Hutt South | |
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Single-member constituency for the New Zealand House of Representatives | |
Region | Wellington |
Current constituency | |
Current MP | Chris Bishop |
Party | (National) |
List MP | Ginny Andersen Labour |
Hutt South is a parliamentary electorate in the lower Hutt Valley of New Zealand. It is held by Chris Bishop of the National Party following the 2023 election. It was previously held by Ginny Andersen of the Labour Party [1]
The electorate is based on the southern part of the city of Lower Hutt. It was formed in 1996 from the old electorates of Pencarrow and Eastern Hutt. Hutt South consists of the southern suburbs of Lower Hutt, Petone, Wainuiomata, and Eastbourne. [2]
Following the 2014 boundary review, Hutt South lost Naenae and a small part of Epuni to Rimutaka, in exchange for the suburbs of Kelson and Belmont. It also gained the suburbs of Tirohanga, Harbour View, Normandale, Maungaraki and Korokoro from Ōhariu, meaning the entire Hutt Valley was now covered by just two electorates (Rimutaka and Hutt South).
Since 2014, the following suburbs of Lower Hutt fall within Hutt South. [3]
At the first MMP election in 1996, Hutt South replaced the earlier electorate of Pencarrow, which was then held by Trevor Mallard. Mallard was returned at every general election until he moved to list-only at the 2017 election. [4]
Key
Members of Parliament elected from party lists in elections where that person also unsuccessfully contested the Hutt South electorate. Unless otherwise stated, all MPs terms began and ended at general elections.
Election | Winner | |
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1996 election | Joy McLauchlan | |
Deborah Morris [lower-alpha 1] | ||
2002 election | Murray Smith | |
2008 election | Paul Quinn | |
2011 election | Holly Walker | |
2014 election | Chris Bishop | |
2017 election | Ginny Andersen | |
2020 election | Chris Bishop | |
2023 election | Ginny Andersen |
2023 general election results: Hutt South [5] | |||||||||
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Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
National | Chris Bishop | 19,144 | 44.37 | +2.78 | 14,772 | 33.90 | +11.91 | ||
Labour | Ginny Andersen | 17,812 | 41.28 | –8.72 | 14,087 | 32.33 | –22.81 | ||
Green | Neelu Jennings | 2,492 | 5.78 | +3.17 | 6,727 | 15.44 | +6.01 | ||
NZ First | Lee Donoghue | 1,228 | 2.85 | +2.15 | 2,257 | 5.18 | +2.83 | ||
Opportunities | Ben Wylie-Van Eerd | 980 | 2.27 | +0.96 | 1,448 | 3.32 | +1.16 | ||
ACT | Andy Parkins | 556 | 1.29 | +0.56 | 2,493 | 5.72 | +0.09 | ||
New Zealand Loyal | Jordan Blane | 403 | 0.93 | 244 | 0.74 | ||||
Vision New Zealand | Max Rangitutia | 171 | 0.40 | ||||||
Te Pāti Māori | 581 | 1.33 | +0.89 | ||||||
NewZeal | 215 | 0.49 | |||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 147 | 0.34 | +0.29 | ||||||
Freedoms NZ | 99 | 0.23 | |||||||
Animal Justice | 77 | 0.18 | |||||||
DemocracyNZ | 53 | 0.12 | |||||||
New Conservative | 50 | 0.12 | –1.04 | ||||||
Women's Rights | 32 | 0.07 | |||||||
Leighton Baker Party | 21 | 0.05 | |||||||
New Nation | 2 | 0.01 | |||||||
Informal votes | 361 | 191 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 43,147 | 43,576 | |||||||
Turnout | |||||||||
National gain from Labour | Majority | 1,332 | 3.09 |
2020 general election: Hutt South [6] | |||||||||
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Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
Labour | Ginny Andersen | 22,453 | 50.00 | +6.21 | 25,159 | 55.14 | +14.93 | ||
National | Chris Bishop | 18,676 | 41.59 | -5.90 | 10,033 | 21.99 | -19.48 | ||
Green | Richard McIntosh | 1,171 | 2.61 | -0.61 | 4,301 | 9.43 | +2.18 | ||
Opportunities | Ben Wylie-Van Eerd | 590 | 1.31 | -0.60 | 986 | 2.16 | -1.28 | ||
New Conservative | Roger Earp | 562 | 1.25 | — | 528 | 1.16 | +0.99 | ||
ACT | Andy Parkins | 330 | 0.73 | +0.51 | 2,568 | 5.63 | +5.18 | ||
NZ First | Mahesh Bindra | 316 | 0.70 | -1.44 | 1,071 | 2.35 | -3.16 | ||
Advance NZ | Mishaela Daken | 302 | 0.67 | — | 309 | 0.68 | — | ||
ONE | Edward Shanly | 192 | 0.43 | — | 201 | 0.44 | — | ||
Vision NZ | Paris Winiata | 201 | 0.45 | — | 51 | 0.11 | — | ||
Outdoors | Wilf Bearman-Riedel | 115 | 0.26 | -0.01 | 38 | 0.08 | -0.04 | ||
Māori Party | 201 | 0.44 | +0.03 | ||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 112 | 0.25 | +0.05 | ||||||
Sustainable NZ | 30 | 0.07 | — | ||||||
TEA | 25 | 0.05 | — | ||||||
Social Credit | 9 | 0.02 | +0.01 | ||||||
Heartland | 3 | 0.01 | — | ||||||
Informal votes | 560 | 255 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 44,908 | 45,625 | |||||||
Turnout | |||||||||
Labour gain from National | Majority | 3,777 | 8.41 | +12.11 |
2017 general election: Hutt South [7] | |||||||||
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Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
National | Chris Bishop | 19,643 | 47.49 | +5.84 | 17,390 | 41.47 | −3.60 | ||
Labour | Ginny Andersen | 18,113 | 43.79 | +0.31 | 16,858 | 40.21 | +12.37 | ||
Green | Virginia Horrocks | 1,331 | 3.22 | −5.06 | 3,041 | 7.25 | −5.43 | ||
NZ First | Alok Gupta | 887 | 2.14 | −0.45 | 2,311 | 5.51 | −1.93 | ||
Opportunities | Richard Warwick | 792 | 1.91 | — | 1,442 | 3.44 | — | ||
Outdoors | Wilf Bearman-Riedel | 112 | 0.27 | — | 52 | 0.12 | — | ||
ACT | Andy Parkins | 89 | 0.22 | −0.32 | 189 | 0.45 | 0.31 | ||
Independent | Dorothy Frances Fox | 58 | 0.14 | — | |||||
Māori Party | 173 | 0.41 | −0.19 | ||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 85 | 0.20 | −0.28 | ||||||
Conservative | 71 | 0.17 | −3.38 | ||||||
United Future | 31 | 0.07 | −0.27 | ||||||
Ban 1080 | 24 | 0.06 | −0.03 | ||||||
Internet | 11 | 0.03 | — | ||||||
People's Party | 10 | 0.02 | — | ||||||
Mana Party | 6 | 0.01 | — | ||||||
Democrats | 3 | 0.01 | −0.03 | ||||||
Informal votes | 340 | 232 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 41,365 | 41,929 | |||||||
Turnout | 42,309 | 84.26 [8] | +2.57 | ||||||
National gain from Labour | Majority | 1,530 | 3.70 | +1.87 |
2014 general election: Hutt South [9] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
Labour | Trevor Mallard | 16,836 | 43.48 | -5.9 | 10,903 | 27.84 | -7.86 | ||
National | Chris Bishop | 16,127 | 41.65 | +7.32 | 17,648 | 45.07 | +4.02 | ||
Green | Holly Walker | 3,207 | 8.28 | -3.24 | 4,966 | 12.68 | +0.71 | ||
NZ First | Mataroa Paroro | 1,005 | 2.59 | +2.59 | 2,913 | 7.44 | +1.44 | ||
Conservative | Gordon Copeland | 858 | 2.21 | -0.96 | 1,391 | 3.55 | +1.52 | ||
ACT | Grae O'Sullivan | 172 | 0.54 | -1.40 | 249 | 0.76 | -2.00 | ||
Independent | Jan Pajak | 117 | 0.30 | ||||||
United Future | Dave Stonyer | 107 | 0.27 | -0.80 | 136 | 0.34 | -0.54 | ||
Māori Party | 207 | 0.60 | -0.25 | ||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 160 | 0.48 | +0.11 | ||||||
Internet Mana | 281 | 0.37 | +0.37 | ||||||
Democrats | 11 | 0.04 | +0.02 | ||||||
Democrats | 11 | 0.04 | +0.02 | ||||||
Civilian | 19 | 0.04 | |||||||
Ban 1080 | 58 | 0.03 | |||||||
Independent Coalition | 7 | 0.02 | |||||||
Informal votes | 276 | 199 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 38,713 | 39,161 | |||||||
Labour hold | Majority | 709 | 1.83 | -13.22 |
2011 general election: Hutt South [10] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
Labour | Trevor Mallard | 15,828 | 49.38 | +0.10 | 11,751 | 35.70 | -7.09 | ||
National | Paul Quinn | 11,003 | 34.33 | -2.89 | 13,510 | 41.05 | +3.21 | ||
Green | Holly Walker | 3,693 | 11.52 | +3.74 | 3,940 | 11.97 | +4.28 | ||
Conservative | Gordon Copeland | 1,015 | 3.17 | +3.17 | 667 | 2.03 | +2.03 | ||
United Future | Rob Eaddy | 342 | 1.07 | -1.33 | 294 | 0.89 | -0.53 | ||
ACT | Alex Speirs | 172 | 0.54 | -1.40 | 249 | 0.76 | -2.00 | ||
NZ First | 1,974 | 6.00 | +2.50 | ||||||
Māori Party | 196 | 0.60 | -0.25 | ||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 157 | 0.48 | +0.11 | ||||||
Mana | 123 | 0.37 | +0.37 | ||||||
Libertarianz | 23 | 0.07 | -0.03 | ||||||
Alliance | 18 | 0.05 | -0.08 | ||||||
Democrats | 12 | 0.04 | +0.02 | ||||||
Informal votes | 728 | 266 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 32,053 | 32,914 | |||||||
Labour hold | Majority | 4,825 | 15.05 | +2.99 |
Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 43,215 [11]
2008 general election: Hutt South [12] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
Labour | Trevor Mallard | 16,690 | 49.28 | 14,769 | 42.79 | ||||
National | Paul Quinn | 12,604 | 37.21 | 13,057 | 37.83 | ||||
Green | Virginia Horrocks | 2,635 | 7.78 | 2,655 | 7.69 | ||||
United Future | Murray Smith | 812 | 2.40 | 490 | 1.42 | ||||
ACT | Lindsay Mitchell | 655 | 1.93 | 950 | 2.75 | ||||
Kiwi | Camilia Chin | 380 | 1.12 | 203 | 0.59 | ||||
Libertarianz | Phil Howison | 93 | 0.27 | 36 | 0.10 | ||||
NZ First | 1,208 | 3.50 | - | ||||||
Progressive | 305 | 0.88 | |||||||
Māori Party | 293 | 0.85 | |||||||
Bill and Ben | 197 | 0.57 | |||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 128 | 0.37 | |||||||
Family Party | 83 | 0.24 | |||||||
Pacific | 63 | 0.18 | |||||||
Alliance | 45 | 0.13 | |||||||
Workers Party | 12 | 0.03 | |||||||
RAM | 8 | 0.02 | |||||||
Democrats | 7 | 0.02 | |||||||
RONZ | 3 | 0.01 | |||||||
Informal votes | 414 | 157 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 33,869 | 34,512 | |||||||
Labour hold | Majority | 4,086 |
Note: lines coloured beige denote the winner of the electorate vote. Lines coloured pink denote a candidate elected to Parliament from their party list.
2005 general election: Hutt South [12] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
Labour | Trevor Mallard | 16,125 | 50.02 | 15,534 | 47.54 | ||||
National | Rosemarie Thomas | 10,385 | 32.21 | 11,464 | 35.09 | ||||
United Future | Murray Smith | 1,905 | 5.91 | 974 | 2.85 | ||||
Green | Paul Bruce | 1,719 | 5.33 | 1,831 | 5.60 | ||||
NZ First | Howard Levarko | 698 | 2.17 | 1,262 | 3.86 | ||||
ACT | Lindsay Mitchell | 579 | 1.80 | 420 | 1.29 | ||||
Destiny | David Knight | 335 | 1.04 | 181 | 0.55 | ||||
Māori Party | Maraea Ropata | 322 | 1.00 | 193 | 0.59 | ||||
Independent | Jack McSeveny | 106 | 0.33 | ||||||
Libertarianz | Phil Howison | 64 | 0.20 | 21 | 0.06 | ||||
Progressive | 337 | 1.03 | |||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 77 | 0.24 | |||||||
Alliance | 27 | 0.08 | |||||||
Christian Heritage | 21 | 0.06 | |||||||
Family Rights | 11 | 0.03 | |||||||
Democrats | 9 | 0.03 | |||||||
99 MP | 7 | 0.02 | |||||||
Direct Democracy | 4 | 0.01 | |||||||
One NZ | 4 | 0.01 | |||||||
RONZ | 3 | 0.01 | |||||||
Informal votes | 307 | 144 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 32,238 | 32,673 | |||||||
Labour hold | Majority | 5,740 |
2002 general election: Hutt South | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
Labour | Trevor Mallard | 14,834 | 49.09 | -5.77 | 13,985 | 45.40 | +3.22 | ||
National | Richard Townley | 7,063 | 23.37 | 5,718 | 18.56 | -11.67 | |||
United Future | Murray Smith | 2,910 | 9.63 | 2,700 | 8.76 | ||||
ACT | Christopher Milne | 2,033 | 6.73 | +3.06 | 2,474 | 8.03 | +1.52 | ||
Green | Perce Harpham | 1,726 | 5.71 | 1,980 | 6.43 | +1.85 | |||
Alliance | Anna Sutherland | 581 | 1.92 | 462 | 1.50 | -6.17 | |||
Progressive | Ross Weddell | 566 | 1.87 | 562 | 1.82 | ||||
Christian Heritage | Dennis John Bartlett | 508 | 1.68 | 362 | 1.18 | -0.80 | |||
NZ First | 2,139 | 6.94 | +4.48 | ||||||
ORNZ | 223 | 0.72 | |||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 167 | 0.54 | -0.60 | ||||||
One NZ | 22 | 0.07 | +0.04 | ||||||
Mana Māori | 12 | 0.04 | +0.02 | ||||||
NMP | 1 | 0.00 | -0.02 | ||||||
Informal votes | 508 | 117 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 30,221 | 30,807 | |||||||
Labour hold | Majority | 7,771 | 25.72 | -2.29 |
1999 general election: Hutt South | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
Labour | Trevor Mallard | 17,404 | 54.86 | +9.87 | 13,502 | 42.18 | +8.30 | ||
National | Clare Radosmke | 8,519 | 26.85 | 9,678 | 30.23 | -3.42 | |||
ACT | Christopher Milne | 1,165 | 3.67 | +1.48 | 2,085 | 6.51 | +1.38 | ||
Alliance | Gordon Parr | 1,124 | 3.54 | 2,454 | 7.67 | -2.89 | |||
Green | Cliff Mason | 1,068 | 3.37 | 1,465 | 4.58 | ||||
Christian Heritage | Rosemarie Thomas | 785 | 2.47 | 633 | 1.98 | ||||
Christian Democrats | David Ogden | 498 | 1.57 | 564 | 1.76 | ||||
NZ First | Edwin Perry | 482 | 1.52 | 786 | 2.46 | -5.88 | |||
McGillicuddy Serious | Jonat Warton | 211 | 0.67 | 49 | 0.15 | -0.17 | |||
Independent | Lois McInnes | 180 | 0.57 | ||||||
United NZ | Frank Owen | 178 | 0.56 | -0.15 | 201 | 0.63 | -0.88 | ||
Natural Law | Jon Muller | 61 | 0.19 | 24 | 0.07 | +0.03 | |||
Mauri Pacific | Richard Waitai | 49 | 0.15 | 19 | 0.06 | ||||
Legalise Cannabis | 365 | 1.14 | -0.08 | ||||||
Libertarianz | 88 | 0.27 | +0.24 | ||||||
Animals First | 57 | 0.18 | -0.01 | ||||||
One NZ | 10 | 0.03 | |||||||
The People's Choice | 8 | 0.02 | |||||||
Mana Māori | 7 | 0.02 | -0.01 | ||||||
NMP | 7 | 0.02 | |||||||
Republican | 5 | 0.02 | |||||||
South Island | 4 | 0.01 | |||||||
Freedom Movement | 0 | 0.00 | |||||||
Informal votes | 579 | 292 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 31,724 | 32,011 | |||||||
Labour hold | Majority | 8,885 | 28.01 | +20.13 |
1996 general election: Hutt South [13] [14] [15] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
Labour | Trevor Mallard | 14,023 | 44.99 | 10,633 | 33.88 | ||||
National | Joy McLauchlan | 11,567 | 37.11 | 10,562 | 33.65 | ||||
Alliance | Peter Love | 2,125 | 6.82 | 3,314 | 10.56 | ||||
NZ First | Deborah Morris | 2,042 | 6.55 | 2,618 | 8.34 | ||||
ACT | Christopher Milne | 684 | 2.19 | 1,609 | 5.13 | ||||
McGillicuddy Serious | Alastair McGlinchy | 228 | 0.73 | 102 | 0.32 | ||||
United NZ | Frank Owen | 222 | 0.71 | 473 | 1.51 | ||||
Superannuitants & Youth | Jack Powell | 163 | 0.52 | 53 | 0.17 | ||||
Natural Law | Angela Slade | 65 | 0.21 | 14 | 0.04 | ||||
Independent | Brian Russell | 53 | 0.17 | ||||||
Christian Coalition | 1,443 | 4.60 | |||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 382 | 1.22 | |||||||
Animals First | 61 | 0.19 | |||||||
Progressive Green | 47 | 0.15 | |||||||
Asia Pacific United | 21 | 0.07 | |||||||
Green Society | 15 | 0.05 | |||||||
Ethnic Minority Party | 14 | 0.04 | |||||||
Libertarianz | 10 | 0.03 | |||||||
Mana Māori | 9 | 0.03 | |||||||
Conservatives | 4 | 0.01 | |||||||
Advance New Zealand | 2 | 0.01 | |||||||
Te Tawharau | 1 | 0.00 | |||||||
Informal votes | 338 | 123 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 31,172 | 31,387 | |||||||
Labour win new seat | Majority | 2,456 | 7.88 |
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