Editing Julius Vogel (section)

===Member of Parliament===
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|electorate = [[Dunedin and Suburbs North]]
|party = Independent politician
|start = [[Dunedin and Suburbs North by-election, 1863 (2nd)|1863]]
|end = 1866
|term = 3rd
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|electorate = [[Gold Fields (New Zealand electorate)|Goldfields]]
|party = Independent politician
|start = [[1866 New Zealand general election|1866]]
|end = 1870
|term = 4th
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|electorate = [[Auckland East]]
|party = Independent politician
|start = [[1871 New Zealand general election|1871]]
|end = 1875
|term = 5th
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|electorate = [[Whanganui (New Zealand electorate)|Wanganui]]
|party = Independent politician
|start = [[1875–1876 New Zealand general election|1876]]<!-- election held on 7 January 1876 -->
|end = 
|term = 6th
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|electorate = [[Christchurch North (New Zealand electorate)|Christchurch North]]
|party = Independent politician
|start = [[1884 New Zealand general election|1884]]
|end = 1887
|term = 9th
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|electorate = Christchurch North
|party = Independent politician
|start = [[1887 New Zealand general election|1887]]
|end = 1889
|term = 10th
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In 1863 he was unsuccessful in the {{By-election link|Dunedin and Suburbs South|1863}} for {{NZ electorate link|Dunedin and Suburbs South}}. Later in an {{By-election link|Dunedin and Suburbs North|1863}} he was elected a member of the New Zealand House of Representatives for the [[Dunedin and Suburbs North]] electorate.{{sfn|Wilson|1985|p=242}}

In the [[1866 New Zealand general election|1866 election]], he was defeated by [[William Murison]] in the {{NZ electorate link|Waikouaiti}} electorate on Wednesday, 28 February.{{sfn|Wilson|1985|p=222}}<ref name="1866 election">{{cite news |title=Waikouaiti Election |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/OW18660303.2.18 |access-date=8 January 2017 |work=[[Otago Witness]] |issue=744 |date=3 March 1866 |page=8}}</ref> It is unclear why Vogel stood in Waikouaiti as two days earlier, he had been returned unopposed at the nomination for the [[Gold Fields (New Zealand electorate)|Goldfields electorate]].{{sfn|Wilson|1985|p=242}}<ref>{{cite news |title=Nomination of Candidates |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LWM18660303.2.4.3?query=goldfields%20vogel |access-date=8 January 2017 |work=Lake Wakatip Mail |issue=297 |date=3 March 1866 |page=2}}</ref> On retiring from the provincial government in 1869, he joined the [[William Fox (politician)|William Fox]] ministry as colonial treasurer,<ref name=Mennell/> afterward holding the posts of postmaster-general, commissioner of customs, and telegraph commissioner at various times.<ref name="DNZB Vogel"/>

In 1870, as Colonial Treasurer he introduced his "grand go-ahead policy" or ''[[The Vogel Era|great Public Works policy]]'' to revitalise and develop the country by borrowing overseas to build railways, roads and telegraph lines and to attract immigrants.

The Fox ministry having been forced to resign, Vogel carried a vote of no confidence in their successors, and in October 1872, returned to power as leader in the Lower House, colonial treasurer and postmaster-general. He represented several electorates throughout the colony: [[Dunedin and Suburbs North]] 1863–1866, [[Gold Fields (New Zealand electorate)|Goldfields]] in Otago 1866–1870, [[Auckland East]] 1871–1875, [[Whanganui (New Zealand electorate)|Wanganui]] 1876 (resigned) and [[Christchurch North (New Zealand electorate)|Christchurch North]] 1884–1889 (resigned).

Vogel successfully contested the [[1884 New Zealand general election|1884 election]] in Christchurch North against [[John Crewes]].<ref name="DNZB Crewes">{{DNZB|title=John Crewes|first= Mollie|last= Chalklen|id=2c38|access-date=10 December 2011}}</ref>

Vogel was the first Member of Parliament to be [[Naming (parliamentary procedure)|named]] in New Zealand.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.parliament.nz/en/visit-and-learn/how-parliament-works/parliamentary-practice-in-new-zealand/chapter-11-the-chamber-buildings-and-grounds/|title=Chapter 11 The Chamber, Buildings and Grounds – New Zealand Parliament|website=parliament.nz|language=en|access-date=2019-05-12}}</ref> He was named on 15 November 1887 by the [[Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives|Speaker of the House]] [[Maurice O'Rorke]] for saying that his fellow Member [[Robert Thompson (New Zealand politician)|Robert Thompson]] was 'want of manners' in a debate about Vogel's use of [[constabulary]] for household purposes – a charge he denied.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Hansard|publisher=New Zealand Parliament|volume=58|pages=379}}</ref>