New Zealand by-election
The Bay of Plenty by-election of 1941 was a by-election for the electorate of Bay of Plenty held on 13 December 1941 during the 26th New Zealand Parliament. The by-election resulted from the death of the previous member Gordon Hultquist of the Labour Party who was killed in World War II.
The by-election was won by Bill Sullivan of the National Party; Labour lost a seat.
Campaign.
Initially there was speculation that there would be no election necessary and that the National Party would not stand a candidate after the death of an MP on service in wartime (as happened in the Waitemata by-election). This was not to be the case and National stood their candidate from the 1938 election and former Mayor of Whakatane Bill Sullivan.
The Labour Party selected Charles Mills, a baker, as their candidate. He was an elected member of the Poverty Bay Electric Power Board and had been a campaign organiser for Hultquist in Bay of Plenty in both the 1935 and 1938 elections.
The incipient Democratic Labour Party (DLP), who had recently formed a branch in the electorate in Ōpōtiki, also contemplated standing a candidate. However the DLP did not contest the seat.
Results.
The following table gives the election results:
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! colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" | Informal votes
! colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" | Majority
! colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope=row | Turnout
 
! colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope=row | Registered electors
References.
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