1986 Auckland City mayoral election

← 1983

11 October 1986

1989 →

Turnout

42,247


Candidate	Catherine Tizard	Marie Quinn
Party	Labour	Independent
Popular vote	32,064	10,183
Percentage	75.89	24.11

Mayor before election

Catherine Tizard

Elected Mayor

Catherine Tizard

The 1986 Auckland City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1986, elections were held for the Mayor of Auckland plus other local government positions including twenty city councillors. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.

Background

Incumbent Labour Party Mayor Catherine Tizard was re-elected for a second term with a substantial majority over former Citizens & Ratepayers councillor Marie Quinn, while the council saw a landslide result to the Citizens & Ratepayers ticket.

Electoral reforms were implemented at the 1986 municipal elections, the method of electing councillors at large which had been used for decades was replaced with a ward system of local electoral districts.^[1]

Mayoralty results

The following table gives the election results:

1986 Auckland mayoral election^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Catherine Tizard	32,064	75.89	+41.52
	Independent	Marie Quinn	10,183	24.11
Majority			21,881	51.79	+42.56
Turnout			42,247

Ward results

	Party/ticket	Councillors
	Citizens & Ratepayers	15
	Labour	4
	Independent	1

References

^ "Local elections on ward basis". The Evening Post. 9 October 1984.
^ "Election 86 Results". The New Zealand Herald. 13 October 1986. p. 2.

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