Onslow (New Zealand electorate)

The 1941 New Zealand census had been postponed due to World War II, so the 1946 electoral redistribution had to take ten years of population growth and movements into account.

[1] The electorate covered the northern suburbs of the city of Wellington, i.e. Ngaio, Khandallah and Johnsonville.

The name Onslow comes from the former Borough of Onslow which covered Wadestown until April 1907 its south ward and its most populous area[2] and the remaining Khandallah Ngaio areas until they too joined Wellington City in 1919.

The unsuccessful National candidate in 1954 was Wilfred Fortune, who had represented Eden in Auckland from 1946 to 1954.

Peter Dunne, who had previously represented the Ohariu electorate, was the successful candidate.