Tukituki (New Zealand electorate)

Tukituki
Tukituki
Single-member constituency; for the New Zealand House of Representatives
	Location of Tukitukiwithin Hawke's Bay
Region	Hawke's Bay
Major settlements	Hastings
Current constituency
Created	1996
Current MP	Catherine Wedd
Party	National

Last updated March 25, 2024

Tukituki is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. Named after the Tukituki River which runs through the electorate, it was established for the 1996 general election and has existed since. The current MP for Tukituki is Catherine Wedd of the National Party, who won the seat from first-term Labour Party MP Anna Lorck.

Population centres

Tukituki was created ahead of the change to mixed-member proportional (MMP) voting at the 1996 election; it is a merger of the old Hastings seat with Central Hawke's Bay District. Tukituki centres on the southern Hawke's Bay region, with the bulk of the electorate's population coming from the city of Hastings, with other towns drafted in to bring the electorate up to the required population. In 2008, a general northwards tug on boundaries in the Taranaki, Manawatū-Whanganui and Hawke's Bay regions saw Waipukurau and Waipawa moved into the Wairarapa electorate, in exchange for which Tukituki gained the suburbs and towns around Cape Kidnappers from the Napier electorate.^[1] No boundary adjustments were undertaken in the subsequent 2013/14 redistribution.^[2]

History

Labour's Rick Barker,^[3] who had represented Hastings since 1993 was elected as MP for Tukituki, and re-elected twice before a large provincial swing to the National Party in 2005 cost Barker his seat.^[4] This was the third time in over thirty years that a Hastings electorate had elected a National MP – the other two times being National's landslide victories in 1975 and 1990.

National's Craig Foss ^[5] first contested the Tukituki electorate in the 2002 election, but Barker comfortably held the electorate.^[6] Ranked 47th on National's party list, Foss did not enter Parliament.^[7]

Foss defeated the incumbent in the 2005 election.^[4] He was returned to the 49th Parliament with a greatly increased majority in the 2008 election.^[8] His majority increased to nearly 10,000 votes in the 2011 election.^[9] In the 2014 election, his majority dropped to 6,490 votes.^[10]

On 14 December 2016, Foss announced that he would quit politics at the 2017 general election.^[11] The electorate was won at the election by Lawrence Yule, retaining it for the National Party.

Members of Parliament

Key

Labour National

Election	Winner
1996 election		Rick Barker
1999 election
2002 election
2005 election		Craig Foss
2008 election
2011 election
2014 election
2017 election		Lawrence Yule
2020 election		Anna Lorck
2023 election		Catherine Wedd

List MPs

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

Election	Winner
2005 election		Rick Barker
2008 election		Rick Barker

Election results

2020 election

2020 general election: Tukituki^[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	Anna Lorck		19,132	45.51	+5.38	20,300	47.93	+13.90
	National	N Lawrence Yule		17,542	41.72	-5.70	12,524	29.57	-19.46
	Green	Chris Perley		1,808	4.30	-0.83	2,273	5.36	0.26
	ACT	Jan Daffern		1,051	2.50	—	3,745	8.84	+8.50
	New Conservative	Nick McMinn-Collard		685	1.62	+1.08	902	2.12	+1.79
	Legalise Cannabis	Marnz Manning		521	1.23	—	204	0.48	+0.17
	Advance NZ	Carl Peterson		336	0.79	—	396	0.93	—
	ONE	Melanie Lorraine Petrowski		175	0.41	—	104	0.24	—
	Future Youth	Allister David Tosh		50	0.11	-0.10
	NZ First						869	2.05	-5.78
	Opportunities						454	1.07	-0.87
	Māori Party						162	0.38	+0.03
	Outdoors						33	0.07	+0.01
	Sustainable NZ						25	0.05	—
	Social Credit						20	0.04	-0.01
	Vision NZ						19	0.04	—
	TEA						5	0.01	—
	Heartland						5	0.01	—
Informal votes				737			309
Total valid votes				42,037			42,349
Turnout				42,349
	Labour gain from National		Majority	1,590	3.78	-3.52

2017 election

2017 general election: Tukituki^[13]
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	Lawrence Yule		18,280	47.42	-4.58	19,166	49.03	-2.78
	Labour	Anna Lorck		15,467	40.13	+6.33	13,302	34.03	11.27
	NZ First	Joe Kairau		2,027	5.26	—	3,062	7.83	+0.17
	Green	Chris Perley		1,977	5.13	-0.92	1,993	5.1	-3.44
	Conservative	Roger Larkins		209	0.54	-4.85	129	0.33	-6.21
	Future Youth	Allister David Tosh		82	0.21	—
	Democrats	Dick Ryan		51	0.13	-0.14	18	0.05	±0
	Opportunities						758	1.94	—
	Māori Party						135	0.35	-0.16
	ACT						134	0.34	-0.06
	Legalise Cannabis						123	0.31	-0.11
	Ban 1080						40	0.1	-0.04
	United Future						33	0.08	-0.08
	People's Party						30	0.08	—
	Outdoors						24	0.06	—
	Mana						9	0.02	-0.66^{[lower-alpha 1]}
	Internet						6	0.02	-0.66^{[lower-alpha 2]}
Informal votes				454			128
Total valid votes				38,547			39,090
	National hold		Majority	2,813	7.3	-10.9

2014 election

2014 general election: Tukituki^[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	%	±%
	National	Y Craig Foss		18,537	52.00	-6.42	18,680	51.81	-0.79
	Labour	Anna Lorck		12,047	33.80	+4.50	8,205	22.76	-1.38
	Green	Chris Perley		2,156	6.05	-0.94	3,078	8.54	-1.12
	Conservative	Stephen Jenkinson		1,920	5.39	+2.14	2,357	6.54	+2.74
	Legalise Cannabis	Romana (Marnz) Manning		355	0.96	-0.08	150	0.42	-0.16
	ACT	Duncan Lennox		163	0.46	-0.30	144	0.40	-1.06
	Democrats	Dick Ryan		97	0.27	+0.05	18	0.05	+0.01
	NZ First						2,357	7.66	+1.81
	Internet Mana						244	0.68	+0.34
	Māori Party						185	0.51	-0.26
	United Future						59	0.16	-0.49
	Ban 1080						50	0.14	+0.14
	Civilian						12	0.03	+0.03
	Focus						5	0.01	+0.01
	Independent Coalition						4	0.01	+0.01
Informal votes				368			135
Total valid votes				35,643			36,057
	National hold		Majority	6,490	18.20	-11.18

2011 election

2011 general election: Tukituki^[9]
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 Craig Foss		19,378	58.42	+1.24	17,935	52.60	+2.36
	Labour	Julia Haydon-Carr		9,718	29.30	-5.67	8,231	24.14	-8.01
	Green	Jim MacDonald		2,319	6.99	+1.89	3,294	9.66	+3.64
	Conservative	Stephen Jenkinson		1,078	3.25	+3.25	1,296	3.80	+3.80
	Legalise Cannabis	Romana (Marnz) Manning		352	1.06	+1.06	198	0.58	+0.22
	ACT	Robert Burnside		252	0.76	-0.73	498	1.46	-2.89
	Democrats	Barry Pulford		74	0.22	+0.02	15	0.04	-0.02
	NZ First						1,995	5.85	+2.68
	Māori Party						263	0.77	-0.10
	United Future						220	0.65	+0.10
	Mana						117	0.34	+0.34
	Libertarianz						19	0.06	+0.03
	Alliance						17	0.05	-0.04
Informal votes				787			225
Total valid votes				33,171			34,098
	National hold		Majority	9,660	29.12	+6.90

Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 44,708^[15]

2008 election

2008 general election: Tukituki^[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 Craig Foss		20,103	57.18		17,904	50.24
	Labour	Rick Barker		12,292	34.96		11,457	32.15
	Green	Quentin Duthie		1,792	5.10		2,146	6.02
	ACT	Duncan Lennox		523	1.49		1,552	4.35
	Progressive	Dawn Patchett		270	0.77		309	0.87
	Alliance	Thomas O'Neill		104	0.30		32	0.09
	Democrats	Barry Pulford		73	0.21		22	0.06
	NZ First						1,129	3.17
	Māori Party						310	0.87
	United Future						196	0.55	–
	Bill and Ben						187	0.52
	Kiwi						135	0.38
	Legalise Cannabis						127	0.36
	Family Party						63	0.18
	Pacific						37	0.10
	Workers Party						14	0.04
	Libertarianz						10	0.03
	RAM						5	0.01
	RONZ						4	0.01
Informal votes				284			134
Total valid votes				35,157			35,639
	National hold		Majority	7,811	22.22

2005 election

2005 general election: Tukituki^[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	Craig Foss		17,239	49.31	+17.83	16,487	46.50
	Labour	N Rick Barker		14,837	42.44	-9.47	13,353	37.66
	Green	Liz Earth		1,171	3.35		1,373	3.87
	United Future	Jocelyn Smith		670	1.92		856	2.41
	Māori Party	Ngahiwi Taumoana		541	1.55		256	0.72
	ACT	John Ormond		456	1.30		407	1.15
	Direct Democracy	Scott Burch		49	0.14		10	0.03
	NZ First						1,852	5.22
	Progressive						458	1.29
	Destiny						183	0.52
	Legalise Cannabis						87	0.25
	Christian Heritage						50	0.14
	Alliance						22	0.06
	99 MP						14	0.04
	Democrats						13	0.04
	One NZ						10	0.03
	Libertarianz						8	0.02
	Family Rights						6	0.02
	RONZ						3	0.01
Informal votes				329			135
Total valid votes				34,963			35,454
	National gain from Labour		Majority	2,402	6.87	+27.30

1999 election

Refer to Candidates in the New Zealand general election 1999 by electorate#Tukituki for a list of candidates.

Notes

↑ 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

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↑ Report of the Representation Commission 2014 (PDF). Representation Commission. 4 April 2014. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-477-10414-2 . Retrieved 4 October 2014.
↑ New Zealand Parliament – Rick Barker MP
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↑ "Enrolment statistics". Electoral Commission. 26 November 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2011.

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[Mana_Party-14] 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-15] 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

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Tukituki
Single-member constituency for the New Zealand House of Representatives
Location of Tukitukiwithin Hawke's Bay
Region	Hawke's Bay
Major settlements	Hastings
Current constituency
Created	1996
Current MP	Catherine Wedd
Party	National