Dunedin South
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Dunedin South is a New Zealand Parliamentary electorate.
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[edit] Area
As the name suggests, it is based on the southern suburbs of Dunedin. It stretches out westwards to take in towns on the Taieri Plains such as Mosgiel, Green Island and Fairfield. The Otago Peninsula is also in the electorate. Former social development minister David Benson-Pope has been the MP for Dunedin South since 1999.
Dunedin South was created in 1996 as one of the original 65 MMP electorates, as a merger between St Kilda and a large part of Dunedin West. It has been enlargened at every boundary review since its creation and at the 2008 election will include Middlemarch.
[edit] History
The city of Dunedin is a New Zealand Labour Party stronghold; The last National MP elected from a Dunedin constituency was Richard Walls in 1975. There have been two MPs for Dunedin South: Before Benson-Pope, Finance minister Michael Cullen represented the area for three years. Cullen was also the MP for the former St Kilda seat between 1981 and 1996.
[edit] Election results
[edit] 2005 election
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Party Votes | % |
| 99 MP | - | - | - | 4 | 0.01 |
| ACT | Alan Wilden | 228 | 0.64 | 266 | 0.74 |
| Alliance | Chris Ford | 189 | 0.5 | 56 | 0.16 |
| Christian Heritage | - | - | - | 35 | 0.10 |
| Democrats | - | - | - | 30 | 0.08 |
| Destiny | Brent Daglish | 400 | 1.0 | 128 | 0.36 |
| Direct Democracy | - | - | - | 8 | 0.02 |
| Family Rights PP | - | - | - | 4 | 0.01 |
| Green | Peter Thomlinson | 2200 | 6.2 | 1926 | 5.4 |
| Labour |  David Benson-Pope |
20033 | 56.1 | 20348 | 56.9 |
| Legalise Cannabis | - | - | - | 90 | 0.26 |
| Libertarianz | - | - | - | 8 | 0.02 |
| Māori Party | - | - | - | 77 | 0.22 |
| National | Conway Powell | 9393 | 26.4 | 9692 | 27.1 |
| NZ First | Alan Heward | 1145 | 3.2 | 1563 | 4.4 |
| One NZ | - | - | - | 6 | 0.02 |
| Progressive | Martin Vaughan | 672 | 2.0 | 500 | 1.4 |
| Republic of NZ | - | - | - | 3 | 0.01 |
| United | Pauline Moffat | 795 | 2.24 | 879 | 2.46 |
| RATC | Robert Wansink | 91 | 0.26 | - | - |
| total valid votes | 35544 | 35746 | |||
| Labour hold | Majority | 10,640 |
sourced from electionresults.govt.nz
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Electorate Profile Parliamentary Library
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