Electoral history of Bill Rowling

This is a summary of the electoral history of Bill Rowling, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1974–75), Leader of the Labour Party (1974–83), Member of Parliament for Buller (1962–72) and later Tasman (1972–84).

Parliamentary elections 1960 election

1962 by-election

1963 election

1966 election

1969 election

1972 election

1975 election

1978 election

1981 election

Leadership elections 1974 Leadership election CandidateVotes% Bill Rowling 44 83.01 Hugh Watt 9 16.99Majority 35 66.03Turnout 53

1980 Leadership election CandidateVotes% Bill Rowling 19 51.40 David Lange 18 48.60Majority 1 2.70Turnout 37

Party elections 1966 Party Conference 1966 Vice-Presidential election; first ballotCandidateVotes%Bill Rowling244 37.02%Henry May23836.11%Sir Basil Arthur17726.85%

1966 Vice-Presidential election; second ballotCandidateVotes%Henry May321 50.23%Bill Rowling31849.76%

1967 Party Conference 1967 Vice-Presidential electionCandidateVotes%Henry May323 51.68%Bill Rowling30248.32%

1968 Party Conference 1968 Vice-Presidential electionCandidateVotes%Henry May334 50.22%Bill Rowling33149.77%

1969 Party Conference 1969 Presidential electionCandidateVotes%Norman Douglas38056.80%Bill Rowling20630.79%George Webber8312.40%

1969 Vice-Presidential electionCandidateVotes%Bill Rowling422 64.71%Henry May21231.03%Sonja Davies416.00%George Spooner60.87%Ted Keating20.29%

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