1977 Auckland City mayoral election

1977 Auckland City mayoral election

← 1974 8 October 1977 1980 →
Turnout	41,659 (40.32%)
Candidate Dove-Myer Robinson Jim Anderton Party Independent Labour Popular vote 17,773 12,140 Percentage 42.66 29.14   Candidate Colin Kay Mel Tronson Party Independent Citizens & Ratepayers Popular vote 7,340 4,266 Percentage 17.61 10.24
Mayor before election Dove-Myer Robinson Elected Mayor Dove-Myer Robinson

The 1977 Auckland City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1977, 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 Mayor Dove-Myer Robinson was re-elected seeing off a challenges from Labour Party candidate Jim Anderton, former councillor Colin Kay and Citizens & Ratepayers nominee Mel Tronson.

Mayoralty results

Councillor results

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
Triennial term	1938 1941 1944 1947 1950 1953 1956 1957‡ 1959 1962 1965 1968 1971 1974 1977 1980 1983 1986 1989 1990‡ 1992 1995 1998 2001 2004 2007

Local elections

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