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Papakura (New Zealand electorate)

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

Papakura electorate boundaries used from the 2014 election until 2020

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

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 results

2023 election

2020 election

2017 election

2014 election

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

2011 election

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

2008 election

Table footnotes

  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
  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.

Notes

  1. ^ McRobie 1989, pp. 8–9, 51, 119.
  2. ^ McRobie 1989, p. 119.
  3. ^ McRobie 1989, pp. 115–120.
  4. ^ Wilson 1985, p. 244.
  5. ^ "Official Count Results – Papakura". Wellington: New Zealand Electoral Commission. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
  6. ^ "Official Count Results – Papakura". Wellington: New Zealand Electoral Commission. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  7. ^ "Official Count Results – Papakura". Wellington: New Zealand Electoral Commission. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
  8. ^ "Official Count Results – Papakura (2014)". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
  9. ^ "Enrolment statistics". Electoral Commission. 4 October 2014. Archived from the original on 10 November 2011. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  10. ^ 2011 election results
  11. ^ "Enrolment statistics". Electoral Commission. 26 November 2011. Archived from the original on 10 November 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
  12. ^ 2008 election results

References