Clevedon (New Zealand electorate)

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Clevedon is a New Zealand Parliamentary electorate.

It is currently held by Judith Collins MP^[1].

1 Population Centres
2 History
3 Election results
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Population Centres

Clevedon takes in the urban population centres of Flat Bush, Botany Downs and Dannemora to the west, Beachlands and Maraetai to the north and the sparsely populated Hunua Ranges to the east.

[edit] History

The Clevedon seat was first created in 2002, replacing the seat of Hunua.

Under finalised boundary changes for the 2008 general election, the Clevedon seat will cease to exist, with its population centres being distributed among the new seat of Botany, a redrawn and renamed seat of Papakura and the resurrected seat of Hunua. National Party MP Judith Collins, who has held Clevedon since its inception, has indicated her intention to seek her party's nomination for Papakura in 2008.

Clevedon has always been a safe National Party seat. Under the redrawn boundaries, National is likely to have a paper majority in Botany and Hunua (which takes in part of the former Piako electorate). On paper Papakura is officially considered marginal by both parties, but is likely to go National as a result of boundary changes which has made the neighbouring Labour-safe seat of Manurewa even safer.