[1] Because of their differing questions and rules, these referendums can be broken down into three time periods divided by what options were presented to voters.
This referendum also stated that if prohibition was rejected, in future general elections voters would choose between 'licensing', a 'state monopoly' and 'prohibition'.
[5] The vote share of licensing never again declined below a majority, and this option won all following referendums until the entire process was made moot by legal reforms in 1987.
With adjustment of electoral boundaries by the Representation Commission because of population changes this led to "repeated major dislocation to liquor licensing districts".
MP John A. Lee who lost Auckland East in the 1928 election by 37 votes blamed the adjustment for his loss.
Grey Lynn recorded a majority for local restoration; Eden, Roskill and Tawa did not.