33rd New Zealand Parliament
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The 33rd New Zealand Parliament was a term of the New Zealand Parliament. It was elected at the 1960 general election on 26 November of that year.
1960 general election
The 1960 general election was held on Saturday, 26 November.[1] A total of 80 MPs were elected; 51 represented North Island electorates, 25 represented South Island electorates, and the remaining four represented Māori electorates; this was the same distribution used since the 1957 election.[2] 1,310,742 voters were enrolled and the official turnout at the election was 89.8%.[1]
Sessions
The 33rd Parliament sat for four sessions (there were two sessions in 1963), and was prorogued on 25 October 1963.[3]
| Session | Opened | Adjouned |
|---|---|---|
| first | 20 June 1961 | 1 December 1961 |
| second | 7 June 1962 | 14 December 1962 |
| third | 12 February 1963 | 12 February 1963 |
| fourth | 20 June 1963 | 25 October 1963 |
Ministries
The Labour Party under Walter Nash had been in power since the 1957 election as the second Labour Government, but was defeated by the National Party at the 1960 election by a twelve-seat margin. Keith Holyoake formed the second Holyoake Ministry on 12 December 1960, which stayed in power until Holyoake stepped down in early 1972. The second National Government remained in place until its defeat at the 1972 election towards the end of that year.[4]
Initial composition of the 33rd Parliament
The table below shows the results of the 1960 general election:
Key
Table footnotes:
By-elections during 33rd Parliament
There were a number of changes during the term of the 33rd Parliament.
| Electorate and by-election | Date | Incumbent | Cause | Winner | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hurunui | 1961 | 10 June | William Gillespie | Death | Herbert Pickering | ||
| Waitaki | 1962 | 10 March | Thomas Hayman | Death | Allan Dick | ||
| Buller | 1962 | 7 July | Jerry Skinner | Death | Bill Rowling | ||
| Timaru | 1962 | 21 July | Clyde Carr | Resignation | Basil Arthur | ||
| Otahuhu | 1963 | 16 March | James Deas | Death | Bob Tizard | ||
| Northern Maori | 1963 | 16 March | Tapihana Paikea | Death | Matiu Rata | ||
| Grey Lynn | 1963 | 18 May | Fred Hackett | Death | Reginald Keeling | ||
Notes
- 1 2 "General elections 1853–2005 - dates & turnout". Elections New Zealand. Archived from the original on 27 May 2010. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
- ↑ Wilson 1985, p. 173.
- ↑ Wilson 1985, p. 142.
- ↑ Wilson 1985, pp. 88–92.
- ↑ Norton 1988.
- ↑ Gustafson 1986, p. 386.
- ↑ Gustafson 1986, p. 383.
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 ed. published 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.