Onehunga by-election, 1953

19 December 1953 (1953-12-19)


Turnout	63.4%

Candidate	Hugh Watt	L G Bradley
Party	Labour	National
Popular vote	6,868	3,385
Percentage	67.0%	33.0%

Member before election

Arthur Osborne
Labour

Elected Member

Hugh Watt
Labour

The Onehunga by-election 1953 was a by-election held in the Onehunga electorate in Auckland during the term of the 30th New Zealand Parliament, on 19 December 1953.

The by-election was caused by the death of incumbent MP Arthur Osborne of the Labour Party on 15 November 1953.^[1] The by-election was won by Hugh Watt, also of the Labour Party.

Onehunga by-election, 1953^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Hugh Watt	6,868	66.99
	National	L. G. Bradley	3,385	33.01
Majority			3,483	33.97
Informal votes			13	0.13
Turnout			13,749	63.48
Registered electors			16,171
	Labour hold		Swing

Watt represented the electorate until he retired at the 1975 election.^[3]

Notes

↑ Wilson 1985, p. 225.
↑ Norton 1988, p. 295.
↑ Wilson 1985, p. 244.

References

Norton, Clifford (1988). New Zealand parliamentary election results, 1946–1987. Wellington: Victoria University of Wellington Department of Political Science. ISBN 0-475-11200-8.
Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.

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