Maungakiekie_(New_Zealand_electorate)

Maungakiekie (New Zealand electorate)

Maungakiekie (New Zealand electorate)

Electoral district in Auckland, New Zealand


Maungakiekie is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. The current MP for Maungakiekie is Greg Fleming of the National Party. The electorate's name comes from Maungakiekie / One Tree Hill, a large and symbolically important hill at the western end of the seat.

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The core of Maungakiekie is the suburbs of Auckland clustered around the Southern Motorway, and the most southern parts of the Auckland isthmus facing the Manukau Harbour. As at 2008, these include Penrose, Panmure, Onehunga and Royal Oak. In character, the seat is a minority-majority seat, with a large Māori, Pacific Island and Asian population. It is also quite a young seat, with 46.8 percent of the seat's residents under the age of thirty.

History

Maungakiekie has existed in various forms since its creation ahead of the introduction of Mixed Member Proportional voting in the 1996 election. It was created from merging most of Onehunga with a large section of Panmure, both of them reasonably safe Labour seats. Its original incarnation included both Onehunga and Otahuhu, though for the nine years from 1996, Onehunga was part of Mount Roskill, and from 2008 onwards, Otahuhu formed the northernmost part of Manukau East. The same boundary changes that took Otahuhu out put Panmure in at the expense of Tāmaki. In 2020, the seat lost Panmure to Panmure-Ōtāhuhu and gained Royal Oak from Mount Roskill.[1]

Because of the area's seats' tendency to vote Labour, and because Labour suffered its worst result since World War II in 1996, with votes splintering off to both the Alliance and New Zealand First, Onehunga MP Richard Northey found himself ousted from Parliament in 1996 at the hands of then unknown National Party candidate Belinda Vernon. Vernon's own party suffered a dramatic reversal of fortune that started at the 1999 election and her three-year term as MP for Maungakiekie ended in favour of Mark Gosche, who held the seat until 2008, notching up a majority of around 6,500 in the intermediate elections.[2]

Sam Lotu-liga captured the seat again for National in the large swing against Labour in 2008. On 13 December 2016, Lotu-liga announced that he was quitting politics, to take effect at the 2017 general election.[3] The electorate was won by Denise Lee at the election, retaining the seat for the National Party.

Members of Parliament

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

Key

  National   Labour

List MPs

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

  Alliance   NZ First   National   Labour   Green

Election results

2020 election

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2017 election

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2014 election

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2011 election

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Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 46,637[8]

2008 election

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2005 election

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2002 election

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1999 election

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1996 election

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Table footnotes

  1. Myles entered Parliament on 16 February 1999 following Deborah Morris's resignation.
  2. Beaumont entered Parliament on 13 March 2013 following Charles Chauvel's resignation.
  3. 2014 Internet Mana swing is relative to the votes for Mana in 2011; it shared a party list with Internet in the 2014 election.

References

  1. "Report of the Representation Commission 2020" (PDF). 17 April 2020.
  2. "Official Count Results – Maungakiekie". Chief Electoral Office. Retrieved 15 December 2011.
  3. "Sam Lotu-liga to leave Parliament". Radio NZ – radionz.co.nz. 13 December 2016. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  4. "Maungakiekie - Official Result". Electoral Commission. 6 November 2020. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  5. "Maungakiekie - Official Result". Electoral Commission. 7 October 2017. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
  6. "Enrolment statistics". Electoral Commission. 26 November 2011. Archived from the original on 10 November 2011. Retrieved 26 November 2011.
  7. "Official Count Results (1999) – Candidate Vote Details". NZ Electoral Commission. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
  8. "Part III – Party Lists of Successful Registered Parties" (PDF). Electoral Commission. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 February 2013. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
  9. "Part III – Party Lists of unsuccessful Registered Parties" (PDF). Electoral Commission. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 February 2013. Retrieved 22 June 2013.

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