32nd New Zealand Parliament

The 32nd New Zealand Parliament was a term of the New Zealand Parliament. It was elected at the 1957 general election on 30 November of that year.

1957 general election

Main article: New Zealand general election, 1957

The 1957 general election was held on Saturday, 30 November. A total of 80 MPs were elected; 51 represented North Island electorates, 25 represented South Island electorates, and the remaining four represented Māori electorates; this was a gain of one electorate for the North Island from the South Island since the 1954 election. 1,252,329 voters were enrolled and the official turnout at the election was 92.9%.

Sessions

The 32nd Parliament sat for four sessions (there were two sessions in 1958), and was prorogued on 28 October 1960.

Session	Opened	Adjouned
first	21 January 1958	31 January 1958
second	10 June 1958	3 October 1958
third	24 June 1959	23 October 1959
fourth	22 June 1960	28 October 1960

Ministries

The National Party under Sidney Holland had been in power since the 1949 election as the first National Government, and Holland remained in charge until he stepped down due to ill health in September 1957 some two months prior to the 1957 election. Holland was succeeded by Keith Holyoake, but the Labour Party narrowly defeated National at the 1957 election, and the government changed in mid-December of that year. Walter Nash formed the Nash Ministry, which was in power from 12 December 1957 until the defeat of the second Labour Government at the next election in 1960.

Initial composition of the 32nd Parliament

The table below shows the results of the 1957 general election:

Key

  Labour     National  

Electorate results for the New Zealand general election, 1957.

Electorate	Incumbent		Winner		Majority	Runner up
General electorates
Ashburton		Richard Gerard			1,769		G Glassey
Auckland Central		Bill Anderton			3,856		Miss A A Joyce
Avon		John Mathison			6,100		W E Olds
Awarua		George Herron		Gordon Grieve	1,636		J. P. Wyatt
Bay of Plenty		Percy Allen			910		T G Stanton
Buller		Clarence Skinner			2,677		N L Bensenmann
Christchurch Central		Robert Macfarlane			4,071		Colin McLachlan
Clutha		James Roy			1,490		T. A. Rodgers
Dunedin Central		Philip Connolly			1,778		M W D Anderson
Dunedin North		Ethel McMillan			3,408		G R Terry
Eden		Duncan Rae			498		C. I. B. Watkins
Egmont		Ernest Corbett		William Sheat	2,697		C R Parker
Fendalton		Sidney Holland		Jack Watts	824		L G G White
Franklin		Jack Massey		Alfred E. Allen	4,241		C Mountford
Gisborne		Reginald Keeling			1,182		A H MacPherson
Grey Lynn		Fred Hackett			5,785		B Griffiths
Hamilton		Hilda Ross			1,110		E A Watts
Hastings		Edwin Keating			1,070		A H Sievewright
Hauraki		Arthur Kinsella			1,161		B W Dynes
Hawkes Bay		Cyril Harker			2,858		L T Fischer
Heretaunga		Phil Holloway			5,117		Allan McCready
Hobson		Sidney Smith			3,134		Colin Moyle
Hurunui		William Gillespie			1,749		L Christie
Hutt		Walter Nash			4,430		Lance Adams-Schneider
Invercargill		Ralph Hanan			679		T F Doyle
Island Bay		Arnold Nordmeyer			4,209		Abraham Saul Goldsmith
Karori		Jack Marshall			3,061		S K Spry
Lyttelton		Harry Lake		Norman Kirk	567		Harry Lake
Manawatu		Matthew Oram		Blair Tennent	1,575		P Kelliher
Manukau		Leon Götz			159		C D Stamp
Marlborough		Tom Shand			1,782		R Evans
Marsden		Donald McKay			2,088		M A Hosking
Miramar		Bill Fox			2,077		C G Costello
Mornington		Walter Hudson			2,817		W P MacDougall
Mt Albert		Warren Freer			3,987		G G P Taylor
Napier		Jim Edwards			2,413		R V Foster
Nelson		Edgar Neale		Stanley Whitehead	509		C W Martin
New Plymouth		Ernest Aderman			657		Ron Barclay
North Shore		Dean Eyre			462		P L Smith
Onehunga		Hugh Watt			5,686		D. Watson
Onslow		Henry May			2,675		Kevin O'Brien
Otago Central		John George			2,788		J H Rapson
Otahuhu		James Deas			3,442		R O Haszard
Otaki		James Maher			1,122		C G . Shamy
Pahiatua		Keith Holyoake			4,020		W E Rose
Palmerston North		Philip Skoglund			1,348		Bill Brown
Patea		Roy Jack			902		Benjamin R. Winchcombe
Petone		Michael Moohan			4,159		Dan Riddiford
Piako	(new electorate)			William Goosman	3,812		A L Walker
Ponsonby		Ritchie Macdonald			6,592		G F Smith
Raglan		Hallyburton Johnstone		Douglas Carter	161		Alan Baxter
Rangitikei		Norman Shelton			2,983		S M Roberton
Remuera		Ronald Algie			4,766		R G Penney
Riccarton		Mick Connelly			2,867		Mrs Deena V Sergel
Rodney		Jack Scott			3,112		G T Webber
Roskill		John Rae		Arthur Faulkner	2,117		John Rae
Rotorua		Ray Boord			2,009		A M Linton
Selwyn		John McAlpine			1,731		S S M Cook
St Albans		Jack Watts		Neville Pickering	501		Eric Philip Wills
St Kilda		Jim Barnes		William Fraser	791		Jim Barnes
Stratford		Thomas Murray			3,172		J M Deegan
Sydenham		Mabel Howard			6,450		O G Moody
Tamaki		John Rae		Bob Tizard	589		Eric Halstead
Tauranga		George Walsh			3,342		O P Liddell
Timaru		Clyde Carr			2,954		Alfred James Davey
Waikato		Geoffrey Sim			2,013		A J Ingram
Waipa		William Goosman		Hallyburton Johnstone	1,813		A C Tucker
Wairarapa		Bertie Cooksley			1,058		Bob Wilkie
Waitakere		Rex Mason			3,682		L G Bradley
Waitaki	(new electorate)			Thomas Hayman	1,618		A G Braddock
Waitemata		Norman King			2,191		Robert Muldoon
Waitomo		David Seath			2,474		V C Haines
Wallace		Tom Macdonald		Brian Talboys	4,319		J S Reid
Wellington Central		Frank Kitts			1,685		M H Wall
Westland		James Kent			4,745		F F Boustridge
Whanganui		Joseph Cotterill			1,419		Mrs A K MacLean
Māori electorates
Eastern Maori		Tiaki Omana			4,197		W. Maxwell
Northern Maori		Tapihana Paikea			4,310		T J Davis
Southern Maori		Eruera Tirikatene			4,383		T Stratton
Western Maori		Iriaka Matiu Ratana			5,553		Pei Te Hurinui Jones

Table footnotes:

By-elections during 32nd Parliament

There was one by-election during the term of the 32nd Parliament.

Electorate and by-election		Date	Incumbent		Cause	Winner
Hamilton	1959	2 May		Hilda Ross	Death		Lance Adams-Schneider