# 1921 Auckland City mayoral election

The 1921 Auckland City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1921, elections were held for the Mayor of Auckland plus other local government positions including twenty-one city councillors. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.
Incumbent mayor James Gunson was again declared re-elected unopposed, with no other candidates emerging.

## Councillor results

1921 Auckland City Council election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Progressive Citizens' | George R. Hutchison | 9,707 | 73.36 | |
| Progressive Citizens' | Ellen Melville | 8,836 | 66.78 | +3.36 |
| Progressive Citizens' | John Allum | 8,808 | 66.57 | |
| Progressive Citizens' | James Alexander Warnock | 8,726 | 65.95 | +11.10 |
| Progressive Citizens' | William John Holdsworth | 8,717 | 65.88 | +7.74 |
| Progressive Citizens' | George Knight | 8,351 | 63.11 | +7.29 |
| Progressive Citizens' | John William Hardley | 8,250 | 62.35 | |
| Progressive Citizens' | Ernest Davis | 8,107 | 61.27 | +3.84 |
| Progressive Citizens' | Emily Maguire | 8,104 | 61.25 | +4.79 |
| Progressive Citizens' | Peter Mitchell Mackay | 8,005 | 60.50 | +7.98 |
| Progressive Citizens' | Matthew John Bennett | 8,002 | 60.47 | |
| Progressive Citizens' | George Baildon | 7,827 | 59.15 | +9.14 |
| Progressive Citizens' | John Dempsey | 7,770 | 58.72 | +9.44 |
| Progressive Citizens' | Harold Dennett Heather | 7,646 | 57.78 | −1.52 |
| Progressive Citizens' | John Barr Paterson | 7,638 | 57.72 | +8.82 |
| Independent | Horatio Bagnall | 7,287 | 55.07 | −1.40 |
| Progressive Citizens' | James Robertson | 7,192 | 54.35 | |
| Labour | Tom Bloodworth | 6,640 | 50.18 | −7.83 |
| Independent | Frederick Brinsden | 6,366 | 48.11 | −7.33 |
| Labour | Michael Joseph Savage | 6,349 | 47.98 | −3.99 |
| Progressive Citizens' | Patrick Nerheny | 6,183 | 46.73 | −8.04 |
| Progressive Citizens' | Eric Inder | 6,059 | 45.79 | |
| Progressive Citizens' | Alfred Hall-Skelton | 6,020 | 45.49 | −2.66 |
| Independent | Arthur Sexton | 5,559 | 42.01 | |
| Labour | George Davis | 5,276 | 39.87 | −4.78 |
| Progressive Citizens' | Michael John Coyle | 5,271 | 39.83 | |
| Independent | George Foster | 4,915 | 37.14 | |
| Independent | William Hugh McKinney | 4,606 | 34.81 | |
| Labour | Ted Phelan | 4,536 | 34.28 | −3.73 |
| Independent | William Lang Casey | 4,234 | 32.00 | |
| Labour | Patrick Barry | 4,219 | 31.88 | |
| Independent | Samuel Turkington | 4,147 | 31.34 | |
| Labour | Arthur Rose | 4,140 | 31.29 | +8.32 |
| Labour | Oscar McBrine | 4,056 | 30.65 | −4.38 |
| Labour | James Aggers | 3,823 | 28.89 | −2.50 |
| Labour | Bob Way | 3,573 | 27.00 | −8.28 |
| Labour | Dick Barter | 3,559 | 26.89 | |
| Labour | Charles Arthur Watts | 3,434 | 25.95 | −4.13 |
| Labour | Jim Purtell | 3,423 | 25.87 | +1.47 |
| Labour | David Wilson | 3,408 | 25.75 | |
| Labour | Giles Pardington | 3,349 | 25.31 | |
| Labour | Bernard Martin | 3,262 | 24.65 | −7.15 |
| Independent | Harold Percy Burton | 3,174 | 23.98 | |
| Labour | James Frederick Derrick | 3,144 | 23.76 | −3.44 |
| Labour | Bernard Clews | 3,132 | 23.67 | |
| Labour | George Tomlinson | 3,076 | 23.24 | |
| Labour | William Kendall | 3,036 | 22.94 | |
| Labour | William Moxsom | 3,036 | 22.94 | −8.91 |
| Labour | Allen Proctor | 2,875 | 21.72 | |
| Independent | James Joiner | 1,018 | 7.69 | −0.54 |