Maungakiekie (New Zealand electorate)

This article is about the electorate. For the hill, see Maungakiekie / One Tree Hill.

Maungakiekie
Single-member general constituency for the New ZealandHouse of Representatives
Formation	1996
Region	Auckland
Character	Urban and suburban
Term	3 years
Member for Maungakiekie
Greg Fleming since 14 October 2023
Party	National
List MPs	Priyanca Radhakrishnan (Labour)
Previous MP	Priyanca Radhakrishnan
Party vote distribution

Maungakiekie is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. The current MP for Maungakiekie is Greg Fleming of the National Party. The electorate's name comes from Maungakiekie / One Tree Hill, a large and symbolically important hill at the western end of the seat.

The core of Maungakiekie is the suburbs of Auckland clustered around the Southern Motorway, and the most southern parts of the Auckland isthmus facing the Manukau Harbour. As at 2008, these include Penrose, Panmure, Onehunga and Royal Oak. In character, the seat is a minority-majority seat, with a large Māori, Pacific Island and Asian population. It is also quite a young seat, with 46.8 percent of the seat's residents under the age of thirty.

History

Maungakiekie has existed in various forms since its creation ahead of the introduction of Mixed Member Proportional voting in the 1996 election. It was created from merging most of Onehunga with a large section of Panmure, both of them reasonably safe Labour seats. Its original incarnation included both Onehunga and Otahuhu, though for the nine years from 1996, Onehunga was part of Mount Roskill, and from 2008 onwards, Otahuhu formed the northernmost part of Manukau East. The same boundary changes that took Otahuhu out put Panmure in at the expense of Tāmaki. In 2020, the seat lost Panmure to Panmure-Ōtāhuhu and gained Royal Oak from Mount Roskill. ^[1]

Because of these seats' tendency to vote Labour, it was initially thought to be a safe Labour seat. The last MP for Onehunga, Richard Northey, sought election in the new seat. However, Labour suffered its worst result since World War II in 1996, with votes splintering off to both the Alliance and New Zealand First. As a result, Northey found himself ousted from Parliament in 1996 at the hands of then unknown National Party candidate Belinda Vernon. Vernon's own party suffered a dramatic reversal of fortune that started at the 1999 election and her three-year term as MP for Maungakiekie ended in favour of Mark Gosche, who held the seat until 2008, notching up a majority of around 6,500 in the intermediate elections. ^[2]

Sam Lotu-liga captured the seat again for National in the large swing against Labour in 2008. On 13 December 2016, Lotu-liga announced that he was quitting politics, to take effect at the 2017 general election. ^[3] The electorate was won by Denise Lee at the election, retaining the seat for the National Party.

Members of Parliament

Unless otherwise stated, all MPs' terms began and ended at general elections.

Key

  National   Labour

Election	Winner
1996 election		Belinda Vernon
1999 election		Mark Gosche
2002 election
2005 election
2008 election		Sam Lotu-Iiga
2011 election
2014 election
2017 election		Denise Lee
2020 election		Priyanca Radhakrishnan
2023 election		Greg Fleming

List MPs

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

  Alliance   NZ First   National   Labour   Green

Election	Winner
1996 election		Matt Robson
1999		Gilbert Myles [a]
1999 election		Matt Robson
		Belinda Vernon
2008 election		Carol Beaumont
2013		Carol Beaumont [b]
2017 election		Chlöe Swarbrick
		Priyanca Radhakrishnan
2020 election		Ricardo Menéndez March
2023 election		Priyanca Radhakrishnan

Election results

2023 election

2023 general election: Maungakiekie [4]
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	Greg Fleming		16,952	47.70		14,935	41.43	+15.68
	Labour	N Priyanca Radhakrishnan		12,335	34.71	-8.85	9,801	27.19	-23.14
	Green	Sapna Samant		3,138	8.83		4,964	13.77	+4.71
	ACT	Margo Onishchenko		1,291	3.63		2,863	7.94	+0.86
	NZ First	Andrew Hogg		920	2.58		1,379	3.82	+1.75
	Independent	Philip Bridge		249	0.70
	Rock The Vote NZ	Eric Chuah		136	0.38
	Opportunities						952	2.64	+0.79
	Te Pāti Māori						336	0.93
	NZ Loyal						157	0.43	+0.51
	NewZeal						142	0.39	+0.22
	Legalise Cannabis						111	0.30	+0.04
	Freedoms NZ						89	0.24
	Animal Justice						51	0.14
	New Conservative						45	0.12	-0.98
	Women's Rights						30	0.08
	DemocracyNZ						25	0.06
	New Nation						7	0.01
	Leighton Baker Party						5	0.01
Informal votes				514			149
Total valid votes				35,535			36,041
	National gain from Labour		Majority	4,617	12.99

2020 election

2020 general election: Maungakiekie [5]
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	%	±%
	Labour	Priyanca Radhakrishnan		16,232	43.56	+6.52	18,895	50.33	+7.04
	National	N Denise Lee		15,597	41.86	-1.39	9,668	25.75	-14.91
	Green	Ricardo Menendez March		2,666	7.15	-4.51	3,403	9.06	+3.21
	ACT	Tommy Fergusson		1,225	3.28	—	2,660	7.08	+6.45
	New Conservative	Philip Holder		513	1.37	—	416	1.10	+0.91
	NZ First						780	2.07	-3.00
	Opportunities						697	1.85	-0.33
	Advance NZ						206	0.54	—
	Māori Party						159	0.42	-0.39
	Legalise Cannabis						99	0.26	+0.03
	TEA						82	0.21	—
	ONE						66	0.17	—
	Vision NZ						47	0.12	—
	Sustainable NZ						24	0.06	—
	Outdoors						18	0.04	-0.06
	Social Credit						7	0.02	+0.01
	Heartland						2	0.01	—
Informal votes				1,024			306
Total valid votes				37,257			37,535
Turnout				37,535
	Labour gain from National		Majority	635	1.70	-4.51

2017 election

2017 general election: Maungakiekie [6]
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	Denise Lee		15,063	43.25	−4.36	14,542	40.66	−0.67
	Labour	Priyanca Radhakrishnan		12,906	37.04	−3.64	15,484	43.29	+8.27
	Green	Chlöe Swarbrick		4,060	11.66	+5.51	2,092	5.85	−3.54
	NZ First	Ken Mahon		1,299	3.73	—	1,815	5.07	−1.48
	Māori Party	Manase Lua		731	0.21	—	288	0.81	−0.27
	Outdoors	Derrick Paull		108	0.31	—	36	0.10	—
	Communist League	Michael Tucker		61	0.18	—
	Opportunities						780	2.18	—
	ACT						227	0.63	−0.84
	Legalise Cannabis						82	0.23	−0.09
	Conservative						67	0.19	−2.95
	People's Party						33	0.09	—
	United Future						23	0.06	−0.17
	Internet						16	0.04	—
	Mana Party						10	0.03	—
	Ban 1080						7	0.01	−0.02
	Democrats						3	0.01	−0.01
Informal votes				596			260
Total valid votes				34,824			35,765
Turnout				35,765
	National hold		Majority	2,157	6.21	−0.72

2014 election

2014 general election: Maungakiekie [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 Sam Lotu-Iiga		16,132	47.61	−2.27	14,394	41.33	−2.26
	Labour	Carol Beaumont		13,784	40.68	+0.11	12,199	35.02	−1.83
	Green	Richard Leckinger		2,085	6.15	+0.52	3,270	9.39	−0.13
	Conservative	Litia Simpson		672	1.98	+0.62	1,095	3.14	+1.41
	Mana	Sitaleki Finau		462	1.36	+0.91
	United Future	Bryan Mockridge		114	0.34	+0.34	80	0.23	−0.15
	Communist League	Felicity Coggan		92	0.27	+0.27
	NZ First						2,283	6.55	+1.37
	ACT						512	1.47	+0.29
	Internet Mana						377	1.08	+0.67 [c]
	Māori Party						187	0.54	−0.09
	Legalise Cannabis						113	0.32	−0.06
	Civilian						14	0.04	+0.04
	Ban 1080						11	0.03	+0.03
	Independent Coalition						10	0.03	+0.03
	Democrats						8	0.02	±0.00
	Focus						8	0.02	+0.02
Informal votes				540			270
Total valid votes				33,881			34,831
Turnout				34,831	75.23	+2.56
	National hold		Majority	2,348	6.93	−2.38

2011 election

2011 general election: Maungakiekie [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	Y Sam Lotu-Iiga		16,189	49.88	+4.33	14,747	43.59	+1.11
	Labour	Carol Beaumont		13,168	40.57	+0.73	12,467	36.85	-2.69
	Green	Tom Land		1,827	5.63	+0.81	3,220	9.52	+4.04
	NZ First	Jerry Ho		687	2.12	+0.26	1,753	5.18	+2.23
	Conservative	Grace Haden		443	1.36	+1.36	585	1.73	+1.73
	Mana	Barry Tumai		145	0.45	+0.45	140	0.41	+0.41
	ACT						400	1.18	-3.35
	Māori Party						213	0.63	-0.05
	United Future						130	0.38	-0.75
	Legalise Cannabis						128	0.38	+0.08
	Libertarianz						28	0.08	-0.003
	Alliance						13	0.04	-0.01
	Democrats						7	0.02	+0.01
Informal votes				890			283
Total valid votes				32,349			33,891
	National hold		Majority	3,021	9.31	+3.60

Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 46,637 ^[9]

2008 election

2008 general election: Maungakiekie [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 Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	National	Sam Lotu-Iiga		15,491	45.55	+13.95	14,903	42.48	+9.00
	Labour	Carol Beaumont		13,549	39.84	-13.50	13,873	39.55	-11.16
	Green	Rawiri Paratene		1,639	4.82	+1.78	1,921	5.48
	ACT	Athol McQuilkan		969	2.85	+0.75	1,589	4.53	+2.62
	Progressive	Matt Robson		756	2.22	-0.32	334	0.95	-0.41
	NZ First	Asenati Lole-Taylor		630	1.85	-1.37	1,035	2.95	-1.24
	United Future	Denise Krum		413	1.21	-0.88	397	1.13	-0.91
	Pacific	Darren Jones		246	0.72		229	0.65
	Kiwi	Bernie Ogilvy		173	0.51		113	0.32
	RAM	Elliott Blade		85	0.25		21	0.06
	Communist League	Patrick Brown		58	0.17
	Māori Party						239	0.68	+0.08
	Family Party						132	0.38
	Bill and Ben						126	0.36
	Legalise Cannabis						104	0.30	+0.12
	Libertarianz						30	0.09	+0.07
	Alliance						17	0.05	+0.01
	Workers Party						11	0.03
	Democrats						4	0.01	-0.01
	RONZ						3	0.01	±0.00
Informal votes				474			191
Total valid votes				34,009			35,081
	National gain from Labour		Majority	1,942	5.71	+27.46

2005 election

2005 general election: Maungakiekie [11]
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	%	±%
	Labour	Y Mark Gosche		15,821	53.34	-1.80	15,484	50.71	+0.09
	National	Paul Goldsmith		9,371	31.60	+1.97	10,223	33.48	+16.42
	NZ First	Joe Williams		956	3.22		1,278	4.19	-3.48
	Green	Paul Quatrough		901	3.04	-1.26	583	1.77	-3.73
	ACT	Michelle Lorenz		624	2.10	-1.57	584	1.91	-6.55
	United Future	Bernie Ogilvy		619	2.09	-1.26	623	2.04	-3.81
	Progressive	Sione Fonua		564	1.90	+0.46	414	1.36	-0.61
	Māori Party	Bill Puru		263	0.89		184	0.60
	Communist League	Patrick Brown		54	0.18
	Republican	Bevin Berg		14	0.05
	Destiny						159	0.47
	Family Rights						144	0.44
	Legalise Cannabis						55	0.18	-0.17
	Christian Heritage						46	0.15	-0.85
	Alliance						11	0.04	-0.82
	Direct Democracy						11	0.04
	99 MP						9	0.03
	Democrats						7	0.02
	Libertarianz						7	0.02
	One NZ						2	0.01	-0.03
	RONZ						2	0.01
Informal votes				409			149
Total valid votes				29,659			30,532
	Labour hold		Majority	6,450	21.75	-3.76

2002 election

2002 general election: Maungakiekie [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 Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	Labour	Y Mark Gosche		14,273	55.14	+10.65	13,491	50.62	+4.18
	National	Belinda Vernon		7,670	29.63	-5.90	4,547	17.06	-10.59
	Green	Don Fairley		1,114	4.30	+0.86	1,466	5.50	+1.35
	ACT	Robin Roodt		949	3.67	+0.91	2,256	8.46	+0.73
	United Future	Kevin Harper		867	3.35		1,558	5.85
	Progressive	Dawn Patchett		373	1.44		524	1.97
	Christian Heritage	Barry Pepperell		346	1.34	+0.21	266	1.00
	Alliance	Joseph Randall		222	0.86	-6.62	250	0.94	-5.70
	Communist League	Janet Roth		72	0.28
	NZ First						2,044	7.67	+4.83
	ORNZ						129	0.48
	Legalise Cannabis						93	0.35
	Mana Māori						14	0.05
	One NZ						10	0.04
	NMP						3	0.01
Informal votes				510			208
Total valid votes				25,886			26,651
	Labour hold		Majority	6,603	25.51	+16.55

1999 election

1999 general election: Maungakiekie [13] [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 Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mark Gosche		12,469	44.49		13,234	46.44
	National	N Belinda Vernon		9,957	35.53		7,878	27.65
	Alliance	Matt Robson		2,096	7.48		1,891	6.64
	Green	Jon Carapiet		964	3.44		1183	4.15
	ACT	Angus Ogilvie		774	2.76		2,202	7.73
	NZ First	Gilbert Myles		734	2.62		810	2.84
	Christian Democrats	Jason Keiller		387	1.38		266
	Christian Heritage	Mary Paki		313	1.12		377
	Independent	Sue Henry		152	0.54
	Natural Law	Graeme Lodge		73	0.26		69
	Independent	Tony Cranston		67	0.24
	Republican	Brian Freeth		40	0.14		21
	Legalise Cannabis						178
	United NZ						169	0.59
	Libertarianz						63
	Mauri Pacific						43
	Animals First						39
	McGillicuddy Serious						30
	NMP						13
	One NZ						12
	Mana Māori						10
	People's Choice Party						3
	Freedom Movement						2
	South Island						1
Total valid votes				28,026			28,494
	Labour gain from National		Majority	2,512	8.96

1996 election

1996 general election: Maungakiekie [15] [16] [17]
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	Belinda Vernon		11,621	36.24		10,351	32.03
	Labour	N Richard Northey		11,393	35.52		11,024	34.12
	NZ First	Gilbert Myles		4,031	12.57		3,405	10.54
	Alliance	Matt Robson		3,188	9.94		2,706	8.37
	ACT	Angus Ogilvie		965	3.01		2,317	7.17
	Progressive Green	Dorothy Bond		254	0.79		115	0.36
	McGillicuddy Serious	John Orchard		207	0.65		72	0.22
	United NZ	Ramparkash Samujh		200	0.62		222	0.69
	Natural Law	Graeme Lodge		114	0.36		78	0.24
	Advance New Zealand	England So'onalole		66	0.21		22	0.07
	Republican	Bill Puru		32	0.10
	Christian Coalition						1,207	3.74
	Legalise Cannabis						400	1.24
	Ethnic Minority Party						255	0.79
	Animals First						46	0.14
	Superannuitants & Youth						25	0.08
	Libertarianz						17	0.05
	Green Society						15	0.05
	Mana Māori						14	0.04
	Conservatives						14	0.04
	Asia Pacific United						7	0.02
	Te Tawharau						0	0.00
Informal votes				400			159
Total valid votes				32,071			32,312
	National win new seat		Majority	228	0.71

Table footnotes

1. Myles entered Parliament on 16 February 1999 following Deborah Morris's resignation.
2. Beaumont entered Parliament on 13 March 2013 following Charles Chauvel's resignation.
3. 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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