Mid-Canterbury

Mid-Canterbury is a former New Zealand Parliamentary electorate, in Canterbury.

Population Centres

The electorate was rural.

History

The electorate existed from 1928 to 1946.

Arthur Grigg, the MP elected in 1938, enlisted in the NZEF as a Major in World War II, and was killed in action in Libya in 1941. He was succeeded by his widow Mary Grigg at a 1942 by-election; she became the first woman National MP. But in 1943 she remarried, to another National MP, William Polson, and resigned. She was replaced by Richard Gerard at the 1943 general election.

Election results

Key

  Reform     Independent     Labour     National  

Election	Winner
1928 election		David Jones
1931 election		Jeremiah Connolly
1935 election		Horace Herring
1938 election		Arthur Grigg
1942 by-election		Mary Grigg
1943 election		Richard Gerard