page_title: 1922 New Zealand general election
section_title: Result
hierarchical_section_title: 1922 New Zealand general election / Result
caption_attribution_description: English: Shows a central group portrait of the members of the Parliamentary Labour Party: E J Howard (Christchurch South), W E Parry (Auckland Central), J H Munro (Dunedin North), D G Sullivan (Avon), M J Savage (Auckland West), J McCombs (Lyttelton), H E Holland (Buller), P Fraser (Wellington Central), F Bartram (Grey Lynn). Around this are arranged head and shoulder portraits of other Labour Party candidates: H G Mason (Eden), John A Lee (Auckland East), J Purtell (Roskill), A T Richards (Hamilton), C H Chapman (Hawkes Bay), T Brindle (Gisborne), J Ross (Wanganui), Lewis McIlvride (Napier), J Hodgens (Palmerston North), D K Pritchard (Hutt), A L Monteith (Wellington East), H E Combs (Wellington North), Robert McKeen (Wellington South), A W Croskery (Wellington Suburbs), H T Armstrong (Christchurch East), J E McManus (Dunedin South), J K Archer (Christchurch North), P Vinnell (Timaru), J A McCullough (Riccarton), J O'Brien (Westland), J Gilchrist (Dunedin Central), Farrant (Invercargill), C H Moss (Dunedin West), J Stephens (Port Chalmers). There is also a larger portrait of H E Holland, chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party. Other candidates, not photographed, are listed: Way (Waitemata), O McBrine (Parnell), F Whibley (Manawatu), F Brady (Rangitikei), F Langstone (Waimarino), F Cooke (Ashburton).
context_page_description: The New Zealand general election of 1922 was held on Monday, 6 December in the Māori electorates, and on Tuesday, 7 December in the general electorates to elect a total of 80 MPs to the 21st session of the New Zealand Parliament. A total number of 700,111 voters turned out to vote. In one seat there was only one candidate.
  1922 was the year residents of the Chatham Islands were enfranchised for the first time.
context_section_description: William Massey formed a government, but with the loss in support for the Reform Party he had to negotiate for support with Independents, and with two Liberal Party members.
  Liberal was in decline and disorganised. Just before the 1925 election (held on 4 November), two Liberal MPs from Christchurch who had supported Massey (along with Independents Harry Atmore and Allen Bell) were appointed to the Legislative Council. They were Leonard Isitt and George Witty who were both appointed to the Legislative Council by Gordon Coates on 28 October 1925. Both were Liberals and their retirement removed "a source of some bitterness from the Party’s ranks (Coates rewarded them with seats in the Legislative Council the day after the election)". Gordon Coates was Reform, and both of their seats went to Reform candidates in 1925.
caption: Labour Party candidates in the 1922 election
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