Manukau East

Manukau East is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate that was first formed for the 1996 election. It has since been held by Ross Robertson, who has announced his retirement at the 2014 election.

Population areas

In 2007, large changes were made to the Manukau East electorate. Its northern boundary extended past the Tāmaki River to almost as far as Sylvia Park Rd to incorporate Middlemore, Otahuhu and Westfield. Its eastern boundary shifted west to East Tamaki Rd resulting in East Tāmaki and Botany Downs being included in the new Botany electorate. Most of Otara and Papatoetoe West are now also included in the electorate.^[1]

In the 2013 electorate boundary review, it was found that Manukau East electorate is above quota (based on the 2013 census). The draft proposal by the Representation Commission sees some population at Westfield to be transferred to the Maungakiekie electorate.^[2]

History

Manukau East was created for the 1996 election. It has only been represented by one Labour MP, Ross Robertson, and is considered one of Labour's safest electorates.^[3] On 6 June 2013 Robertson announced that he would retire from Parliament in order to pursue a career in local body politics.^[4]

Members of Parliament

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

Key

  Labour     Progressive     National  

List MPs

Election results

2011 election

General Election 2011: Manukau East[5]
Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Y Ross Robertson		19,399	77.11	+11.03	17,977	66.68	+7.35
	National	Kanwal Singh Bakshi		3,561	14.16	-4.26	5,287	19.61	-4.58
	NZ First	Asenati Taylor		999	3.97	+3.97	1,703	6.32	+2.64
	Mana	John Minto		461	1.83	+1.83	253	0.94	+0.94
	Conservative	Frank John Naea		425	1.69	+1.69	393	1.46	+1.46
	ACT	Jonathan MacFarlane		248	0.99	-1.67	143	0.53	-1.08
	Communist League	Felicity Coggan		63	0.25	+0.19
	Green						913	3.39	+1.60
	Māori						131	0.49	-0.53
	Legalise Cannabis						93	0.34	-0.001
	United Future						41	0.15	-0.31
	Libertarianz						10	0.04	+0.02
	Alliance						9	0.03	±0.00
	Democrats						7	0.03	±0.00
Informal votes				1,371			524
Total Valid votes				25,156			26,960
	Labour hold		Majority	15,838	62.96	+15.29

Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 41,901^[6]

2008 election

General Election 2008: Manukau East[7]
Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Y Ross Robertson		17,254	66.08		16,137	59.33
	National	Kanwal Singh Bakshi		4,809	18.42		6,579	24.19
	Pacific	Tevaga Sione Leavasa		1,406	5.39		1,219	4.48
	ACT	Lyn Murphy		693	2.65		439	1.61
	Family Party	Papali'i Poutoa Papali'I		648	2.48		238	0.88
	Green	Donna Wynd		628	2.41		487	1.79
	Progressive	Trevor Barnard		333	1.28		374	1.38
	Kiwi	Kevin Stitt		155	0.59		102	0.38
	United Future	Manogi Turua Head		112	0.43		126	0.46
	Workers Party	Daphna Whitmore		55	0.21		25	0.09
	Communist League	Annalucia Vermunt		16	0.06
	NZ First						999	3.67
	Māori						276	1.01
	Legalise Cannabis						94	0.35
	Bill and Ben						69	0.25
	Alliance						9	0.03
	RAM						9	0.03
	Democrats						7	0.03
	Libertarianz						6	0.02
	RONZ						4	0.01
Informal votes				459			287
Total Valid votes				26,109			27,199
	Labour hold		Majority	12,445	47.67

Note: lines coloured beige denote the winner of the electorate vote. Lines colored pink denote a candidate elected to Parliament from their party list.

2005 election

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Party Votes	%
Labour	Y Ross Robertson	18804	59.40	18100	58.87
National	Ken Yee	8914	28.16	10219	30.98
ACT	Hamish Stevens	725	2.29	629	1.91
Green	Irene Bentley	648	2.05	583	1.77
Progressive	Trevor Barnard	407	1.29	525	1.59
United	Ram Parkash	336	1.06	486	1.47
Māori Party	Mama Tere Tahere	303	0.96	204	0.62
Family Rights PP	Tapu Anne Po-Wihongi	225	0.71	144	0.44
IND	Raj Subramanian	76	0.24	-	-
Alliance	Jill Ovens	64	0.20	21	0.06
NZ First	-	-	-	1434	4.35
Destiny	-	-	-	159	0.47
ALCP	-	-	-	62	0.19
Christian Heritage	-	-	-	44	0.13
Democrats	-	-	-	24	0.07
Libertarianz	-	-	-	15	0.05
99 MP	-	-	-	8	0.02
One NZ	-	-	-	8	0.02
Republic of NZ	-	-	-	8	0.02
Direct Democracy	-	-	-	6	0.02
informal votes		555		204
total valid votes		31,655		32,989
Labour hold	Majority	9,890

sourced from electionresults.govt.nz

1996 election

General election 1996: Manukau East[8][9][10]
Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ross Robertson		15,269	46.93		11,037	33.70
	National	Ken Yee		10,686	32.85		11,996	36.63
	NZ First	Ngaire Clark		2,361	7.26		3,390	10.35
	Conservatives	N Trevor Rogers		1,497	4.60		110	0.34
	Alliance	Tafa Mulitalo		1,108	3.41		1,941	5.93
	ACT	Patrick Cole		1,058	3.25		2,064	6.30
	United NZ	Ted Faleauto		292	0.90		212	0.65
	Advance New Zealand	Taimalelagi Tofilau		161	0.49		64	0.20
	Natural Law	Greg Dodds		72	0.22		37	0.11
	Communist League	Annalucia Vermunt		30	0.09
	Christian Coalition						1,151	3.51
	Legalise Cannabis						355	1.08
	Ethnic Minority Party						190	0.58
	Progressive Greens						49	0.15
	McGillicuddy Serious						47	0.14
	Animals First						43	0.13
	Superannuitants & Youth						24	0.07
	Green Society						17	0.05
	Mana Māori						11	0.03
	Asia Pacific United						6	0.02
	Libertarianz						6	0.02
	Te Tawharau						0	0.00
Informal votes				398			182
Total Valid votes				32,534			32,750
	Labour win new seat		Majority	4,583	14.09

References

External links

• Electorate Profile Parliamentary Library