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1940 Auckland West by-election

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Background
Results
Notes
References

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| country = New Zealand
| flag_year = 1940
| type = presidential
| previous_election = 1938 New Zealand general election
| previous_year = 1938 general
| next_election = 1943 New Zealand general election
| next_year = 1943 general
| election_date = {{Start date|1940|05|18|df=y}}
| turnout = 8,136 (60.03%)
| image1 =
| candidate1 = Peter Carr
| party1 = New Zealand Labour Party
| popular_vote1 = 6,151
| percentage1 = 63.24
| image2 =
| candidate2 = Wilfred Fortune
| party2 = Independent politician
| popular_vote2 = 2,958
| percentage2 = 30.41
| map_image =
| map_size =
| map_caption =
| title = MP
| before_election = Michael Joseph Savage
| after_election = Peter Carr
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| after_party = New Zealand Labour Party
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The Auckland West by-election of 1940 was a by-election for the electorate of Auckland West held on 18 May 1940 during the 26th New Zealand Parliament. The by-election resulted from the death on 27 March 1940 of the previous member Michael Joseph Savage, the revered prime minister whose terminal illness had not been made public.

Background

The by-election was won by Peter Carr; also of the Labour Party. The other aspirants for the Labour nomination were Charles Bailey, Mary Dreaver, L. W. Holt, N. E. Herring, John Thomas Jennings, T. P. McCready, Winnifred Moore, Joe Sayegh, John Stewart and Jeremiah James Sullivan.^[1]

Because of the war, the National Party did not nominate a candidate, and four of the five candidates who stood against the Labour candidate lost their deposit. The freshly forged Democratic Labour Party (DLP) by expelled Labour rebel John A. Lee also abstained from contesting. Lee's chief lieutenant Norman Douglas was approached by the DLP to contest the by-election in an effort to boost the new party's publicity, but Douglas declined to stand.{{sfn|Olssen|1978|pp=49}}

Results

The following table gives the election results:

In 1946, Carr also died in office. Wilfred Fortune, who stood as an independent, subsequently became a National candidate (1943) and MP (1946) for the Eden electorate.

Notes

1. ^{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NA19400426.2.86 |title=Mr. Carr Is Labour Choice For Auckland W. |newspaper=Northern Advocate |date=26 April 1940 |issue= |access-date=16 January 2019 |page=7}}

References

{{cite book |ref= harv |last=Gustafson |first=Barry |authorlink=Barry Gustafson |title=From the Cradle to the Grave: a biography of Michael Joseph Savage |year=1986 |publisher=Reed Methuen |location=Auckland |isbn=0-474-00138-5}}
{{citation |first=Erik |last=Olssen |title=The Impact of John A. Lee's Expulsion upon the Labour Party |journal=New Zealand Journal of History |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages= |year= 1978}}
New Zealand Official Yearbook 1941 p825
Four lose Deposits (Auckland Star, 20 May 1940 p5)

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