East Coast Bays | |
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Single-member constituency for the New Zealand House of Representatives | |
![]() Location of within Auckland | |
Region | Auckland |
Current constituency | |
Current MP | Erica Stanford |
Party | National |
East Coast Bays is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate. It was first formed in 1972 and has existed apart from a break lasting two parliamentary terms. The electorate has been held by Erica Stanford of the National Party since the 2017 general election.
Since the 1969 election, the number of electorates in the South Island was fixed at 25, with continued faster population growth in the North Island leading to an increase in the number of general electorates. There were 84 electorates for the 1969 election, [1] and the 1972 electoral redistribution saw three additional general seats created for the North Island, bringing the total number of electorates to 87. [2] Together with increased urbanisation in Christchurch and Nelson, the changes proved very disruptive to existing electorates. [2] In the South Island, three electorates were abolished, and three electorates were newly created. [3] In the North Island, five electorates were abolished, two electorates were recreated, and six electorates were newly created (including East Coast Bays). [4]
The electorate is based around the north-eastern suburbs of North Shore City in north Auckland, including Torbay, Browns Bay and Mairangi Bay. The electorate crosses State Highway One at its southern end, which includes a section of Glenfield. East Coast Bays is a wealthy electorate, with incomes above the national average and boasting some of the most expensive real estate in the country. The electorate also contains many immigrants from South Africa.
East Coast Bays was an electorate in the New Zealand Parliament between 1972 and 1996, before being abolished to make way for the Albany electorate at the change to Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) voting. High population growth in North Auckland lead to the electorate's western fringe being removed in 2002, and with it the eponymous suburb of Albany, thus recreating East Coast Bays ahead of the 2002 election.
Although now a safe electorate for National, it was held for seven years by Social Credit MP Gary Knapp, from the 1980 by-election when he defeated future National party leader Don Brash. In the 1981, 1984 and 1987 general elections, Labour came third, with Knapp defeating Brash in 1981 and Murray McCully in 1984.
But in 1987 the declining fortunes of the Democratic Party (as Social Credit renamed itself), led to Knapp being defeated by Murray McCully, who held the electorate for National until 2017.
In December 2016, McCully announced that he would not stand for parliament in the 2017 general election, [5] and the seat of East Coast Bays was won by Erica Stanford, retaining it for the National Party.
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1 Resigned when appointed Ambassador to the United States
Members of Parliament elected from party lists in elections where that person also unsuccessfully contested the East Coast Bays electorate. Unless otherwise stated, all MPs terms began and ended at general elections.
Election | Winner | |
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2002 election | Paul Adams | |
2008 election | Sue Bradford 2 |
2Bradford resigned from Parliament on 30 October 2009.
2023 general election: East Coast Bays [6] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
National | ![]() | 27,687 | 71.52 | +17.81 | 22,508 | 57.59 | +19.40 | ||
Labour | Naisi Chen | 7,334 | 18.94 | -11.77 | 5,716 | 14.62 | -25.43 | ||
ACT | Michael McCook | 1,584 | 4.09 | +0.42 | 3,774 | 9.65 | +0.88 | ||
NewZeal | Paul Adams | 890 | 2.29 | 409 | 1.04 | +0.94 | |||
New Zealand Loyal | Bill Dyet | 710 | 1.83 | 386 | 0.98 | ||||
Green | 3,462 | 8.85 | +2.72 | ||||||
NZ First | 1,532 | 3.92 | +2.21 | ||||||
Opportunities | 646 | 1.65 | +0.51 | ||||||
Te Pāti Māori | 137 | 0.35 | +0.18 | ||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 109 | 0.27 | +0.05 | ||||||
Animal Justice | 62 | 0.15 | |||||||
New Conservative | 58 | 0.14 | -1.64 | ||||||
Freedoms NZ | 51 | 0.13 | |||||||
DemocracyNZ | 34 | 0.08 | |||||||
Women's Rights | 32 | 0.08 | |||||||
New Nation | 24 | 0.06 | |||||||
Leighton Baker Party | 7 | 0.01 | |||||||
Informal votes | 505 | 136 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 38,710 | 39,079 | |||||||
National hold | Majority | 20,353 | 52.57 | +29.57 |
2020 general election: East Coast Bays [7] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
National | ![]() | 20,466 | 53.71 | −11.82 | 14,658 | 38.19 | −24.59 | ||
Labour | Monina Hernandez | 11,702 | 30.71 | +12.14 | 15,372 | 40.05 | +16.85 | ||
Green | Dan Jones | 2,370 | 6.22 | −0.43 | 2,353 | 6.13 | +1.39 | ||
ACT | Michael McCook | 1,397 | 3.67 | +2.55 | 3,365 | 8.77 | +7.77 | ||
New Conservative | Matthew Webster | 927 | 2.43 | — | 683 | 1.78 | +1.51 | ||
TEA | Susanna Kruger | 275 | 0.72 | — | 161 | 0.42 | — | ||
Outdoors | Marius Koekemoer | 172 | 0.45 | — | 32 | 0.08 | +0.04 | ||
NZ First | 657 | 1.71 | −3.67 | ||||||
Opportunities | 436 | 1.14 | −0.78 | ||||||
Advance NZ | 237 | 0.62 | — | ||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 83 | 0.22 | +0.05 | ||||||
Māori Party | 65 | 0.17 | +0.01 | ||||||
ONE | 37 | 0.10 | — | ||||||
Sustainable NZ | 29 | 0.08 | — | ||||||
Social Credit | 13 | 0.03 | +0.01 | ||||||
Vision New Zealand | 11 | 0.03 | — | ||||||
Heartland | 3 | 0.01 | — | ||||||
Informal votes | 793 | 188 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 38,102 | 38,383 | |||||||
Turnout | 38,539 [8] | 79.12 | +2.45 | ||||||
National hold | Majority | 8,764 | 23.00 | −23.96 |
2017 general election: East Coast Bays [9] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
National | Erica Stanford | 22,731 | 65.53 | +3.61 | 22,006 | 62.78 | −0.60 | ||
Labour | Naisi Chen | 6,441 | 18.57 | +3.30 | 8,130 | 23.20 | +11.05 | ||
Green | Nicholas Mayne | 2,306 | 6.65 | −3.30 | 1,660 | 4.74 | −3.49 | ||
Opportunities | Teresa Moore | 1,289 | 3.72 | — | 673 | 1.92 | — | ||
NZ First | Ilja Ruppeldt | 1,254 | 3.62 | — | 1,886 | 5.38 | −0.58 | ||
ACT | Stephen Berry | 389 | 1.12 | — | 347 | 1.00 | −4.96 | ||
Conservative | 95 | 0.27 | −6.43 | ||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 58 | 0.17 | −0.12 | ||||||
Māori Party | 55 | 0.16 | +0.12 | ||||||
United Future | 34 | 0.10 | −0.11 | ||||||
People's Party | 18 | 0.05 | — | ||||||
Outdoors | 14 | 0.04 | — | ||||||
Democrats | 6 | 0.02 | −0.03 | ||||||
Mana Party | 5 | 0.01 | — | ||||||
Ban 1080 | 5 | 0.01 | −0.13 | ||||||
Internet | 4 | 0.01 | — | ||||||
Informal votes | 277 | 154 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 34,687 | 35,050 | |||||||
National hold | Majority | 16,290 | 46.96 | +0.30 |
2014 general election: East Coast Bays [10] [11] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
National | ![]() | 19,951 | 61.92 | -3.06 | 20,895 | 63.38 | +0.52 | ||
Conservative | Colin Craig | 4,923 | 15.27 | +10.3 | 2,210 | 6.7 | +2.96 | ||
Labour | Greg Milner-White | 3,915 | 12.15 | -7.73 | 4,005 | 12.15 | -5.05 | ||
Green | Teresa Moore | 3,206 | 9.95 | +1.23 | 2,712 | 8.23 | +0.17 | ||
Ban 1080 | Tricia Cheel | 229 | 0.71 | +0.71 | 47 | 0.14 | +0.14 | ||
NZ First | 1,964 | 5.96 | +1.02 | ||||||
ACT | 580 | 1.76 | +0.18 | ||||||
Internet Mana | 222 | 0.67 | +0.67 | ||||||
Māori Party | 125 | 0.38 | -0.01 | ||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 95 | 0.29 | -0.18 | ||||||
United Future | 69 | 0.21 | -0.22 | ||||||
Civilian | 64 | 0.06 | +0.06 | ||||||
Democrats | 17 | 0.05 | +0.02 | ||||||
Independent Coalition | 4 | 0.01 | +0.01 | ||||||
Focus | 3 | 0.01 | +0.01 | ||||||
Informal votes | 327 | 73 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 32,557 | 33,041 | |||||||
National hold | Majority | 15,034 | 46.65 | +1.55 |
2011 general election: East Coast Bays [12] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
National | ![]() | 21,094 | 64.98 | +6.90 | 21,079 | 62.86 | +1.45 | ||
Labour | Viv Goldsmith | 6,453 | 19.88 | +2.07 | 5,769 | 17.20 | -4.44 | ||
Green | Brett Stansfield | 2,832 | 8.72 | +2.20 | 2,704 | 8.72 | +2.20 | ||
Conservative | Simonne Dyer | 1,614 | 4.97 | +4.97 | 1,254 | 3.74 | +3.74 | ||
ACT | Toby Hutton | 467 | 1.44 | -2.15 | 530 | 1.58 | -4.08 | ||
NZ First | 1,657 | 4.94 | +2.11 | ||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 156 | 0.47 | +0.19 | ||||||
United Future | 145 | 0.43 | -0.31 | ||||||
Māori Party | 130 | 0.39 | -0.01 | ||||||
Mana | 64 | 0.19 | +0.19 | ||||||
Libertarianz | 24 | 0.07 | +0.001 | ||||||
Alliance | 14 | 0.04 | +0.002 | ||||||
Democrats | 9 | 0.03 | -0.01 | ||||||
Informal votes | 902 | 160 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 32,460 | 33,535 | |||||||
National hold | Majority | 14,641 | 45.10 | +4.82 |
Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 47,305 [13]
2008 general election: East Coast Bays [14] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
National | ![]() | 20,151 | 58.09 | +11.06 | 21,681 | 61.40 | +9.13 | ||
Labour | Viv Goldsmith | 6,177 | 17.81 | -9.31 | 7,642 | 21.64 | -10.13 | ||
Family Party | Paul Adams [note 1] | 3,570 | 10.29 | -5.58 | 505 | 1.43 | |||
Green | Sue Bradford | 2,263 | 6.52 | +3.01 | 1,439 | 4.08 | +0.59 | ||
ACT | Tim Kronfeld | 1,246 | 3.59 | +2.12 | 2,000 | 5.66 | +3.09 | ||
NZ First | Dail Jones | 730 | 2.10 | -0.47 | 1,001 | 2.83 | -1.94 | ||
No Commercial Airport at Whenuapai | Toby Hutton | 283 | 0.82 | ||||||
United Future | Ian McInnes | 215 | 0.62 | -0.49 | 263 | 0.74 | -1.65 | ||
Libertarianz | Elah Zamora | 56 | 0.16 | 25 | 0.07 | +0.03 | |||
Progressive | 214 | 0.61 | -0.30 | ||||||
Bill and Ben | 149 | 0.42 | |||||||
Māori Party | 141 | 0.40 | +0.14 | ||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 98 | 0.28 | +0.08 | ||||||
Kiwi | 90 | 0.25 | |||||||
Alliance | 14 | 0.04 | -0.00 | ||||||
Pacific | 14 | 0.04 | |||||||
Democrats | 13 | 0.04 | -0.00 | ||||||
Workers Party | 8 | 0.02 | |||||||
RONZ | 7 | 0.02 | +0.00 | ||||||
RAM | 5 | 0.01 | |||||||
Informal votes | 281 | 91 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 34,691 | 35,309 | |||||||
National hold | Majority | 13,974 | 40.28 | +20.38 |
2005 general election: East Coast Bays [15] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
National | ![]() | 17,213 | 47.02 | +7.93 | 19,437 | 52.27 | +27.44 | ||
Labour | Hamish McCracken | 9,927 | 27.12 | -7.03 | 11,813 | 31.77 | -2.04 | ||
Independent | Paul Adams | 5,809 | 15.87 | ||||||
Green | Jeanette Elley | 1,287 | 3.52 | -1.92 | 1,297 | 3.49 | -8.48 | ||
NZ First | Anne Martin | 942 | 2.57 | 1,775 | 4.77 | -5.20 | |||
ACT | Andrew Stone | 537 | 1.47 | -4.95 | 956 | 2.39 | -2.80 | ||
United Future | Steven Dromgool | 405 | 1.11 | -8.14 | 890 | 2.39 | -7.23 | ||
Progressive | Fiona Beazley | 253 | 0.69 | -0.95 | 338 | 0.91 | -0.36 | ||
Māori Party | Rahuia Kapa | 119 | 0.33 | 95 | 0.26 | ||||
Democrats | Patrick Fahey | 73 | 0.20 | 14 | 0.04 | ||||
Destiny | John Steemson | 39 | 0.11 | 370 | 1.00 | ||||
Legalise Cannabis | 74 | 0.20 | -0.19 | ||||||
Christian Heritage | 44 | 0.12 | -0.93 | ||||||
Direct Democracy | 28 | 0.08 | |||||||
Alliance | 15 | 0.04 | -0.86 | ||||||
Libertarianz | 14 | 0.04 | |||||||
RONZ | 7 | 0.02 | |||||||
99 MP | 6 | 0.02 | |||||||
Family Rights | 6 | 0.02 | |||||||
One NZ | 5 | 0.01 | -0.23 | ||||||
Informal votes | 324 | 100 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 36,604 | 37,184 | |||||||
National hold | Majority | 7,286 | 19.90 | +14.96 |
2002 general election: East Coast Bays [16] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
National | ![]() | 12,134 | 39.09 | 7,876 | 24.83 | ||||
Labour | Hamish McCracken | 10,600 | 34.15 | 10,722 | 33.81 | ||||
United Future | Paul Adams | 2,872 | 9.25 | 3,052 | 9.62 | ||||
ACT | Julie Pepper | 1,993 | 6.42 | 1,646 | 5.19 | ||||
Green | Jeanette Elley | 1,688 | 5.44 | 3,796 | 11.97 | ||||
One NZ | Alan McCulloch | 528 | 1.70 | 75 | 0.24 | ||||
Progressive | Jill Henry | 508 | 1.64 | 403 | 1.27 | ||||
Christian Heritage | Ian Cummings | 399 | 1.29 | 334 | 1.05 | ||||
Alliance | Fiona McLaren | 316 | 1.02 | 287 | 0.90 | ||||
NZ First | 3,163 | 9.97 | |||||||
ORNZ | 227 | 0.72 | |||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 123 | 0.39 | |||||||
NMP | 6 | 0.02 | |||||||
Mana Māori | 4 | 0.01 | |||||||
Informal votes | 392 | 75 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 31,038 | 31,714 | |||||||
National win new seat | Majority | 1,534 | 4.94 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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National | Murray McCully | 10,209 | 46.74 | -0.83 | |
Alliance | Heather-Ann McConachy | 5,693 | 26.06 | ||
Labour | Gordon Duncan | 3,253 | 14.89 | ||
NZ First | Anne Martin | 2,232 | 10.21 | ||
Christian Heritage | Dennis Knox | 347 | 1.58 | ||
Natural Law | Miranda Adams | 107 | 0.48 | ||
Majority | 4,516 | 20.67 | -2.32 | ||
Turnout | 21,841 | 86.74 | -1.31 | ||
Registered electors | 25,179 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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National | Murray McCully | 10,791 | 47.57 | +7.12 | |
Democrats | Gary Knapp | 5,575 | 24.58 | -14.45 | |
Labour | Vivienne Halligan | 3,433 | 15.13 | ||
Green | Dianne Gatward | 2,406 | 10.60 | ||
NewLabour | John Alfred Watson | 430 | 1.89 | ||
Social Credit | Sonia Lee Stewart | 45 | 0.19 | ||
Majority | 5,216 | 22.99 | +21.57 | ||
Turnout | 22,680 | 88.05 | +1.89 | ||
Registered electors | 25,758 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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National | Murray McCully | 8,833 | 40.45 | +4.62 | |
Democrats | Gary Knapp | 8,522 | 39.03 | -5.71 | |
Labour | Wayne Sellwood | 4,411 | 20.20 | ||
Independent | J C Braithwaite | 68 | 0.31 | ||
Majority | 311 | 1.42 | |||
Turnout | 21,834 | 89.94 | -3.46 | ||
Registered electors | 24,276 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Social Credit | Gary Knapp | 10,146 | 44.74 | +0.16 | |
National | Murray McCully | 8,126 | 35.83 | ||
Labour | Michael Smythe | 2,081 | 9.17 | ||
NZ Party | David Phillips | 2,035 | 8.97 | ||
Independent | Mark Smits | 17 | 0.07 | ||
Majority | 2,020 | 8.90 | +5.96 | ||
Turnout | 22,675 | 93.40 | +1.26 | ||
Registered electors | 24,276 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Social Credit | Gary Knapp | 11,568 | 44.90 | +1.59 | |
National | Don Brash | 10,810 | 41.96 | +3.76 | |
Labour | Neville Creighton | 3,335 | 12.94 | ||
Independent | Eric Smith | 49 | 0.19 | ||
Majority | 758 | 2.94 | -2.17 | ||
Turnout | 25,762 | 92.14 | +28.50 | ||
Registered electors | 27,957 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Social Credit | Gary Knapp | 8,061 | 43.31 | +23.33 | |
National | Don Brash | 7,110 | 38.20 | ||
Labour | Wyn Hoadley | 3,296 | 17.71 | ||
Values | Janet Moore | 144 | 0.77 | ||
Majority | 951 | 5.11 | |||
Turnout | 18,611 | 63.64 | -12.95 | ||
Registered electors | 29,243 | ||||
Social Credit gain from National | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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National | Frank Gill | 7,675 | 34.48 | -20.96 | |
Labour | Colleen Hicks | 6,109 | 27.45 | ||
Social Credit | Gary Knapp | 4,448 | 19.98 | ||
Independent National | David Phillips | 3,684 | 16.55 | ||
Values | Eric Smith | 339 | 1.52 | ||
Majority | 1,566 | 7.03 | -17.31 | ||
Turnout | 22,255 | 76.59 | -8.01 | ||
Registered electors | 29,055 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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National | Frank Gill | 12,739 | 55.44 | +6.80 | |
Labour | Rex Stanton | 7,145 | 31.09 | ||
Values | John Bartram | 1,839 | 8.00 | ||
Social Credit | Noel Edward Lord | 1,253 | 5.45 | ||
Majority | 5,594 | 24.34 | +18.72 | ||
Turnout | 22,976 | 84.60 | -2.59 | ||
Registered electors | 27,157 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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National | Frank Gill | 8,460 | 48.64 | ||
Labour | Brian Pauling | 7,481 | 43.01 | ||
Social Credit | Betty Ross | 1,357 | 7.80 | ||
New Democratic | Kay Edgecumbe | 93 | 0.53 | ||
Majority | 979 | 5.62 | |||
Turnout | 17,391 | 87.19 | |||
Registered electors | 19,946 |
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