- Source: 1992 Lower Hutt mayoral election
The 1992 Lower Hutt mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. The elections were held for the role of Mayor of Lower Hutt plus other local government positions including fifteen city councillors, also elected triennially. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.
Background
A council decision to build the Central City Plaza car-parking building in Queens Drive was the dominant issue of the election. Mayor Glen Evans argued that the plaza would attract people to the south end of High Street and assist smaller retailers compete with Queensgate Mall. The cost of constructing the plaza sky-rocketed causing the council to find itself in severe financial strife, costing more than $35 million to design and build while only being valued at $13 million. A new ticket, Community Concern, was set up in opposition to Evans and his policies headed by former councillor Lawrie Woodley. The Labour Party did not contest the mayoralty for the second consecutive election and only ran candidates in two wards (none were elected).
Evans, was re-elected very narrowly and his United Citizens ticket lost their large majority of council seats. Evans had an election night lead of only 103 over Woodley with over 500 special votes still to be counted. Woodley said he was confident of overturning the margin, but the final count slightly extended Evans' majority to 128. Woodley was elected in the Western Ward and four other candidates from his Community Concern ticket were also elected to the council. Turnout for the election was a record low with barely one quarter of electors voting (the lowest anywhere in the country). Lower Hutt was the only place in New Zealand to still use polling booths rather than postal voting which Evans thought was a cause of comparatively low turnout. He stated that elections would switch to postal voting.
Mayoral results
The following table gives the election results:
Ward results
Fifteen candidates were also elected from wards to the Hutt City Council.
References
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- 1992 Lower Hutt mayoral election
- 1995 Lower Hutt mayoral election
- 1989 Lower Hutt mayoral election
- 1992 Hutt City local elections
- Glen Evans
- David Ogden (politician)
- 1989 Hutt City local elections
- Lower Hutt Citizens' Association
- Rana Waitai
- Local elections in New Zealand
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