Rongotai (New Zealand electorate)

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Rongotai is a New Zealand Parliamentary electorate currently held by Labour MP Annette King^[1].

1 Description
2 History
- 2.1 Members of Parliament for Rongotai
- 2.2 List MPs from Rongotai
3 Election results
- 3.1 2005 election
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Description

The Rongotai electorate is centred on the southern and eastern suburbs of Wellington City. It stretches from Miramar in the east to take in the suburbs of Kilbirnie, Lyall Bay and Hataitai and runs from the south coast at Island Bay up through the southern section of the Brooklyn Hill to an east-west border next to Wellington Hospital in Newtown. Because Wellington Airport is within Rongotai's boundaries, the constituency also countains the Chatham Islands. It is named after the suburb of Rongotai which is roughly in its centre.

[edit] History

Rongotai was one of the original 65 MMP electorates drawn in 1994 ahead of the 1996 election. It is the successor to the old Island Bay and Miramar constituencies, though the areas in these seats in the orbit of the central city were incorporated into a redrawn Wellington Central electorate. A revision after 1996 pulled the boundary southwards, moving the suburbs around the Basin Reserve and the Massey University campus into Wellington Central.

Labour's Annette King and has been elected and re-elected as the member of parliament for Rongotai at all the four elections up to 2008. In three out of the four elections, Labour also won the party vote; the exception being in 1996 when Labour was outpolled by the National Party.

[edit] Members of Parliament for Rongotai

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

Name	Party	Elected	Left Office	Reason
Annette King	Labour	1996, 1999 2002, 2005	-	incumbent

[edit] List MPs from Rongotai

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

Name	Party	Elected	Left Office
Stephen Franks¹	ACT	1999	2005
Gordon Copeland²	United	2002	current MP

¹Stephen Franks contested Wellington Central in 2002. ²Gordon Copeland resigned from United Future in 2007 and currently sits as an independent.

[edit] Election results

[edit] 2005 election

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Party Votes	%
99 MP	-	-	-	18	0.05
ACT	Gavin Middleton	425	1.17	379	1.03
Alliance	Jocelyn Brooks	127	0.35	31	0.08
Christian Heritage	-	-	-	39	0.11
Democrats	-	-	-	10	0.03
Destiny	-	-	-	107	0.29
Direct Democracy	-	-	-	1	0.003
Family Rights PP	-	-	-	11	0.03
Green	Luci Highfield	2921	8.07	4630	12.71
Labour	Y Annette King	21376	58.68	18327	49.74
Legalise Cannabis	-	-	-	83	0.23
Libertarianz	-	-	-	20	0.05
Māori Party	Morris Te Whiti Love	499	1.37	232	0.63
National	Nicola Young	8738	23.99	10210	27.71
NZ First	-	-	-	1109	3.01
One NZ	-	-	-	7	0.02
Progressive	Vladimir Bell	333	0.91	394	1.07
Republic of NZ	-	-	-	3	0.01
United	Gordon Copeland	1581	4.3	1069	2.90
total valid votes		36,431		36,844
Labour hold	Majority	12,638