City of Auckland was a New Zealand electorate formed for the election of 1853. It existed from 1853 to 1860, and from 1890 to 1905.
The City of Auckland electorate was one of the original electorates, and was used in the country's first election. It covered a territory roughly corresponding to the central business district of the city today, and was surrounded by another electorate called Auckland Suburbs. As the city was growing rapidly, however, the electorate did not last long – in the 1860 election, it was divided into Auckland East and Auckland West.[1]
At the 1890 election, however, the total number of seats was reduced. This necessitated the re-creation of a seat to cover all of inner Auckland. This was accomplished by merging most of Auckland Central, Auckland West, Auckland North and Ponsonby, and taking a considerable amount of Parnell. In the 1893 election, the seat absorbed most of Newton electorate, but lost some of its southern territories to the remnants of Parnell. In 1902 election, Grey Lynn was split away into its own electorate. In the 1905 election, the remainder of the electorate was split in three, becoming Auckland Central, Auckland East, and Auckland West.
The was contested by seven candidates. John Shera, Thomas Thompson and William Lee Rees received 2006, 1860 and 1761 votes, respectively, and were elected. Adam Porter, William Joseph Napier, James Wallis and Harry Farnall received 1501, 1319, 748 and 262 votes, respectively, and were unsuccessful.[2] [3]
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| Election | Winner(s) | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| width=100px | 1853 election | width=5px bgcolor= | Width=170px | Thomas Bartley | width=5px rowspan=2 bgcolor= | width=170px rowspan=2 | Loughlin O'Brien | width=5px rowspan=2 bgcolor= | width=170px rowspan=2 | James O'Neill | |||
| bgcolor= | William Brown | ||||||||||||
| 1855 election | Thomas Beckham | William Daldy | bgcolor= | Logan Campbell | |||||||||
| Thomas Forsaith | |||||||||||||
| bgcolor= | Archibald Clark[4] | ||||||||||||
| (Electorate abolished 1861–1890 and split in two, see Auckland East and Auckland West; from 1887 to 1890 also) | |||||||||||||
| 1890 election | bgcolor= | William Lee Rees | John Shera | Thomas Thompson | |||||||||
| bgcolor= | Alfred Cadman | ||||||||||||
| 1893 election | Charles Button | William Crowther | bgcolor= | George Grey | |||||||||
| Thomas Thompson | |||||||||||||
| 1896 election | bgcolor= | James Job Holland | |||||||||||
| 1899 election | William Napier | George Fowlds | |||||||||||
| Joseph Witheford | |||||||||||||
| 1902 election | bgcolor= | Frederick Baume | bgcolor= | Alfred Kidd | |||||||||
| (Electorate abolished 1905 and split in three, see,, and) | |||||||||||||
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