Invercargill (New Zealand electorate)

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The Invercargill electorate is a seat in the Parliament of New Zealand, representing Invercargill city and the surrounding rural area.

1 History
2 Members of Parliament for Invercargill
- 2.1 List MPs from Invercargill
3 Election results
- 3.1 2005 election

[edit] History

The seat was established in 1866 when it separated from the Wallace Electorate.

In 1996 a boundary redistribution resulted in the abolition of the Awarua seat and merged in to the Invercargill electorate following re-drawing of boundaries due to the introduction of Mixed Member Proportional voting (MMP).

[edit] Members of Parliament for Invercargill

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

Name	Party	Elected	Left Office	Reason
William Wood	Independent	1866	1871	retired
William Henderson Calder	Independent	1871	1873	resigned
John Cuthbertson	Independent	1873 (by-election)	1875	defeated
George Lumsden	Independent	1875	1878	resigned
Henry Feldwick (first time)	Independent	1878 (by-election)	1879	defeated
James Bain	Independent	1879	1881	retired
Henry Feldwick (second time)	Independent	1881	1884	defeated
Joseph Hatch	Independent	1884	1887	defeated
Henry Feldwick (third time)	Conservative	1887	1890	defeated
James Whyte Kelly	Liberal	1890, 1893, 1896	1899	deselected
Josiah Hanan	Liberal	1899, 1902, 1908, 1911, 1914, 1919, 1922	1925	retired
Sir Joseph Ward	Liberal-United	1925, 1928	1930	died
Vincent Ward	United	1930 (byelection)	1931	retired
James Hargest	Independent Reform	1931	1935	moved to Awarua
William Denham	Labour	1935, 1938, 1943	1946	defeated
Ralph Hanan	National	1946, 1949, 1951, 1954, 1957, 1960, 1963, 1966,	1969	died
John Chewings	National	1969	1972	defeated
John Baldwin Munro	Labour	1972	1975	defeated
Norman Jones	National	1975, 1978, 1981, 1984	1987	died
Rob Munro	National	1987, 1990	1993	defeated
Mark Peck	Labour	1993, 1996, 1999, 2002	2005	retired
Eric Roy	National	2005	-	incumbent

[edit] List MPs from Invercargill

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

Name	Party	Elected	Left Office
Eric Roy	National	1996	2002

[edit] Election results

[edit] 2005 election

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Party Votes	%
99 MP	-	-	-	9	0.03
ACT	Ian Beker	358	1.13	365	1.14
Alliance	-	-	22	22	0.07
Christian Heritage	-	-	-	56	0.18
Democrats	Bruce Stirling	187	0.59	24	0.06
Destiny	-	-	-	211	0.58
Direct Democracy	Craig Guy	65	0.2	0.03
Family Rights PP	-	-	-	11	0.03
Green	Craig Carson	906	2.85	980	3.07
Labour	Wayne Harpur	13518	42.55	14369	45.02
Legalise Cannabis	-	-	-	96	0.30
Libertarianz	-	-	-	10	0.03
Māori Party	Gina Haremate-Crawford	163	0.51	106	0.33
National	Y Eric Roy	15570	49.01	12559	39.35
NZ First	-	-	-	1530	4.79
One NZ	-	-	-	13	0.02
Progressive	Heka Taefu	231	0.73	388	1.22
Republic of NZ	-	-	-	5	0.02
United	Ralph Kennard	453	1.43	1024	3.21
total valid votes		31,767		31,916
National gain (open seat)	Majority	2,052