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Collection relating to the selection of Labour candidate, Ralph K. Maxwell, for the Waitakere electorate, 1978.
An anonymous letter directed against Ralph Maxwell, New Zealand Labour Party candidate for Waitakere, November 1978. Includes copy of: Candidate hit by smear letter
, New Zealand Herald, clipping from New Zealand Herald. Maxwell won the electorate for Labour Party with a majority of 2,016.
Communist Party of New Zealand records.
Election posters
Malcolm Douglas papers relating to Hunua electoral petition.
Manurewa Electoral Rolls case court proceedings.
Proceedings of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, Auckland Registry "in the matter of the Judicature Amendment Acts of 1972 and 1977 and in the matter of the Electoral Act 1956". The Manurewa Electoral Rolls case, 1978
New Zealand Labour Party, Hunua Electorate Committee records.
At the 1978 General Election, Mr Malcolm Douglas, the Labour candidate for Hunua, won the seat with a majority of 301 votes. Because of irregularities, however, the Electoral Court order a recount. As a result of this, nearly 500 votes were disallowed and the National candidate, Mr Winston Peters, gained a majority of 192 votes. The collection consists of interview sheets, registration cards, disallowed and allowed special votes, submissions and court papers.
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