Coromandel (New Zealand electorate)

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Coromandel is a New Zealand electoral division returning one member to the New Zealand House of Representatives. Its current representative is Sandra Goudie^[1], who is a member of the National Party; she has represented the seat since 2002.

1 Description
- 1.1 2007 boundary review
- 1.2 2008 Candidates for Coromandel
2 History
- 2.1 Members of Parliament for Coromandel
- 2.2 List MPs from Coromandel
3 Election results
- 3.1 2005 election
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Description

The current Coromandel seat is based around the Coromandel Peninsula, and contains the main Coromandel towns of Thames, Whitianga, Whangamata. To the south of the electorate is the Hauraki District which contains the main townships of Paeroa, Waihi and Ngatea. It also extends an arm down into the Bay of Plenty, to take the town of Katikati, with its southern boundary on the edge of the Tauranga urban area.

[edit] 2007 boundary review

Following the 2006 Census of Population and Dwellings, the Representation Commission decided to move the southern boundary of Coromandel away from Tauranga, so that Katikati will be the only large Bay of Plenty town in the seat. In exchange for this, the eastern Waikato town of Te Aroha has been transferred from the newly abolished seat of Piako. This is the largest change in Coromandel's makeup to date, and the new seat will be fought for the first time at the 2008 election.

[edit] 2008 Candidates for Coromandel

Name	Party	Seeking
Hugh Kininmonth	Labour	First term^[2]
Sandra Goudie	National	Third term

[edit] History

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The Coromandel electorate was created in 1996 for MMP; the area was previously in the Hauraki electorate. There were earlier Coromandel electorates from 1881 to 1890, and from 1972 to 1978. In 1978, the electorate was renamed back to Hauraki, and won again by Leo Schultz who had held the seat from 1969

The new MMP Coromandel electorate was won by Murray McLean of the National Party in 1996. In 1999, Green party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons won the seat for one term, but the electorate returned to National in 2002.

[edit] Members of Parliament for Coromandel

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

Name	Party	Elected	Left Office	Reason
Leo Schultz	National	1972	1978	seat named back to Hauraki



Murray McLean	National	1996	1999	defeated
Jeanette Fitzsimons	Green	1999	2002	defeated
Sandra Goudie	National	2002, 2005	incumbent	-

[edit] List MPs from Coromandel

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

Name	Party	Elected	Left Office
Robyn McDonald	NZ First	1996	1999
Jeanette Fitzsimons	Green	1996	1999
Jeanette Fitzsimons (2)	Green	2002	current MP

[edit] Election results

[edit] 2005 election

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Party Votes	%
99 MP	-	-	-	8	0.02
ACT	Ray Bassett	172	0.48	322	0.98
Alliance	-	-	-	6	0.02
Christian Heritage	-	-	-	25	0.07
Democrats	-	-	-	24	0.06
Destiny	-	-	-	211	0.58
Direct Democracy	-	-	-	2	0.005
Family Rights PP	-	-	-	7	0.02
Green	Jeanette Fitzsimons	5554	15.34	2713	7.4
Labour	Max Purnell	8486	23.44	11535	31.6
Legalise Cannabis	-	-	-	104	0.28
Libertarianz	-	-	-	24	0.07
Māori Party	-	-	-	165	0.45
National	Y Sandra Goudie	19064	52.65	16062	44.0
NZ First	John Foote	1792	4.95	3661	10.03
One NZ	-	-	-	6	0.02
Progressive	Annette Anderson	280	0.77	358	0.98
Republic of NZ	-	-	-	9	0.02
United	Lee Robertson	652	1.8	895	2.45
total valid votes		36,207		36,505
National hold	Majority	10,578