The 1938 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the New Zealand Parliament's 26th term. It resulted in the governing Labour Party being re-elected in a landslide,
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Adam Hamilton, 1930s
The 1935 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote held on 26 and 27 November to determine the shape of the New Zealand Parliament's 25th term. It resulted in the Labour Party's first elector
1938 New Zealand general election
…which the Māori were given a secret ballot which had been available to white voters since 1870. The Labour Party had won a resounding victory in the 1935 elections, winning fifty-three seats. Shortly after the elections, the two Ratana-aligned MPs also merged into the Labour Party, giving Labour a total of fifty-five…
George William Forbes
Harold Montague Rushworth
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