List of New Zealand by-elections
Pre-party era
By-election and electorateDateIncumbentReasonWinner

List of New Zealand by-elections

Section Title: Pre-party era
Table Section Text: By-election and electorateDateIncumbentReasonWinner

By-election and electorate	Date	Incumbent	Reason	Winner

1st Parliament (1853–1855)[edit]

1854	Town of Nelson	19 June	William Travers	Resignation	Samuel Stephens

1854	Waimea	21 June	William Cautley	Resignation	William Travers

1854	City of Auckland	4 August	Thomas Bartley	Resignation	William Brown

2nd Parliament (1855–1860)[edit]

1856	Motueka and Massacre Bay	19 May	Charles Parker	Resignation	Herbert Curtis

1856	Christchurch Country	14 October	Dingley Brittin	Resignation	John Ollivier

1856	Grey and Bell	14 October	Charles Brown	Resignation	John Lewthwaite

1856	Town of Christchurch	18 November	Henry Sewell	Resignation	Richard Packer

1856	Hutt	27 November	Alfred Ludlam	Resignation	Samuel Revans

1858	City of Auckland	27 April	John Logan Campbell	Resignation	Thomas Forsaith

1858	Pensioner Settlements	29 April	Joseph Greenwood	Resignation	John Symonds

1858	Southern Division	8 May	Charles Taylor	Resignation	Theodore Haultain

1858	Grey and Bell	17 May	John Lewthwaite	Resignation	Charles Brown

1858	Waimea	21 May	Charles Elliott	Resignation	David Monro

1858	Wairau	21 May	William Wells	Resignation	Frederick Weld

1858	Town of Lyttelton	28 May	James FitzGerald	Resignation	Crosbie Ward

1858	Akaroa	31 May	John Cuff	Resignation	William Moorhouse

1858	Dunedin Country	16 June	John Cargill	Resignation	John Taylor

1858	Wairarapa and Hawke's Bay	22 July	J. Valentine Smith	Resignation	James Ferguson

1858	City of Wellington	27 July	Isaac Featherston William Fitzherbert	Resignations	Isaac Featherston William Rhodes

1858	Wellington Country	29 July	Dudley Ward	Resignation	Alfred Brandon

1858	Hutt	31 July	Dillon Bell Samuel Revans	Resignations	Alfred Renall William Fitzherbert

1859	Town of Dunedin	14 January	James Macandrew	Resignation	James Macandrew

Supplementary election, 1859[edit]

Cheviot	18 December	Edward Jollie

Marsden	29 November	James Farmer

Wairarapa	7 November	Charles Carter

Wallace	30 November	Dillon Bell

By-election	Electorate	Date	Incumbent	Reason	Winner

2nd Parliament (continued)[edit]

1859	Waimea	26 December	William Travers	Resignation	Fedor Kelling

1860	Town of Christchurch	18 January	Richard Packer	Resignation	Henry Sewell

1860 (1st)	Suburbs of Auckland	25 January	Walter Brodie	Resignation	Theophilus Heale

1860	Dunedin Country	28 March	William Cargill	Resignation	Thomas Gillies

1860 (1st)	Christchurch Country	2 April	John Ollivier	Resignation	Isaac Cookson

1860	City of Auckland	5 April	Thomas Beckham	Resignation	Archibald Clark

1860 (2nd)	Suburbs of Auckland	5 April	Frederick Merriman	Resignation	Joseph Hargreaves

1860	Omata	16 April	Alfred East	Resignation	James Richmond

1860 (2nd)	Christchurch Country	21 April	John Hall	Resignation	Charles Brown

1860	County of Hawke	26 April	James Ferguson	Resignation	Thomas Fitzgerald

1860	Northern Division	23 May	Thomas Henderson	Resignation	Thomas Henderson

1860	Grey and Bell	28 May	Charles Brown	Resignation	Thomas King

1860 (3rd)	Suburbs of Auckland	4 August	Joseph Hargreaves	Resignation	John Logan Campbell

3rd Parliament (1861–1865)[edit]

1861	Grey and Bell	20 June	William King	Death	Harry Atkinson

1861	Suburbs of Nelson	20 June	James Wemyss	Resignation	William Wells

1861	Napier	1 July	Henry Stark	Resignation	William Colenso

1861	Wanganui	5 July	Henry Harrison	Resignation	Henry Harrison

1862 (1st)	City of Dunedin	17 March	Thomas Dick	Resignation	Thomas Dick

1862	Town of New Plymouth	5 May	William Richmond	Resignation	Isaac Watt

1862 (2nd)	City of Dunedin	30 May	Edward McGlashan	Resignation	John Richardson

1862	Ellesmere	9 June	Thomas Rowley	Resignation	James FitzGerald

1862	Avon	11 June	Alfred Creyke	Resignation	William Thomson

1862	Heathcote	12 June	George Hall	Resignation	William Moorhouse

1862	City of Auckland West	14 June	Josiah Firth	Resignation	James Williamson

1862	Bruce	31 July	Charles Kettle	Death	Edward Cargill

1862 (3rd)	City of Dunedin	15 November	John Richardson	Resignation	James Paterson

1862	Hampden	4 December	Thomas Fraser	Absence	John Jones

Supplementary election, 1863[edit]

Dunedin and Suburbs North	28 March 1863	John Richardson

Dunedin and Suburbs South	6 April 1863	William Reynolds

Gold Fields	14 April 1863	William Baldwin George Brodie

By-election	Electorate	Date	Incumbent	Reason	Winner

3rd Parliament (continued)[edit]

1863	Dunedin and Suburbs South	20 June	James Paterson	Resignation	James Paterson

1863	Hampden	2 July	John Jones	Resignation	Frederick Wayne

1863	Kaiapoi	2 September	Isaac Cookson	Resignation	Robert Wilkin

1863	Dunedin and Suburbs North	3 September	Thomas Dick	Resignation	Julius Vogel

1863	Town of New Plymouth	9 October	Isaac Watt	Resignation	Henry Turton

1863	Heathcote	28 October	William Moorhouse	Resignation	Alfred Cox

1863	Akaroa	30 October	Augustus White	Resignation	Lancelot Walker

1864	Franklin	13 October	Marmaduke Nixon	Death (KIA)	Theodore Haultain

1864	Town of New Plymouth	18 November	Henry Turton	Resignation	Charles Brown

1864	Waimea	29 November	Alfred Saunders	Resignation	John Miles

1865 (1st)	Bruce	8 April	Thomas Gillies	Resignation	Arthur Burns

1865	Raglan	19 April	Charles Taylor	Resignation	William Buckland

1865	Parnell	20 April	Reader Wood	Resignation	Robert Creighton

1865	Town of New Plymouth	19 May	Charles Brown	Resignation	Henry Sewell

1865	Gold Fields	29 May	William Baldwin	Resignation	Charles Haughton

1865	Rangitiki	10 July	William Fox	Resignation	Robert Pharazyn

1865	Omata	18 July	James Richmond	Appointed to Legislative Council	Francis Gledhill

1865 (2nd)	Bruce	26 July	Edward Cargill	Resignation	James Macandrew

1865	Wairarapa	29 July	Charles Carter	Resignation	Henry Bunny

4th Parliament (1866–1870)[edit]

1866	Mount Herbert	27 July	William Moorhouse	Chose to represent Westland	Thomas Potts

1866	Port Chalmers	15 December	Thomas Dick	Resignation	Thomas Dick

1867	City of Dunedin	19 January	William Reynolds	Resignation	William Reynolds

1867	City of Christchurch	13 February	James FitzGerald	Resignation	William Travers

1867	Avon	11 March	Crosbie Ward	Resignation	William Reeves

1867	City of Auckland West	25 April	James Williamson	Resignation	Patrick Dignan

1867	Manuherikia	27 April	William Baldwin	Resignation	David Mervyn

1867	Wanganui	27 April	John Bryce	Resignation	Henry Harrison

1867	Town of New Plymouth	29 April	John Richardson	Resignation	Harry Atkinson

1867	Raglan	4 June	Joseph Newman	Resignation	James Farmer

1867	Parnell	5 June	Frederick Whitaker	Resignation	Charles Heaphy

1867	Port Chalmers	15 June	Thomas Dick	Resignation	David Main

1867	Waimea	28 June	Arthur Oliver	Resignation	Edward Baigent

1867	Lyttelton	1 July	Edward Hargreaves	Resignation	George Macfarlan

1867	Kaiapoi	5 July	Joseph Beswick	Resignation	John Studholme

1867	Picton	25 July	Arthur Beauchamp	Resignation	William Adams

1867	Pensioner Settlements	5 August	Paul de Quincey	Resignation	John Kerr

1867	Ashley	7 August	Lancelot Walker	Resignation	Henry Tancred

1868	Omata	7 February	Arthur Samuel Atkinson	Resignation	Charles Brown

1868	Collingwood	18 March	Andrew Richmond	Resignation	Arthur Collins

1868	Westland Boroughs	3 April	William Moorhouse	Resignation	William Harrison

Supplementary election, 1868[edit]

Westland North	9 April 1868	Timothy Gallagher

Westland South	6 April 1868	Edmund Barff

First Māori elections[edit]

Eastern Maori	15 April 1868	Tareha Te Moananui

Northern Maori	15 April 1868	Frederick Russell

Southern Maori	20 June 1868	John Patterson

Western Maori	1 May 1868	Mete Paetahi

By-election	Electorate	Date	Incumbent	Reason	Winner

4th Parliament (continued)[edit]

1868	Avon	8 June	William Reeves	Resignation	William Rolleston

1868	Picton	11 June	William Adams	Resignation	Courtney Kenny

1868	Rangitiki	22 June	William Watt	Resignation	William Fox

1868	Franklin	2 July	Robert Graham	Resignation	William Swan

1868	Waikouaiti	27 July	William Murison	Resignation	Robert Mitchell

1868	Lyttelton	2 November	George Macfarlan	Death	John Peacock

1868	Timaru	20 November	Alfred Cox	Resignation	Edward Stafford

1868	City of Nelson	24 December	Edward Stafford	Resignation	Nathaniel Edwards

1869	Marsden	25 January	Francis Hull	Resignation	John Munro

1869	Roslyn	12 February	George Hepburn	Resignation	Henry Driver

1869	City of Dunedin	5 March	James Paterson	Resignation	Thomas Birch

1869	Newton	19 March	George Graham	Resignation	Robert Creighton

1869	Waikouaiti	27 April	Robert Mitchell	Resignation	Francis Rich

1869	Town of New Plymouth	28 April	Harry Atkinson	Resignation	Thomas Kelly

1869 (1st)	Wallace	30 April	Alexander McNeil	Resignation	Cuthbert Cowan

1869	Oamaru	25 May	Robert Campbell	Resignation	Charles Graham

1869	Taieri	19 June	Donald Reid	Resignation	Henry Howorth

1869 (2nd)	Wallace	17 September	Cuthbert Cowan	Resignation	George Webster

1870	Bruce	21 March	John Cargill	Resignation	James Brown

1870	Mongonui	30 March	Thomas Ball	Resignation	Thomas Gillies

1870	Caversham	25 April	Arthur John Burns	Resignation	James McIndoe

1870	Omata	27 April	Charles Brown	Resignation	Frederic Carrington

1870	Parnell	12 May	Charles Heaphy	Resignation	Reader Wood

1870	Riverton	18 May	Donald Hankinson	Resignation	Lauchlan McGillivray

1870	City of Christchurch	12 August	William Travers	Resignation	William Moorhouse

5th Parliament (1871–1875)[edit]

1871	City of Auckland West	1 September	John Williamson	Election Invalid	John Williamson

1871	Roslyn	12 September	Henry Driver	Resignation	Edward McGlashan

1872	Wairau	19 February	William Henry Eyes	Resignation	Arthur Seymour

1872	Waikato	1 March	James McPherson	Resignation	William Jackson

1872	Wakatipu	13 March	Charles Edward Haughton	Resignation	Bendix Hallenstein

1872	Rodney	16 March	Harry Farnall	Resignation	John Sheehan

1872	City of Nelson	27 May	Martin Lightband	Resignation	David Luckie

1872	Waikouaiti	12 June	George McLean	Resignation	David Monro

1872	Coleridge	23 July	John Karslake	Resignation	William Bluett

1872	Heathcote	30 July	John Hall	Resignation	John Wilson

1872	Caversham	28 August	Richard Cantrell	Resignation	William Tolmie

1872	Egmont	3 October	William Gisborne	Resignation	Harry Atkinson

1873	Suburbs of Nelson	14 May	Ralph Richardson	Resignation	Andrew Richmond

1873	Lyttelton	19 May	John Peacock	Resignation	Henry Webb

1873	Invercargill	22 May	William Henderson Calder	Resignation	John Cuthbertson

1873	Waikouaiti	23 July	David Monro	Resignation	John Lillie Gillies

1873	Mongonui and Bay of Islands	24 July	John McLeod	Resignation	John Williams

1873	Wakatipu	19 August	Bendix Hallenstein	Resignation	Vincent Pyke

1873	Collingwood	9 December	Arthur Collins	Resignation	William Gibbs

1874	Franklin	9 April	Archibald Clark	Resignation	Joseph May

1874 (1st)	Akaroa	20 April	Robert Rhodes	Resignation	William Montgomery

1874	City of Dunedin	23 April	John Bathgate	Resignation	Nathaniel Wales

1874	Waitemata	3 August	Thomas Henderson	Resignation	Gustav von der Heyde

1874 (2nd)	Akaroa	10 August	William Montgomery	Election invalid	William Montgomery

1874	Waitemata	16 September	Gustav von der Heyde	unseated on petition	Gustav von der Heyde

1875	Kaiapoi	22 January	John Studholme	Resignation	Charles Bowen

1875 (1st)	City of Auckland West	27 March	Thomas Gillies	Appointed to Supreme Court	George Grey

1875 (2nd)	City of Auckland West	14 April	John Williamson	Death	Patrick Dignan

1875	Rangitikei	24 April	William Fox	Resignation	John Ballance

1875	Waikouaiti	3 May	John Lillie Gillies	Resignation	George McLean

1875	Wairau	21 June	Arthur Seymour	Resignation	Joseph Ward

1875	Wallace	6 August	George Webster	Death	Christopher Basstian

1875	Caversham	20 August	William Tolmie	Death	Robert Stout

6th Parliament (1876–1879)[edit]

1876	City of Auckland West	25 July	George Grey	Resignation	Benjamin Tonks

1876	Wanganui	27 September	Julius Vogel	Resignation	William Fox

1877	Napier	15 February	Donald McLean	Death	Fred Sutton

1877	City of Wellington	27 March	Edward Pearce	Resignation	William Travers

1877	Totara	30 April	George Henry Tribe	Death	William Gisborne

1877	City of Auckland West	2 May	Benjamin Tonks	Resignation	James Wallis

1877	Wairarapa	3 July	John Andrew	Resignation	George Beetham

1878	City of Wellington	18 February	William Travers	Resignation	George Elliott Barton

1878	Parnell	20 February	Reader Wood	Resignation	Frederick Moss

1878	Timaru	8 April	Edward Stafford	Resignation	Richard Turnbull

1878	Port Chalmers	12 April	William Hunter Reynolds	Resignation	James Green

1878	Franklin	20 May	Hugh Lusk	Resignation	Richard Hobbs

1878	Cheviot	21 May	Leonard Harper	Resignation	Alfred Saunders

1878	Grey Valley	22 May	Martin Kennedy	Resignation	Richard Reeves

1878	Hokitika	26 June	Charles Button	Resignation	Seymour Thorne George

1878	City of Dunedin	3 July	William Larnach	Resignation	Richard Oliver

1878	Taieri	11 July	Donald Reid	Resignation	William Cutten

1878	Invercargill	17 July	George Lumsden	Resignation	Henry Feldwick

1878	Waipa	24 July	Alfred Cox	Resignation	Edward Graham McMinn

1878	Roslyn	29 July	Arthur John Burns	Resignation	Henry Driver

1879	Gladstone	3 January	Frederick Teschemaker	Death	John Studholme

1879	Mataura	15 January	William Wood	Resignation	James Shanks

1879	City of Nelson	6 February	John Sharp	Resignation	Acton Adams

1879	City of Auckland West	4 March	Patrick Dignan	Resignation	David Goldie

1879	Coleridge	8 May	Cathcart Wason	Resignation	George Hart

1879	Hutt	2 July	William Fitzherbert	Resignation	Henry Jackson

1879	Eastern Maori	7 July	Karaitiana Takamoana	Death	Henare Tomoana

1879	Southern Maori	7 July	Hori Kerei Taiaroa	Resignation	Ihaia Tainui

1879	City of Dunedin	15 July	Robert Stout	Resignation	William Downie Stewart

7th Parliament (1879–1881)[edit]

1880	Rangitikei	8 May	William Jarvis Willis	Resignation	William Fox

1880	Waitaki	16 June	Thomas William Hislop	Resignation	George Jones

1880	Waikaia	21 September	George Ireland	Death	Horace Bastings

1881	Suburbs of Nelson	11 January	Andrew Richmond	Death	Arthur Collins

1881	Southern Maori	1 March	Ihaia Tainui	Resignation	Hori Kerei Taiaroa

1881	City of Nelson	7 June	Acton Adams	Resignation	Henry Levestam

1881	Grey Valley	16 June	Edward Masters	Resignation	Thomas S. Weston

8th Parliament (1882–1884)[edit]

1882	Franklin North	9 June	Benjamin Harris	Election declared void	Benjamin Harris

1882	Wakanui	16 June	Cathcart Wason	Election declared void	Joseph Ivess

1882	Stanmore	11 July	Walter Pilliet	Election declared void	Walter Pilliet

1883	Peninsula	22 January	James Seaton	Death	William Larnach

1883	Selwyn	6 April	John Hall	Resignation	Edward Lee

1883	Inangahua	14 May	Thomas S. Weston	Resignation	Edward Shaw

1883	Bruce	29 June	James Rutherford	Death	James McDonald

1884	Selwyn	15 February	Edward Lee	Death	Edward Wakefield

1884	Thorndon	13 May	William Levin	Resignation	Alfred Newman

1884	Kaiapoi	16 May	Isaac Wilson	Resignation	Edward Richardson

1884	East Coast	16 June	Allan McDonald	Resignation	Samuel Locke

9th Parliament (1884–1887)[edit]

1885	Oamaru	20 May	Samuel Shrimski	Resignation	Thomas William Hislop

1885 (1st)	Tauranga	22 May	George Morris	Resignation	John Sheehan

1885	Waimea	3 June	Joseph Shephard	Resignation	John Kerr

1885	Southern Maori	10 June	Hori Kerei Taiaroa	Resignation	Tame Parata

1885	Wakanui	6 July	John Grigg	Resignation	Joseph Ivess

1885 (2nd)	Tauranga	11 July	John Sheehan	Death	Lawrence Grace

1885	Bruce	5 August	Robert Gillies	Resignation	Donald Reid

1886	Sydenham	12 May	William White	Resignation	Richard Taylor

1886	Dunedin Central	19 October	James Bradshaw	Death	Thomas Bracken

1886	Waitemata	11 December	William Hurst	Death	Richard Monk

1886	Western Maori	23 December	Te Puke Te Ao	Death	Hoani Taipua

1887	Heathcote	8 February	John Coster	Death	Frederic Jones

1887	Port Chalmers	6 April	James Macandrew	Death	James Mills

1887	Te Aro	15 April	Charles Johnston	Resignation	Francis Fraser

1887	Northern Maori	9 May	Ihaka Hakuene	Death	Wi Katene

1887	Avon	1 June	Leonard Harper	Resignation	Edwin Blake

10th Parliament (1887–1890)[edit]

1888	Ashley	25 September	William Pearson	Death	John Verrall

1889	Lincoln	16 January	Arthur O'Callaghan	Resignation	Alfred Saunders

1889	City of Nelson	3 April	Henry Levestam	Death	Joseph Harkness

1889	Christchurch North	19 June	Julius Vogel	Resignation	Edward Humphreys

1889	Oamaru	30 September	Thomas William Hislop	Resignation	Thomas William Hislop

1889	Waipa	21 November	William Jackson	Death	John Bryce

1889	East Coast	13 December	Andrew Graham	Resignation	Alexander Creighton Arthur

1890	Timaru	18 August	Richard Turnbull	Death	William Hall-Jones

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