Manaia,_Taranaki" title="Manaia, Taranaki">Manaia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Patea" title="Patea">Patea</a> and <a href="/wiki/Waverley,_Taranaki" title="Waverley, Taranaki">Waverley</a>; broadly speaking, the Whanganui and South Taranaki local government districts. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Henry_Shafto_Harrison" title="Henry Shafto Harrison">Henry Shafto Harrison</a> was the first representative. His 7 February <a href="/wiki/1860%E2%80%931861_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1860–1861 New Zealand general election">1861 election</a> was declared invalid. He stood again in the <a href="/wiki/1861_Wanganui_by-election" title="1861 Wanganui by-election">1861 by-election</a> and was elected again. He then served the electorate until the end of the term in 1866.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield1925100_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield1925100-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilson1985203_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilson1985203-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Harrison, <a href="/wiki/John_Bryce" title="John Bryce">John Bryce</a> and John Garner contested the <a href="/wiki/1866_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1866 New Zealand general election">1866 election</a>. The nomination meeting was held on Friday, 2 March 1866. Harrison, Bryce and Garner received 51, 102 and 7 votes, respectively, at the election on the following day. Bryce was thus declared elected.<sup id="cite_ref-1866_Wanganui_election_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1866_Wanganui_election-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bryce resigned in 1867.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield192581_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield192581-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The resulting 6 May <a href="/wiki/1867_Wanganui_by-election" title="1867 Wanganui by-election">1867 by-election</a> was won by Harrison, and he served until the dissolution of Parliament on 30 December 1870.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield1925100_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield1925100-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bryce was again elected in the 30 January <a href="/wiki/1871_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1871 New Zealand general election">1871 election</a>. This time, he served three parliamentary terms until the dissolution in November 1881.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield192581_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield192581-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Wanganui became a two-member electorate for the 12 January <a href="/wiki/1875%E2%80%931876_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1875–1876 New Zealand general election">1876 election</a>. Apart from Bryce, <a href="/wiki/Julius_Vogel" title="Julius Vogel">Julius Vogel</a> was elected, who was later to become Premier. Vogel resigned on 9 September 1876. <sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield1925142–143_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield1925142–143-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The resulting 2 October <a href="/wiki/1876_Wanganui_by-election" title="1876 Wanganui by-election">1876 by-election</a> was won by William Fox, resulting in his second period of representation of a Whanganui-centred electorate. He served until the end of the term on 15 August 1879.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield192594_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield192594-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bryce and <a href="/wiki/John_Ballance" title="John Ballance">John Ballance</a> won the <a href="/wiki/1879_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1879 New Zealand general election">1879 election</a>. They both served until the end of the term, with Parliament being dissolved on 8 November 1881. <sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield192577_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield192577-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For the <a href="/wiki/1881_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1881 New Zealand general election">1881 election</a>, the electorate reverted to being represented by a single member. The election, held on 9 December, was won by <a href="/wiki/William_Hogg_Watt" title="William Hogg Watt">William Hogg Watt</a>. He served until the end of the term, with Parliament being dissolved on 27 June 1884.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield1925145_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield1925145-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/1884_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1884 New Zealand general election">1884 election</a> was once again won by John Ballance. This time, he would serve in three successive Parliaments. He died in office on 27 April 1893 during the <a href="/wiki/11th_New_Zealand_Parliament" title="11th New Zealand Parliament">11th Parliament</a>. <sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield192577_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield192577-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ballance formed the <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Liberal_Party" title="New Zealand Liberal Party">Liberal Party</a> after the <a href="/wiki/1890_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1890 New Zealand general election">1890 election</a> and became its leader, and thus introduced party politics to New Zealand. The <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Government_of_New_Zealand" title="Liberal Government of New Zealand">Liberal Government of New Zealand</a> would last for 21 years and is the longest serving government in New Zealand's history. </p><p>Ballance's death triggered the <a href="/wiki/1893_Wanganui_by-election" title="1893 Wanganui by-election">1893 by-election</a>, which was held on 13 June and won by <a href="/wiki/Archibald_Willis" title="Archibald Willis">Archibald Willis</a>, who was re-elected at the <a href="/wiki/1893_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1893 New Zealand general election">1893 election</a> a few months later.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield1925147_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield1925147-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Carson_(politician)" title="Gilbert Carson (politician)">Gilbert Carson</a> was successful in the <a href="/wiki/1896_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1896 New Zealand general election">1896 election</a>. He served one term.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield192584_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield192584-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was succeeded by Willis in the <a href="/wiki/1899_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1899 New Zealand general election">1899 election</a>, who served two more terms for the electorate.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield1925147_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield1925147-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/James_Thomas_Hogan" title="James Thomas Hogan">James Thomas Hogan</a> won the <a href="/wiki/1905_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1905 New Zealand general election">1905 election</a>. He served two terms<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield1925103_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield1925103-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was defeated in the <a href="/wiki/1911_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1911 New Zealand general election">1911 election</a> by <a href="/wiki/Bill_Veitch" title="Bill Veitch">Bill Veitch</a>. </p><p>Veitch had a long career in the electorate, serving until 1935, when he defeated. He was initially an <a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a>, but joined the <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Liberal_Party" title="New Zealand Liberal Party">Liberal Party</a> in 1925, and changed to the <a href="/wiki/United_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="United Party (New Zealand)">United Party</a> in 1928. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Joe_Cotterill" title="Joe Cotterill">Joe Cotterill</a> won the electorate in the <a href="/wiki/1935_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1935 New Zealand general election">1935 election</a> for the <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour Party</a>. He also had a long career, retiring in 1960 from the Wanganui seat. </p><p>He was succeeded by his party colleague <a href="/wiki/George_Spooner" title="George Spooner">George Spooner</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1960_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1960 New Zealand general election">1960 election</a>, who served three terms and was defeated in <a href="/wiki/1969_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1969 New Zealand general election">1969 election</a> by <a href="/wiki/Bill_Tolhurst" title="Bill Tolhurst">Bill Tolhurst</a> from the <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National Party</a>. </p><p>Tolhurst served one term and at the <a href="/wiki/1972_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1972 New Zealand general election">1972 election</a>, the electorate returned to Labour. <a href="/wiki/Russell_Marshall" title="Russell Marshall">Russell Marshall</a> served six terms and retired in 1990. </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/1990_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1990 New Zealand general election">1990 election</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cam_Campion" title="Cam Campion">Cam Campion</a> secured the seat for National. He retired in 1993 and died two years after that. </p><p>The seat returned to Labour again, with <a href="/wiki/Jill_Pettis" title="Jill Pettis">Jill Pettis</a> winning the <a href="/wiki/1993_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1993 New Zealand general election">1993 election</a>. She was the first woman to represent Wanganui. She served four terms, until her defeat in the <a href="/wiki/2005_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2005 New Zealand general election">2005 election</a> by <a href="/wiki/Chester_Borrows" title="Chester Borrows">Chester Borrows</a> of the National Party.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Pettis served an additional term as a <a href="/wiki/List_MP" title="List MP">List MP</a> until 2008. Borrows announced in 2016 that he would not seek reelection at the <a href="/wiki/2017_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2017 New Zealand general election">2017 general election</a><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the seat was won by Harete Hipango, retaining it for the National Party. She however, was defeated after one term by Labour's <a href="/wiki/Steph_Lewis" title="Steph Lewis">Steph Lewis</a>. </p><p>Several members (Fox, Vogel and Ballance) became Premier. <a href="/wiki/Terry_Heffernan" title="Terry Heffernan">Terry Heffernan</a> stood in the electorate five times for four parties, from <a href="/wiki/1981_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1981 New Zealand general election">1981</a> to <a href="/wiki/1993_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1993 New Zealand general election">1993</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Members_of_Parliament">Members of Parliament</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Members of Parliament"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Unless otherwise stated, all MPs terms began and ended at a general election. </p><p><b>Key</b> </p><p><span class="legend nowrap" style="page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column"><span class="legend-color" style="display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;border:1px solid black;background-color:#DCDCDC"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a></span> <span class="legend nowrap" style="page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column"><span class="legend-color" style="display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;border:1px solid black;background-color:#FFDF00"> </span> <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Liberal_Party" title="New Zealand Liberal Party">Liberal</a></span> <span class="legend nowrap" style="page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column"><span class="legend-color" style="display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;border:1px solid black;background-color:#9999CC"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Conservative_(New_Zealand)" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservative (New Zealand)">Conservative</a></span> <span class="legend nowrap" style="page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column"><span class="legend-color" style="display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;border:1px solid black;background-color:#FFA500"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Liberal%E2%80%93Labour_(New_Zealand)" title="Liberal–Labour (New Zealand)">Liberal–Labour</a></span> </p><p><span class="legend nowrap" style="page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column"><span class="legend-color" style="display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;border:1px solid black;background-color:#FFBBBB"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Independent_Labour" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent Labour">Independent Labour</a></span> <span class="legend nowrap" style="page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column"><span class="legend-color" style="display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;border:1px solid black;background-color:#FF4040"> </span> <a href="/wiki/United_Labour_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="United Labour Party (New Zealand)">United Labour</a></span> <span class="legend nowrap" style="page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column"><span class="legend-color" style="display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;border:1px solid black;background-color:#BBFFFF"> </span> <a href="/wiki/United_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="United Party (New Zealand)">United</a></span> <span class="legend nowrap" style="page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column"><span class="legend-color" style="display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;border:1px solid black;background-color:#D82A20"> </span> <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a></span> <span class="legend nowrap" style="page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column"><span class="legend-color" style="display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;border:1px solid black;background-color:#00529F"> </span> <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="single-member_electorate">single-member electorate</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: single-member electorate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th width="100">Election </th> <th width="175" colspan="2">Winner </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1860%E2%80%931861_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1860–1861 New Zealand general election">1861 election</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#DCDCDC; color:inherit; width:5px;"> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Henry_Shafto_Harrison" title="Henry Shafto Harrison">Henry Harrison</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="font-size:x-small;"><i><a href="/wiki/1861_Wanganui_by-election" title="1861 Wanganui by-election">1861 by-election</a></i></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1866_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1866 New Zealand general election">1866 election</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#DCDCDC; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Bryce" title="John Bryce">John Bryce</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="font-size:x-small;"><i><a href="/wiki/1867_Wanganui_by-election" title="1867 Wanganui by-election">1867 by-election</a></i></span> </td> <td style="background-color:#DCDCDC; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td>Henry Harrison (2nd time) </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1871_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1871 New Zealand general election">1871 election</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#DCDCDC; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td>John Bryce (2nd time) </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="multi-member_electorate">multi-member electorate</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: multi-member electorate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th width="100">Election </th> <th colspan="4">Winners </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1875%E2%80%931876_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1875–1876 New Zealand general election">1876 election</a> </td> <td rowspan="3" style="background-color:#DCDCDC; color:inherit; width:5px;"> </td> <td width="170" rowspan="3">John Bryce </td> <td style="background-color:#DCDCDC; color:inherit; width:5px;"> </td> <td width="170"><a href="/wiki/Julius_Vogel" title="Julius Vogel">Julius Vogel</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="font-size:x-small;"><i><a href="/wiki/1876_Wanganui_by-election" title="1876 Wanganui by-election">1876 by-election</a></i></span> </td> <td style="background-color:#DCDCDC; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/William_Fox_(politician)" title="William Fox (politician)">William Fox</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1879_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1879 New Zealand general election">1879 election</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#DCDCDC; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Ballance" title="John Ballance">John Ballance</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="single-member_electorate_2">single-member electorate</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: single-member electorate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th width="100">Election </th> <th width="175" colspan="2">Winner </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1881_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1881 New Zealand general election">1881 election</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#DCDCDC; color:inherit; width:5px;"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/William_Hogg_Watt" title="William Hogg Watt">William Watt</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1884_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1884 New Zealand general election">1884 election</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#DCDCDC; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td rowspan="3">John Ballance (2nd time) </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1887_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1887 New Zealand general election">1887 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1890_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1890 New Zealand general election">1890 election</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFDF00; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="font-size:x-small;"><i><a href="/wiki/1893_Wanganui_by-election" title="1893 Wanganui by-election">1893 by-election</a></i></span> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#FFDF00; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Archibald_Willis" title="Archibald Willis">Archibald Willis</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1893_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1893 New Zealand general election">1893 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1896_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1896 New Zealand general election">1896 election</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#9999CC; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Carson_(politician)" title="Gilbert Carson (politician)">Gilbert Carson</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1899_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1899 New Zealand general election">1899 election</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#FFDF00; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td rowspan="2">Archibald Willis (2nd time) </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1902_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1902 New Zealand general election">1902 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1905_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1905 New Zealand general election">1905 election</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="background-color:orange; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/James_Thomas_Hogan" title="James Thomas Hogan">James Thomas Hogan</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1908_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1908 New Zealand general election">1908 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1911_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1911 New Zealand general election">1911 election</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFBBBB; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td rowspan="7"><a href="/wiki/Bill_Veitch" title="Bill Veitch">Bill Veitch</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1914_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1914 New Zealand general election">1914 election</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#FF4040; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1919_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1919 New Zealand general election">1919 election</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFBBBB; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1922_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1922 New Zealand general election">1922 election</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#FFDF00; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1925_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1925 New Zealand general election">1925 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1928_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1928 New Zealand general election">1928 election</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#BBFFFF; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1931_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1931 New Zealand general election">1931 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1935_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1935 New Zealand general election">1935 election</a> </td> <td rowspan="8" style="background-color:#D82A20; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td rowspan="8"><a href="/wiki/Joe_Cotterill" title="Joe Cotterill">Joe Cotterill</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1938_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1938 New Zealand general election">1938 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1943_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1943 New Zealand general election">1943 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1946_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1946 New Zealand general election">1946 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1949_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1949 New Zealand general election">1949 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1951_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1951 New Zealand general election">1951 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1954_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1954 New Zealand general election">1954 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1957_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1957 New Zealand general election">1957 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1960_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1960 New Zealand general election">1960 election</a> </td> <td rowspan="3" style="background-color:#D82A20; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/George_Spooner" title="George Spooner">George Spooner</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1963_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1963 New Zealand general election">1963 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1966_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1966 New Zealand general election">1966 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1969_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1969 New Zealand general election">1969 election</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#00529F; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bill_Tolhurst" title="Bill Tolhurst">Bill Tolhurst</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1972_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1972 New Zealand general election">1972 election</a> </td> <td rowspan="6" style="background-color:#D82A20; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td rowspan="6"><a href="/wiki/Russell_Marshall" title="Russell Marshall">Russell Marshall</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1975_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1975 New Zealand general election">1975 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1978_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1978 New Zealand general election">1978 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1981_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1981 New Zealand general election">1981 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1984_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1984 New Zealand general election">1984 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1987_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1987 New Zealand general election">1987 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/1990_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1990 New Zealand general election">1990 election</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#00529F; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Cam_Campion" title="Cam Campion">Cam Campion</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#DCDCDC; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1993_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1993 New Zealand general election">1993 election</a> </td> <td rowspan="4" style="background-color:#D82A20; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Jill_Pettis" title="Jill Pettis">Jill Pettis</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1996_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1996 New Zealand general election">1996 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1999_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1999 New Zealand general election">1999 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2002_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2002 New Zealand general election">2002 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2005_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2005 New Zealand general election">2005 election</a> </td> <td rowspan="4" style="background-color:#00529F; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Chester_Borrows" title="Chester Borrows">Chester Borrows</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2008_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2008 New Zealand general election">2008 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2011_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2011 New Zealand general election">2011 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2014_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2014 New Zealand general election">2014 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2017_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2017 New Zealand general election">2017 election</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#00529F; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Harete_Hipango" title="Harete Hipango">Harete Hipango</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2020_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2020 New Zealand general election">2020 election</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#D82A20; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Steph_Lewis" title="Steph Lewis">Steph Lewis</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2023_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2023 New Zealand general election">2023 election</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#00529F; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Carl_Bates" title="Carl Bates">Carl Bates</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="List_MPs">List MPs</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: List MPs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Members of Parliament elected from party lists in elections where that person also unsuccessfully contested the electorate. Unless otherwise stated, all MPs terms began and ended at general elections. </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th width="100">Election </th> <th width="175" colspan="2">Winner </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1996_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1996 New Zealand general election">1996 election</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#00529F; color:inherit; width:5px;"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Peter_Gresham" title="Peter Gresham">Peter Gresham</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2005_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2005 New Zealand general election">2005 election</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#D82A20; color:inherit; width:5px;"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jill_Pettis" title="Jill Pettis">Jill Pettis</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2021 </td> <td style="background-color:#00529F; color:inherit; width:5px;"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Harete_Hipango" title="Harete Hipango">Harete Hipango</a><sup id="cite_ref-Hipango_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hipango-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Election_results">Election results</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Election results"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2023_election">2023 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: 2023 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="10"><a href="/wiki/2023_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2023 New Zealand general election">2023 general election</a>: Whanganui<sup id="cite_ref-2023_Whanganui_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2023_Whanganui-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr style="font-size: 85%;"> <th colspan="2" style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;">Notes: </th> <th colspan="8" style="text-align:left;"> <p><span style="background-color:#CFF">Blue background</span> denotes the winner of the electorate vote. <br /><span style="background-color:#FDD">Pink background</span> denotes a candidate elected from their party list. <br /><span style="background-color:#F7E98E">Yellow background</span> denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. <br />A <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span> or <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/13px-Red_x.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/20px-Red_x.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/26px-Red_x.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display: none;">N</span> denotes status of any <a href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">incumbent</a>, win or lose respectively. </p> </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2" style="width: 150px">Party </th> <th colspan="2" style="width: 160px">Candidate </th> <th style="width: 70px">Votes </th> <th style="width: 40px">% </th> <th style="width: 55px">±% </th> <th style="width: 70px">Party votes </th> <th style="width: 40px">% </th> <th style="width: 55px">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #00529F; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="background-color:#CFF"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn" style="background-color:#CFF"><a href="/wiki/Carl_Bates" title="Carl Bates">Carl Bates</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18,484 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">47.10 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+12.73 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14,567 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">36.80 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+10.59 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #D82A20; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/13px-Red_x.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/20px-Red_x.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/26px-Red_x.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display: none;">N</span> <a href="/wiki/Steph_Lewis" title="Steph Lewis">Steph Lewis</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12,972 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">33.05 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">–21.72 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11,002 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">27.79 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">–23.60 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #000000; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_First" title="New Zealand First">NZ First</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">William Arnold </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,139 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.99 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">— </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,494 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11.35 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+8.04 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #098137; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand" title="Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand">Green</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Marion Sanson </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,049 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.22 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.59 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,980 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.52 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.67 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #FDE401; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/ACT_New_Zealand" title="ACT New Zealand">ACT</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Craig Dredge </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,683 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.28 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">— </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,749 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9.47 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.58 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #5C558C; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Animal_Justice_Party_Aotearoa_New_Zealand" title="Animal Justice Party Aotearoa New Zealand">Animal Justice</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Sandra Kyle </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">402 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.02 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">— </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">99 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.25 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">— </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#B2001A; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Te_P%C4%81ti_M%C4%81ori" title="Te Pāti Māori">Te Pāti Māori</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">602 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1.52 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.98 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#FDB813; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Loyal" title="New Zealand Loyal">NZ Loyal</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">544 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1.37 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">— </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#32DAC3; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/The_Opportunities_Party" title="The Opportunities Party">Opportunities</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">463 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1.16 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.22 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#28CEDC; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/NewZeal" title="NewZeal">NewZeal</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">315 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.79 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.33 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#33CC33; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Aotearoa_Legalise_Cannabis_Party" title="Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party">Legalise Cannabis</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">214 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.54 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.06 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#00AEEF; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/New_Conservatives_Party" title="New Conservatives Party">New Conservatives</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">105 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.26 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">–1.41 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#95278A; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Freedoms_NZ" class="mw-redirect" title="Freedoms NZ">Freedoms NZ</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">88 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.22 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">— </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#30B6C1; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/DemocracyNZ" title="DemocracyNZ">DemocracyNZ</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">77 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.19 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">— </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#9c27b0; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Rights_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Women's Rights Party">Women's Rights</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">30 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.07 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">— </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#26A805; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Leighton_Baker_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Leighton Baker Party">Leighton Baker Party</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">20 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.05 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">— </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#4646b2; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/New_Nation_Party" title="New Nation Party">New Nation</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">17 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.04 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">— </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: left; margin-right: 0.5em">Informal votes </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">511 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">210 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: left; margin-right: 0.5em"><b>Total valid votes</b> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">39,240 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">39,576 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #00529F"> </th> <td colspan="2" style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>Majority</b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">5,512 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">14.04 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">–5.92 </td> <td colspan="3"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2020_election">2020 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: 2020 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="10"><a href="/wiki/2020_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2020 New Zealand general election">2020 general election</a>: Whanganui<sup id="cite_ref-2020_Whanganui_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2020_Whanganui-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr style="font-size: 85%;"> <th colspan="2" style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;">Notes: </th> <th colspan="8" style="text-align:left;"> <p><span style="background-color:#CFF">Blue background</span> denotes the winner of the electorate vote. <br /><span style="background-color:#FDD">Pink background</span> denotes a candidate elected from their party list. <br /><span style="background-color:#F7E98E">Yellow background</span> denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. <br />A <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span> or <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/13px-Red_x.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/20px-Red_x.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/26px-Red_x.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display: none;">N</span> denotes status of any <a href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">incumbent</a>, win or lose respectively. </p> </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2" style="width: 150px">Party </th> <th colspan="2" style="width: 160px">Candidate </th> <th style="width: 70px">Votes </th> <th style="width: 40px">% </th> <th style="width: 55px">±% </th> <th style="width: 70px">Party votes </th> <th style="width: 40px">% </th> <th style="width: 55px">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #D82A20; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="background-color:#CFF"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn" style="background-color:#CFF"><a href="/wiki/Steph_Lewis" title="Steph Lewis">Steph Lewis</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">22,299 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">54.32 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+13.98 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">21,228 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">51.39 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+14.95 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #00529F; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/13px-Red_x.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/20px-Red_x.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/26px-Red_x.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display: none;">N</span> <a href="/wiki/Harete_Hipango" title="Harete Hipango">Harete Hipango</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14,108 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">34.37 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-10.54 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,828 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">26.21 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-18.52 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #098137; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand" title="Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand">Green</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Alan Clay </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,491 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.63 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-1.91 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,004 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.85 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.15 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #00AEEF; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Conservative_Party_(New_Zealand)" class="mw-redirect" title="New Conservative Party (New Zealand)">New Conservative</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Johnathan Marshall </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">784 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.91 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">— </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">690 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.67 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.42 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #1987D1; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Advance_New_Zealand" title="Advance New Zealand">Advance NZ</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Charlotte Weber </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">773 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.88 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">— </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">531 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.28 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">— </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #DCDCDC"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Hillary Kieft </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">367 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.89 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">— </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #CBE800; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Social_Credit_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Social Credit Party (New Zealand)">Social Credit</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Heather Marion Smith </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">188 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.46 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">— </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">63 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.46 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.41 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#FDE401; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/ACT_New_Zealand" title="ACT New Zealand">ACT</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">3,260 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">7.89 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+7.45 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#000000; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_First" title="New Zealand First">NZ First</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1,368 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">3.31 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">-6.71 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#32DAC3; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/The_Opportunities_Party" title="The Opportunities Party">Opportunities</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">390 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.94 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">-0.75 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#B2001A; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ori_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Māori Party">Māori Party</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">222 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.54 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.11 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#33CC33; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Aotearoa_Legalise_Cannabis_Party" title="Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party">Legalise Cannabis</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">198 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.48 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.07 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#F9D11A; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/ONE_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="ONE Party">ONE</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">189 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.46 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">— </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#008000; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Outdoors_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="New Zealand Outdoors Party">Outdoors</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">43 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.10 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.03 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#008080; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Sustainable_New_Zealand_Party" title="Sustainable New Zealand Party">Sustainable NZ</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">24 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.06 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">— </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#095B7E; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Vision_NZ" title="Vision NZ">Vision NZ</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">10 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.02 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">— </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#5A276C; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_TEA_Party" title="New Zealand TEA Party">TEA</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">5 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.01 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">— </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#185533; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Heartland_New_Zealand_Party" title="Heartland New Zealand Party">Heartland</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">2 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.00 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">— </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: left; margin-right: 0.5em">Informal votes </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,035 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">253 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: left; margin-right: 0.5em"><b>Total valid votes</b> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">41,045 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">41,308 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #D82A20"> </th> <td colspan="2" style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>Majority</b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">8,191 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">19.96 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+24.53 </td> <td colspan="3"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2017_election">2017 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: 2017 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="10"><a href="/wiki/2017_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2017 New Zealand general election">2017 general election</a>: Whanganui<sup id="cite_ref-2017_Whanganui_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2017_Whanganui-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr style="font-size: 85%;"> <th colspan="2" style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;">Notes: </th> <th colspan="8" style="text-align:left;"> <p><span style="background-color:#CFF">Blue background</span> denotes the winner of the electorate vote. <br /><span style="background-color:#FDD">Pink background</span> denotes a candidate elected from their party list. <br /><span style="background-color:#F7E98E">Yellow background</span> denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. <br />A <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span> or <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/13px-Red_x.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/20px-Red_x.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/26px-Red_x.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display: none;">N</span> denotes status of any <a href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">incumbent</a>, win or lose respectively. </p> </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2" style="width: 150px">Party </th> <th colspan="2" style="width: 160px">Candidate </th> <th style="width: 70px">Votes </th> <th style="width: 40px">% </th> <th style="width: 55px">±% </th> <th style="width: 70px">Party votes </th> <th style="width: 40px">% </th> <th style="width: 55px">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #00529F; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="background-color:#CFF"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn" style="background-color:#CFF"><a href="/wiki/Harete_Hipango" title="Harete Hipango">Harete Hipango</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">16,751 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">44.91 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−8.24 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">16,874 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">44.73 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.4 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #D82A20; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Steph_Lewis" title="Steph Lewis">Steph Lewis</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15,045 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">40.34 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.03 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13,748 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">36.44 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+10.99 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #000000; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_First" title="New Zealand First">NZ First</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Reg Skipworth </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,580 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6.92 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">— </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,783 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10.02 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.9 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #098137; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand" title="Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand">Green</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Nicola Patrick </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,067 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.54 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">— </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,775 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.70 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.49 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #FDE401; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/ACT_New_Zealand" title="ACT New Zealand">ACT</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Alan Davidson </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">294 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.79 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.07 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">168 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.44 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.03 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#32DAC3; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/The_Opportunities_Party" title="The Opportunities Party">Opportunities</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">639 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1.69 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">— </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#B2001A; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ori_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Māori Party">Māori Party</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">162 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.43 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−0.15 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#33CC33; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Aotearoa_Legalise_Cannabis_Party" title="Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party">Legalise Cannabis</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">154 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.41 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−0.13 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#00AEEF; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(New_Zealand)" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservative Party (New Zealand)">Conservative</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">94 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.25 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−4.75 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#F5621E; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Ban_1080" class="mw-redirect" title="Ban 1080">Ban 1080</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">56 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.15 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−0.01 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#008000; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Outdoors_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="New Zealand Outdoors Party">Outdoors</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">25 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.07 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">— </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#22316C; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_People%27s_Party" title="New Zealand People's Party">People's Party</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">23 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.06 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">— </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#501557; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/United_Future" title="United Future">United Future</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">23 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.06 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−0.15 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#339966; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Democrats_for_Social_Credit" class="mw-redirect" title="Democrats for Social Credit">Democrats</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">20 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.05 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−0.11 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#770808; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Mana_Party_(New_Zealand)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mana Party (New Zealand)">Mana</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">12 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.03 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−0.7<sup id="cite_ref-Mana_Party_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mana_Party-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#662C92; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Internet_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Internet Party (New Zealand)">Internet</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">7 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.02 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−0.71<sup id="cite_ref-Internet_Party_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Internet_Party-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: left; margin-right: 0.5em">Informal votes </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">560 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">161 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: left; margin-right: 0.5em"><b>Total valid votes</b> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">37,297 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">37,724 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #00529F"> </th> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>Majority</b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,706 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4.57 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">−8.27 </td> <td colspan="3"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2014_election">2014 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: 2014 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="10"><a href="/wiki/2014_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2014 New Zealand general election">2014 general election</a>: Whanganui<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr style="font-size: 85%;"> <th colspan="2" style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;">Notes: </th> <th colspan="8" style="text-align:left;"> <p><span style="background-color:#CFF">Blue background</span> denotes the winner of the electorate vote. <br /><span style="background-color:#FDD">Pink background</span> denotes a candidate elected from their party list. <br /><span style="background-color:#F7E98E">Yellow background</span> denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. <br />A <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span> or <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/13px-Red_x.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/20px-Red_x.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/26px-Red_x.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display: none;">N</span> denotes status of any <a href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">incumbent</a>, win or lose respectively. </p> </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2" style="width: 150px">Party </th> <th colspan="2" style="width: 160px">Candidate </th> <th style="width: 70px">Votes </th> <th style="width: 40px">% </th> <th style="width: 55px">±% </th> <th style="width: 70px">Party votes </th> <th style="width: 40px">% </th> <th style="width: 55px">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #00529F; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="background-color:#CFF"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn" style="background-color:#CFF"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span> <a href="/wiki/Chester_Borrows" title="Chester Borrows">Chester Borrows</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18,649 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">53.15 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-0.54 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">16,687 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">47.13 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-0.43 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #D82A20; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Hamish_McDouall" title="Hamish McDouall">Hamish McDouall</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14,144 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">40.31 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.80 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,012 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">25.45 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-1.96 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #00AEEF; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(New_Zealand)" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservative Party (New Zealand)">Conservative</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Kim MacIntyre </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">872 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.49 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.49 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,771 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.00 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.77 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #B2001A; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ori_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Māori Party">Māori Party</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Nancy Tuaine </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">610 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.74 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.74 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">205 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.58 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.13 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #FDE401; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/ACT_New_Zealand" title="ACT New Zealand">ACT</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Alan Daniel Davidson </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">252 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.72 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.29 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">167 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.47 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-0.61 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #339966; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Democratic_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="New Zealand Democratic Party">Democrats</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Heather Marion Smith </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">208 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.59 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.20 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">57 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.16 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.01 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#000000; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_First" title="New Zealand First">NZ First</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">4,221 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">11.92 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+2.39 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#098137; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand" title="Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand">Green</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">2,546 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">7.19 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">-1.77 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#7F0000; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Internet_Party_and_Mana_Movement" title="Internet Party and Mana Movement">Internet Mana</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">259 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.73 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.49 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#33CC33; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Aotearoa_Legalise_Cannabis_Party" title="Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party">Legalise Cannabis</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">190 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.54 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">-0.01 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#501557; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/United_Future" title="United Future">United Future</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">75 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.21 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">-0.24 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#F5621E; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Ban_1080" class="mw-redirect" title="Ban 1080">Ban 1080</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">56 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.16 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.16 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#444444; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/The_Civilian_Party" title="The Civilian Party">Civilian</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">22 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.06 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.06 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#2690C4; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Focus_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="Focus New Zealand">Focus</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">14 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.04 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.04 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#349E9F; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/NZ_Independent_Coalition" title="NZ Independent Coalition">Independent Coalition</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">13 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.04 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.04 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: left; margin-right: 0.5em">Informal votes </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">350 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">112 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: left; margin-right: 0.5em"><b>Total valid votes</b> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">35,085 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">35,407 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #00529F"> </th> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>Majority</b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4,505 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">12.84 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">-3.34 </td> <td colspan="3"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2011_election">2011 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: 2011 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="10"><a href="/wiki/2011_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2011 New Zealand general election">2011 general election</a>: Whanganui<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr style="font-size: 85%;"> <th colspan="2" style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;">Notes: </th> <th colspan="8" style="text-align:left;"> <p><span style="background-color:#CFF">Blue background</span> denotes the winner of the electorate vote. <br /><span style="background-color:#FDD">Pink background</span> denotes a candidate elected from their party list. <br /><span style="background-color:#F7E98E">Yellow background</span> denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. <br />A <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span> or <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/13px-Red_x.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/20px-Red_x.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/26px-Red_x.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display: none;">N</span> denotes status of any <a href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">incumbent</a>, win or lose respectively. </p> </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2" style="width: 150px">Party </th> <th colspan="2" style="width: 160px">Candidate </th> <th style="width: 70px">Votes </th> <th style="width: 40px">% </th> <th style="width: 55px">±% </th> <th style="width: 70px">Party votes </th> <th style="width: 40px">% </th> <th style="width: 55px">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #00529F; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="background-color:#CFF"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn" style="background-color:#CFF"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span> <a href="/wiki/Chester_Borrows" title="Chester Borrows">Chester Borrows</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">16,743 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">53.69 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-2.61 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15,151 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">47.56 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.25 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #D82A20; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Hamish_McDouall" title="Hamish McDouall">Hamish McDouall</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11,697 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">37.51 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-0.10 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,733 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">27.41 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-8.10 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #098137; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand" title="Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand">Green</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">John Milnes </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,444 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.63 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.19 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,855 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8.96 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+3.68 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #000000; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_First" title="New Zealand First">NZ First</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Ian Brougham </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,043 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.34 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+3.34 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,035 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9.53 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+4.39 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #FDE401; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/ACT_New_Zealand" title="ACT New Zealand">ACT</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Alan Daniel Davidson </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">135 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.43 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-0.56 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">345 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.08 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-1.99 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #339966; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Democratic_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="New Zealand Democratic Party">Democrats</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Heather Marion Smith </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">121 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.39 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-0.28 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">47 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.15 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-0.07 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#00AEEF; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(New_Zealand)" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservative Party (New Zealand)">Conservative</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1,030 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">3.23 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">-+3.23 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#B2001A; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ori_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Māori Party">Māori Party</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">225 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.71 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">-0.29 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#33CC33; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Aotearoa_Legalise_Cannabis_Party" title="Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party">Legalise Cannabis</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">176 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.55 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.21 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#501557; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/United_Future" title="United Future">United Future</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">143 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.45 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">-0.20 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#770808; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Mana_Party_(New_Zealand)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mana Party (New Zealand)">Mana</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">75 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.24 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.24 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#09296B; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Libertarianz" title="Libertarianz">Libertarianz</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">22 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.07 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.02 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#33CC66; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Alliance_(New_Zealand_political_party)" title="Alliance (New Zealand political party)">Alliance</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">21 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.07 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">-0.02 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: left; margin-right: 0.5em">Informal votes </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">616 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">235 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: left; margin-right: 0.5em"><b>Total valid votes</b> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">31,183 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">31,858 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #00529F"> </th> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>Majority</b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">5,046 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">16.18 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">-2.51 </td> <td colspan="3"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p><b>Electorate</b> (as at 11 November 2011): 43,350<sup id="cite_ref-enrolment_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-enrolment-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2008_election">2008 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: 2008 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="10"><a href="/wiki/2008_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2008 New Zealand general election">2008 general election</a>: Whanganui<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr style="font-size: 85%;"> <th colspan="2" style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;">Notes: </th> <th colspan="8" style="text-align:left;"> <p><span style="background-color:#CFF">Blue background</span> denotes the winner of the electorate vote. <br /><span style="background-color:#FDD">Pink background</span> denotes a candidate elected from their party list. <br /><span style="background-color:#F7E98E">Yellow background</span> denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. <br />A <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span> or <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/13px-Red_x.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/20px-Red_x.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/26px-Red_x.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display: none;">N</span> denotes status of any <a href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">incumbent</a>, win or lose respectively. </p> </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2" style="width: 150px">Party </th> <th colspan="2" style="width: 160px">Candidate </th> <th style="width: 70px">Votes </th> <th style="width: 40px">% </th> <th style="width: 55px">±% </th> <th style="width: 70px">Party votes </th> <th style="width: 40px">% </th> <th style="width: 55px">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #00529F; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="background-color:#CFF"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn" style="background-color:#CFF"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span> <a href="/wiki/Chester_Borrows" title="Chester Borrows">Chester Borrows</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">19,072 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">56.30 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15,869 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">46.30 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #D82A20; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Hamish_McDouall" title="Hamish McDouall">Hamish McDouall</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12,739 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">37.61 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12,170 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">35.51 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #098137; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand" title="Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand">Green</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">John Milnes </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,503 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.44 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,809 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.28 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #FDE401; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/ACT_New_Zealand" title="ACT New Zealand">ACT</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Alan Davidson </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">336 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.99 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,052 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.07 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #339966; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Democratic_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="New Zealand Democratic Party">Democrats</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Heather Marion Smith </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">225 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.66 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">73 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.21 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#000000; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_First" title="New Zealand First">NZ First</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1,761 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">5.14 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#B2001A; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ori_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Māori Party">Māori Party</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">342 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1.00 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#9E9E9E; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Progressive_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="New Zealand Progressive Party">Progressive</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">253 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.74 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#186E23; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Bill_and_Ben_Party" title="Bill and Ben Party">Bill and Ben</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">249 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.73 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#501557; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/United_Future" title="United Future">United Future</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">224 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.65 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#363096; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/The_Kiwi_Party" title="The Kiwi Party">Kiwi</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">186 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.54 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#33CC33; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Aotearoa_Legalise_Cannabis_Party" title="Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party">Legalise Cannabis</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">116 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.34 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFEB33; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/The_Family_Party" title="The Family Party">Family Party</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">91 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.27 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#33CC66; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Alliance_(New_Zealand_political_party)" title="Alliance (New Zealand political party)">Alliance</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">28 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.08 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#09296B; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Libertarianz" title="Libertarianz">Libertarianz</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">18 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.05 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#FF0066; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Workers_Party_of_New_Zealand" title="Workers Party of New Zealand">Workers Party</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">16 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.05 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#531E8A; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Pacific_Party" title="New Zealand Pacific Party">Pacific</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">10 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.03 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#84C6C6; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/The_Republic_of_New_Zealand_Party" title="The Republic of New Zealand Party">RONZ</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">3 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.01 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#467CFA; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Residents_Action_Movement" title="Residents Action Movement">RAM</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">2 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.01 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: left; margin-right: 0.5em">Informal votes </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">304 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">162 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: left; margin-right: 0.5em"><b>Total valid votes</b> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">33,875 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">34,272 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #00529F"> </th> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>Majority</b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">6,333 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td colspan="3"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2005_election">2005 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: 2005 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="10"><a href="/wiki/2005_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2005 New Zealand general election">2005 general election</a>: Whanganui<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr style="font-size: 85%;"> <th colspan="2" style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;">Notes: </th> <th colspan="8" style="text-align:left;"> <p><span style="background-color:#CFF">Blue background</span> denotes the winner of the electorate vote. <br /><span style="background-color:#FDD">Pink background</span> denotes a candidate elected from their party list. <br /><span style="background-color:#F7E98E">Yellow background</span> denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. <br />A <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span> or <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/13px-Red_x.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/20px-Red_x.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/26px-Red_x.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display: none;">N</span> denotes status of any <a href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">incumbent</a>, win or lose respectively. </p> </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2" style="width: 150px">Party </th> <th colspan="2" style="width: 160px">Candidate </th> <th style="width: 70px">Votes </th> <th style="width: 40px">% </th> <th style="width: 55px">±% </th> <th style="width: 70px">Party votes </th> <th style="width: 40px">% </th> <th style="width: 55px">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #00529F; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="background-color:#CFF"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn" style="background-color:#CFF"><a href="/wiki/Chester_Borrows" title="Chester Borrows">Chester Borrows</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15,846 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">49.28 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+9.70 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13,417 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">41.13 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #D82A20; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="background-color:#FDD"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn" style="background-color:#FDD"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/13px-Red_x.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/20px-Red_x.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/26px-Red_x.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display: none;">N</span> <a href="/wiki/Jill_Pettis" title="Jill Pettis">Jill Pettis</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13,444 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">41.81 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-4.56 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13,045 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">39.99 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #098137; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand" title="Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand">Green</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">John Milnes </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,171 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.64 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,466 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.49 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #501557; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/United_Future" title="United Future">United Future</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">David Ball </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">502 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.56 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">885 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.71 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #B2001A; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ori_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Māori Party">Māori Party</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Aaron Makutu </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">429 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.33 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">265 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.841 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #9E9E9E; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Progressive_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="New Zealand Progressive Party">Progressive</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Debbie Lucas </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">371 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.15 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">448 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.37 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #800080; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/One_New_Zealand_Party" title="One New Zealand Party">One NZ</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Ian Brougham </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">214 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.67 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">52 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.16 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #339966; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Democratic_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="New Zealand Democratic Party">Democrats</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Malcolm Murchie </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">175 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.54 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">68 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.21 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#000000; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_First" title="New Zealand First">NZ First</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">2,185 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">6.70 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#FDE401; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/ACT_New_Zealand" title="ACT New Zealand">ACT</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">296 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.91 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFFF00; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Destiny_New_Zealand" title="Destiny New Zealand">Destiny</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">282 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.86 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#33CC33; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Aotearoa_Legalise_Cannabis_Party" title="Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party">Legalise Cannabis</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">68 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.21 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#878FB8; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Christian_Heritage_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian Heritage New Zealand">Christian Heritage</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">62 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.19 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#33CC66; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Alliance_(New_Zealand_political_party)" title="Alliance (New Zealand political party)">Alliance</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">31 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.10 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFC0CB; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/99_MP_Party" title="99 MP Party">99 MP</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">18 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.06 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#09296B; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Libertarianz" title="Libertarianz">Libertarianz</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">16 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.05 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#65FFF0; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Family_Rights_Protection_Party" title="New Zealand Family Rights Protection Party">Family Rights</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">7 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.02 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#84C6C6; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/The_Republic_of_New_Zealand_Party" title="The Republic of New Zealand Party">RONZ</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">7 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.02 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#F28317; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Direct_Democracy_Party_of_New_Zealand" title="Direct Democracy Party of New Zealand">Direct Democracy</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">6 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.02 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: left; margin-right: 0.5em">Informal votes </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">376 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">144 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #00529F"> </th> <td colspan="2" style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>Majority</b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,402 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">7.47 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+14.26 </td> <td colspan="3"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1999_election">1999 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: 1999 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Refer to <a href="/wiki/Candidates_in_the_New_Zealand_general_election_1999_by_electorate#Whanganui" class="mw-redirect" title="Candidates in the New Zealand general election 1999 by electorate">Candidates in the New Zealand general election 1999 by electorate#Whanganui</a> for a list of candidates. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1993_election">1993 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: 1993 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1993_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1993 New Zealand general election">1993 general election</a>: Wanganui<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#D82A20; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Jill_Pettis" title="Jill Pettis">Jill Pettis</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>7,399 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>36.62 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+5.58 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #00529F; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td class="fn">Gael Donoghue </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,028 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">19.93 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #000000; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_First" title="New Zealand First">NZ First</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Terry_Heffernan" title="Terry Heffernan">Terry Heffernan</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,621 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17.92 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−11.36 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Cam_Campion" title="Cam Campion">Cam Campion</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,525 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12.49 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−20.55 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #33CC66; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Alliance_(New_Zealand_political_party)" title="Alliance (New Zealand political party)">Alliance</a> </td> <td class="fn">Fred Frederiske </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,253 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11.15 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #878FB8; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Christian_Heritage_Party_of_New_Zealand" title="Christian Heritage Party of New Zealand">Christian Heritage</a> </td> <td class="fn">J Rush </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">378 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.87 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,371 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">16.68 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20,204 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">85.56 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.17 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">23,612 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1990_election">1990 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: 1990 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1990_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1990 New Zealand general election">1990 general election</a>: Wanganui<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#00529F; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Cam_Campion" title="Cam Campion">Cam Campion</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>6,751 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>33.04 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #D82A20; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Jill_Pettis" title="Jill Pettis">Jill Pettis</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,342 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">31.04 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #339966; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Democrats_for_Social_Credit" class="mw-redirect" title="Democrats for Social Credit">Democrats</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Terry_Heffernan" title="Terry Heffernan">Terry Heffernan</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,983 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">29.28 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−5.58 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #098137; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand" title="Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand">Green</a> </td> <td class="fn">Terry Sarten </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">762 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.72 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FF4040; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/NewLabour_Party_(New_Zealand)" class="mw-redirect" title="NewLabour Party (New Zealand)">NewLabour</a> </td> <td class="fn">M Blakely </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">446 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.18 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #CBE800; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Social_Credit-NZ" title="Social Credit-NZ">Social Credit</a> </td> <td class="fn">G Butler </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">123 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.60 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">C Fackney </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">22 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.10 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">409 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.00 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20,429 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">86.73 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−4.59 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">23,554 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1987_election">1987 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: 1987 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1987_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1987 New Zealand general election">1987 general election</a>: Wanganui<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorton1988385_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorton1988385-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#D82A20; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Russell_Marshall" title="Russell Marshall">Russell Marshall</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>7,548 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>36.05 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−10.67 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #339966; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Democrats_for_Social_Credit" class="mw-redirect" title="Democrats for Social Credit">Democrats</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Terry_Heffernan" title="Terry Heffernan">Terry Heffernan</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,300 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">34.86 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+5.76 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #00529F; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td class="fn">Allan Anderson </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,089 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">29.08 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">248 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.18 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−15.13 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20,937 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">91.32 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.48 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">22,925 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1984_election">1984 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: 1984 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1984_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1984 New Zealand general election">1984 general election</a>: Wanganui<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorton1988385_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorton1988385-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#D82A20; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Russell_Marshall" title="Russell Marshall">Russell Marshall</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>10,391 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>46.72 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+6.28 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #CBE800; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Social_Credit_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Social Credit Party (New Zealand)">Social Credit</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Terry_Heffernan" title="Terry Heffernan">Terry Heffernan</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,473 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">29.10 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−3.47 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #00529F; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td class="fn">Sue Westwood </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,579 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20.58 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #43A2FF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Party" title="New Zealand Party">NZ Party</a> </td> <td class="fn">Ian David Harrex </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">751 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.37 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">T L Sullivan </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">47 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.21 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,918 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17.61 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+9.75 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">22,241 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">92.80 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.53 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">23,965 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1981_election">1981 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: 1981 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1981_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1981 New Zealand general election">1981 general election</a>: Wanganui<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorton1988385_28-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorton1988385-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#D82A20; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Russell_Marshall" title="Russell Marshall">Russell Marshall</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>8,572 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>40.44 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−6.33 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #CBE800; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Social_Credit_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Social Credit Party (New Zealand)">Social Credit</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Terry_Heffernan" title="Terry Heffernan">Terry Heffernan</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,904 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">32.57 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #00529F; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td class="fn">Jennifer Tolhurst </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,719 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">26.98 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,668 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.86 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−7.09 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">21,195 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">90.27 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+15.50 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">23,477 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1978_election">1978 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: 1978 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1978_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1978 New Zealand general election">1978 general election</a>: Wanganui<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorton1988385_28-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorton1988385-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#D82A20; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Russell_Marshall" title="Russell Marshall">Russell Marshall</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>9,703 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>46.77 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+0.15 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #00529F; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td class="fn">John Rowan </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,601 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">31.82 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−8.57 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #CBE800; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Social_Credit_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Social Credit Party (New Zealand)">Social Credit</a> </td> <td class="fn">Oliver Marks </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,956 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">19.07 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+9.38 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #4BB805; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Values_Party" title="Values Party">Values</a> </td> <td class="fn">Ross Holmes </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">449 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.16 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">T L Sullivan </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">34 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.16 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.08 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,102 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14.95 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+8.73 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20,743 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">74.77 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−13.27 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">27,741 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1975_election">1975 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: 1975 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1975_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1975 New Zealand general election">1975 general election</a>: Wanganui<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorton1988385_28-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorton1988385-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#D82A20; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Russell_Marshall" title="Russell Marshall">Russell Marshall</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>9,313 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>46.62 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−7.75 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #00529F; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td class="fn">John Rowan </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,069 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">40.39 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #CBE800; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Social_Credit_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Social Credit Party (New Zealand)">Social Credit</a> </td> <td class="fn">Oliver Marks </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,937 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9.69 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #4BB805; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Values_Party" title="Values Party">Values</a> </td> <td class="fn">Roger Angus </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">541 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.70 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:black;"> </td> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Christian_democracy" title="Christian democracy">Christian Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn">Tom Fouhy </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">100 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.50 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">T L Sullivan </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">16 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.08 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.19 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,244 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6.22 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−9.45 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">19,976 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">88.04 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−4.04 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">22,689 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1972_election">1972 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: 1972 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1972_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1972 New Zealand general election">1972 general election</a>: Wanganui<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorton1988385_28-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorton1988385-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#D82A20; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Russell_Marshall" title="Russell Marshall">Russell Marshall</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>9,987 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>54.37 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #00529F; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Bill_Tolhurst" title="Bill Tolhurst">Bill Tolhurst</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,108 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">38.70 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−9.34 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #CBE800; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Social_Credit_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Social Credit Party (New Zealand)">Social Credit</a> </td> <td class="fn">J S Humphreys </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,168 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6.35 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.73 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #B8860B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Democratic_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="New Democratic Party (New Zealand)">New Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn">R A Dowdie </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">53 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.28 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">T L Sullivan </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">50 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.27 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.09 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,879 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15.67 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18,366 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">92.08 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.72 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">19,944 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1969_election">1969 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: 1969 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1969_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1969 New Zealand general election">1969 general election</a>: Wanganui<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorton1988384_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorton1988384-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#00529F; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Bill_Tolhurst" title="Bill Tolhurst">Bill Tolhurst</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>8,233 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>48.04 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #D82A20; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/George_Spooner" title="George Spooner">George Spooner</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,274 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">42.44 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.59 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #CBE800; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Social_Credit_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Social Credit Party (New Zealand)">Social Credit</a> </td> <td class="fn">J S Humphreys </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,557 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9.08 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">D M Lewis </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">40 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.23 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">T L Sullivan </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">32 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.18 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">959 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.59 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17,136 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">91.36 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.34 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">18,755 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1966_election">1966 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: 1966 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1966_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1966 New Zealand general election">1966 general election</a>: Wanganui<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorton1988384_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorton1988384-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#D82A20; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/George_Spooner" title="George Spooner">George Spooner</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>6,499 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>41.85 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−4.42 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #00529F; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td class="fn">John Grace </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,591 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">36.01 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.56 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #CBE800; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Social_Credit_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Social Credit Party (New Zealand)">Social Credit</a> </td> <td class="fn">Percival John Dempsey </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,206 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20.64 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+4.50 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:black;"> </td> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Christian_democracy" title="Christian democracy">Christian Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn">D G Tumery </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">233 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1.50 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">908 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.84 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.86 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15,529 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">90.02 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−3.01 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">17,249 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1963_election">1963 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: 1963 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1963_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1963 New Zealand general election">1963 general election</a>: Wanganui<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorton1988384_29-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorton1988384-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#D82A20; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/George_Spooner" title="George Spooner">George Spooner</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>7,430 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>46.27 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+6.11 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #00529F; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td class="fn">John Grace </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,033 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">37.57 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #CBE800; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Social_Credit_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Social Credit Party (New Zealand)">Social Credit</a> </td> <td class="fn">Percival John Dempsey </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,593 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">16.14 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,397 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8.70 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+7.65 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">16,056 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">93.03 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.51 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">17,258 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1960_election">1960 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: 1960 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1960_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1960 New Zealand general election">1960 general election</a>: Wanganui<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorton1988384_29-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorton1988384-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#D82A20; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/George_Spooner" title="George Spooner">George Spooner</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>6,071 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>40.16 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #00529F; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td class="fn">E J Crotty </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,911 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">39.10 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #CBE800; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Social_Credit_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Social Credit Party (New Zealand)">Social Credit</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Roly_Marks" title="Roly Marks">Roly Marks</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,132 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20.72 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.71 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">160 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.05 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15,114 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">92.52 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.12 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">16,335 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1957_election">1957 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: 1957 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1957_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1957 New Zealand general election">1957 general election</a>: Wanganui<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorton1988384_29-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorton1988384-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#D82A20; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Joe_Cotterill" title="Joe Cotterill">Joe Cotterill</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>6,550 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>43.49 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+5.05 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #00529F; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td class="fn">Alice Kathleen Maclean </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,131 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">34.07 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #CBE800; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Social_Credit_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Social Credit Party (New Zealand)">Social Credit</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Roly_Marks" title="Roly Marks">Roly Marks</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,378 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">22.43 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.96 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,419 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9.42 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+7.13 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15,059 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">94.64 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+3.29 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">15,911 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1954_election">1954 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: 1954 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1954_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1954 New Zealand general election">1954 general election</a>: Wanganui<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorton1988384_29-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorton1988384-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#D82A20; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Joe_Cotterill" title="Joe Cotterill">Joe Cotterill</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>5,115 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>38.44 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−12.41 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #00529F; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td class="fn">Jack Rumbold </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,810 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">36.15 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #CBE800; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Social_Credit_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Social Credit Party (New Zealand)">Social Credit</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Roly_Marks" title="Roly Marks">Roly Marks</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,378 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">25.39 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">305 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.29 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.59 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13,303 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">91.35 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.43 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">14,562 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1951_election">1951 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: 1951 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1951_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1951 New Zealand general election">1951 general election</a>: Wanganui<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorton1988384_29-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorton1988384-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#D82A20; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Joe_Cotterill" title="Joe Cotterill">Joe Cotterill</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>6,779 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>50.85 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−2.89 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #00529F; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td class="fn">Ernest Victor O'Keefe </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,553 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">49.15 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.89 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">226 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.70 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−5.76 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13,332 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">88.92 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.93 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">14,993 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1949_election">1949 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: 1949 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1949_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1949 New Zealand general election">1949 general election</a>: Wanganui<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#D82A20; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Joe_Cotterill" title="Joe Cotterill">Joe Cotterill</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>7,336 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>53.74 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−3.31 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #00529F; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td class="fn">Ernest Victor O'Keefe </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,317 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">46.26 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,019 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.46 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−6.62 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13,653 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">91.85 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.84 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">14,863 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1946_election">1946 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: 1946 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1946_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1946 New Zealand general election">1946 general election</a>: Wanganui<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#D82A20; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Joe_Cotterill" title="Joe Cotterill">Joe Cotterill</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>7,833 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>57.05 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+8.00 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #00529F; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td class="fn">Eric Merewether </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,899 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">42.95 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,934 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14.08 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+3.78 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13,732 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">92.69 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−4.00 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">14,814 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1943_election">1943 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: 1943 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1943_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1943 New Zealand general election">1943 general election</a>: Wanganui<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#D82A20; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Joe_Cotterill" title="Joe Cotterill">Joe Cotterill</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>6,691 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>49.05 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−15.34 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #00529F; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td class="fn">Eric James Kirk </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,254 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">31.18 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #BFFF00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Real_Democracy_Movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Real Democracy Movement">Real Democracy</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Roly_Marks" title="Roly Marks">Roly Marks</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,722 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12.62 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFA500; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Labour_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Democratic Labour Party (New Zealand)">Democratic Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Sydney Duffy </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">832 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6.09 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#F6F6F6"> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Informal votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;">142 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1.04 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+0.58 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,437 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17.86 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+11.38 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13,641 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">96.69 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.95 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">14,107 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1938_election">1938 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: 1938 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1938_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1938 New Zealand general election">1938 general election</a>: Wanganui<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#D82A20; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Joe_Cotterill" title="Joe Cotterill">Joe Cotterill</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>8,630 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>64.39 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+18.09 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #00529F; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td class="fn">Henry Charles Veitch </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,710 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">35.14 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+3.70 </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#F6F6F6"> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Informal votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;">62 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.46 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">−0.20 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,920 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">29.24 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+14.38 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13,402 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">94.74 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">14,145 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1935_election">1935 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: 1935 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1935_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1935 New Zealand general election">1935 general election</a>: Wanganui<sup id="cite_ref-1935_election_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1935_election-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#D82A20; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Joe_Cotterill" title="Joe Cotterill">Joe Cotterill</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>4,887 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>46.66 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #00AEEF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Democrat_Party_(1934)" title="New Zealand Democrat Party (1934)">Democrat</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Bill_Veitch" title="Bill Veitch">Bill Veitch</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,318 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">31.68 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−21.39 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #00BB00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Reform_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Reform Party (New Zealand)">Reform</a> </td> <td class="fn">Norman Rhind Bain </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,754 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">16.74 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFFFAA; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_Liberal" title="Independent Liberal">Independent Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/James_Thomas_Hogan" title="James Thomas Hogan">James Thomas Hogan</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">524 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.00 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#F6F6F6"> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Informal votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;">61 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.58 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+0.06 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,569 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14.98 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,473 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">91.59 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+8.41 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">11,434 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1931_election">1931 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: 1931 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1931_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1931 New Zealand general election">1931 general election</a>: Wanganui<sup id="cite_ref-1931_election_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1931_election-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#BBFFFF; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/United_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="United Party (New Zealand)">United</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Bill_Veitch" title="Bill Veitch">Bill Veitch</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>5,096 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>53.07 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+5.52 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #D82A20; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Bill_Rogers_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="Bill Rogers (New Zealand politician)">Bill Rogers</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,506 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">46.93 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+19.79 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">590 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6.14 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−14.26 </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#F6F6F6"> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Informal votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;">50 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.52 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">−0.05 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,652 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">83.18 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−4.55 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">11,604 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1928_election">1928 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: 1928 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1928_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1928 New Zealand general election">1928 general election</a>: Wanganui<sup id="cite_ref-1928_election_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1928_election-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#BBFFFF; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/United_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="United Party (New Zealand)">United</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Bill_Veitch" title="Bill Veitch">Bill Veitch</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>4,979 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>47.55 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+4.28 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #D82A20; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Bill_Rogers_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="Bill Rogers (New Zealand politician)">Bill Rogers</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,842 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">27.14 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+4.80 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #00BB00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Reform_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Reform Party (New Zealand)">Reform</a> </td> <td class="fn">N. G. Lewis </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,650 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">25.31 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,137 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20.41 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+11.52 </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#F6F6F6"> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Informal votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;">60 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.57 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">−0.11 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,531 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">87.73 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−4.09 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">12,004 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1925_election">1925 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: 1925 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1925_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1925 New Zealand general election">1925 general election</a>: Wanganui<sup id="cite_ref-1925_election_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1925_election-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFDF00; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Liberal_Party" title="New Zealand Liberal Party">Liberal</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Bill_Veitch" title="Bill Veitch">Bill Veitch</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>4,339 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>43.27 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−8.12 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #00BB00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Reform_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Reform Party (New Zealand)">Reform</a> </td> <td class="fn">John Coull<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,448 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">34.39 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #D82A20; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Bill_Rogers_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="Bill Rogers (New Zealand politician)">Bill Rogers</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,240 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">22.34 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">891 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8.89 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.96 </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#F6F6F6"> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Informal votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;">69 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.68 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">−0.06 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,096 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">91.82 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.83 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">10,996 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1922_election">1922 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: 1922 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1922_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1922 New Zealand general election">1922 general election</a>: Wanganui<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFDF00; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Liberal_Party" title="New Zealand Liberal Party">Liberal</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Bill_Veitch" title="Bill Veitch">Bill Veitch</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>4,648 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>51.39 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−0.77 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #00BB00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Reform_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Reform Party (New Zealand)">Reform</a> </td> <td class="fn">John Coull </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,576 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">39.54 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #D82A20; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">James Ross </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">752 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8.31 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#F6F6F6"> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Informal votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;">67 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.74 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">−0.18 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,072 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11.85 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−8.61 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,043 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">90.99 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+11.88 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">9,938 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1919_election">1919 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: 1919 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1919_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1919 New Zealand general election">1919 general election</a>: Wanganui<sup id="cite_ref-Year-Book_1920_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Year-Book_1920-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFBBBB; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Independent_Labour" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent Labour">Independent Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Bill_Veitch" title="Bill Veitch">Bill Veitch</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>4,340 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>52.16 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+9.98 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #00BB00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Reform_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Reform Party (New Zealand)">Reform</a> </td> <td class="fn">William J. Cuttle </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,637 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">31.69 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #D82A20; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Lew_McIlvride" title="Lew McIlvride">Lew McIlvride</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,266 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15.21 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#F6F6F6"> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Informal votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;">77 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.92 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">−0.03 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,703 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20.46 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+9.67 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,320 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">79.21 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−5.27 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">10,503 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1914_election">1914 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=43" title="Edit section: 1914 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1914_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1914 New Zealand general election">1914 general election</a>: Wanganui<sup id="cite_ref-General_Election,_1914_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-General_Election,_1914-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FF4040; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/United_Labour_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="United Labour Party (New Zealand)">United Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Bill_Veitch" title="Bill Veitch">Bill Veitch</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>3,330 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>42.18 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−15.81 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Pirani" title="Frederick Pirani">Frederick Pirani</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,478 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">31.39 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFA500; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal%E2%80%93Labour_(New_Zealand)" title="Liberal–Labour (New Zealand)">Liberal–Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/James_Thomas_Hogan" title="James Thomas Hogan">James Thomas Hogan</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,086 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">26.42 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−15.27 </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#F6F6F6"> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Informal votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;">75 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.95 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+0.64 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">852 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10.79 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−5.50 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,894 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">84.48 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+4.49 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">9,344 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1911_election">1911 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=44" title="Edit section: 1911 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1911_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1911 New Zealand general election">1911 general election</a>: Wanganui, <a href="/wiki/Second_Ballot_Act_1908" title="Second Ballot Act 1908">first ballot</a><sup id="cite_ref-1911_election_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1911_election-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFBBBB; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Independent_Labour" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent Labour">Independent Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Bill_Veitch" title="Bill Veitch">Bill Veitch</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>2,295 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>31.01 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFA500; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Liberal%E2%80%93Labour_(New_Zealand)" title="Liberal–Labour (New Zealand)">Liberal–Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/James_Thomas_Hogan" title="James Thomas Hogan">James Thomas Hogan</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>2,220 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>30.00 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−15.85 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #00BB00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Reform_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Reform Party (New Zealand)">Reform</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/George_Hutchison_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="George Hutchison (New Zealand politician)">George Hutchison</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,690 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">22.84 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−5.53 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Mackay_(mayor)" title="Charles Mackay (mayor)">Charles Mackay</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,117 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15.09 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−10.69 </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#F6F6F6"> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Informal votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;">51 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.68 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,399 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">83.40 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+5.34 </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left;" colspan="6"><a href="/wiki/Second_Ballot_Act_1908" title="Second Ballot Act 1908">Second ballot</a> result </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFBBBB; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Independent_Labour" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent Labour">Independent Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Bill_Veitch" title="Bill Veitch">Bill Veitch</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>4,115 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>57.99 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+26.98 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFA500; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal%E2%80%93Labour_(New_Zealand)" title="Liberal–Labour (New Zealand)">Liberal–Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/James_Thomas_Hogan" title="James Thomas Hogan">James Thomas Hogan</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,959 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">41.69 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+11.69 </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#F6F6F6"> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Informal votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;">22 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.31 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">−0.37 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,156 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">16.29 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,096 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">79.99 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−3.41 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">8,871 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1908_election">1908 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=45" title="Edit section: 1908 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1908_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1908 New Zealand general election">1908 general election</a>: Wanganui, <a href="/wiki/Second_Ballot_Act_1908" title="Second Ballot Act 1908">first ballot</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAtoJs_1908_election190930_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAtoJs_1908_election190930-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFA500; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Liberal%E2%80%93Labour_(New_Zealand)" title="Liberal–Labour (New Zealand)">Liberal–Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/James_Thomas_Hogan" title="James Thomas Hogan">James Thomas Hogan</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>3,041 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>45.85 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#9999CC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_(New_Zealand)" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservative (New Zealand)">Conservative</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/George_Hutchison_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="George Hutchison (New Zealand politician)">George Hutchison</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>1,882 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>28.37 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Mackay_(mayor)" title="Charles Mackay (mayor)">Charles Mackay</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,710 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">25.78 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,159 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17.47 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,633 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">78.06 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">8,497 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="text-align:left;" colspan="6"><a href="/wiki/Second_Ballot_Act_1908" title="Second Ballot Act 1908">Second ballot</a> result </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFA500; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Liberal%E2%80%93Labour_(New_Zealand)" title="Liberal–Labour (New Zealand)">Liberal–Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/James_Thomas_Hogan" title="James Thomas Hogan">James Thomas Hogan</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>3,602 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>54.30 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+8.46 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #9999CC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_(New_Zealand)" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservative (New Zealand)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/George_Hutchison_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="George Hutchison (New Zealand politician)">George Hutchison</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,860 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">43.12 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14.74 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">742 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11.19 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−6.29 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,462 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">76.05 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.01 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">8,497 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1899_election">1899 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=46" title="Edit section: 1899 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1899_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1899 New Zealand general election">1899 general election</a>: Wanganui<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFDF00; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Liberal_Party" title="New Zealand Liberal Party">Liberal</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Archibald_Willis" title="Archibald Willis">Archibald Willis</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>2,878 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>55.83 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #9999CC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_(New_Zealand)" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservative (New Zealand)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Carson_(politician)" title="Gilbert Carson (politician)">Gilbert Carson</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,169 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">42.08 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFFFAA; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_Liberal" title="Independent Liberal">Independent Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn">John Michael Murphy </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">108 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.10 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">709 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13.75 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,155 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">80.53 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">6,401 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1893_by-election">1893 by-election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=47" title="Edit section: 1893 by-election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1893_Wanganui_by-election" title="1893 Wanganui by-election">1893 Wanganui by-election</a><sup id="cite_ref-Wanganui_Election_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wanganui_Election-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFDF00; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Liberal_Party" title="New Zealand Liberal Party">Liberal</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Archibald_Willis" title="Archibald Willis">Archibald Willis</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>1,031 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>62.37 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #9999CC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_(New_Zealand)" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservative (New Zealand)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Carson_(politician)" title="Gilbert Carson (politician)">Gilbert Carson</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">622 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">37.62 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">409 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">24.74 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,653 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1890_election">1890 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=48" title="Edit section: 1890 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1890_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1890 New Zealand general election">1890 general election</a>: Wanganui<sup id="cite_ref-General_Election,_1890_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-General_Election,_1890-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFDF00; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Liberal_Party" title="New Zealand Liberal Party">Liberal</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/John_Ballance" title="John Ballance">John Ballance</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>808 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>50.85 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−15.95 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #9999CC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_(New_Zealand)" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservative (New Zealand)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Carson_(politician)" title="Gilbert Carson (politician)">Gilbert Carson</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">781 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">49.15 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+15.95 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">27 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.69 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−31.9 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,589 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">75.20 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−4.19 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">2,113 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1887_election">1887 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=49" title="Edit section: 1887 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1887_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1887 New Zealand general election">1887 general election</a>: Wanganui<sup id="cite_ref-General_Election,_1887_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-General_Election,_1887-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#DCDCDC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/John_Ballance" title="John Ballance">John Ballance</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>865 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>66.80 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Carson_(politician)" title="Gilbert Carson (politician)">Gilbert Carson</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">430 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">33.20 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">435 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">33.59 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,295 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">79.39 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1,631 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1884_election">1884 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=50" title="Edit section: 1884 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1884_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1884 New Zealand general election">1884 general election</a>: Wanganui<sup id="cite_ref-General_Election,_1884_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-General_Election,_1884-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#DCDCDC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/John_Ballance" title="John Ballance">John Ballance</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>541 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>60.11 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+10.36 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/George_Hutchison_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="George Hutchison (New Zealand politician)">George Hutchison</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">205 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">22.77 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/William_Hogg_Watt" title="William Hogg Watt">William Hogg Watt</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">154 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17.11 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−33.14 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">336 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">37.33 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.69 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">900 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">66.86 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1,346 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1881_election">1881 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=51" title="Edit section: 1881 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1881_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1881 New Zealand general election">1881 general election</a>: Wanganui<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#DCDCDC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/William_Hogg_Watt" title="William Hogg Watt">William Hogg Watt</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>397 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>50.25 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/John_Ballance" title="John Ballance">John Ballance</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">393 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">49.75 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−18.28 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.50 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">790 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">64.17 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+4.44 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1,231 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1879_election">1879 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=52" title="Edit section: 1879 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1879_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1879 New Zealand general election">1879 general election</a>: Wanganui<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#DCDCDC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/John_Bryce" title="John Bryce">John Bryce</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>560 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>69.65 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#DCDCDC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/John_Ballance" title="John Ballance">John Ballance</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>547 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>68.03 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Sir <a href="/wiki/William_Fox_(politician)" title="William Fox (politician)">William Fox</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">501 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">62.31 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">46 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.72 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">804 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">59.73 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1,346 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1876_by-election">1876 by-election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=53" title="Edit section: 1876 by-election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1876_Wanganui_by-election" title="1876 Wanganui by-election">1876 Wanganui by-election</a><sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#DCDCDC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/William_Fox_(politician)" title="William Fox (politician)">William Fox</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>256 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>60.81 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">John Morgan </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">165 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">39.19 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">421 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">91 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">21.62 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1867_by-election">1867 by-election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=54" title="Edit section: 1867 by-election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1867_Wanganui_by-election" title="1867 Wanganui by-election">1867 Wanganui by-election</a><sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#DCDCDC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Henry_Shafto_Harrison" title="Henry Shafto Harrison">Henry Shafto Harrison</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>143 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>57.66 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/William_Hutchison_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="William Hutchison (New Zealand politician)">William Hutchison</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">105 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">42.34 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">248 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">38 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15.32 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=55" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Hipango-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Hipango_15-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hipango entered Parliament on 11 June 2021, following the resignation of <a href="/wiki/Nick_Smith_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="Nick Smith (New Zealand politician)">Nick Smith</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Mana_Party-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Mana_Party_19-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">2017 Mana Party swing is relative to the votes for Internet-Mana in 2014; it shared a party list with the Internet Party in the 2014 election</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Internet_Party-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Internet_Party_20-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">2017 Internet Party swing is relative to the votes for Internet-Mana in 2014; it shared a party list with Mana Party in the 2014 election</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Whanganui_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=56" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcRobie198932f-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcRobie198932f_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMcRobie1989">McRobie 1989</a>, pp. 32f.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield1925100-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield1925100_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield1925100_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFScholefield1925">Scholefield 1925</a>, p. 100.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilson1985203-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilson1985203_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWilson1985">Wilson 1985</a>, p. 203.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-1866_Wanganui_election-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1866_Wanganui_election_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=WI18660306.2.12">"The Wanganui Election"</a>. <i>Wellington Independent</i>. Vol. XXI, no. 2331. 6 March 1866. p. 4<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">19 August</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Wellington+Independent&rft.atitle=The+Wanganui+Election&rft.volume=XXI&rft.issue=2331&rft.pages=4&rft.date=1866-03-06&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fpaperspast.natlib.govt.nz%2Fcgi-bin%2Fpaperspast%3Fa%3Dd%26cl%3Dsearch%26d%3DWI18660306.2.12&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWhanganui+%28New+Zealand+electorate%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield192581-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield192581_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield192581_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFScholefield1925">Scholefield 1925</a>, p. 81.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield1925142–143-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield1925142–143_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFScholefield1925">Scholefield 1925</a>, pp. 142–143.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield192594-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield192594_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFScholefield1925">Scholefield 1925</a>, p. 94.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield192577-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield192577_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield192577_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFScholefield1925">Scholefield 1925</a>, p. 77.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield1925145-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield1925145_9-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFScholefield1925">Scholefield 1925</a>, p. 145.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield1925147-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield1925147_10-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield1925147_10-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFScholefield1925">Scholefield 1925</a>, p. 147.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield192584-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield192584_11-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFScholefield1925">Scholefield 1925</a>, p. 84.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield1925103-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield1925103_12-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFScholefield1925">Scholefield 1925</a>, p. 103.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.parliament.nz/en-NZ/MPP/MPs/MPs/1/c/5/50MP127281-Borrows-Chester.htm">"Hon Chester Borrows"</a>. 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Wellington: Govt. Printer.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=New+Zealand+Parliamentary+Record&rft.place=Wellington&rft.edition=2nd&rft.pub=Govt.+Printer&rft.date=1925&rft.aulast=Scholefield&rft.aufirst=Guy&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWhanganui+%28New+Zealand+electorate%29" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWilson1985" class="citation book cs1">Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. <i>New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984</i> (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. 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