Papakura (New Zealand electorate)

Papakura
Papakura
Single-member constituency; for the New Zealand House of Representatives
	Location of Papakurawithin Auckland
Region	Auckland
Current constituency
Created	2008 (recreated)
Current MP	Judith Collins
Party	National

Last updated March 10, 2024

Papakura is an electorate for the New Zealand House of Representatives, based in the south Auckland town of Papakura. Historically, the name refers to an electorate that existed between 1978 and 1996, which with the advent of Mixed Member Proportional voting and resulting reduction in the number of constituencies was folded into a new Hunua seat. In 2002 Hunua was modified, pulled northwards and renamed Clevedon.

In a modern sense, the name refers to a constituency which was fought for the first time at the 2008 election. This new Papakura seat is the successor to the old Clevedon seat. It also contains a set of towns to the west of Papakura, namely Drury, Karaka and Kingseat. Until 2014 it also included Waiau Pa and Clarks Beach. The current MP is Judith Collins, of the National Party.

Population centres

The 1977 electoral redistribution was the most overtly political since the Representation Commission had been established through an amendment to the Representation Act in 1886, initiated by Muldoon's National Government.^[1] As part of the 1976 census, a large number of people failed to fill out an electoral re-registration card, and census staff had not been given the authority to insist on the card being completed. This had little practical effect on people on the general roll, but it transferred Māori to the general roll if the card was not handed in. Together with a northward shift of New Zealand's population, this resulted in five new electorates having to be created in the upper part of the North Island.^[2] The electoral redistribution was very disruptive, and 22 electorates were abolished, while 27 electorates were newly created (including Papakura) or re-established. These changes came into effect for the 1978 election.^[3]

History

In the 1978 election, the Papakura electorate was won by National's Merv Wellington, who had been MP for the Manurewa electorate since 1975.^[4] When he retired at the 1990 election, he was succeeded by John Robertson.

Members of Parliament

Key

National United NZ

Elections	Winner
1978 election		Merv Wellington
1981 election
1984 election
1987 election
1990 election		John Robertson ¹
1993 election
1993 election
(Electorate abolished 1996–2008)
2008 election		Judith Collins
2011 election
2014 election
2017 election
2020 election
2023 election

¹Robertson defected to the United party in 1995.

List MPs

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

Key Labour

Election	Winner
2020 election		Anahila Kanongata'a-Suisuiki

Election results

2023 election

2023 general election: Papakura^[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	%	±%
	National	Y Judith Collins		24,109	57.79	+5.34	22,042	51.67	+14.76
	Labour	Anahila Kanongata'a-Suisuiki		10,590	25.38	-9.53	8,893	20.84	-21.67
	ACT	Mike McCormick		3,121	7.48	—	4,264	10	+1.24
	NZ First	Robert Monds		1,728	4.14	+1.96	2,238	5.25	+2.49
	New Zealand Loyal	Donna Kouka		636	1.52	—	418	0.98	—
	Vision New Zealand	Kathy Harvey		444	1.06	—
	Independent	Karin Kerr		427	1.02	—
	Animal Justice Party						61	0.14	—
	Legalise Cannabis						162	0.38	+0.01
	DemocracyNZ						62	0.15	—
	Freedoms NZ						210	0.49	—
	Green						2,710	6.35	+2.33
	Leighton Baker Party						11	0.03	—
	New Conservatives						55	0.13	-1.44
	New Nation						19	0.04	—
	NewZeal						260	0.61	—
	Te Pāti Māori						451	1.06	+0.74
	Opportunities						542	1.27	—
	Women's Rights						33	0.08	—
Informal votes				666			225
Total valid votes				41,721			42,656
	National hold		Majority	13,519	32.40	+18.32

2020 election

2020 general election: Papakura^[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	Y Judith Collins		19,420	52.45	−2.28	14,854	36.91	−14.09
	Labour	Anahila Kanongata'a-Suisuiki		13,837	34.91	+0.40	17,106	42.51	+9.16
	Green	Sue Cowie		1,953	4.93	—	1,618	4.02	+1.21
	ACT	Bruce Whitehead		1,464	3.69	—	3,525	8.76	+8.20
	NZ First	Robert Monds		828	2.09	−5.41	1,112	2.76	−6.00
	Conservative	David Arvidson		792	2.00	—	631	1.57	+1.26
	Advance NZ	Vikki-Lee Pomare		328	0.83	—	277	0.69	—
	Outdoors	Teena Smith		234	0.59	—	36	0.09	+0.03
	Opportunities						328	0.82	−0.37
	Legalise Cannabis						149	0.37	+0.07
	Māori Party						127	0.32	−0.31
	Vision New Zealand						108	0.27	—
	ONE						56	0.14	—
	TEA						38	0.09	—
	Heartland						25	0.06	—
	Sustainable NZ						24	0.06	—
	Social Credit						12	0.03	—
Informal votes				785			214
Total valid votes				39,641			40,240
	National hold		Majority	5,583	14.08	−6.14

2017 election

2017 general election: Papakura^[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		20,266	54.73	+8.66	19,464	51.00	−0.01
	Labour	Jesse Pabla		12,780	34.51	+3.57	12,730	33.35	+7.55
	NZ First	Toa Greening		2,778	7.50	−2.47	3,338	8.74	−2.01
	Māori Party	Raewyn Teresa Bhana		607	1.63	+0.92	242	0.63	+0.14
	Green						1,074	2.81	−2.66
	Opportunities						455	1.19	—
	ACT						215	0.56	−0.07
	Conservative						119	0.31	−3.81
	Legalise Cannabis						116	0.30	−0.06
	People's Party						111	0.29	—
	Ban 1080						24	0.06	−0.01
	Outdoors						24	0.06	—
	United Future						19	0.04	−0.13
	Mana						17	0.04	−0.75^{[lower-alpha 1]}
	Democrats						8	0.02	−0.01
	Internet						8	0.02	−0.77^{[lower-alpha 2]}
Informal votes				597			198
Total valid votes				37,028			38,162
	National hold		Majority	7,486	20.22	+5.09

2014 election

2014 general election: Papakura^[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 Judith Collins		15,588	46.07	−13.52	17,733	51.01	−1.61
	Labour	Jerome Mika		10,469	30.94	+3.92	8,967	25.80	−1.41
	NZ First	Brent Catchpole		3,374	9.97	+4.31	3,737	10.75	+2.26
	Green	Caroline Conroy		1,790	5.29	+0.29	1,801	5.47	−0.29
	Conservative	Kevin Stitt		1,292	3.82	+1.78	1,431	4.12	+1.06
	ACT	John Thompson		412	1.22	+0.52	331	0.63	−0.42
	Māori Party	Ann Kendall		239	0.71	+0.71	172	0.49	−0.14
	Mana	Roger Fowler		174	0.51	+0.51
	Internet Mana						275	0.79	+0.29^{[lower-alpha 3]}
	Legalise Cannabis						124	0.36	−0.12
	United Future						60	0.17	−0.19
	Ban 1080						23	0.07	+0.07
	Civilian						20	0.06	+0.06
	Democrats						9	0.03	±0.00
	Focus						5	0.01	+0.01
	Independent Coalition						4	0.01	+0.01
Informal votes				499			186
Total valid votes				33,837			34,765
Turnout				34,765	73.57	+1.97
	National hold		Majority	5,119	15.13	−17.44

Electorate (as at 4 October 2014): 45,992^[9]

2011 election

2011 general election: Papakura^[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	Y Judith Collins		18,096	59.59	−0.10	16,640	52.62	+1.14
	Labour	Jerome Mika		8,206	27.02	−0.07	8,603	27.21	−2.11
	NZ First	Brent Catchpole		1,718	5.66	+0.89	2,680	8.48	+3.40
	Green	Caroline Conroy		1,519	5.00	+0.93	1,731	5.47	+2.51
	Conservative	Bob Daw		619	2.04	+2.04	967	3.06	+3.06
	ACT	John Thompson		212	0.70	−2.65	331	1.05	−5.03
	Māori Party						183	0.58	−0.35
	Mana						159	0.50	+0.50
	Legalise Cannabis						152	0.48	+0.10
	United Future						133	0.42	−0.41
	Libertarianz						22	0.07	+0.04
	Democrats						11	0.03	+0.02
	Alliance						9	0.03	-0.03
Informal votes				814			250
Total valid votes				30,370			31,621
	National hold		Majority	9,890	32.57	−0.03

Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 44,164^[11]

2008 election

2008 general election: Papakura^[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	%	±%
	National	Y Judith Collins		18,816	59.68		16,672	51.48
	Labour	David Hereora		8,539	27.09		9,493	29.31
	NZ First	Brent Catchpole		1,504	4.77		1,643	5.07
	Green	Rachel Grimwood		1,283	4.07		961	2.97
	ACT	John Thompson		1,057	3.35		1,967	6.07
	United Future	Bryan Penquinn Mockridge		225	0.71		269	0.83
	RAM	Pat O'Dea		102	0.32		14	0.04
	Māori Party						300	0.93
	Progressive						254	0.78
	Pacific						247	0.76
	Bill and Ben						177	0.55
	Family Party						143	0.44
	Legalise Cannabis						124	0.38
	Kiwi						76	0.23
	Alliance						18	0.06
	Workers Party						9	0.03
	Libertarianz						8	0.02
	Democrats						5	0.02
	RONZ						3	0.01
Informal votes				418			188
Total valid votes				31,526			32,383
	National win new seat		Majority	10,277	32.60

Table footnotes

↑ 2017 Mana Party swing is relative to the votes for Internet-Mana in 2014; it shared a party list with the Internet Party in the 2014 election
↑ 2017 Internet Party swing is relative to the votes for Internet-Mana in 2014; it shared a party list with Mana Party in the 2014 election
↑ 2014 Internet Mana swing is relative to the votes for Mana in 2011; it shared a party list with Internet in the 2014 election.

Notes

↑ McRobie 1989, pp. 8–9, 51, 119.
↑ McRobie 1989, p. 119.
↑ McRobie 1989, pp. 115–120.
↑ Wilson 1985, p. 244.
↑ "Official Count Results – Papakura". Wellington: New Zealand Electoral Commission. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
↑ "Official Count Results – Papakura". Wellington: New Zealand Electoral Commission. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
↑ "Official Count Results – Papakura". Wellington: New Zealand Electoral Commission. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
↑ "Official Count Results – Papakura (2014)". Electoral Commission . Retrieved 26 April 2016.
↑ "Enrolment statistics". Electoral Commission. 4 October 2014. Archived from the original on 10 November 2011. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
↑ 2011 election results
↑ "Enrolment statistics". Electoral Commission. 26 November 2011. Archived from the original on 10 November 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
↑ 2008 election results

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[Mana_Party-8] 2017 Mana Party swing is relative to the votes for Internet-Mana in 2014; it shared a party list with the Internet Party in the 2014 election

[Internet_Party-9] 2017 Internet Party swing is relative to the votes for Internet-Mana in 2014; it shared a party list with Mana Party in the 2014 election

[Internet_Mana-11] 2014 Internet Mana swing is relative to the votes for Mana in 2011; it shared a party list with Internet in the 2014 election.

[FOOTNOTEMcRobie19898–9,_51,_119-1] McRobie 1989, pp. 8–9, 51, 119.

[FOOTNOTEMcRobie1989119-2] McRobie 1989, p. 119.

[FOOTNOTEMcRobie1989115–120-3] McRobie 1989, pp. 115–120.

[FOOTNOTEWilson1985244-4] Wilson 1985, p. 244.

[2023_Papakura-5] "Official Count Results – Papakura". Wellington: New Zealand Electoral Commission. Retrieved 7 November 2023.

[2020_Papakura-6] "Official Count Results – Papakura". Wellington: New Zealand Electoral Commission. Retrieved 30 April 2021.

[2017_Papakura-7] "Official Count Results – Papakura". Wellington: New Zealand Electoral Commission. Retrieved 22 December 2017.

[10] "Official Count Results – Papakura (2014)". Electoral Commission . Retrieved 26 April 2016.

[12] "Enrolment statistics". Electoral Commission. 4 October 2014. Archived from the original on 10 November 2011. Retrieved 4 October 2014.

[13] 2011 election results

[enrolment-14] "Enrolment statistics". Electoral Commission. 26 November 2011. Archived from the original on 10 November 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2011.

[15] 2008 election results

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Papakura
Single-member constituency for the New Zealand House of Representatives
Location of Papakurawithin Auckland
Region	Auckland
Current constituency
Created	2008 (recreated)
Current MP	Judith Collins
Party	National