The 1949 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the New Zealand Parliament's 29th term. It saw the governing Labour Party defeated by the opposition National Part
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The Democratic Labour Party was a left-wing political party in New Zealand in the 1940s. It was a splinter from the larger Labour Party, and was led by the prominent socialist John A. Lee.
1949 New Zealand general election
…47.2 percent to National's 51.9 percent. No seats were won by minor party candidates or by independents. John A. Lee stood for Grey Lynn as the sole Democratic Labour candidate and got 2,627 votes, coming third. The table below shows the results of the 1949 general election…
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