1899 New Zealand general election

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Template:Short description Template:Use New Zealand English Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The 1899 New Zealand general election was held on 6 and 19 December in the European and Māori electorates, respectively, to elect 74 MPs to the 14th session of the New Zealand Parliament. The election was again won by the Liberal Party, and Richard Seddon remained Prime Minister.

1896 electoral redistribution

The last electoral redistribution was undertaken in 1896 for the Template:NZ election link, and the same electorates were used again.Template:Sfn 34 seats were located in the North Island, 36 were in the South Island, and the remaining four were Māori electorates.Template:Sfn Since the 1890 electoral redistribution, the four main centres had electorates with three seats each.Template:Sfn

The election

The 1899 election was held on Wednesday, 6 December in the general electorates, and on Tuesday, 19 December in the Māori electorates to elect a total of 74 MPs to the 14th Parliament.Template:Sfn A total number of 373,744 (77.6%) voters turned out to vote.Template:Sfn[1] In three electorates there was only one candidate, and they were thus returned unopposed.Template:Sfn Two of those were Liberal candidates: Richard Seddon in the Template:NZ electorate link electorate, and John McKenzie in the Template:NZ electorate link electorate. The third was an opposition representative, William Russell, who stood in the Template:NZ electorate link electorate.[2]

Two candidates died during the election campaign. A third, Henry Augustus Field, died two days after having been re-elected in the Template:NZ electorate link electorate.[3]

Results

Party totals

The following table gives party strengths and vote distribution according to Wilson (1985), who records Maori representatives as Independents prior to the Template:NZ election link.Template:Sfn

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Election results
Party Candidates Total votes Percentage Seats won Change
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86 204,331 52.71 49 +10
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69 141,758 36.67 19 -7
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43 41,540 10.72 6 -3

Votes summary

Popular Vote
Liberal
 
 52.71%
Conservative
 
 36.67%
Independents
 
 10.72%
Parliament seats
Liberal
 
 66.22%
Conservative
 
 25.67%
Independents
 
 8.11%

Electorate results

Seventy-four MPs were elected across sixty-two single-member, and four three-member electorates.

The table below show the results of the 1899 general election:

Key

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|colspan=8 style="background-color:#FFDEAD" | General electorates

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| rowspan=3 | Auckland, City of 
| style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |
| style="text-align:center;" | Thomas Thompson
| style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |
| style="text-align:center;background-color:Template:New Zealand Liberal Party/meta/shading;" | William Joseph Napier
| style="text-align:right;" | 1,440
| rowspan=3 style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |
| rowspan=3 style="text-align:center;" | James Job Holland

|- 

| style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |
| style="text-align:center;" | James Job Holland
| style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |
| style="text-align:center;background-color:Template:Conservative (New Zealand)/meta/shading;" | William Crowther
| style="text-align:right;" | 938

|- 

| style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |
| style="text-align:center;" | William Crowther
| style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |
| style="text-align:center;background-color:Template:New Zealand Liberal Party/meta/shading;" | George Fowlds
| style="text-align:right;" | 94

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| rowspan=3 | Christchurch, City of 
| style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |
| style="text-align:center;" | Charles Lewis
| style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |
| style="text-align:center;background-color:Template:New Zealand Liberal Party/meta/shading;" | William Whitehouse Collins
| style="text-align:right;" | 1,760
| rowspan=3 style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |
| rowspan=3 style="text-align:center;" | Tommy Taylor

|- 

| style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |
| style="text-align:center;" | George Smith
| style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |
| style="text-align:center;background-color:Template:Conservative (New Zealand)/meta/shading;" | Charles Lewis
| style="text-align:right;" | 418

|- 

| style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |
| style="text-align:center;" | Tommy Taylor
| style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |
| style="text-align:center;background-color:Template:Independent Liberal/meta/shading;" | Harry Ell
| style="text-align:right;" | 221

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| rowspan=3 | Dunedin, City of 
| style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |
| style="text-align:center;" | Alexander Sligo
| style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |
| style="text-align:center;background-color:Template:Liberal–Labour (New Zealand)/meta/shading;" | John A. Millar
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,319
| rowspan=3 style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |
| rowspan=3 style="text-align:center;" | Scobie Mackenzie

|- 

| style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |
| style="text-align:center;" | John A. Millar
| style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |
| style="text-align:center;background-color:Template:Liberal–Labour (New Zealand)/meta/shading;" | James Arnold
| style="text-align:right;" | 1,564

|- 

| style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |
| style="text-align:center;" | Scobie Mackenzie
| style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |
| style="text-align:center;background-color:Template:Liberal–Labour (New Zealand)/meta/shading;" | Alfred Richard Barclay
| style="text-align:right;" | 637

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| rowspan=3 | Wellington, City of 
| style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |
| colspan=3 style="text-align:center;background-color:Template:Liberal–Labour (New Zealand)/meta/shading;" | John Hutcheson
| style="text-align:right;" | 1,116
| rowspan=3 style="background-color:Template:Party color;" | 
| rowspan=3 style="text-align:center;" | Kennedy Macdonald[4]

|- 

| style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |
| style="text-align:center;" | Robert Stout
| style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |
| style="text-align:center;background-color:Template:Conservative (New Zealand)/meta/shading;" | Arthur Atkinson
| style="text-align:right;" | 383

|- 

| style="background-color:Template:Party color;" |
| colspan=3 style="text-align:center;background-color:Template:New Zealand Liberal Party/meta/shading;" | George Fisher
| style="text-align:right;" | 122

|- Template:NZ electorate result change Template:NZ electorate result uncontested |- 

|colspan=8 style="background-color:#FFDEAD" | Māori electoratesTemplate:Refn

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