Clevedon (New Zealand electorate)

Clevedon was a New Zealand parliamentary electorate from 1987 to 1993 and then from 2002 to 2008. For the first six-year period the electorate was represented by Warren Kyd. For the second six-year period, the electorate was represented by Judith Collins.

Population centres

The 1987 electoral redistribution took the continued population growth in the North Island into account, and two additional general electorates were created, bringing the total number of electorates to 97. In the South Island, the shift of population to Christchurch had continued. ^[1] Overall, three electorates were newly created (including Clevedon), three electorates were recreated, and four electorates were abolished. All of those electorates were in the North Island. Changes in the South Island were restricted to boundary changes. ^[2] These changes came into effect with the 1987 election. ^[3]

Clevedon took in the urban population centres of Flat Bush, Botany Downs and Dannemora to the west, Beachlands and Maraetai to the north and the sparsely populated Hunua Ranges to the east. Under finalised boundary changes for the 2008 general election, the Clevedon electorate ceased to exist, with its population centres being distributed among the new Botany electorate, a redrawn and renamed electorate of Papakura and the resurrected Hunua electorate.

History

The Clevedon electorate was first created in 1987. Warren Kyd of the National Party was the electorate's first representative. When the electorate was abolished in 1993, Kyd transferred to the Hauraki electorate. ^[4]

The electorate was recreated for the 2002 election, replacing the Hunua electorate, where Kyd had been the incumbent. In a rare event for the National Party, an incumbent was successfully challenged by newcomer Judith Collins, with allegations being made that controversial party president Michelle Boag played a part in the decision. ^{[4] [5]} Collins won the nomination and the subsequent election. After the Clevedon electorate was abolished for the 2008 election, Collins won the Papakura electorate. ^[6]

Members of Parliament

Key

  National

Election	Winner
1987 election		Warren Kyd
1990 election
(Electorate abolished 1993–2002; see Hauraki and Hunua)
2002 election		Judith Collins
2005 election
(Electorate abolished in 2008; see Papakura)

List MPs

Election	Winner
2002 election		Brent Catchpole
		Dave Hereora
2005 election

Election results

2005 election

2005 general election: Clevedon [7]
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 Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	National	Y Judith Collins		21,828	59.23	+21.54	19,527	51.82	+27.39
	Labour	Dave Hereora		8,957	24.31	-3.25	11,866	31.61	-2.19
	NZ First	Brent Catchpole		2,010	5.45	-6.40	2,523	6.72	-6.99
	Green	Steve Bayliss		1,424	3.86	-0.77	924	2.46	-1.41
	United Future New Zealand	John L. Walker		882	2.39		808	2.51	-4.67
	ACT	Iain Ogilvie		500	1.36	-4.85	903	2.41	-8.85
	Progressive	Brenda Hill		450	1.22	+0.12	381	0.37	-0.64
	Destiny	Mason Chet Lee		390	1.06		218	0.58
	Māori Party	David Sinclair King		311	0.84		199	0.53
	Family Rights	Lale Ene-Ulugia		56	0.15		17	0.05
	Direct Democracy	Leanne Martinovich		42	0.11		16	0.04
	Legalise Cannabis						68	0.18	-0.20
	Christian Heritage						48	0.13	-1.21
	Libertarianz						16	0.04
	Alliance						11	0.03	-0.66
	Democrats						7	0.02
	99 MP						5	0.01
	One NZ						4	0.01	-0.03
	RONZ						3	0.01
Informal votes				401			140
Total Valid votes				36,850			37,544
	National hold		Majority	12,871	34.93

2002 election

2002 general election: Clevedon [8]
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 Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	National	Judith Collins		11,627	37.69		7,764	24.43
	Labour	Dave Hereora		8,500	27.56		10,739	33.80
	NZ First	Brent Catchpole		3,655	11.85		4,355	13.71
	Independent	Glenn Archibald		2,263	7.34
	ACT	John Thompson		1,914	6.21		3,578	11.26
	Green	Sue Cowie		1,427	4.63		1,229	3.87
	Christian Heritage	David Arvidson		891	2.89		426	1.34
	Progressive	Arthur Toms		340	1.10		320	1.01
	Alliance	Nick Corlett		229	0.74		218	0.69
	United Future New Zealand						2,281	7.18
	ORNZ						350	1.10
	Legalise Cannabis						122	0.38
	One NZ						14	0.04
	Mana Māori Movement						13	0.04
	NMP						6	0.02
Informal votes				359			70
Total Valid votes				30,846			31,775
	National win new seat		Majority	3,127	10.14

1990 election

1990 general election: Clevedon ^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National	Warren Kyd	10,851	55.1	+4.7
	Labour	Ann Batten	6,119	31.0
	Green	Jacqui Burgess	1,831	9.3
	NewLabour	So'otaga So'otaga	476	2.4
	Social Credit	Tania Carr	231	1.1
	Democrats	Huia Mitchell	165	0.8
Majority			4,732	24.0	+19.5
Turnout			19,681

1987 election

1987 general election: Clevedon ^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National	Warren Kyd	9,129	50.4
	Labour	Lee Goffin	8,302	45.9
	Democrats	G C Pilgrim	664	3.7
Majority			827	4.5
Turnout			20,928	89.7

Notes

1. McRobie 1989, pp. 127f.
2. McRobie 1989, pp. 123–128.
3. McRobie 1989, p. 127.
4. Orsman, Bernard; Perrott, Alan (8 May 2002). "National purge sweeps into Kyd's safe seat". The New Zealand Herald . Retrieved 13 June 2015.
5. Young, Audrey (10 May 2014). "Audrey Young: A big question hanging over Judith Collins". The New Zealand Herald . Retrieved 13 June 2015.
6. "Hon Judith Collins". New Zealand Parliament. 4 December 2014. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
7. "Official Count Results – Clevedon". Archived from the original on 8 February 2013. Retrieved 11 September 2009.
8. "Official Count Results – Clevedon". Archived from the original on 8 February 2013. Retrieved 11 September 2009.
9. Part 1: Votes recorded at each polling place (Technical report). New Zealand Chief Electoral Office. 1990.
10. Norton 1988, pp. 208.

References

• McRobie, Alan (1989). Electoral Atlas of New Zealand. Wellington: GP Books. ISBN   0-477-01384-8.
• Norton, Clifford (1988). New Zealand Parliamentary Election Results 1946–1987: Occasional Publications No 1, Department of Political Science. Wellington: Victoria University of Wellington. ISBN   0-475-11200-8.

External links

• Electorate Profile Parliamentary Library