New Zealand general election, 1922

1922 general election

1919 ←

6 (Māori) & 7 December (general) 1922

→ 1925

All 80 seats in the New Zealand House of Representatives 41 seats needed for a majority

Turnout	87.7%
	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	William Massey	Thomas Wilford	Harry Holland
Party	Reform	Liberal	Labour
Leader since	1909	1920	1919
Leader's seat	Franklin	Hutt	Buller
Last election	45 seats, 35.7%	19 seats, 28.7%	8 seats, 24.2%
Seats won	37	22	17
Seat change	8	3	9
Popular vote	249,735	166,708	150,448
Percentage	39.4%	26.3%	23.7%
Swing	3.7%	2.4%	0.5%

Prime Minister before election

William Massey
Reform

Prime Minister-designate

William Massey
Reform

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 (87.7%) voters turned out to vote. In one seat (Bay of Plenty) there was only one candidate.

1922 was the year residents of the Chatham Islands were enfranchised for the first time (included in Lyttelton and Western Māori electorates).

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.

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