Template:1956 Riccarton by-election

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1956 Riccarton 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]] Mick Connelly 6,549 61.45
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color; width: 5px;" | [[New Zealand National Party|Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/shortname]] Balfour Grieve Dingwall 2,691 25.25 -0.96
style="background-color: Template:Social Credit Party (New Zealand)/meta/color; width: 5px;" | [[Social Credit Party (New Zealand)|Template:Social Credit Party (New Zealand)/meta/shortname]] Wilfrid Owen 1,379 12.94
style="background-color: Template:Social Credit Party (New Zealand)/meta/shading;" | Ind. Social Credit Ernest Yealands 28 0.26
Independent Richard Israel Charles Grenfell 11 0.10
Informal votes 40 0.37
Majority 3,858 36.20
Turnout 10,698 66.28 -24.33
Registered electors 16,140
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color" | [[New Zealand Labour Party|Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/shortname]] hold Swing
  1. Norton 1988, p. 333.