• Source: 1919 New Zealand general election

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.




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The table below shows the results of the 1919 general election:
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A boundary redistribution resulted in the abolition of four electorates:

Grey, held by Harry Holland
Otago Central, held by Robert Scott
Selwyn, held by William Dickie
Taumarunui, held by William Thomas Jennings
Wellington Suburbs and Country, held by Robert Wright
At the same time, four new electorates were created:

Manawatu, previously abolished in 1911
Roskill, first created through the 1918 electoral redistribution
Rotorua, first created through the 1918 electoral redistribution
Waitomo, first created through the 1918 electoral redistribution
Wellington Suburbs, previously abolished in 1911




Notes






References


Gustafson, Barry (1980). Labour's path to political independence: The Origins and Establishment of the New Zealand Labour Party, 1900–19. Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press. ISBN 0-19-647986-X.
Lipson, Leslie (2011) [1948]. The Politics of Equality: New Zealand's Adventures in Democracy. Wellington: Victoria University Press. ISBN 978-0-86473-646-8.
McRobie, Alan (1989). Electoral Atlas of New Zealand. Wellington: GP Books. ISBN 0-477-01384-8.
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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