Mount Albert | |
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Single-member constituency for the New Zealand House of Representatives | |
![]() Location of Mount Albertwithin Auckland | |
Region | Auckland |
Area | 20.24 km2 (7.81 sq mi) |
Current constituency | |
Created | 1946 |
Current MP | Helen White |
Party | Labour |
List MP | Melissa Lee (National) |
List MP | Ricardo Menéndez March (Green) |
Mount Albert is a parliamentary electorate based around the suburb of Mount Albert in Auckland, New Zealand, returning one member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Representatives. It has elected only Labour Party MPs since it was first contested at the 1946 election. The electorate is currently held by Helen White and was recently represented by Jacinda Ardern, formerly Prime Minister of New Zealand, who was first elected in a 2017 by-election and stepped down from parliament on 15 April 2023. [1] Before her, Mt Albert was represented by David Shearer from 13 June 2009 to 31 December 2016; it was represented by Helen Clark from the 1981 general election until her resignation from Parliament on 17 April 2009.
The area that the electorate contains is notable for having produced three Labour prime ministers – Michael Joseph Savage, who represented the Auckland West electorate that Mt Albert was created out of in 1946; Helen Clark; and Jacinda Ardern. Additionally, David Shearer served as Labour Party leader in opposition. [2] Warren Freer, who represented the electorate from 1947 to 1981, served as acting prime minister on three occasions. [3]
The 1941 New Zealand census had been postponed due to World War II, so the 1946 electoral redistribution had to take ten years of population growth and movements into account. The North Island gained a further two electorates from the South Island due to faster population growth. The abolition of the country quota through the Electoral Amendment Act, 1945 reduced the number and increased the size of rural electorates. None of the existing electorates remained unchanged, 27 electorates were abolished, eight former electorates were re-established, and 19 electorates were created for the first time, including Mount Albert. [4]
Mount Albert covers a segment of the western Auckland isthmus, based around the suburb of Mount Albert and stretching from Kingsland on the eastern periphery of the central city down to Sandringham and extending as far as Avondale on the seat's western edge. Changes brought about by an electoral redistribution after the 2006 census saw a swap of suburbs with neighbouring Auckland Central – Newton on the city fringe being returned to Auckland Central, having been moved out in 1999, and Point Chevalier being drafted in.
The present incarnation of Mount Albert dates to 1999, when the creation of the Mount Roskill seat necessitated removing the suburbs clustered around the north side of Manukau Harbour from the Owairaka electorate. The name Mount Albert had been out of use for only three years – before Owairaka was drawn up ahead of the change to Mixed Member Proportional voting in 1996, the Mount Albert electorate had been part of the New Zealand electoral landscape for fifty years.
Mount Albert was first created for the 1946 election. [5] The electorate is known for being contested by three later prime ministers, Robert Muldoon, Helen Clark and Jacinda Ardern.
The first representative, Arthur Shapton Richards, died after only one year in office. [6] Warren Freer succeeded him in the 1947 by-election, and held the electorate until he retired in 1981. [7]
Muldoon (prime minister from 1975 to 1984) unsuccessfully sought the National Party nomination for the electorate in 1951. [8] He gained the nomination to challenge Freer in the 1954 election, his first run for Parliament, but was unable to take the seat from the Labour Party, [8] like all other National candidates before or since. Mount Albert's inner-suburb, working-class composition makes it one of Labour's safest seats.
Freer was succeeded by Helen Clark, [9] who held the electorate until 1996, when it was abolished and she moved to the Owairaka electorate. When the Mount Albert electorate was re-established for the 1999 election, Clark became the representative again. She was Prime Minister from 1999 to 2008. In 2009, she resigned to become head of the United Nations Development Programme. [10]
Clark was succeeded by David Shearer in the 2009 by-election. He was re-elected as MP in the 2011 and 2014 general elections, before resigning in late 2016 to lead the United Nation's peacekeeping mission in South Sudan. [11] Jacinda Ardern, who had previously stood in the Auckland Central electorate, won the February 2017 by-election. She became leader of the Labour Party in August that year, 8 weeks before the 2017 general election, after Andrew Little stepped down as leader.
Key
Members of Parliament elected from party lists in elections where that person also unsuccessfully contested the Mount Albert electorate. Unless otherwise stated, all MPs terms began and ended at general elections.
Key
Election | Winner | |
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2011 election | David Clendon | |
Melissa Lee | ||
2014 election | Melissa Lee | |
2017 election | Julie Anne Genter | |
Melissa Lee | ||
2020 election | Melissa Lee | |
2023 election | Ricardo Menéndez March | |
Melissa Lee | ||
2023 general election: Mount Albert [12] | |||||||||
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Notes: | Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. | ||||||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
Labour | Helen White | 13,238 | 33.73 | -37.01 | 10,336 | 25.99 | -22.61 | ||
National | Melissa Lee | 13,220 | 33.68 | +14.35 | 12,705 | 31.94 | +13.31 | ||
Green | Ricardo Menéndez March | 9,296 | 23.69 | +18.13 | 10,030 | 25.22 | +5.29 | ||
ACT | Ollie Murphy | 1,485 | 3.78 | 2,681 | 6.74 | +0.78 | |||
Opportunities | Ciara Swords | 1,318 | 3.36 | 1,474 | 3.71 | +1.53 | |||
Independent | Tesi Naufahu | 155 | 0.40 | ||||||
Human Rights Party | Anthony Van den Heuvel | 104 | 0.26 | +0.05 | |||||
NZ First | 1,220 | 3.07 | +1.25 | ||||||
Te Pāti Māori | 640 | 1.61 | +1.12 | ||||||
New Zealand Loyal | 146 | 0.37 | |||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 115 | 0.29 | +0.09 | ||||||
NewZeal | 83 | 0.21 | +0.21 | ||||||
Freedoms NZ | 60 | 0.15 | |||||||
Animal Justice | 51 | 0.13 | |||||||
Women's Rights | 39 | 0.10 | |||||||
New Conservatives | 30 | 0.08 | -0.50 | ||||||
DemocracyNZ | 21 | 0.05 | |||||||
New Nation | 9 | 0.02 | |||||||
Leighton Baker Party | 6 | 0.02 | |||||||
Informal votes | 430 | 121 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 39,246 | 39,767 | |||||||
Labour hold | Majority | 18 | 0.05 | -51.34 |
2020 general election: Mount Albert [13] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
Labour | ![]() | 29,238 | 70.72 | +6.81 | 20,265 | 48.60 | +5.41 | ||
National | Melissa Lee | 7,992 | 19.33 | –4.62 | 7,769 | 18.63 | –15.19 | ||
Green | Luke Wijohn | 2,299 | 5.56 | −0.82 | 8,311 | 19.93 | +5.34 | ||
Opportunities | Cameron Lord | 903 | 2.18 | −0.23 | 1.048 | 2.51 | –0.44 | ||
New Conservative | Daniel Reurich | 316 | 0.76 | +0.46 | 241 | 0.58 | +0.42 | ||
Human Rights Party | Anthony Van den Heuvel | 87 | 0.21 | +0.14 | |||||
ACT | 2,485 | 5.96 | +5.37 | ||||||
NZ First | 760 | 1.82 | –1.60 | ||||||
Māori Party | 205 | 0.49 | +0.04 | ||||||
Advance NZ | 141 | 0.34 | — | ||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 83 | 0.20 | +0.04 | ||||||
TEA | 41 | 0.10 | — | ||||||
ONE | 34 | 0.08 | — | ||||||
Sustainable NZ | 22 | 0.05 | — | ||||||
Outdoors | 16 | 0.04 | — | ||||||
Vision New Zealand | 11 | 0.02 | — | ||||||
Social Credit | 4 | 0.009 | –0.001 | ||||||
Heartland | 3 | 0.007 | – | ||||||
Informal votes | 507 | 258 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 41,342 | 41,697 | |||||||
Labour hold | Majority | 21,246 | 51.39 | +11.43 |
2017 general election: Mount Albert [14] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
Labour | ![]() | 24,416 | 63.91 | +5.74 | 16,742 | 43.19 | +13.88 | ||
National | Melissa Lee | 9,152 | 23.95 | −4.66 | 13,112 | 33.82 | −5.56 | ||
Green | Julie Anne Genter | 2,438 | 6.38 | −2.36 | 5,657 | 14.59 | −7.09 | ||
Opportunities | Dan Thurston | 924 | 2.41 | - | 1,144 | 2.95 | — | ||
NZ First | Andrew Littlejohn | 724 | 1.89 | — | 1,329 | 3.42 | −0.68 | ||
Conservative | Jeff Johnson | 117 | 0.30 | −1.16 | 65 | 0.16 | −1.79 | ||
Independent | Bruce Stockman | 66 | 0.17 | — | |||||
Human Rights Party | Anthony Van den Heuvel | 28 | 0.07 | −0.14 | |||||
ACT | 229 | 0.59 | −0.47 | ||||||
Māori Party | 175 | 0.45 | −0.03 | ||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 63 | 0.16 | −0.09 | ||||||
People's Party | 31 | 0.07 | — | ||||||
United Future | 22 | 0.05 | −0.10 | ||||||
Outdoors | 17 | 0.04 | — | ||||||
Internet | 12 | 0.04 | — | ||||||
Mana | 8 | 0.02 | — | ||||||
Ban 1080 | 6 | 0.01 | −0.02 | ||||||
Democrats | 2 | 0.01 | −0.01 | ||||||
Informal votes | 334 | 146 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 38,199 | 38,760 | |||||||
Turnout | 38,760 | ||||||||
Labour hold | Majority | 15,264 | 39.96 | +10.40 |
The following table shows the final results: [15]
2017 Mount Albert by-election | |||||
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Notes: Blue background denotes the winner of the by-election. | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Jacinda Ardern | 10,495 | 76.89 | ||
Green | Julie Anne Genter | 1,564 | 11.45 | ||
Opportunities | Geoff Simmons | 623 | 4.56 | ||
People's Party | Vin Tomar | 218 | 1.59 | ||
Socialist Aotearoa | Joe Carolan | 189 | 1.38 | ||
Independent | Penny Bright | 139 | 1.01 | ||
Legalise Cannabis | Abe Gray | 97 | 0.71 | ||
Independent | Adam Amos | 81 | 0.59 | ||
Independent | Dale Arthur | 54 | 0.39 | ||
Human Rights Party | Anthony Van den Heuvel | 34 | 0.24 | ||
Independent | Peter Wakeman | 30 | 0.21 | ||
Not A Party | Simon Smythe | 19 | 0.13 | ||
Communist League | Patrick Brown | 16 | 0.11 | ||
Informal votes | 90 | 0.65 | |||
Total Valid votes | 13,649 | 30.00 | |||
Labour hold | Majority | 8,931 | 65.43 |
2014 general election: Mount Albert [16] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
Labour | ![]() | 20,970 | 58.17 | −1.02 | 10,823 | 29.31 | −7.78 | ||
National | Melissa Lee | 10,314 | 28.61 | +1.11 | 14,359 | 38.89 | +2.22 | ||
Green | Jeanette Elley | 3,152 | 8.74 | −0.75 | 8,005 | 21.68 | +4.53 | ||
Conservative | Jeff Johnson | 525 | 1.46 | −1.03 | 719 | 1.95 | +0.34 | ||
ACT | Tommy Fergusson | 321 | 0.89 | −0.45 | 356 | 0.96 | +0.03 | ||
Mana | Joe Carolan | 290 | 0.80 | +0.80 | |||||
Human Rights Party | Anthony van den Heuvel | 76 | 0.21 | +0.21 | |||||
Independent | Michael Wackrow | 68 | 0.19 | +0.19 | |||||
NZ First | 1,512 | 4.10 | −0.43 | ||||||
Internet Mana | 603 | 1.63 | +1.05 [lower-alpha 1] | ||||||
Māori Party | 178 | 0.48 | −0.04 | ||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 93 | 0.25 | −0.16 | ||||||
United Future | 57 | 0.15 | −0.20 | ||||||
Ban 1080 | 12 | 0.03 | +0.03 | ||||||
Civilian | 11 | 0.03 | +0.03 | ||||||
Democrats | 7 | 0.02 | ±0.00 | ||||||
Focus | 6 | 0.02 | +0.02 | ||||||
Independent Coalition | 5 | 0.01 | +0.01 | ||||||
Informal votes | 336 | 176 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 36,052 | 36,922 | |||||||
Turnout | 36,922 | 79.41 | +6.42 | ||||||
Labour hold | Majority | 10,656 | 29.56 | −2.13 |
2011 general election: Mount Albert [17] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
Labour | ![]() | 18,716 | 59.19 | -0.10 | 12,238 | 37.09 | -5.51 | ||
National | Melissa Lee | 8,695 | 27.50 | -1.35 | 12,102 | 36.67 | +1.01 | ||
Green | David Clendon | 3,000 | 9.49 | +3.55 | 5,660 | 17.15 | +6.15 | ||
Conservative | Frank Poching | 786 | 2.49 | +2.49 | 532 | 1.61 | +1.61 | ||
ACT | Stephen Boyle | 425 | 1.34 | -2.75 | 306 | 0.93 | -2.58 | ||
NZ First | 1,494 | 4.53 | +1.85 | ||||||
Mana | 191 | 0.58 | -+0.58 | ||||||
Māori Party | 172 | 0.52 | -0.26 | ||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 135 | 0.41 | +0.12 | ||||||
United Future | 114 | 0.35 | -0.32 | ||||||
Libertarianz | 29 | 0.09 | +0.04 | ||||||
Alliance | 21 | 0.06 | +0.01 | ||||||
Democrats | 5 | 0.02 | -0.005 | ||||||
Informal votes | 969 | 272 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 31,622 | 32,999 | |||||||
Labour hold | Majority | 10,021 | 31.69 | +1.24 |
Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 45,208 [18]
2009 Mount Albert by-election | |||||
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Notes: Blue background denotes the winner of the by-election. | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | David Shearer | 13,260 | 63.49 | +4.20 | |
National | Melissa Lee a | 3,542 | 16.96 | -11.88 | |
Green | Russel Norman a | 2,567 | 12.29 | +6.35 | |
ACT | John Boscawen a | 968 | 4.63 | +0.54 | |
Bill and Ben | Ben Boyce | 158 | 0.76 | ||
Legalise Cannabis | Dakta Green | 92 | 0.44 | ||
Kiwi | Simonne Dyer | 91 | 0.44 | ||
United Future | Judy Turner | 89 | 0.43 | ||
Libertarianz | Julian Pistorius | 39 | 0.19 | ||
Independent | Jim Bagnell | 24 | 0.11 | ||
Independent | Ari Baker | 15 | 0.07 | ||
Human Rights Party | Anthony Van den Heuvel | 13 | 0.06 | ||
People Before Profit | Malcom France | 13 | 0.06 | ||
Independent | Jackson James Wood | 9 | 0.04 | ||
People's Choice | Rusty Kane | 5 | 0.02 | ||
Informal votes | 58 | ||||
Total Valid votes | 20,885 | ||||
Labour hold | Majority | 9,718 | 46.40 | +4.02 |
a Three candidates were list MPs elected at the 2008 election.
2008 general election: Mount Albert [19] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
Labour | ![]() | 20,157 | 59.29 | -7.26 | 14,894 | 42.60 | -11.73 | ||
National | Ravi Musuku | 9,806 | 28.84 | +9.21 | 12,468 | 35.66 | +9.31 | ||
Green | Jon Carapiet | 2,019 | 5.94 | +1.22 | 3,846 | 11.00 | +1.73 | ||
ACT | Kathleen McCabe | 1,392 | 4.09 | +1.72 | 1,227 | 3.51 | +1.49 | ||
Kiwi | Christian Dawson | 249 | 0.73 | 157 | 0.45 | ||||
Pacific | Milo Siilata | 234 | 0.69 | 273 | 0.78 | ||||
Human Rights Party | Anthony van den Heuvel | 87 | 0.26 | ||||||
RONZ | Dave Llewell | 53 | 0.16 | +0.16 | 16 | 0.05 | +0.03 | ||
NZ First | 936 | 2.68 | -0.70 | ||||||
Māori Party | 273 | 0.78 | -0.26 | ||||||
Progressive | 244 | 0.70 | |||||||
United Future | 232 | 0.66 | |||||||
Bill and Ben | 132 | 0.38 | |||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 101 | 0.29 | |||||||
Family Party | 92 | 0.26 | |||||||
Alliance | 19 | 0.05 | |||||||
RAM | 19 | 0.05 | |||||||
Libertarianz | 16 | 0.05 | |||||||
Workers Party | 11 | 0.03 | |||||||
Democrats | 7 | 0.02 | |||||||
Informal votes | 410 | 256 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 33,997 | 34,963 | |||||||
Labour hold | Majority | 10,351 |
2005 general election: Mount Albert [20] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
Labour | ![]() | 20,918 | 66.55 | -1.94 | 17,501 | 54.33 | +2.53 | ||
National | Ravi Musuku | 6,169 | 19.63 | 8,488 | 26.35 | +13.33 | |||
Green | Jon Carapiet | 1,485 | 4.72 | -0.67 | 2,985 | 9.27 | -1.35 | ||
NZ First | Julian Batchelor | 746 | 2.37 | 1,089 | 3.38 | -3.01 | |||
ACT | David Seymour | 746 | 2.37 | 651 | 2.02 | -5.09 | |||
United Future | Tony Gordon | 529 | 1.68 | 649 | 2.01 | -3.28 | |||
Progressive | Jenny Wilson | 407 | 1.29 | 525 | 1.59 | -0.10 | |||
Destiny | Anne Williamson | 337 | 1.07 | 157 | 0.49 | ||||
Independent | Jim Bagnall | 83 | 0.26 | ||||||
Anti-Capitalist Alliance | Daphna Whitmore | 79 | 0.25 | -0.15 | |||||
Independent | Anthony Ravlich | 47 | 0.15 | ||||||
Direct Democracy | Howard Ponga | 30 | 0.10 | 10 | 0.03 | ||||
Independent | Erik Taylor | 29 | 0.09 | ||||||
Māori Party | 168 | 0.52 | |||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 43 | 0.13 | -0.40 | ||||||
Christian Heritage | 40 | 0.12 | -0.89 | ||||||
Alliance | 22 | 0.07 | -1.69 | ||||||
Family Rights | 20 | 0.06 | |||||||
Libertarianz | 19 | 0.06 | |||||||
RONZ | 8 | 0.02 | |||||||
99 MP | 6 | 0.02 | |||||||
Democrats | 3 | 0.01 | |||||||
One NZ | 0 | 0.00 | -0.01 | ||||||
Informal votes | 316 | 130 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 31,747 | 32,342 | |||||||
Labour hold | Majority | 14,749 |
2002 general election: Mount Albert [21] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
Labour | ![]() | 19,514 | 68.49 | 15,021 | 51.80 | ||||
National | Raewyn Bhana | 3,490 | 12.24 | 3,777 | 13.02 | ||||
ACT | Bruce Williams | 1,550 | 5.44 | 2,063 | 7.11 | ||||
Green | Jon Carapiet | 1,537 | 5.39 | 3,080 | 10.62 | ||||
United Future | Hassan Hosseini | 726 | 2.54 | 1,534 | 5.29 | ||||
Christian Heritage | Pauline G. Cooper | 426 | 1.49 | 295 | 1.01 | ||||
Alliance | Jill Ovens | 334 | 1.17 | 494 | 1.70 | ||||
Progressive | Gillian Dance | 299 | 1.04 | 491 | 1.69 | ||||
Legalise Cannabis | Daphna Whitmore | 116 | 0.40 | 115 | 0.53 | ||||
Independent | Rick Stevenson | 52 | 0.18 | ||||||
NZ First | 1,855 | 6.39 | |||||||
ORNZ | 98 | 0.33 | |||||||
Mana Māori | 6 | 0.02 | |||||||
One NZ | 4 | 0.01 | |||||||
NMP | 4 | 0.01 | |||||||
Informal votes | 447 | 160 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 28,491 | 28,997 | |||||||
Labour hold | Majority | 16,024 | 56.24 |
1999 general election: Mount Albert [22] [23] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
Labour | Helen Clark | 18,982 | 64.37 | 15,327 | 51.37 | ||||
National | Noelene Buckland | 5,874 | 19.92 | 6,823 | 22.87 | ||||
Alliance | Jill Ovens | 1,139 | 3.86 | 2,146 | 7.19 | ||||
ACT | Daniel King | 1,062 | 3.60 | 1,776 | 5.95 | ||||
Green | Mike Johnson | 1,032 | 3.50 | 1,675 | 5.61 | ||||
Christian Heritage | Diane Taylor | 658 | 2.23 | 542 | 1.82 | ||||
NZ First | Seini Mafi | 403 | 1.37 | 694 | 2.33 | ||||
McGillicuddy Serious | Kerry Hoole | 193 | 0.65 | 29 | 0.65 | ||||
United NZ | Hassan Hosseini | 124 | 0.42 | 186 | 0.62 | ||||
Republican | Jane Hotere | 23 | 0.08 | 3 | 0.01 | ||||
Legalise Cannabis | 186 | 0.62 | |||||||
Libertarianz | 58 | 0.19 | |||||||
Animals First | 46 | 0.15 | |||||||
Mauri Pacific | 14 | 0.05 | |||||||
Natural Law | 12 | 0.04 | |||||||
One NZ | 9 | 0.03 | |||||||
Mana Māori | 7 | 0.02 | |||||||
South Island | 6 | 0.02 | |||||||
NMP | 3 | 0.01 | |||||||
The People's Choice | 1 | 0.003 | |||||||
Informal votes | 656 | 309 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 29,490 | 29,837 | |||||||
Labour win new seat | Majority | 13,108 | 44.45 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Helen Clark | 9,546 | 49.41 | +5.93 | |
National | Vanessa Brown | 4,890 | 25.31 | ||
Alliance | Doug McGee | 2,873 | 14.87 | ||
NZ First | Elizabeth Anderson | 1,370 | 7.09 | ||
Christian Heritage | Jens Meder | 259 | 1.34 | ||
McGillicuddy Serious | KT Julian | 195 | 1.00 | ||
Workers Rights | Ivan Sowry | 97 | 0.50 | ||
Natural Law | Stewart Sanson | 62 | 0.32 | ||
Defence Movement | Anthony Van Den Heuvel | 25 | 0.12 | ||
Majority | 4,656 | 24.10 | +17.35 | ||
Turnout | 19,317 | 83.45 | +1.26 | ||
Registered electors | 23,146 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Helen Clark | 7,914 | 43.48 | -18.77 | |
National | Larry Belshaw | 6,684 | 36.72 | ||
Green | Harry Parke | 1,774 | 9.74 | ||
NewLabour | Jennie Walker | 1,418 | 7.79 | ||
McGillicuddy Serious | Adrian Holroyd | 151 | 0.82 | ||
Social Credit | Richard Povall | 133 | 0.73 | ||
Democrats | Syd Leach | 127 | 0.69 | ||
Majority | 1,230 | 6.75 | -23.68 | ||
Turnout | 18,201 | 82.19 | -1.83 | ||
Registered electors | 22,143 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Helen Clark | 11,326 | 62.25 | +5.51 | |
National | Rob Wheeler | 5,989 | 32.91 | ||
Democrats | Gillian Dance | 861 | 4.73 | ||
Independent | Malcolm Moses | 17 | 0.09 | ||
Majority | 5,537 | 30.43 | +1.64 | ||
Turnout | 18,193 | 84.02 | -5.80 | ||
Registered electors | 21,653 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Helen Clark | 12,231 | 56.74 | +5.42 | |
National | Rod Cavanagh | 6,024 | 27.94 | ||
NZ Party | Michelle Gonsalves | 2,390 | 11.08 | ||
Social Credit | Douglas McGee | 908 | 4.21 | ||
Majority | 6,207 | 28.79 | +8.80 | ||
Turnout | 21,553 | 89.82 | +3.48 | ||
Registered electors | 23,995 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Helen Clark | 10,027 | 51.32 | ||
National | Warren Moyes | 6,120 | 31.32 | ||
Social Credit | Harold Dance | 3,391 | 17.35 | +5.84 | |
Majority | 3,907 | 19.99 | |||
Turnout | 19,538 | 86.34 | +2.00 | ||
Registered electors | 22,627 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Warren Freer | 9,718 | 47.55 | +2.40 | |
National | Frank Ryan | 7,994 | 39.11 | -4.74 | |
Social Credit | Harold Dance | 2,353 | 11.51 | ||
Values | Sheelah Chalken | 371 | 1.81 | ||
Majority | 2,861 | 13.99 | +12.64 | ||
Turnout | 20,436 | 84.34 | -5.07 | ||
Registered electors | 24,229 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Warren Freer | 8,231 | 45.15 | -11.04 | |
National | Frank Ryan | 7,994 | 43.85 | ||
Values | Barrie McKay | 1,060 | 5.81 | ||
Social Credit | Clarkson James | 914 | 5.01 | ||
Socialist Unity | Les Bravery | 28 | 0.15 | ||
Majority | 247 | 1.35 | -22.97 | ||
Turnout | 18,227 | 79.27 | -8.62 | ||
Registered electors | 22,993 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Warren Freer | 9,196 | 56.19 | +2.05 | |
National | John Hamilton Malcolm | 5,216 | 31.87 | ||
Social Credit | Byrt Jordan | 1,024 | 6.25 | ||
Values | Terrence Michael McGrath | 724 | 4.42 | ||
New Democratic | Pauline Howie | 203 | 1.24 | ||
Majority | 3,980 | 24.32 | +7.37 | ||
Turnout | 16,363 | 87.89 | -0.93 | ||
Registered electors | 18,617 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Warren Freer | 9,057 | 54.14 | +2.81 | |
National | Gavin Downie | 6,220 | 37.18 | ||
Social Credit | Tom Weal | 1,451 | 8.67 | ||
Majority | 2,837 | 16.95 | -1.56 | ||
Turnout | 16,728 | 88.82 | +3.80 | ||
Registered electors | 18,832 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Warren Freer | 7,359 | 51.33 | -3.37 | |
National | Tom Hibbert | 4,705 | 32.82 | ||
Social Credit | Tom Weal | 2,270 | 15.83 | ||
Majority | 2,654 | 18.51 | -0.64 | ||
Turnout | 14,334 | 85.02 | -5.54 | ||
Registered electors | 16,858 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Warren Freer | 8,618 | 54.70 | +1.50 | |
National | Jeffrey Lloyd Reid | 5,600 | 35.54 | ||
Social Credit | Tom Weal | 1,058 | 6.71 | ||
Liberal | Walter Ellis Christie | 478 | 3.03 | ||
Majority | 3,018 | 19.15 | +7.87 | ||
Turnout | 15,754 | 90.56 | +0.17 | ||
Registered electors | 17,396 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Warren Freer | 7,905 | 53.20 | -7.51 | |
National | Clarice Anderson | 6,229 | 41.92 | ||
Social Credit | N R Monteith | 690 | 4.64 | ||
Independent | L Pitcher | 34 | 0.22 | ||
Majority | 1,676 | 11.28 | -16.33 | ||
Turnout | 14,858 | 90.39 | -3.11 | ||
Registered electors | 16,437 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Warren Freer | 8,766 | 60.71 | +2.90 | |
National | Geoffrey Taylor | 4,779 | 33.10 | ||
Social Credit | John Francis Gerrard | 892 | 6.17 | ||
Majority | 3,987 | 27.61 | +5.52 | ||
Turnout | 14,437 | 93.50 | +1.28 | ||
Registered electors | 15,439 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Warren Freer | 8,441 | 57.81 | +5.59 | |
National | Robert Muldoon | 5,215 | 35.72 | ||
Social Credit | Walter Crispin | 943 | 6.45 | ||
Majority | 3,226 | 22.09 | +17.65 | ||
Turnout | 14,599 | 92.22 | +1.66 | ||
Registered electors | 15,830 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Warren Freer | 7,092 | 52.22 | -1.19 | |
National | Reg Judson | 6,488 | 47.77 | +1.18 | |
Majority | 604 | 4.44 | -2.37 | ||
Turnout | 13,580 | 90.56 | -3.06 | ||
Registered electors | 14,994 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Warren Freer | 7,295 | 53.41 | -2.60 | |
National | Reg Judson | 6,364 | 46.59 | ||
Majority | 931 | 6.81 | -5.21 | ||
Turnout | 13,659 | 93.62 | +6.53 | ||
Registered electors | 14,589 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Warren Freer | 7,235 | 56.01 | ||
National | Jack Garland | 5,682 | 43.99 | ||
Majority | 1,553 | 12.02 | |||
Informal votes | 26 | 0.20 | -0.34 | ||
Turnout | 12,943 | 87.09 | -7.38 | ||
Registered electors | 14,861 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Arthur Shapton Richards | 7,681 | 56.88 | ||
National | Frederick Ashley Hosking | 5,824 | 43.12 | ||
Informal votes | 74 | 0.54 | |||
Majority | 1,857 | 13.75 | |||
Turnout | 13,579 | 94.47 | |||
Registered electors | 14,374 |
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