Former electorate in Canterbury, New Zealand
Gladstone was a parliamentaryelectorate in theCanterbury region of New Zealand, from 1866 to 1890.
Geographic coverage [ edit ] Gladstone was located in the South Canterbury region. In 1866 and 1871, the nomination meetings were held inWaimate .[ 1] [ 2]
Gladstone was created in 1866 for the4th Parliament .Francis Jollie won the1866 election unopposed and became the first representative.[ 3] He died in November 1870. As this was one month before the dissolution of Parliament, there was no by-election.[ 4] George Parker was elected in the1871 election .[ 5] He retired in 1875.[ 6] He was succeeded byFrederick Teschemaker , who won the1876 election .[ 7] Teschemaker died on 21 November 1878 before the end of the term.[ 8]
John Studholme won the resultingJanuary 1879 by-election unopposed, and was confirmed at the1879 general election . He held the electorate until the end of the term in 1881.[ 9] He was succeeded byJames Sutter , who won the1881 and1884 elections. He served until 1887.[ 9]
The1887 election was contested byArthur Rhodes ,Jeremiah Twomey and F Franks. Whilst Twomey clearly won the show of hands at the nomination meeting,[ 10] Rhodes defeated him with 739 to 663 votes, with Franks receiving 16 votes.[ 11] Rhodes served until the end of the term in 1890,[ 12] when the electorate was abolished.[ 13] Rhodes successfully contested theGeraldine electorate in1890 .[ 12]
Members of Parliament [ edit ] Gladstone was represented by sixMembers of Parliament :[ 13]
Key
Independent
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