1986 Auckland City mayoral election

1986 Auckland City mayoral election

← 1983 11 October 1986 1989 →
Turnout	52,618
Candidate Catherine Tizard Marie Quinn Party Labour Independent Popular vote 32,390 20,228 Percentage 61.55 38.44
Mayor before election Catherine Tizard Elected Mayor Catherine Tizard

The 1986 Auckland City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1986, elections were held for the Mayor of Auckland plus other local government positions including twenty-one city councillors. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.

Background

Incumbent Labour Party Mayor Catherine Tizard was re-elected for a second term with a substantial majority over former Citizens & Ratepayers councillor Marie Quinn, while the council saw a landslide result to the Citizens & Ratepayers ticket.

Electoral reforms were implemented at the 1986 municipal elections, the method of electing councillors at large which had been used for decades was replaced with a ward system of local electoral districts.^[1]

Mayoralty results

The following table gives the election results:

Ward results

Candidates were also elected from wards to the Auckland City Council.^[3]

References

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Mayors of Auckland City

Mayors

Philip Philips Henry Isaacs Frederick Prime Benjamin Tonks William Hurst Henry Brett Thomas Peacock James Clark William Waddel Albert Devore John Upton William Crowther James Job Holland Abraham Boardman Peter Dignan David Goldie John Logan Campbell Alfred Kidd Edwin Mitchelson Arthur Myers Charles Grey Lemuel Bagnall James Parr James Gunson George Baildon George Hutchison Ernest Davis John Allum John Luxford Tom Ashby Keith Buttle Dove-Myer Robinson Roy McElroy Dove-Myer Robinson Colin Kay Catherine Tizard Les Mills Christine Fletcher John Banks Dick Hubbard John Banks

Mayoral elections

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Biennial term	1915 1917 1919† 1921† 1923† 1925 1927 1929 1931 1933 1935
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Local elections

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