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1919 New Zealand general election

Election in New Zealand

Field	Value
election_name	1919 general election
country	New Zealand
type	parliamentary
ongoing	no
previous_election	1914 New Zealand general election
previous_year	1914
outgoing_members	19th New Zealand Parliament
next_election	1922 New Zealand general election
next_year	1922
seats_for_election	All 80 seats in the New Zealand House of Representatives
41 seats were needed for a majority
election_date	16 (Māori) & 17 December (general) 1919
elected_mps	[elected members](20th-new-zealand-parliament)
turnout	80.5%
image1	[[File:William Ferguson Massey 1919.jpg	122px]]
leader1	William Massey
leader_since1	11 February 1909
party1	Reform Party (New Zealand)
leaders_seat1	Franklin
last_election1	40 seats, 47.1%
seats_before1	39
seats1	45
seat_change1	6
popular_vote1	193,676
percentage1	35.7%
swing1	11.4%
image2	[[File:Joseph Ward c. 1906.jpg	115px]]
leader2	Joseph Ward
leader_since2	[11 September 1913](1913-new-zealand-liberal-party-leadership-election)
party2	New Zealand Liberal Party
leaders_seat2	Awarua (lost seat)
last_election2	34 seats, 43.1%
seats_before2	34
seats2	19
seat_change2	15
popular_vote2	155,708
percentage2	28.7%
swing2	14.4%
image3
leader3	Harry Holland
leader_since3	[27 August 1919](1919-new-zealand-labour-party-leadership-election)
party3	New Zealand Labour Party
leaders_seat3	Grey
last_election3	5 seats, 8.4%
seats_before3	5
seats3	8
seat_change3	3
popular_vote3	131,402
percentage3	24.2%
swing3	15.8%
map_image	1919 New Zealand general election - Results.svg
map_size	400px
map_caption	Results of the election.
title	Prime Minister
posttitle	Subsequent Prime Minister
before_election	William Massey
after_election	William Massey
before_party	Reform Party (New Zealand)
after_party	Reform Party (New Zealand)

41 seats were needed for a majority

The 1919 New Zealand general election was held on Tuesday, 16 December in the Māori electorates and on Wednesday, 17 December in the general electorates to elect a total of 80 MPs to the 20th session of the New Zealand Parliament. A total number of 560,673 (80.5%) voters turned out to vote.

In 1919 women won the right to be elected to the House of Representatives. The law was changed late that year, and with only three weeks' notice, three women stood for Parliament.

They were Ellen Melville in Grey Lynn, Rosetta Baume in Parnell, and Aileen Cooke in Thames. Ellen Melville stood for the Reform Party and came second. She stood for Parliament several more times and generally polled well but never won a seat.

This is the most recent general election in which none of the major party leaders were born in New Zealand.

Results

Though Labour Party captured only eight seats it received nearly a quarter of the votes – a shock to conservative minds due to Labour being founded only three years earlier in 1916.

Party totals

[[File:1919 nz parliament.svg	center]]	Election results	Party	Candidates	Total votes
	Reform Party	67	197,041	35.63	45
	Liberal PartyIncludes one MP returned unopposed, and one Independent Liberal	66	166,675	30.14	19
	Labour Party	59	134,094	24.25	8
	IndependentsIncludes ex-members of the three main parties as well as long-standing Independents	39	55,161	9.98	8
Total valid votes		552,971		80
Informal votes		7,702	1.37
Registered voters		683,420

Votes summary

Electorate results

The table below shows the results of the 1919 general election:

Key

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second-party = Reform Party (New Zealand)
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second-party = Reform Party (New Zealand)
incumbent-party = Reform Party (New Zealand)
second-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
incumbent-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
winner-party = Reform Party (New Zealand)
second-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
incumbent-party = Reform Party (New Zealand)
second-party = Independent politician
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winner-party = Independent Liberal
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second-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
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incumbent-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
second-party = New Zealand Labour Party
incumbent-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
winner-party = Reform Party (New Zealand)
second-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
incumbent-party = Reform Party (New Zealand)
second-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
winner-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
second-party = Independent politician
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winner-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
second-party = Reform Party (New Zealand)
incumbent-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
winner-party = Reform Party (New Zealand)
second-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
incumbent-party = Independent Labour
second-party = Reform Party (New Zealand)
incumbent-party = New Zealand Labour Party
second-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
incumbent-party = Reform Party (New Zealand)
second-party = New Zealand Labour Party
incumbent-party = Reform Party (New Zealand)
second-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
incumbent-party = New Zealand Labour Party
winner-party = Independent Liberal
second-party = New Zealand Labour Party
incumbent-party = Reform Party (New Zealand)
second-party = New Zealand Labour Party
incumbent-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
second-party = New Zealand Labour Party
-
-
incumbent-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
incumbent-party = Reform Party (New Zealand)
second-party = Independent politician
incumbent-party = Independent politician
second-party = Independent politician
incumbent-party = Reform Party (New Zealand)
second-party = Independent politician
}

Summary of changes

A boundary redistribution resulted in the abolition of four electorates:

, held by Harry Holland
, held by Robert Scott
, held by William Dickie
, held by William Thomas Jennings
, held by Robert Wright

At the same time, four new electorates were created:

, previously abolished in 1911
, first created through the 1918 electoral redistribution
, first created through the 1918 electoral redistribution
, first created through the 1918 electoral redistribution
, previously abolished in 1911

Notes

References

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(6 December 1919). "The election campaign". [[Evening Star (Dunedin).
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(10 December 1919). "Notice of Nominations Received". [[The Press]].
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(11 November 1919). "Liberal Selection for Tauranga". [[Wairarapa Daily Times]].
(6 December 1919). "Waitemata Parliamentary Election". Observer.

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