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1935 Wellington City mayoral election
Turnout	41,139 (60.49%)
Mayor before election; Thomas Hislop;	Elected mayor ; Thomas Hislop;

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The 1935 Wellington City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1935, elections were held for the Mayor of Wellington plus other local government positions including fifteen city councillors. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.

Background

Incumbent mayor Thomas Hislop stood for a third-term, the first mayor to do so since Sir John Luke in 1915. His opponent was Bob Semple, a Labour councillor and MP for Wellington East. During the campaign Semple received slanderous allegations of being an Atheist, which he denied stating "If the people of the world followed the philosophy of Jesus there would be no poverty...".^[1]

For the second election in a row Labour won a majority of the vote, but could not win a majority of seats.^[2] However Labour did win one more seat than in 1933 and then went on to win a by-election soon after increase their representation further.^[3]

Mayoralty results

1935 Wellington mayoral election^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Citizens'	Thomas Hislop	21,583	52.46
	Labour	Bob Semple	19,249	46.79
Informal votes			307	0.74
Majority			2,334	5.67
Turnout			41,139	60.49

Councillor results

1935 Wellington local election^[5]
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Labour	Peter Fraser	28,215	69.64
Labour	Charles Henry Chapman	25,847	63.79	−2.63
Labour	Robert McKeen	25,482	62.89	−1.48
Citizens'	Robert Wright	22,384	55.25
Labour	Peter Butler	20,584	50.80	+6.94
Labour	Tom Brindle	20,312	50.13	+4.24
Citizens'	William Bennett	19,846	48.98	−3.56
Citizens'	Will Appleton	19,100	47.14	−1.08
Citizens'	John Burns	18,942	46.75	+2.30
Citizens'	William Gaudin	18,816	46.44	−6.45
Citizens'	Len McKenzie	18,551	45.78	−2.23
Citizens'	Martin Luckie	18,529	45.73	−3.06
Labour	Adam Black	18,504	45.67	+5.44
Citizens'	Herbert Huggins	18,423	45.47	−1.68
Citizens'	William Duncan	18,416	45.45	−1.48
Labour	Andrew Parlane^{[nb 1]}	18,320	45.21	+2.55
Labour	Alexander Croskery	18,139	44.77
Labour	Michael Reardon	18,054	44.56
Citizens'	Thomas Forsyth	17,804	43.94	−2.55
Labour	John Read	17,584	43.40
Labour	Michael Walsh	16,930	41.78	+1.99
Labour	John Tucker	16,878	41.65	+2.41
Citizens'	Robert Macalister	16,857	41.60	−1.69
Labour	Caryll Hay	16,387	40.44	+1.62
Labour	Jim Collins	16,271	40.16	−0.48
Labour	James Ranson	16,248	40.10	−0.35
Citizens'	Paul Hoskins	15,482	38.21	+4.25
Communist	Charlie Brooks	3,359	8.29
Communist	John Joseph Robinson	3,069	7.57
Communist	Connie Rawcliffe	2,750	6.78
Communist	Albert Birchfield	2,695	6.65
Communist	Miles Ormerod	2,182	5.38

Table footnotes:

^ Parlane was appointed to fill the vacancy on the council in 1936 caused by Peter Fraser's resignation^[6]

Notes

^ Hickey, Carina (2010). From Coal Pit to Leather Pit: Life Stories of Robert Semple (PDF) (PhD). Massey University. Retrieved 26 May 2018.
^ Betts 1970, pp. 146.
^ "Labour Victory". The Evening Post. Vol. CXXII, no. 110. 5 November 1936. p. 10. Retrieved 8 November 2016.
^ "The Mayoral Issue". The Evening Post. Vol. CXIX, no. 110. 11 May 1935. p. 10. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
^ "Polling in Wellington". The New Zealand Herald. Vol. LXXII, no. 22105. 10 May 1935. p. 13. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
^ "No by-election". The Evening Post. Vol. CXXI, no. 109. 9 May 1936. p. 10. Retrieved 29 June 2018.

References

Betts, G.M. (1970). Betts on Wellington: A City and its Politics. Wellington: A. H. & A. W. Reed Ltd. ISBN 0 589 00469 7.

[7] Parlane was appointed to fill the vacancy on the council in 1936 caused by Peter Fraser's resignation^[6]

[1] Hickey, Carina (2010). From Coal Pit to Leather Pit: Life Stories of Robert Semple (PDF) (PhD). Massey University. Retrieved 26 May 2018.

[FOOTNOTEBetts1970146-2] Betts 1970, pp. 146.

[3] "Labour Victory". The Evening Post. Vol. CXXII, no. 110. 5 November 1936. p. 10. Retrieved 8 November 2016.

[4] "The Mayoral Issue". The Evening Post. Vol. CXIX, no. 110. 11 May 1935. p. 10. Retrieved 22 March 2019.

[Polling_in_Wellington-5] "Polling in Wellington". The New Zealand Herald. Vol. LXXII, no. 22105. 10 May 1935. p. 13. Retrieved 2 August 2016.

[6] "No by-election". The Evening Post. Vol. CXXI, no. 109. 9 May 1936. p. 10. Retrieved 29 June 2018.

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 ==Background==
-Incumbent mayor [[Thomas Hislop (mayor)|Thomas Hislop]] stood for a third-term, the first mayor to do so since [[John Luke (politician)|Sir John Luke]] in [[1915 Wellington City mayoral election|1915]]. His opponent was [[Bob Semple]], a Labour councillor and MP for {{NZ electorate link|Wellington East}}. During the campaign Semple received slanderous allegations of being an [[Atheist]], which he denied stating "If the people of the world followed the philosophy of [[Jesus]] there would be no poverty...".<ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Hickey |first=Carina |title=From Coal Pit to Leather Pit: Life Stories of Robert Semple |type=PhD |url=http://mro.massey.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10179/1696/02_whole.pdf?sequence=1 |year=2010 |publisher=[[Massey University]] |access-date=26 May 2018 }}</ref>
+Incumbent mayor [[Thomas Hislop (mayor)|Thomas Hislop]] stood for a third-term, the first mayor to do so since [[John Luke (New Zealand politician)|Sir John Luke]] in [[1915 Wellington City mayoral election|1915]]. His opponent was [[Bob Semple]], a Labour councillor and MP for {{NZ electorate link|Wellington East}}. During the campaign Semple received slanderous allegations of being an [[Atheist]], which he denied stating "If the people of the world followed the philosophy of [[Jesus]] there would be no poverty...".<ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Hickey |first=Carina |title=From Coal Pit to Leather Pit: Life Stories of Robert Semple |type=PhD |url=http://mro.massey.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10179/1696/02_whole.pdf?sequence=1 |year=2010 |publisher=[[Massey University]] |access-date=26 May 2018 }}</ref>
 For the second election in a row Labour won a majority of the vote, but could not win a majority of seats.{{sfn|Betts|1970|pp=146}} However Labour did win one more seat than in 1933 and then went on to win a [[List of by-elections to the Wellington City Council#1936 by-election|by-election]] soon after increase their representation further.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19361105.2.91 |work = [[The Evening Post (New Zealand)|The Evening Post]] |page=10 |title=Labour Victory |date=5 November 1936 |access-date=8 November 2016 | volume=CXXII | issue=110 }}</ref>