1899 Wellington City mayoral election
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Turnout | 6,947 (39.40%) |
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| | | Candidate | John Aitken | Kennedy Macdonald | Party | Independent | Independent | Popular vote | 3,566 | 2,107 | Percentage | 51.33 | 30.32 | |
Mayor before election John Rutherfurd Blair | Elected mayor John Aitken | |
The 1899 Wellington City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.
Background
In 1899 incumbent Mayor John Rutherfurd Blair retired leading to local businessman John Aitken being elected to office as Mayor of Wellington, beating challenges from both Kennedy Macdonald (a former councillor) and James Joseph Devine.
Mayoralty results
The following table gives the election results:
1899 Wellington mayoral election[1] Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Independent | John Aitken | 3,566 | 51.33 | |
| Independent | Kennedy Macdonald | 2,107 | 30.32 | |
| Independent | James Joseph Devine | 1,274 | 18.33 | |
Majority | 1,459 | 21.00 | |
Turnout | 6,947 | 39.40 | |
Notes
- ^ "Mayoral Elections". Feilding Star. Vol. XXI, no. 129. 30 November 1899. p. 2. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
References
- Betts, George (1970). Betts on Wellington: A City and its Politics. Wellington: A. H. & A. W. Reed Ltd. ISBN 0 589 00469 7.
Mayors of Wellington
Mayors | elected by councillors | - George Hunter
- William Guyton
- Joe Dransfield
- Charles Borlase
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