Port Hills (New Zealand electorate)

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Port Hills electorate boundaries used from the 2014 election until 2020

Port Hills was a parliamentary electorate of New Zealand that existed for the 2008 through 2017 general elections. Ruth Dyson of the Labour Party had previously held the Banks Peninsula electorate since the 1999 election that was largely replaced by Port Hills, and held Port Hills for its entire existence before retiring ahead of the 2020 election. The Port Hills electorate was mostly urban, and lost the more rural Banks Peninsula areas of the old electorate to the Selwyn electorate that was also formed for the 2008 election.

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Ahead of the 2020 election, the boundaries were again adjusted and Port Hills abolished. Most of its area is now covered by the Banks Peninsula electorate.

Population centres

Port Hills was created after a review of electoral boundaries conducted in the wake of the 2006 census of population and dwellings. The bulk of Port Hills came from the old Banks Peninsula electorate, including the suburbs of Opawa and Woolston, the suburban areas around the Cashmere Hills, and the towns on the north coast of Lyttelton Harbour. The south Christchurch suburbs of Bromley and Sydenham have been added from Christchurch East and Wigram, respectively. Most of the electorate was urban. [1]

The following suburbs, in alphabetical order, were at least partially located in the electorate: Balmoral Hill, Beckenham, Bromley, Cashmere, Cass Bay, Clifton, Corsair Bay, Ferrymead, Governors Bay, Heathcote Valley, Hillsborough, Huntsbury, Linwood, Lyttelton, Moncks Bay, Moncks Spur, Mount Pleasant, Murray Aynsley Hill, Opawa, Te Rāpaki-o-Te Rakiwhakaputa, Redcliffs, Richmond Hill, Scarborough, St Andrews Hill, St Martins, Sumner, Sydenham, Taylors Mistake, Waltham, and Woolston. [2]

Port Hills was one of the electorates worst affected by the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes and suffered minor population loss as a result. The 2013 redistribution resulted in the electorate losing the areas around Bromley and Sydenham but regaining Halswell back from Selwyn. [1] [3] [4]

Port Hills was abolished for the 2020 general election, being replaced largely by a recreated Banks Peninsula. This was to absorb population growth in neighbouring Selwyn. [5]

History

Because the new suburbs were strong Labour-voting areas, Banks Peninsula MP Ruth Dyson retained the electorate despite a nationwide swing to the National Party in 2008. This was also one of the electorates which elected a Labour MP but where the National Party won the party vote. [6] National's candidate in 2008 was Terry Heffernan (1952–2010), who at that time was already weakened by cancer. [7]

In the 2011 election, Dyson contested the electorate against David Carter. [8] Dyson and Carter had contested before; in 1993, Dyson was successful in the Lyttelton electorate, but in 1996 in Banks Peninsula, Carter had the upper hand. In 1999, 2002, and 2005, Dyson was always in first place, and she was again successful in 2011. [8]

In the 2014 election, the National Party put up Nuk Korako against Dyson; [9] Carter had in the meantime been elected Speaker of the House of Representatives and as such, was not contesting an electorate any longer. [10] Based on preliminary counts, Dyson has a majority of 1,865 votes over Korako. [9]

In the boundary review of 2019/2020, the Representation Commission decided to make large changes to the boundaries of Port Hills, taking area in Halswell and parts of Bromley out and adding Banks Peninsula in, to manage large changes in population in the Christchurch and Selwyn areas. The electorate was also re-recreated as Banks Peninsula. [11] [12] [13]

Members of Parliament

Key

  Labour   National   NZ First   Green

ElectionWinner
2008 election Ruth Dyson
2011 election
2014 election
2017 election
(Electorate abolished in 2020; see Banks Peninsula)

List MPs

ElectionWinner
2011 election David Carter
Denis O'Rourke
2014 election Nuk Korako
Eugenie Sage
Denis O'Rourke
2017 election Nuk Korako [lower-alpha 1]
Eugenie Sage

Election results

2017 election

2017 general election: Port Hills [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 Green check.svgY or Red x.svgN denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.

PartyCandidateVotes%±%Party votes%±%
Labour Green check.svgY Ruth Dyson 22,60353.89+7.4516,82539.40+15.53
National Nuk Korako 14,68735.02−5.7217,38140.70−6.26
Green Eugenie Sage 3,1437.49−0.334,39210.29−6.80
NZ First Denis O'Rourke 1,2583.00+0.112,0644.83−1.79
ACT David Fox1890.45+0.081530.39−0.08
Democrats Gary Gribben600.14+0.01220.05−0.05
Opportunities  1,4593.42–
Māori Party  1400.33−0.09
Legalise Cannabis  910.21−0.09
Conservative  800.19−2.92
United Future  240.06−0.14
Outdoors  230.05–
Ban 1080  180.04−0.04
People's Party  120.03–
Internet  110.03−0.72 [lower-alpha 2]
Mana Party  50.01−0.74 [lower-alpha 3]
Informal votes360110
Total valid votes41,49042,700
Turnout 42,810
Labour holdMajority7,91618.87+13.70

2014 election

2014 general election: Port Hills [15]
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 Green check.svgY or Red x.svgN denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.

PartyCandidateVotes%±%Party votes%±%
Labour Green check.svgY Ruth Dyson 18,16146.44−1.979,51423.87−3.77
National Nuk Korako 15,93340.74+1.8518,71946.96+3.30
Green Eugenie Sage 3,0597.82−2.186,81217.09−2.51
NZ First Denis O'Rourke 1,1312.89+0.752,6416.62+1.79
Conservative Chris Brosnan6261.60+1.601,2413.11+1.46
ACT Geoff Russell1450.37−0.181750.44−0.30
Democrats Gary J Gribben520.13+0.13410.10+0.04
Internet Mana  2980.75+0.44 [lower-alpha 4]
Māori Party  1600.40−0.01
Legalise Cannabis  1200.30−0.19
United Future  800.20−0.27
Ban 1080  330.08+0.08
Civilian  260.07+0.07
Focus  40.01+0.01
Independent Coalition  10.00+0.00
Informal votes277105
Total valid votes39,38439,970
Turnout 39,97081.29+4.80
Labour holdMajority2,2285.70−3.83

2011 election

2011 general election: Port Hills [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 Green check.svgY or Red x.svgN denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.

PartyCandidateVotes%±%Party votes%±%
Labour Green check.svgY Ruth Dyson 15,73748.41+1.699,19927.64−10.04
National David Carter 12,64038.89+1.7414,53243.66+6.53
Green Joseph Burston3,25210.00+0.396,52219.60+5.82
NZ First Denis O'Rourke 6972.14+2.141,6094.83+2.08
ACT Geoff Russell1790.55−0.842460.74−1.63
Conservative  5491.65+1.65
Legalise Cannabis  1640.49+0.07
United Future  1570.47−0.42
Māori Party  1350.41−0.28
Mana  1020.31+0.31
Alliance  240.07−0.07
Libertarianz  220.07+0.02
Democrats  210.06+0.02
Informal votes542202
Total valid votes32,50533,282
Labour holdMajority3,0979.53−0.05

Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 43,511 [16]

2008 election

2008 general election: Port Hills [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 Green check.svgY or Red x.svgN denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.

PartyCandidateVotes%±%Party votes%±%
Labour Ruth Dyson 16,83446.7213,81637.68
National Terry Heffernan 13,38237.1413,61437.13
Green Joseph Burston3,4649.615,05113.78
Progressive Phil Clearwater1,1443.189582.61
ACT Geoff Russell5001.398682.37
Kiwi Wilton Gray3370.942850.78
United Future Robin Andrew Loomes2150.603260.89
Alliance Andrew John McKenzie1530.42510.14
NZ First  1,0092.75
Māori Party  2500.68
Legalise Cannabis  1550.42
Bill and Ben  1520.41
Family Party  490.13
Pacific  230.06
Workers Party  190.05
Libertarianz  170.05
Democrats  140.04
RONZ  40.01
RAM  20.01
Informal votes301132
Total valid votes36,02936,663
Turnout 36,79582.88
Labour win new seatMajority3,452

Table footnotes

  1. ↑ Korako resigned as a list MP effective 16 May 2019.
  2. ↑ 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
  3. ↑ 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
  4. ↑ 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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