Template:1940 Auckland West by-election

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1940 Auckland West by-election[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" | [[New Zealand Labour Party|Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/shortname]] Peter Carr 6,151 63.24
Independent Wilfred Fortune 2,958 30.41
Communist Gordon Watson 375 3.86
Independent Socialist Lawrence Pickles 132 1.36
Liberal Joseph Kennedy 15 0.15
Independent Enoch Naden 8 0.08
Majority 3,193 32.83
Informal votes 68 0.70 +0.05
Turnout 8,136 60.03
Registered electors 16,170
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color" | [[New Zealand Labour Party|Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/shortname]] hold Swing
  1. "Declaration of Results". Auckland Star. LXXI (125). 28 May 1940. p. 3. Retrieved 2 September 2016.