page_title: 1935 New Zealand general election
section_title: Party totals
hierarchical_section_title: 1935 New Zealand general election / Results / Party totals
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of New Zealand's 1935 elections.
context_page_description: The 1935 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the New Zealand Parliament's 25th term. It resulted in the Labour Party's first electoral victory, with Michael Joseph Savage becoming the first Labour Prime Minister. The governing coalition, consisting of the United Party and the Reform Party, suffered a major defeat, attributed by many to their handling of the Great Depression. The year after the election, United and Reform took their coalition further, merging to form the modern National Party.
  The election was originally scheduled to be held in 1934, in keeping with the country's three-year election cycle. The governing coalition postponed the election by one year in the hope that the current economic conditions would improve by 1935.
caption: Map of electorates.
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