Christchurch East is a New Zealand Parliamentary electorate. It is currently held by Lianne Dalziel of the Labour Party.[1]
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The electorate is based on the Eastern part of the City of Christchurch.
The electorate was first created, as Christchurch City East, for the 1871 election.[2] Edward Jerningham Wakefield was elected and represented the electorate until the end of the electoral term in 1875,[3] when Christchurch City East was abolished again, replaced by the three-member electorate City of Christchurch.[2]
Christchurch East was re-created again for the 1905 election.[2] The first representative, Thomas Davey, held the electorate for three parliamentary terms until 1914,[4] when he retired. Davey was an Independent sympathetic to the Liberal Party.
Davey was succeeded by Henry Thacker of the Liberal Party. Thacker served for two terms[5] and was elected Mayor of Christchurch in 1919.[6]
Thacker was defeated in the 1922 election by Tim Armstrong of the Labour Party.[7] Since his 1922 win, the electorate (for as long as it existed) has been held by Labour. Armstrong was re-elected in the five subsequent general elections and died in office on 8 November 1942.[8]
Armstrong's death triggered the 1943 by-election, which was held on 6 February.[9][10] The by-election was contested by five candidates, including representatives from the Labour Party, the Labour breakaway party Democratic Labour Party and the National Party.[11] The election was won by the Labour candidate, Mabel Howard, and started her long parliamentary career, which included her becoming the first female cabinet minister in 1947.[12]
Christchurch East was abolished in 1946 and re-created in 1996 for the MMP-era.
Christchurch East has been represented by seven electorate MPs:
Key Independent Liberal Labour National
Election | Winner | |
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1871 election | Edward Jerningham Wakefield | |
(Electorate abolished 1875–1905, see City of Christchurch) | ||
1905 election | Thomas Davey | |
1908 election | ||
1911 election | ||
1914 election | Henry Thacker | |
1919 election | ||
1922 election | Tim Armstrong | |
1925 election | ||
1928 election | ||
1931 election | ||
1935 election | ||
1938 election | ||
1943 by-election | Mabel Howard | |
1943 election | ||
(Electorate abolished 1946–1996) | ||
1996 election | Larry Sutherland | |
1999 election | Lianne Dalziel | |
2002 election | ||
2005 election | ||
2008 election | ||
2011 election |
Members of Parliament elected from party lists in elections where that person also unsuccessfully contested the Christchurch East electorate. Unless otherwise stated, all MPs terms began and ended at general elections.
Election | Winner | |
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2008 election | Aaron Gilmore | |
2011 election |
General Election 2011: Christchurch East | |||||
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Green background denotes an incumbent. |
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Party | Candidate | Notes | List # | Source | |
Conservative | Leighton Baker | 12 | [13][14] | ||
Legalise Cannabis | Michael Britnell | 2 | [13][15] | ||
Labour | Lianne Dalziel | Incumbent since 1999; MP since 1990 | None[16] | [13][17] | |
National | Aaron Gilmore | List MP since 2008 | 53 | [13][18] | |
Green | Mojo Mathers | 14 | [13][19] | ||
United Future | Johnny Miller | 16 | [13][20] |
Electorate (as at 11 November 2011): 39,605[21]
General Election 2011: Christchurch East [22] | |||||||||
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Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party Votes | % | ±% | ||
Labour | Lianne Dalziel | 15,559 | 55.54 | +2.61 | 9,100 | 31.65 | -13.62 | ||
National | Aaron Gilmore | 10,225 | 36.50 | +0.55 | 13,252 | 46.10 | +10.40 | ||
Green | Mojo Mathers | 1,347 | 4.81 | -0.62 | 3,359 | 11.68 | +4.45 | ||
Conservative | Leighton Baker | 522 | 1.86 | +1.86 | 617 | 2.15 | +2.15 | ||
Legalise Cannabis | Michael Britnell | 254 | 0.91 | -0.32 | 145 | 0.50 | +0.16 | ||
United Future | Johnny Miller | 108 | 0.39 | -0.22 | 160 | 0.56 | -0.39 | ||
NZ First | 1,801 | 6.26 | +2.34 | ||||||
ACT | 101 | 0.35 | -1.58 | ||||||
Māori | 84 | 0.29 | -0.22 | ||||||
Mana | 63 | 0.22 | +0.22 | ||||||
Alliance | 28 | 0.10 | -0.08 | ||||||
Democrats | 22 | 0.08 | +0.01 | ||||||
Libertarianz | 17 | 0.06 | +0.02 | ||||||
Informal votes | 509 | 228 | |||||||
Total Valid votes | 28,015 | 28,977 | |||||||
Labour hold | Majority | 5,334 | 19.04 | +2.06 |
Electorate (as at 11 November 2011): 39,605[21]
General Election 2008: Christchurch East[23] | |||||||||
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Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party Votes | % | ±% | ||
Labour | Lianne Dalziel | 17,969 | 52.92 | - | 15,585 | 45.27 | |||
National | Aaron Gilmore | 12,204 | 35.94 | - | 12,289 | 35.70 | |||
Green | Mojo Mathers | 1,843 | 5.43 | - | 2,489 | 7.23 | |||
Progressive | Elspeth Sandys | 575 | 1.69 | - | 696 | 2.02 | |||
Legalise Cannabis | Paula Lambert | 417 | 1.23 | - | 117 | 0.34 | |||
Kiwi | Tony Le Cren | 378 | 1.11 | - | 269 | 0.78 | |||
United Future | Maretta Solomon | 204 | 0.60 | - | 326 | 0.95 | |||
Alliance | Paul Piesse | 119 | 0.35 | - | 62 | 0.18 | |||
Independent | Sevaschan Sam Park | 114 | 0.34 | - | - | - | |||
Workers Party | Paul Hopkinson | 90 | 0.27 | - | 26 | 0.08 | |||
Democrats | Nick McIlraith | 40 | 0.12 | - | 24 | 0.07 | |||
NZ First | - | 1,352 | 3.93 | - | |||||
ACT | - | 664 | 1.93 | - | |||||
Bill and Ben | - | 210 | 0.61 | - | |||||
Māori | - | 176 | 0.51 | - | |||||
Family Party | - | 68 | 0.20 | - | |||||
Pacific | - | 54 | 0.16 | - | |||||
Libertarianz | - | 14 | 0.04 | - | |||||
RAM | - | 5 | 0.01 | - | |||||
RONZ | - | 1 | 0.00 | - | |||||
Informal votes | 267 | 202 | |||||||
Total Valid votes | 33,953 | 34,427 | |||||||
Labour hold | Majority | 5,765 |
Note: lines coloured beige denote the winner of the electorate vote. Lines coloured pink denote a candidate elected to Parliament from their party's list.
The results of the 2005 general election were as follows:[24]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Party Votes | % |
Labour | Lianne Dalziel | 20969 | 60.31 | 18893 | 53.44 |
National | David Round | 8996 | 25.88 | 9851 | 27.86 |
Green | Mary McCammon | 1698 | 4.88 | 1948 | 5.51 |
United | Dianne Wilson | 1205 | 3.47 | 1176 | 3.33 |
Progressive | Karen Silcock | 926 | 2.66 | 926 | 2.62 |
ACT | John Peters | 401 | 1.15 | 277 | 0.78 |
ALCP | Kevin O'Connell | 299 | 0.86 | 101 | 0.29 |
Alliance | Lynda Boyd | 167 | 0.48 | 98 | 0.28 |
Direct Democracy | Kyle Chapman | 63 | 0.18 | 13 | 0.04 |
Anti-Capitalist | Paul Hopkinson | 43 | 0.12 | - | - |
NZ First | - | - | - | 1694 | 4.77 |
Destiny | - | - | - | 170 | 0.48 |
Māori Party | - | - | - | 97 | 0.27 |
Christian Heritage | - | - | - | 54 | 0.15 |
Democrats | - | - | - | 18 | 0.05 |
Libertarianz | - | - | - | 13 | 0.04 |
Family Rights PP | - | - | - | 7 | 0.02 |
99 MP | - | - | - | 6 | 0.02 |
Republic of NZ | - | - | - | 6 | 0.02 |
One NZ | - | - | - | 5 | 0.01 |
informal votes | 424 | 186 | |||
total valid votes | 34767 | 35353 | |||
Labour hold | Majority | 11,973 |
Christchurch East by-election, 1943 | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
Labour | Mabel Howard | 4,559 | 47.27 | ||
Democratic Labour | Horace Herring | 2,578 | 26.73 | ||
National | Melville Lyons | 2,371 | 24.59 | ||
Independent | Lincoln Efford | 114 | 1.18 | ||
Independent | Owen McKee | 22 | 0.23 | ||
Majority | 1,981 | 20.54 | |||
Turnout | 9,644 | 65.01 |
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