Botany (New Zealand electorate)

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Botany
Single-member constituency
for the New Zealand House of Representatives
Botany electorate, 2014.svg
Location of Botany within Auckland
Region Auckland
Current constituency
Current MP Christopher Luxon
Party National
List MPs Naisi Chen (Labour)
Damien Smith (ACT)

Botany is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. It was contested for the first time at the 2008 general election, and won by Pansy Wong for the National Party. Following Wong's resignation in late 2010, a by-election returned Jami-Lee Ross, who was confirmed by the voters in the 2011 general election. Ross left the National Party in October 2018 and became an independent. Ross did not contest the seat at the 2020 general election, and was succeeded by the new National candidate, Christopher Luxon, who became the party's leader and the Leader of the Opposition in November 2021.

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Background

The Representation Commission established the electoral district of Botany after the 2006 New Zealand census due to high population growth in and around Auckland. The new electorate resulted from several sweeping changes to the electoral landscape of South Auckland:

Demographics

Demographically, Botany is older than the rest of New Zealand, with over half of its population aged over 30; It has three times as many Chinese New Zealanders than the national average (33.5 versus 9.2%), and nearly twice as many Pacific Islanders (13 to 7%), which makes Botany a minority-majority electorate. Botany has the highest number of people born overseas of any New Zealand electorate (49% in 2006), the most Buddhists in a New Zealand electorate and the highest number of one-family homes. The average income in the electorate is high, with over half of the electorate's residents earning over $50,000 a year.[ citation needed ]

A 2005 academic survey assessing the voting behaviour of Asian New Zealanders [1] showed a strong preference for the Labour Party, with a sizeable proportion prepared to vote for the National Party (47 to 40); it also showed that among Asian New Zealanders, the most important issues were the economy and law and order. This was demonstrated by a large anti-crime march (a crowd of 15,000 was estimated, with a significant number of these being Asian New Zealanders) was held in Auckland (on the streets of Botany) in July 2008 amidst claims of increasing violent crime in New Zealand targeted against its Asian population. [2] The march's organiser Peter Low used his website to clarify his position, calling for harsher sentencing, victims' rights and zero "criminal rights". [3]

History

Botany was first created for the 2008 general election, and won by Pansy Wong for the National Party.[ citation needed ]

Both National and the ACT party stood Chinese New Zealanders as their candidates in 2008; Pansy Wong and Kenneth Wang, respectively. Labour chose Koro Tawa, an Auckland University lecturer. Raymond Huo, a Chinese-speaking lawyer, was initially mooted for the Labour nomination, but eventually chose to stand as a list-only candidate. [4] [5]

On 14 December 2010 it was announced that a by-election was to be held on 5 March 2011 due to the resignation of incumbent MP Pansy Wong. [6] The electorate was won by Jami-Lee Ross from the New Zealand National Party.

In October 2018, Jami-Lee Ross resigned from the National Party and accused party leader Simon Bridges of breaching electoral law. Ross announced his intention to resign from parliament and run as an independent in the resulting by-election, [7] however he later decided against resigning. Christopher Luxon won the National Party selection in November 2019. [8]

On 15 September 2020 Ross announced he was no longer intending to contest the electorate, but will instead contest the upcoming election as a list only candidate for his newly formed party, Advance NZ. [9] Luxon won the seat at the 2020 election as Ross was ejected from Parliament.

Members of Parliament

Key

  National     Independent   

ElectionWinner
2008 election Pansy Wong
2011 by-election Jami-Lee Ross
2011 election
2014 election
2017 election
2020 election Christopher Luxon

List MPs

Members of Parliament elected from party lists in elections where that person also unsuccessfully contested the Botany electorate. Unless otherwise stated, all MPs' terms began and ended at general elections.

Key

  Labour     ACT   

ElectionWinner
2020 election Naisi Chen
Damien Smith

Election results

2020 election

2020 general election: Botany [10]
Notes:

Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list.
Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent.
A Green check.svgY or Red x.svgN denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.

PartyCandidateVotes%±%Party votes%±%
National Christopher Luxon 19,01752.46–9.1713,97037.05−23.78
Labour Naisi Chen 15,01841.43+16.8117,90047.48+18.30
ACT Damien Smith 1,2363.41+2.462,5636.80+6.20
New Conservative Dieuwe De Boer6241.72—6241.66+1.40
Sustainable NZ Peter Fleming3580.99—260.07–
Green  1,2363.28+0.89
NZ First  5411.43−3.14
Opportunities  2370.63−0.19
Advance NZ  1590.42–
TEA  1520.40–
ONE  850.23–
Legalise Cannabis  760.20+0.05
Māori Party  700.19−0.37
Vision NZ  400.11–
Outdoors  150.04±0.00
Heartland  50.01–
Social Credit  40.01±0.00
Informal votes1,264261
Total Valid votes36,25337,703
Turnout 37,96473.83 [11] +1.20
National holdMajority3,99910.53−26.48

2017 election

2017 general election: Botany [12]
Notes:

Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list.
Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent.
A Green check.svgY or Red x.svgN denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.

PartyCandidateVotes%±%Party votes%±%
National Green check.svgY Jami-Lee Ross 21,37861.63−2.2121,42860.83+1.41
Labour Tofik Mamedov8,53924.62+1.7210,27929.18+6.99
Green Julie Zhu2,1036.06—8412.39−1.95
Māori Party Wetex Kang1,1653.36—1950.55+0.34
United Future Damian Light 5001.44—330.09−0.06
ACT Sam Singh3300.95—2090.59−1.81
NZ First  1,6124.58−0.84
Opportunities  2880.82—
Conservative  910.26−4.25
Legalise Cannabis  541.53+1.26
People's Party  440.12—
Outdoors  140.04—
Mana Party  120.03—
Internet  90.02—
Ban 1080  60.02−0.02
Democrats  20.01—
Informal votes673110
Total Valid votes34,68835,227
Turnout 35,65872.63 [13] +0.78
National holdMajority12,83937.01−3.93

2014 election

2014 general election: Botany [14]
Notes:

Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list.
Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent.
A Green check.svgY or Red x.svgN denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.

PartyCandidateVotes%±%Party votes%±%
National Green check.svgY Jami-Lee Ross 21,04463.84−0.1920,01659.42−1.71
Labour Tofik Mamedov7,54922.90−2.457,47322.19−1.59
Conservative Paul Young 3,0539.26+1.571,5194.51+1.83
Independent David McCormick6682.03+2.03
NZ First  1,8255.42+1.02
Green  1,4614.34−0.06
ACT  8082.40+0.75
Internet Mana  2040.61+0.36 [lower-alpha 1]
Legalise Cannabis  900.27−0.02
Māori Party  710.21−0.08
United Future  490.15−0.17
Ban 1080  120.04+0.04
Independent Coalition  90.03+0.03
Civilian  80.02+0.02
Focus  60.02+0.02
Democrats  50.01−0.01
Informal votes648128
Total Valid votes32,96233,684
Turnout 33,81271.00+3.25
National holdMajority13,49540.94+2.26

2011 election

2011 general election: Botany [15]
Notes:

Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list.
Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent.
A Green check.svgY or Red x.svgN denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.

PartyCandidateVotes%±%Party votes%±%
National Green check.svgY Jami-Lee Ross 17,78064.03+7.8117,74961.13-0.11
Labour Chao-Fu Wu7,03925.35+4.297,11124.49-0.69
Conservative Paul Young 2,1357.69+7.697772.68+2.68
ACT Lyn Murphy6312.27-12.984781.65-3.19
United Future Ram Parkash1850.67-0.72940.32-0.37
NZ First  1,2784.40+2.26
Green  1,2774.40+2.01
Legalise Cannabis  850.29+0.10
Māori Party  840.29-0.02
Mana  720.25+0.25
Libertarianz  130.04+0.01
Alliance  90.03+0.01
Democrats  70.02+0.02
Informal votes1,069238
Total Valid votes27,77029,034
National holdMajority10,74138.68+3.52

Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 43,204 [16]

2011 by-election

Official results of the 5 March by-election. [17]

2011 Botany by-election

Notes: Blue background denotes the winner of the by-election.
Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list prior to the by-election.
Yellow background denotes the winner of the by-election, who was a list MP prior to the by-election.
A Green check.svgY or Red x.svgN denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.

PartyCandidateVotes%±%
National Jami-Lee Ross 8,35254.25-1.97
Labour Michael Wood 4,38028.45+7.39
New Citizen Paul Young 1,62610.56
ACT Lyn Murphy6874.46-10.80
Independent Penny Bright 1280.83
Legalise Cannabis Leo Biggs610.40
Independent Wayne Young540.35
Join Australia Robin Caithness450.29
Pirate Hussain Al-saady320.21
Independent Robert Goh310.20
Informal votes250.16
Total Valid votes15,39635.84
National holdMajority3,97225.76-9.40

2008 election

2008 general election: Botany [18]
Notes:

Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list.
Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent.
A Green check.svgY or Red x.svgN denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.

PartyCandidateVotes%±%Party votes%±%
National Pansy Wong 17,38256.2219,35561.25
Labour Koro Tawa6,51021.067,95825.18
ACT Kenneth Wang 4,71715.261,5284.84
Green Peter Cooper1,2263.977562.39
United Future Judy Carter4281.382200.70
Progressive Racheal Cheam3040.982170.69
Kiwi Simon Kan2120.691250.40
Independent Raj Subramanian1400.45
NZ First  6782.15
Pacific  2950.93
Family Party  1660.53
Bill and Ben  980.31
Māori Party  980.31
Legalise Cannabis  620.20
Workers Party  130.04
Libertarianz  100.03
Alliance  80.03
RONZ  70.02
RAM  60.02
Democrats  20.01
Informal votes386131
Total Valid votes30,91931,602
National win new seatMajority10,87235.16


Table footnotes

  1. ↑ 2014 Internet Mana swing is relative to the votes for Mana in 2011; it shared a party list with Internet in the 2014 election.

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