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| Turnout | 15,213 (73.56%) | |||||||||||||||
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TheFendalton by-election of1967 was a by-election for the electorate ofFendalton on 15 April 1967 during the35th New Zealand Parliament.
It was held the same day as anotherby-election in Petone.[1]
The by-election resulted from the death of the previous member the HonHarry Lake on 21 February 1967; Lake had been Minister of Finance since 1960, a rapid rise to an important ministerial post. He died suddenly of a heart attack aged 55 years.[2]
There were two candidates for theLabour Party nomination.[3]
Barclay was selected. He had contested Fendalton for Labour at both of the previous two general elections.[4] His fatherJim Barclay was a Labour MP from 1935 to 1943 and his cousinRon Barclay had been elected MP forNew Plymouth in 1966.[3]
There were four nominees for theNational Party candidacy.[5]
Holland was chosen as theNational Party's candidate after winning a ballot of 180 party members from the electorate.[5] His fatherSidney Holland had previously represented Fendalton from 1946 until 1957 and was Prime Minister from 1949 to 1957 when he retired.[6]
TheSocial Credit Party selected Joseph John Forster, an employee at the North Canterbury Hospital Board, as its candidate. Forster had contested Fendalton for Social Credit at the 1960 and 1966 elections.[7]
TheLiberal Party also contemplated standing a candidate, though the party executive ultimately decided against it.[7]
The following table gives the election results:
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| National | Eric Holland | 7,024 | 46.17 | ||
| Labour | Bruce Barclay | 6,738 | 44.29 | +6.12 | |
| Social Credit | John Forster | 1,451 | 9.53 | −0.93 | |
| Majority | 286 | 1.87 | |||
| Turnout | 15,213 | 73.56 | −12.15 | ||
| Registered electors | 20,681 | ||||
| Nationalhold | Swing | ||||
The by-election was won byEric Holland, also of theNational Party. Holland was the son of former prime ministerSidney Holland. Despite being a safe National seat, the election night results had a 67-vote majority to Labour's candidateBruce Barclay, the shock result prompted Leader of the OppositionNorman Kirk to declare that National had lost its mandate to govern.[8] However after 1,300 special votes were counted National did manage to hold the seat by just 286 votes a swing of over 5% to Labour.[9]
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