1893 New Zealand general election
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{{Use New Zealand English|date=April 2024}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1893 general election
| country = New Zealand
| type = parliamentary
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 1890 New Zealand general election
| previous_year = 1890
| previous_mps = 11th New Zealand Parliament
| next_election = 1896 New Zealand general election
| next_year = 1896
| next_mps = 13th New Zealand Parliament
| seats_for_election = All 74 seats in the New Zealand House of Representatives
38 seats were needed for a majority
| election_date = 28 November (general) & 20 December (Māori) 1893
| elected_mps = members
| turnout = 75.3%
| image1 = 220x220px
| leader1 = Richard Seddon
| leader_since1 = 28 April 1893
| party1 = New Zealand Liberal Party
| leaders_seat1 = Westland
| last_election1 = 40 seats, 56.1%
| seats1 = 51
| seat_change1 = {{increase}} 11
| popular_vote1 = 175,814
| percentage1 = 57.8%
| swing1 = {{increase}} 1.7%
| image2 = 220x220px
| leader2 = William Rolleston
| leader_since2 = 31 August 1891
| party2 = Conservative (New Zealand)
| leaders_seat2 = Halswell (lost seat)
| last_election2 = 25 seats, 28.9%
| seats2 = 13
| seat_change2 = {{decrease}} 12
| popular_vote2 = 74,482
| percentage2 = 24.5%
| swing2 = {{decrease}} 4.5%
| map_image = 1893 New Zealand general election - Results.svg
| map_size = 400px
| map_caption = Results of the election.
| title = Premier
| posttitle = Subsequent Premier
| before_election = Richard Seddon
| after_election = Richard Seddon
| before_party = New Zealand Liberal Party
| after_party = New Zealand Liberal Party
}}
The 1893 New Zealand general election was held on 28 November and 20 December in the European and Māori electorates, respectively, to elect 74 MPs to the 12th session of the New Zealand Parliament. The election was won by the Liberal Party, and Richard Seddon became prime minister.
1893 was the year universal suffrage was granted to women over 21 (including Māori), plural registration was abolished, plural voting for Māori property-owners was abolished, and only those whose descent was exactly half Māori were allowed to choose whether to vote in European or Māori electorates. Women's suffrage was the most consequential change.
1892 electoral redistribution
The previous electoral redistribution was undertaken in 1890 for the {{NZ election link|1890}}. The 1891 New Zealand census was the first to automatically trigger an electoral redistribution, which was undertaken in 1892. The population drift to the North Island resulted in the transfer of one electorate from the south to the north. Only three electorates remained with unaltered boundaries: {{NZ electorate link|Thames}}, {{NZ electorate link|Wairarapa}}, and {{NZ electorate link|Timaru}}.{{sfn|McRobie |1989 |pp=55–60}} 14 new electorates were established, and of those, eight electorates were established for the first time: {{NZ electorate link|Bay of Plenty}}, {{NZ electorate link|Otaki}}, {{NZ electorate link|Pareora}}, {{NZ electorate link|Patea}}, {{NZ electorate link|Riccarton}}, {{NZ electorate link|Waiapu}}, {{NZ electorate link|Waimea-Sounds}}, and {{NZ electorate link|Wellington Suburbs}}. The remaining six electorates had existed before, and they were re-established for the 12th Parliament: {{NZ electorate link|Caversham}}, {{NZ electorate link|Chalmers}}, {{NZ electorate link|Lyttelton}}, {{NZ electorate link|Rangitata}}, {{NZ electorate link|Waihemo}}, and {{NZ electorate link|Waipa}}.{{sfn|McRobie|1989|pp=59f}}
Women's suffrage
File:Tribute to the Suffragettes, close up.jpg in Christchurch adjacent to Our City. The figures shown from left to right are Amey Daldy, Kate Sheppard, Ada Wells and Harriet Morison]]
By far the most notable change for the 1893 election was that the Electoral Act, 1893, extended the franchise to all women (including Māori) aged 21 and over.{{sfn|McRobie |1989 |p=59}} Women's suffrage was granted after about two decades of campaigning by women such as Kate Sheppard and Mary Ann Müller and organisations such as the New Zealand branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union led by Anne Ward.{{DNZB|Malcolm|Tessa K. |2s20|Sheppard, Katherine Wilson|2 December 2013}} Of countries presently independent, New Zealand was the first to give women the vote in modern times.{{cite news |title=One giant leap for womankind |work=The New Zealand Herald |date=13 November 2013 |pages=F24–F25 |url= http://www.nzherald.co.nz/new-zealand-herald-150-years/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503278&objectid=11146362 |access-date=21 February 2015}} John Hall, a Conservative politician and former premier, received most of the credit for pushing the legislation through Parliament; he is the only male who has his name inscribed on the Kate Sheppard National Memorial. There were only 10 weeks between the passage of the legislation and the election, and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) set about to enrol as many women as possible.
The bill had passed under the Liberal government which generally advocated social and political reform, but only due to a combination of personality issues and political accident. Seddon opposed it (unlike many other Liberals) because many women supported prohibition. He had expected to stop the bill in the upper house, but found that one more vote was needed. Thomas Kelly, a new Liberal Party councillor had left himself paired in favour of the measure, but Seddon obtained his consent by wire to change his vote. Seddon's manipulation so incensed two opposition councillors, William Reynolds and Edward Stevens that they changed sides and voted for the bill, which was passed by 20 votes to 18 so giving the vote to women.Women's Suffrage in New Zealand by Patricia Grimshaw, p 92. (1972, Auckland University Press) Both the Liberals and the Conservatives subsequently claimed credit for sponsoring the enfranchisement of women and both sought to acquire women's votes, although the Liberals benefitted more.{{sfn|Brooking|1988|pp=104}}
The election
The 1893 election was held on Tuesday, 28 November in the general electorates, and on Wednesday, 20 December in the Māori electorates to elect a total of 74 MPs to the 12th Parliament.{{cite web |title=The General Election, 1893 |url= https://atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs?a=d&cl=search&d=AJHR1894-I.2.3.2.21 |publisher=National Library |access-date=25 February 2012 |pages=1–4 |year=1894}}{{cite web |title=The general Election |url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=ODT18931223.2.49 |work=Otago Daily Times |page=2 |date=23 December 1893 |access-date=23 August 2011}}
A total number of 302,997 (75.3%) voters turned out to vote.{{cite web |title=General elections 1853-2005 - dates & turnout |url=http://www.elections.org.nz/events/past-events/general-elections-1853-2014-dates-and-turnout |publisher=Elections New Zealand |access-date=12 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141114115332/http://www.elections.org.nz/events/past-events/general-elections-1853-2014-dates-and-turnout |archive-date=14 November 2014 |url-status=dead }} 65% of all eligible New Zealand women voted in the 1893 election. In 3 seats there was only one candidate.{{sfn|Wilson|1985|p=286}} 31 and 39 electorates were in the North Island and South Island, respectively, plus the 4 Māori electorates.{{sfn|Wilson|1985|p=173}}
Results
=Party totals=
The following table gives party strengths and vote distribution according to Wilson (1985), who records Maori representatives as Independents prior to the {{NZ election link|1905}}.{{sfn|Wilson|1985|pp=287–289}}
| class=wikitable
!colspan=7|center |
| colspan=7| Election results |
|---|
| colspan=2 | Party
!Candidates !Total votes !Percentage !Seats won !Change |
| {{Party name with colour|New Zealand Liberal Party}}
|align=center|103 |align=center|175,814 |align=center|57.80% |align=center|51 |align=center|+11 |
| {{Party name with colour|Conservative (New Zealand)}}
|align=center|55 |align=center|74,482 |align=center|24.49% |align=center|13 |align=center |
| 12 |
| {{Party name with colour|Independent politician}}
|align=center|49 |align=center|53,880 |align=center|17.71% |align=center|10 |align=center|+1 |
| |Total
|align=center|207 |align=center|302,997 |align=center| |align=center|74 |align=center| |
=Votes summary=
{{bar box
| title=Popular Vote
| titlebar=#ddd
| width=650px
| barwidth=410px
| bars=
{{bar percent|Liberal and Liberal-Labour|{{party color|New Zealand Liberal Party}}|57.80}}
{{bar percent|Conservative|{{party color|Conservative (New Zealand)}}|24.49}}
{{bar percent|Independents|{{party color|Independent politician}}|17.71}}
}}
{{bar box
| title=Parliament seats
| titlebar=#ddd
| width=650px
| barwidth=410px
| bars=
{{bar percent|Liberal|{{party color|New Zealand Liberal Party}}|68.91}}
{{bar percent|Conservative|{{party color|Conservative (New Zealand)}}|17.58}}
{{bar percent|Independents|{{party color|Independent politician}}|13.51}}
}}
=Electorate results=
The following is a table of electorate results by electorate.
Key
{{Party index link|New Zealand Liberal Party}}
{{Party index link|Conservative (New Zealand)}}
{{Party index link|Liberal–Labour (New Zealand)}}
{{Party index link|Independent Liberal}}
{{Party index link|Independent politician}}
{{NZ electorate result start|Electorate results for the 1893 New Zealand general election{{cite web |title=The General Election, 1893 |year=1894 |publisher=National Library |url= https://atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs?a=d&cl=search&d=AJHR1894-I.2.3.2.21 |access-date=19 November 2013 |pages=1–4}}{{cite news |title=The General Election |date=28 November 1893 | work=Otago Daily Times |url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=ODT18931128.2.55 |access-date=28 November 2013 |page=6}}{{cite news |title=General Election |date=1 December 1893 | work=Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate |url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PGAMA18931201.2.8 |volume=4 |issue=91 |access-date=13 September 2016 |page=2}}
}}
|-
|colspan=8 style="background-color:#FFDEAD" | General electorates
|-
{{NZ electorate result change
|electorate = Ashburton
|incumbent = Edward George Wright
|incumbent-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
|winner = John McLachlan
|winner-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 26
|second = Cathcart Wason
|second-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
}}
{{NZ electorate result hold
|electorate = Ashley
|incumbent = Richard Meredith
|incumbent-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 590
|second = David Duncan Macfarlane
|second-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
}}
|-
| rowspan=3 | Auckland, City of
| style="background-color:{{party color|New Zealand Liberal Party}};" |
| style="text-align:center;" | John Shera
| style="background-color:{{party color|Independent politician}};" |
| style="text-align:center;background-color:{{Independent politician/meta/shading}};" | George Grey
| style="text-align:right;" | 2,233
| rowspan=3 style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative (New Zealand)}};" |
| rowspan=3 style="text-align:center;" | Thomas Tudehope{{refn|group=nb|Majority is difference in votes to fourth candidate}}{{cite news |title=Electorate City of Auckland |url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=AS18931117.2.12.2 |access-date=28 November 2013 | work=Auckland Star |date=17 November 1893 |volume=XXIV |issue=273 |page=3}}
|-
| style="background-color:{{party color|New Zealand Liberal Party}};" |
| style="text-align:center;" | Thomas Thompson
| style="background-color:{{party color|New Zealand Liberal Party}};" |
| style="text-align:center;background-color:{{New Zealand Liberal Party/meta/shading}};" | William Crowther
| style="text-align:right;" | 438
|-
| style="background-color:{{party color|New Zealand Liberal Party}};" |
| style="text-align:center;" | Alfred Cadman
| style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative (New Zealand)}};" |
| style="text-align:center;background-color:{{Conservative (New Zealand)/meta/shading}};" | Charles Button
| style="text-align:right;" | 68
|-
{{NZ electorate result change
|electorate = Avon
|incumbent = Edwin Blake
|incumbent-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|winner = William Tanner
|winner-party = Liberal–Labour (New Zealand)
|majority = 653
|second = George McIntyre
|second-party = Independent politician
}}
{{NZ electorate result uncontested
|electorate = Awarua
|incumbent = Joseph Ward
|incumbent-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
}}
{{NZ electorate result hold
|electorate = Bay of Islands
|incumbent = Robert Houston
|incumbent-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 231
|second = James Trounsen{{cite news |title=Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 |url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=NA18931125.2.31.3 |access-date=19 November 2013 | work=The Northern Advocate |date=25 November 1893 |page=4}}
|second-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
}}
{{NZ electorate result new
|electorate = Bay of Plenty
|winner = William Kelly
|winner-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 209
|second = Henry Burton{{cite news |title=Public Notice |date=20 November 1893 | work=Bay of Plenty Times |url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=BOPT18931120.2.16.4 |access-date=28 November 2013 |page=5}}
|second-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
}}
{{NZ electorate result uncontested
|electorate = Bruce
|incumbent = James Allen
|incumbent-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
}}
{{NZ electorate result change
|electorate = Buller
|incumbent = Eugene O'Conor
|incumbent-party = Independent politician
|winner = Roderick McKenzie
|winner-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 213
|second = Eugene O'Conor
|second-party = Independent politician
}}
{{NZ electorate result new
|electorate = Caversham
|winner = Arthur Morrison
|winner-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 136
|second = William Barron
|second-party = Independent politician
}}
{{NZ electorate result new
|electorate = Chalmers
|winner = John A. Millar
|winner-party = Liberal–Labour (New Zealand)
|majority = 119
|second = Edmund Allen
|second-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
}}
|-
| rowspan=3 | Christchurch, City of
| style="background-color:{{party color|New Zealand Liberal Party}};" |
| colspan=3 style="text-align:center;background-color:{{New Zealand Liberal Party/meta/shading}};" | William Pember Reeves
| style="text-align:right;" | 1,848
| rowspan=3 style="background-color:{{party color|Liberal–Labour (New Zealand)}};" |
| rowspan=3 style="text-align:center;" | Ebenezer Sandford{{refn|group=nb|Majority is difference in votes to fourth candidate}}
|-
| style="background-color:{{party color|Liberal–Labour (New Zealand)}};" |
| style="text-align:center;" | Ebenezer Sandford
| style="background-color:{{party color|Independent politician}};" |
| style="text-align:center;background-color:{{Independent politician/meta/shading}};" | George Smith
| style="text-align:right;" | 916
|-
| style="background-color:{{party color|Independent politician}};" |
| style="text-align:center;" | Richard Molesworth Taylor
| style="background-color:{{party color|New Zealand Liberal Party}};" |
| style="text-align:center;background-color:{{New Zealand Liberal Party/meta/shading}};" | William Whitehouse Collins
| style="text-align:right;" | 281
|-
{{NZ electorate result hold
|electorate = Clutha
|incumbent = Thomas Mackenzie
|incumbent-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 832
|second-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
}}
|-
| rowspan=3 | Dunedin, City of
| style="background-color:{{party color|Liberal–Labour (New Zealand)}};" |
|colspan=3 style="text-align:center;background-color:{{Liberal–Labour (New Zealand)/meta/shading}};" | David Pinkerton
| style="text-align:right;" | 1,294
| rowspan=3 style="background-color:{{party color|New Zealand Liberal Party}};" |
| rowspan=3 style="text-align:center;" | Henry Fish{{refn|group=nb|Majority is difference in votes to fourth candidate}}
|-
| style="background-color:{{party color|New Zealand Liberal Party}};" |
| style="text-align:center;" | Henry Fish
| style="background-color:{{party color|Liberal–Labour (New Zealand)}};" |
| style="text-align:center;background-color:{{Liberal–Labour (New Zealand)/meta/shading}};" | William Earnshaw
| style="text-align:right;" | 589
|-
| style="background-color:{{party color|New Zealand Liberal Party}};" |
| colspan=3 style="text-align:center;background-color:{{New Zealand Liberal Party/meta/shading}};" | William Hutchison
| style="text-align:right;" | 294
|-
{{NZ electorate result hold
|electorate = Eden
|incumbent = Edwin Mitchelson
|incumbent-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
|majority = 1,161
|second = Malcolm Niccol{{cite book | page = 124 | editor-last = Scholefield | editor-first = Guy | editor-link = Guy Scholefield | title = A Dictionary of New Zealand Biography : A–L | volume = I | year = 1940 | publisher = Department of Internal Affairs | location = Wellington | url = https://www.nzhistory.net.nz/files/documents/dnzb-1940/scholefield-dnzb-v1.pdf | access-date = 26 August 2016}}
|second-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
}}
{{NZ electorate result hold
|electorate = Egmont
|incumbent = Felix McGuire
|incumbent-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
|majority = 135
|second = Benjamin Robbins
|second-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
}}
{{NZ electorate result change
|electorate = Ellesmere
|incumbent = John Hall
|incumbent-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
|winner = William Montgomery
|winner-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 293
|second = William Rolleston
|second-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
}}
{{NZ electorate result change
|electorate = Franklin
|incumbent = Ebenezer Hamlin
|incumbent-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
|winner = Benjamin Harris
|winner-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 89
|second = William Massey
|second-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
}}
{{NZ electorate result hold
|electorate = Grey
|incumbent = Arthur Guinness
|incumbent-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 1,723
|second = Richard Nancarrow
|second-party = Independent politician
}}
{{NZ electorate result hold
|electorate = Hawke's Bay
|incumbent = William Russell
|incumbent-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
|majority = 70
|second = Charles William Reardon{{cite news |title=Hawke's Bay Electorate |date=2 December 1893 |volume=XXVIII |issue=9544 | work=Hawke's Bay Herald |url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=HBH18931202.2.18.2 |access-date=30 November 2013 |page=3}}
|second-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
}}
{{NZ electorate result change
|electorate = Inangahua
|incumbent = Robert Stout
|incumbent-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|winner = Patrick O'Regan
|winner-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 204
|second = William Goodwin Collings
|second-party = Independent politician
}}
{{NZ electorate result hold
|electorate = Invercargill
|incumbent = James Whyte Kelly
|incumbent-party = Liberal–Labour (New Zealand)
|majority = 1,242
|second = Joseph Hatch
|second-party = Independent politician
}}
{{NZ electorate result change
|electorate = Kaiapoi
|incumbent = Richard Moore
|incumbent-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
|winner = David Buddo
|winner-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 87
|second = Richard Moore
|second-party = Independent politician
}}
{{NZ electorate result new
|electorate = Lyttelton
|winner = John Joyce
|winner-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 1,041
|second = Edwin Blake
|second-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
}}
{{NZ electorate result change
|electorate = Manukau
|incumbent = Frank Buckland
|incumbent-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
|winner = Maurice O'Rorke
|winner-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 252
|second = Frank Buckland
|second-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
}}
{{NZ electorate result hold
|electorate = Marsden
|incumbent = Robert Thompson{{refn|group=nb|Robert Thompson was an Independent in the previous Parliament}}
|incumbent-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 1,010
|second-party = Independent politician
}}
{{NZ electorate result hold
|electorate = Masterton
|incumbent = Alexander Hogg
|incumbent-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 1,228
|second = Joseph Harkness
|second-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
}}
{{NZ electorate result change
|electorate = Mataura
|incumbent = George Richardson
|incumbent-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
|winner = Robert McNab
|winner-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 119
|second = George Richardson
|second-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
}}
{{NZ electorate result change
|electorate = Napier
|incumbent = George Swan
|incumbent-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
|winner = Samuel Carnell
|winner-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 520
|second = George Swan
|second-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
}}
{{NZ electorate result change
|electorate = Nelson
|incumbent = Joseph Harkness
|incumbent-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
|winner = John Graham
|winner-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 279
|second = Richmond Hursthouse
|second-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
}}
{{NZ electorate result hold
|electorate = New Plymouth
|incumbent = Edward Smith
|incumbent-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 491
|second = Robert Trimble
|second-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
}}
{{NZ electorate result hold
|electorate = Oamaru
|incumbent = Thomas Duncan
|incumbent-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 416
|second = PB Fraser
|second-party = Independent politician
}}
{{NZ electorate result new
|electorate = Otaki
|winner = James Wilson
|winner-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
|majority = 195
|second = Donald Fraser{{cite news |title=The Otaki Election |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MH18931116.2.20.2 |access-date=23 August 2016 |work=Manawatu Herald |date=16 November 1893|page=3}}
|second-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
}}
{{NZ electorate result change
|electorate = Palmerston
|incumbent = James Wilson
|incumbent-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
|winner = Frederick Pirani
|winner-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 203
|second = George Matthew Snelson{{cite news |title=The Palmerston Election |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/FS18931125.2.30.2 |access-date=23 August 2016 |work=Feilding Star |volume=XV |issue=125 |date=25 November 1893 |page=3}}
|second-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
}}
{{NZ electorate result new
|electorate = Pareora
|winner = Frederick Flatman
|winner-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 217
|second = Arthur Rhodes
|second-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
}}
{{NZ electorate result hold
|electorate = Parnell
|incumbent = Frank Lawry
|incumbent-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 334
|second = William Shepherd Allen
|second-party = Independent politician
}}
{{NZ electorate result new
|electorate = Patea
|winner = George Hutchison
|winner-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
|majority = 673
|second = William Cowern
|second-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
}}
{{NZ electorate result new
|electorate = Rangitata
|winner = William Maslin
|winner-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 67
|second = Edward George Wright
|second-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
}}
{{NZ electorate result change
|electorate = Rangitikei
|incumbent = Robert Bruce
|incumbent-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
|winner = John Stevens
|winner-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 176
|second = Frank Lethbridge
|second-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
}}
{{NZ electorate result new
|electorate = Riccarton
|winner = George Warren Russell
|winner-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 106
|second = William Boag
|second-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
}}
{{NZ electorate result hold
|electorate = Selwyn
|incumbent = Alfred Saunders
|incumbent-party = Independent politician
|majority = 232
|second = Thomas Hamilton Anson
|second-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
}}
{{NZ electorate result hold
|electorate = Taieri
|incumbent = Walter Carncross
|incumbent-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 76
|second = John Buckland
|second-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
}}
{{NZ electorate result hold
|electorate = Thames
|incumbent = James McGowan
|incumbent-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 311
|second = Edmund Taylor
|second-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
}}
{{NZ electorate result hold
|electorate = Timaru
|incumbent = William Hall-Jones
|incumbent-party = Independent Liberal
|majority = 407
|second = Edward George Kerr
|second-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
}}
{{NZ electorate result change
|electorate = Tuapeka
|incumbent = Hugh Valentine
|incumbent-party = Independent politician
|winner = Vincent Pyke
|winner-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 340
|second = Charles Rawlins
|second-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
}}
{{NZ electorate result new
|electorate = Waihemo
|winner = John McKenzie
|winner-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 324
|second = Scobie Mackenzie
|second-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
}}
{{NZ electorate result new
|electorate = Waiapu
|winner = James Carroll
|winner-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 497
|second = Cecil de Lautour
|second-party = Independent politician
}}
{{NZ electorate result change
|electorate = Waikato
|incumbent = Edward Lake
|incumbent-party = Independent politician
|winner = Alfred Cadman
|winner-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 75
|second = Isaac Coates
|second-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
}}
{{NZ electorate result hold
|electorate = Waikouaiti
|incumbent = James Green
|incumbent-party = Independent politician
|majority = 510
|second = George J. Bruce{{cite news |title=Waikouaiti Electoral District |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT18931121.2.29.2 |access-date=23 August 2016 |work=Otago Daily Times |issue=9901 |date=21 November 1893 |page=3}}
|second-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
}}
{{NZ electorate result new
|electorate = Waimea-Sounds
|winner = Charles H. Mills
|winner-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 333
|second = H Everett
|second-party = Independent politician
}}
{{NZ electorate result new
|electorate = Waipa
|winner = Frederic Lang
|winner-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
|majority = 989
|second = Gerald Peacock{{cite news |title=The General Elections |url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=CHP18931128.2.30 |access-date=29 November 2013 | work=The Press |date=28 November 1893 |volume=L |issue=8651 |page=6}}
|second-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
}}
{{NZ electorate result change
|electorate = Waipawa
|incumbent = William Smith
|incumbent-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|winner = Charles Hall
|winner-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 378
|second = George Hunter
|second-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
}}
{{NZ electorate result hold
|electorate = Wairarapa
|incumbent = Walter Clarke Buchanan
|incumbent-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
|majority = 690
|second = George Augustus Fairbrother{{cite book |title=The Cyclopedia of New Zealand : Wellington Provincial District |year=1897 |url= http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Cyc01Cycl-t1-body-d4-d79-d3.html#name-414818-mention |publisher=The Cyclopedia of New Zealand |author=Cyclopedia Company Limited |access-date= 30 November 2013 |location=Wellington |chapter=Borough Of Carterton}}
|second-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
}}
{{NZ electorate result hold
|electorate = Wairau
|incumbent = Lindsay Buick
|incumbent-party = Liberal–Labour (New Zealand)
|majority = 322
|second = William Sinclair
|second-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
}}
{{NZ electorate result change
|electorate = Waitaki
|incumbent = John McKenzie
|incumbent-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|winner = William Steward
|winner-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 1,062
|second = Thomas Paterson{{cite news |title=The Oamaru Mail |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/OAM18931128.2.10 |access-date=23 August 2016 |volume=XVIII |issue=5804 |date=28 November 1893 |page=2}}
|second-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
}}
{{NZ electorate result change
|electorate = Waitemata
|incumbent = Jackson Palmer
|incumbent-party = Independent Liberal
|winner = Richard Monk
|winner-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
|majority = 239
|second = Jackson Palmer
|second-party = Independent Liberal
}}
{{NZ electorate result change
|electorate = Wakatipu
|incumbent = Thomas Fergus
|incumbent-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
|winner = William Fraser
|winner-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
|majority = 326
|second = John O'Meara
|second-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
}}
{{NZ electorate result hold
|electorate = Wallace
|incumbent = James Mackintosh
|incumbent-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 433
|second = Henry Hirst
|second-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
}}
{{NZ electorate result hold
|electorate = Wanganui
|incumbent = Archibald Willis
|incumbent-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 197
|second = Gilbert Carson
|second-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
}}
|-
| rowspan=3 | Wellington, City of
| style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative (New Zealand)}};" |
| colspan=3 style="text-align:center;background-color:{{Conservative (New Zealand)/meta/shading}};" | John Duthie
| style="text-align:right;" |
| rowspan=3 style="background-color:{{party color|New Zealand Liberal Party}};" |
| rowspan=3 style="text-align:center;" | Kennedy Macdonald
|-
| style="background-color:{{party color|New Zealand Liberal Party}};" |
| style="text-align:center;" | George Fisher
| style="background-color:{{party color|Conservative (New Zealand)}};" |
| style="text-align:center;background-color:{{Conservative (New Zealand)/meta/shading}};" | Francis Bell
| style="text-align:right;" |
|-
| style="background-color:{{party color|New Zealand Liberal Party}};" |
| style="text-align:center;" | William McLean
| style="background-color:{{party color|New Zealand Liberal Party}};" |
| style="text-align:center;background-color:{{New Zealand Liberal Party/meta/shading}};" | Sir Robert Stout
| style="text-align:right;" |
|-
{{NZ electorate result new
|electorate = Wellington Suburbs
|winner = Alfred Newman
|winner-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
|majority = 124
|second = Thomas Wilford
|second-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
}}
{{NZ electorate result uncontested
|electorate = Westland
|incumbent = Richard Seddon
|incumbent-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|hold = true
}}
|-
|colspan=8 style="background-color:#FFDEAD" | Māori electorates{{refn|group=nb|The affiliation of many of the Māori candidates is unknown or uncertain}}
|-
{{NZ electorate result change
|electorate = Eastern Maori
|incumbent = James Carroll
|incumbent-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|winner = Wi Pere
|winner-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 1,399
|second = Hoani Paraone Tunuiarangi
|second-party =
}}
{{NZ electorate result change
|electorate = Northern Maori
|incumbent = Eparaima Te Mutu Kapa
|incumbent-party = Independent politician
|winner = Hone Heke Ngapua
|winner-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 507
|second = Eparaima Te Mutu Kapa
|second-party =
}}
{{NZ electorate result hold
|electorate = Southern Maori
|incumbent = Tame Parata
|incumbent-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 185
|second = Teoti Pita Mutu
|second-party =
}}
{{NZ electorate result change
|electorate = Western Maori
|incumbent = Hoani Taipua
|incumbent-party = Conservative (New Zealand)
|winner = Ropata Te Ao
|winner-party = New Zealand Liberal Party
|majority = 90
|second = Pepene Eketone
|second-party =
}}
|}
Table footnotes:
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References
- {{cite book |title=Electoral Atlas of New Zealand |last=McRobie |first=Alan |year=1989 |publisher=GP Books |location=Wellington |isbn=0-477-01384-8}}
- {{cite book |last= Wilson |first= James Oakley |title= New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 |edition= 4th |orig-year=First published in 1913 |year= 1985 |publisher=V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer |location= Wellington |oclc=154283103}}
- {{cite book |title=Milestones: Turning Points in New Zealand History |last=Brooking |first=Tom |year=1988 |publisher=Mills Publications |location=Lower Hutt |isbn=0-908722-30-3}}