Electoral history of George Grey

George Grey, around the time of his Premiership.

This is a summary of the electoral history of Sir George Grey, Prime Minister of New Zealand, (1877-1879).

Parliamentary elections

Auckland West by-election, 1875^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Independent	Sir George Grey	Unopposed
Registered electors

^a Grey resigned from the Auckland West seat after he was elected in the Thames electorate^[3]

General election, 1876, Thames^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Sir George Grey	984	67.53
	Independent	William Rowe	862	59.16
	Independent	Sir Julius Vogel	685	47.01
	Independent	C F Mitchell	330	22.64
	Independent	C O'Neil	26	1.78
	Independent	C Cornes	20	1.37
	Independent	S Stephenson	7	0.48
Majority			177	12.14
Turnout			1,457

General election, 1879, Christchurch^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Sir George Grey^b	1,315	70.58
	Independent	Samuel Paull Andrews	1,250	67.09
	Independent	Edward Cephas John Stevens	1,250	67.09
	Independent	Edward Richardson	1,227	65.86
	Independent	Treadwell	548	29.41
Majority			22	1.1
Turnout			1,863

^b Grey was unseated on petition in Christchurch, as he had already been elected in the Thames electorate^[3]

General election, 1881, Auckland East^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Sir George Grey	349	52.57
	Independent	J M Clark	315	47.43
Majority			34	5.12
Turnout			664	71.78
Registered electors			925

General election, 1884, Auckland East^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Independent	Sir George Grey	Unopposed
Registered electors			1,331

General election, 1887, Auckland Central^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Independent	Sir George Grey	Unopposed
Registered electors			1,782

Newton by-election, 1891^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Independent	Sir George Grey	Unopposed
Registered electors

General election, 1893: City of Auckland^[11]^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Independent	Sir George Grey	6,379	62.57
	Conservative	William Crowther	4,584	44.96
	Conservative	Charles Button	4,214	41.34
	Conservative	Thomas Tudehope^[13]	4,146	40.67
	Liberal	Thomas Thompson	3,950	38.75	-20.23
	Liberal	William Joseph Napier	3,531	34.64	-7.18
	Independent Liberal	Edward Withy^[13]	2,393	23.47
	Liberal	John Shera	793	7.78	-55.85
	Liberal	Samuel Vaile^[13]	502	4.92
	Liberal	Thomas Fernandez	92	0.90
Majority			68	0.67
Turnout			10,195	60.73	+14.30
Registered electors			16,788

↑ "By Electric Telegraph". IX (1267). Westport Times. 30 March 1875. p. 2. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
↑ "Auckland". XXIII (1159). North Otago Times. 23 December 1875. p. 2. Retrieved 11 April 2010.
1 2 Wilson 1985, p. 201.
↑ "Declaration of the Poll at Thames". XIII (4419). New Zealand Herald. 12 January 1876. p. 3. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
↑ "Thames Election". VIII (777). Bay of Plenty Times. 4 September 1879. p. 3. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
↑ "Christchurch Election" (3563). Star. 11 September 1879. p. 2. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
↑ Cooper, G. S. (1882). Votes Recorded for Each Candidate. Government Printer. Retrieved 24 October 2015.
↑ Cooper, G. S. (1884). The General Election, 1884. National Library. pp. 1–3. Retrieved 24 December 2014.
↑ "The General Election, 1887". National Library. 1887. pp. 1–4. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
↑ "NEW ZEALAND". XXVII (79). Marlborough Express. 6 April 1891. Retrieved 13 April 2010.
↑ The General Election, 1893. Government Printer. 1894. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
↑ "The General Election". Otago Daily Times. 28 November 1893. p. 6. Retrieved 28 November 2013.
1 2 3 "Electorate City of Auckland". Auckland Star. XXIV (274). 18 November 1893. p. 8. Retrieved 28 November 2013.

Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.

Electoral histories of New Zealand prime ministers

Henry Sewell William Fox Edward Stafford Alfred Domett Frederick Whitaker Frederick Weld George Waterhouse Julius Vogel Daniel Pollen Harry Atkinson George Grey John Hall Robert Stout John Ballance Richard Seddon William Hall-Jones Joseph Ward Thomas Mackenzie William Massey Francis Bell Gordon Coates George Forbes Michael Joseph Savage Peter Fraser Sidney Holland Keith Holyoake Walter Nash Jack Marshall Norman Kirk Bill Rowling Robert Muldoon David Lange Geoffrey Palmer Mike Moore Jim Bolger Jenny Shipley Helen Clark John Key

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