Hurunui was a parliamentary electorate in the Canterbury region of New Zealand, from 1902 (when it replaced Ashley) to 1963.
Rutherford was returned with more than twice the votes of Obed Frederick Clothier, and George Thomas Pulley came a distant third.
[5][6] Rutherford retired in 1908,[7] and George Forbes and Obed Frederick Clothier contested the 1908 election.
Forbes was successful, and started his long parliamentary career that would see him hold the electorate for the next 35 years to 1943.
[12] In 1954, Norman Kirk stood in Hurunui as the Labour candidate, his first venture into national (parliamentary) politics.