Upper Harbour (New Zealand electorate)

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Upper Harbour
Single-member constituency
for the New Zealand House of Representatives
Upper Harbour electorate, 2014.svg
Location of Upper Harbourwithin Auckland
Region Auckland
Current constituency
Current MP Cameron Brewer
Party National
List MP Karen Chhour (ACT)

Upper Harbour is a parliamentary electorate in Auckland that returns one member to the New Zealand House of Representatives. It was first formed for the 2014 election. The seat was won by National's Paula Bennett in both the 2014 and 2017 election. The seat was then held by Labour's Vanushi Walters in the 2020 election. The seat is currently held by National's Cameron Brewer since the 2023 general election.

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Geography

Upper Harbour covers the northwestern reaches of Waitematā Harbour. It stretches from Massey, in West Auckland, through West Harbour and Hobsonville, and across to Greenhithe and on to Glenfield and Unsworth Heights on the North Shore. [1] [2]

History

Upper Harbour was proposed in the 2013/14 electorate boundary review and confirmed by the Electoral Commission on 17 April 2014. [3] The 2013 census showed that the Auckland region had seen faster population growth than other areas, so needed an extra electorate to keep all electorates within five percent of their quota. To achieve this, the Electoral Commission abolished Waitakere and established two new electorates, Upper Harbour and Kelston. [3] A small portion of the electorate around Tihema Stream was moved to the new electorate of Kaipara ki Mahurangi in the 2020 redistribution. [4]

When the draft changes to electorate boundaries were first announced, the incumbent of the Waitakere electorate, Paula Bennett, was quick to announce that she would stand in Upper Harbour instead. This was to prevent Colin Craig of the Conservative Party making a claim for the electorate, as at the time, there was speculation whether the National Party would make a deal with the Conservatives for a safe seat in line with the agreement with ACT New Zealand in the Epsom electorate. [5] Bennett won the 2014 election with a majority of nearly 10,000 votes over Labour's Hermann Retzlaff. [6]

At the 2020 election Bennett retired and Labour's Vanushi Walters won the seat against National’s Jake Bezzant. [7] This was one of fifteen electorates that Labour took from National in an election that dramatically changed the composition of New Zealand’s parliament. [8]

Members of Parliament

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

Key  National   Labour

ElectionWinner
2014 election Paula Bennett
2017 election
2020 election Vanushi Walters
2023 election Cameron Brewer

List MPs

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

Key  ACT

ElectionWinner
2020 election Karen Chhour
2023 election

Election results

2020 election

2020 general election: Upper Harbour [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 Green check.svgY or Red x.svgN denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.

PartyCandidateVotes%±%Party votes%±%
Labour Vanushi Walters 17,57343.64+14.8919,50747.97+15.66
National Jake Bezzant 15,18137.70-17.7312,67531.17-22.86
Green Ryan Nicholls2,4886.17-1.332,1515.29+1.22
ACT Karen Chhour 1,7124.25+3.253,0667.54+6.87
New Conservative Bernadette Soares1,2653.147521.84+1.45
TEA Winson Tan4101.011360.33
Advance NZ Peter Vaughan3090.762560.62
Outdoors Catherine Giorza1570.38220.05+0.02
Sustainable NZ Dion Thomas1270.31460.11
NZ First  7971.96-3.77
Opportunities  5591.37-0.27
Legalise Cannabis  1570.38+0.14
Māori Party  1440.35+0.04
ONE  810.19
Vision NZ  200.04
Social Credit  50.01-0.01
Heartland  50.01
Informal votes1,042281
Total valid votes40,26440,660
Turnout 40,660
Labour gain from National Majority2,3925.94-20.73

2017 election

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

PartyCandidateVotes%±%Party votes%±%
National Green check.svgY Paula Bennett 19,85755.43-0.5219,72254.03-0.22
Labour Jin An10,30128.75+2.4111,79332.31+8.95
Green James Goodhue2,6887.5-0.51,4844.07-2.9
NZ First Jane Johnston2,1926.122,0925.73-1.18
ACT Bruce Haycock3581-0.672460.67-0.76
Opportunities  5971.64
Conservative  1440.39-4.43
Māori Party  1120.31-0.44
Legalise Cannabis  880.24-0.14
People's Party  250.07
Mana  240.07-0.78 [lower-alpha 1]
United Future  210.06-0.14
Internet  140.04-0.81 [lower-alpha 2]
Outdoors  110.03
Ban 1080  90.02-0.01
Democrats  60.02+0.01
Informal votes429114
Total valid votes35,82536,502
National holdMajority9,55626.67-2.94

2014 election

2014 general election: Upper Harbour [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%±%
National Paula Bennett 18,31555.9520,85354.25
Labour Hermann Retzlaff 8,62326.344,96523.36
Green Nicholas Mayne2,6198.002,3296.97
Conservative Callum Blair1,8395.611,6134.82
ACT Stephen Berry 5491.674501.34
Māori Party Hinurewa Te Hau2460.751190.35
Mana Party Makelesi Ngata2040.62
NZ First  2,3116.91
Internet Mana  4320.85
Legalise Cannabis  1290.38
United Future  690.20
Civilian  140.04
Ban 1080  130.03
Independent Coalition  70.02
Focus  40.01
Democrats  40.01
Informal votes338130
Total valid votes32,73333,403
Turnout 33,42073.42 [11]
National win new seatMajority9,69229.61

Notes

  1. 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
  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

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