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30th New Zealand Parliament

30th New Zealand Parliament

Term of the Parliament of New Zealand

The 30th New Zealand Parliament was a term of the New Zealand Parliament. It was elected at the 1951 general election on 1 September of that year.

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1951 general election

Main article: 1951 New Zealand general election

The 1951 general election was held on Saturday, 1 September.[1] A total of 80 MPs were elected; 49 represented North Island electorates, 27 represented South Island electorates, and the remaining four represented Māori electorates; this was the same distribution used since the 1946 election.[2] 1,205,762 voters were enrolled and the official turnout at the election was 89.1%.[1]

Sessions

The 30th Parliament sat for five sessions (there were two sessions in 1954), and was prorogued on 4 October 1954.[3]

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Ministries

The National Party under Sidney Holland had been in power since the 1949 election, and Holland remained in charge until 1957, when he stepped down due to ill health.[4]

Overview of seats

The table below shows the number of MPs in each party following the 1951 election and at dissolution:

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Notes

  • The Working Government majority is calculated as all Government MPs less all other parties.

Initial composition of the 30th Parliament

The 1951 election saw the governing National Party re-elected with a twenty-seat margin, a substantial improvement on the twelve-seat margin it previously held. National won fifty seats compared with the Labour Party's thirty.[5] The popular vote was closer, however, with National winning 54% to Labour's 46%.[6] No seats were won by minor party candidates or by independents.[7] This was the last New Zealand general election in which any party has ever captured a majority of the popular vote.[6] Key
  Labour   National

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Table footnotes:

  1. [N 1]
    Terry McCombs was first on election night, but lost when special votes were included
  2. [N 2]
    Tommy Armstrong was first on election night, but lost when special votes were included
  3. [N 3]
    Joe Hodgens was first on election night, but lost when special votes were included

    By-elections during 30th Parliament

    There were a number of changes during the term of the 30th Parliament.

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    Notes

    1. [1]
      "General elections 1853–2005 – dates & turnout". Elections New Zealand. Archived from the original on 27 May 2010. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
    2. [2]
      Wilson 1985, p. 173.
    3. [3]
      Wilson 1985, p. 142.
    4. [4]
      Wilson 1985, pp. 86–87.
    5. [5]
      Wilson 1985, pp. 287–288.
    6. [6]
      Wilson 1985, p. 290.
    7. [7]
      Wilson 1985, p. 288.
    8. [8]
      "The New Zealand Official Year-Book, 1951–52". Statistics New Zealand. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
    9. [9]
      Gustafson 1986, p. 378.
    10. [10]
      Norton 1988, p. 314.
    11. [11]
      Gustafson 1986, pp. 360f.
    12. [12]
      Gustafson 1986, p. 390.
    13. [13]
      Gustafson 1986, p. 247.

    References

    • Gustafson, Barry (1986). The First 50 Years : A History of the New Zealand National Party. Auckland: Reed Methuen. ISBN 0-474-00177-6.
    • Norton, Clifford (1988). New Zealand Parliamentary Election Results 1946–1987: Occasional Publications No 1, Department of Political Science. Wellington: Victoria University of Wellington. 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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