East Coast Bays (New Zealand electorate)
East Coast Bays is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate. It was first formed in 1972 and has existed apart from a break lasting two parliamentary terms. The electorate is currently held by Murray McCully.[1]
Population centres
The electorate is based around the north-eastern suburbs of North Shore City in north Auckland, including Torbay, Browns Bay and Mairangi Bay. The electorate crosses State Highway One at its southern end, which includes a section of Glenfield. East Coast Bays is a wealthy electorate, with incomes above the national average and boasting some of the most expensive real estate in the country. The electorate also contains many émigrés from South Africa.
History
East Coast Bays was an electorate in the New Zealand Parliament between 1972 and 1996, before being abolished to make way for the Albany electorate at the change to Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) voting. High population growth in North Auckland lead to the electorate's western fringe being removed in 2002, and with it the eponymous suburb of Albany, thus recreating East Coast Bays ahead of the 2002 election.
Although now a safe electorate for National, it was held for seven years by Social Credit MP Gary Knapp, from the 1980 by-election when he defeated future National party leader Don Brash. In the 1981, 1984 and 1987 general elections, Labour came third, with Knapp defeating Brash in 1981 and Murray McCully in 1984.
But in 1987 the declining fortunes of the Democratic Party (as Social Credit renamed itself), led to Knapp being defeated by Murray McCully, who has held the electorate for National since.
Members of Parliament
Key
National Social Credit Democrats United Future Green
Election | Winner | |
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1972 election | Frank Gill1 | |
1975 election | ||
1978 election | ||
1980 by-election | Gary Knapp | |
1981 election | ||
1984 election | ||
1987 election | Murray McCully | |
1990 election | ||
1993 election | ||
electorate abolished, see Albany | ||
2002 election | Murray McCully | |
2005 election | ||
2008 election | ||
2011 election | ||
2014 election |
1 Resigned when appointed Ambassador to the United States
List MPs
Members of Parliament elected from party lists in elections where that person also unsuccessfully contested the East Coast Bays electorate. Unless otherwise stated, all MPs terms began and ended at general elections.
Election | Winner | |
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2002 election | Paul Adams | |
2008 election | Sue Bradford2 |
2Resigned in October 2009, five months after losing Green Party co-leadership vote to Metiria Turei
Election results
2011 election
General Election 2011: East Coast Bays[2] | |||||||||
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Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party Votes | % | ±% | ||
National | Murray McCully | 21,094 | 64.98 | +6.90 | 21,079 | 62.86 | +1.45 | ||
Labour | Vivienne Goldsmith | 6,453 | 19.88 | +2.07 | 5,769 | 17.20 | -4.44 | ||
Green | Brett Stansfield | 2,832 | 8.72 | +2.20 | 2,704 | 8.72 | +2.20 | ||
Conservative | Simonne Dyer | 1,614 | 4.97 | +4.97 | 1,254 | 3.74 | +3.74 | ||
ACT | Toby Hutton | 467 | 1.44 | -2.15 | 530 | 1.58 | -4.08 | ||
NZ First | 1,657 | 4.94 | +2.11 | ||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 156 | 0.47 | +0.19 | ||||||
United Future | 145 | 0.43 | -0.31 | ||||||
Māori | 130 | 0.39 | -0.01 | ||||||
Mana | 64 | 0.19 | +0.19 | ||||||
Libertarianz | 24 | 0.07 | +0.001 | ||||||
Alliance | 14 | 0.04 | +0.002 | ||||||
Democrats | 9 | 0.03 | -0.01 | ||||||
Informal votes | 902 | 160 | |||||||
Total Valid votes | 32,460 | 33,535 | |||||||
National hold | Majority | 14,641 | 45.10 | +4.82 |
Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 47,305[3]
2008 election
General Election 2008: East Coast Bays[4] | |||||||||
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Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party Votes | % | ±% | ||
National | Murray McCully | 20,151 | 58.09 | +11.06 | 21,681 | 61.40 | +9.13 | ||
Labour | Vivienne (Viv) Goldsmith | 6,177 | 17.81 | -9.31 | 7,642 | 21.64 | -10.13 | ||
Family Party | Paul Adams[note 1] | 3,570 | 10.29 | -5.58 | 505 | 1.43 | |||
Green | Sue Bradford | 2,263 | 6.52 | +3.01 | 1,439 | 4.08 | +0.59 | ||
ACT | Tim Kronfeld | 1,246 | 3.59 | +2.12 | 2,000 | 5.66 | +3.09 | ||
NZ First | Dail Jones | 730 | 2.10 | -0.47 | 1,001 | 2.83 | -1.94 | ||
No Commercial Airport at Whenuapai | Toby Hutton | 283 | 0.82 | ||||||
United Future | Ian McInnes | 215 | 0.62 | -0.49 | 263 | 0.74 | -1.65 | ||
Libertarianz | Elah Zamora | 56 | 0.16 | 25 | 0.07 | +0.03 | |||
Progressive | 214 | 0.61 | -0.30 | ||||||
Bill and Ben | 149 | 0.42 | |||||||
Māori | 141 | 0.40 | +0.14 | ||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 98 | 0.28 | +0.08 | ||||||
Kiwi | 90 | 0.25 | |||||||
Alliance | 14 | 0.04 | -0.00 | ||||||
Pacific | 14 | 0.04 | |||||||
Democrats | 13 | 0.04 | -0.00 | ||||||
Workers Party | 8 | 0.02 | |||||||
RONZ | 7 | 0.02 | +0.00 | ||||||
RAM | 5 | 0.01 | |||||||
Informal votes | 281 | 91 | |||||||
Total Valid votes | 34,691 | 35,309 | |||||||
National hold | Majority | 13,974 | 40.28 | +20.38 |
- ↑ Paul Adams contested the 2005 election as an Independent: the "±% electoral votes" figure here compares Adams' percentage of electoral votes for the Family Party in 2008 with the 2005 percentage as an Independent.
2005 election
General Election 2005: East Coast Bays[5] | |||||||||
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Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party Votes | % | ±% | ||
National | Murray McCully | 17,213 | 47.02 | +7.93 | 19,437 | 52.27 | +27.44 | ||
Labour | Hamish McCracken | 9,927 | 27.12 | -7.03 | 11,813 | 31.77 | -2.04 | ||
style="background-color: style="background:#DDDDDD; width:{{{2}}}px"| | Independent | Paul Adams | 5,809 | 15.87 | |||||
Green | Jeanette Elley | 1,287 | 3.52 | -1.92 | 1,297 | 3.49 | -8.48 | ||
NZ First | Anne Martin | 942 | 2.57 | 1775 | 4.77 | -5.20 | |||
ACT | Andrew Stone | 537 | 1.47 | -4.95 | 956 | 2.39 | -2.80 | ||
United Future | Steven Dromgool | 405 | 1.11 | -8.14 | 890 | 2.39 | -7.23 | ||
Progressive | Fiona Beazley | 253 | 0.69 | -0.95 | 338 | 0.91 | -0.36 | ||
Māori | Rahuia Kapa | 119 | 0.33 | 95 | 0.26 | ||||
Democrats | Patrick Fahey | 73 | 0.20 | 14 | 0.04 | ||||
Destiny | John Steemson | 39 | 0.11 | 370 | 1.00 | ||||
Legalise Cannabis | 74 | 0.20 | -0.19 | ||||||
Christian Heritage | 44 | 0.12 | -0.93 | ||||||
Direct Democracy | 28 | 0.08 | |||||||
Alliance | 15 | 0.04 | -0.86 | ||||||
Libertarianz | 14 | 0.04 | |||||||
RONZ | 7 | 0.02 | |||||||
99 MP | 6 | 0.02 | |||||||
Family Rights | 6 | 0.02 | |||||||
One NZ | 5 | 0.01 | -0.23 | ||||||
Informal votes | 324 | 100 | |||||||
Total Valid votes | 36,604 | 37,184 | |||||||
National hold | Majority | 7,286 | 19.90 | +14.96 |
2002 election
General Election 2002: East Coast Bays[6] | |||||||||
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Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party Votes | % | ±% | ||
National | Murray McCully | 12,134 | 39.09 | 7,876 | 24.83 | ||||
Labour | Hamish McCracken | 10,600 | 34.15 | 10,722 | 33.81 | ||||
United Future | Paul Adams | 2,872 | 9.25 | 3,052 | 9.62 | ||||
ACT | Julie Pepper | 1993 | 6.42 | 1646 | 5.19 | ||||
Green | Jeanette Elley | 1,688 | 5.44 | 3,796 | 11.97 | ||||
One NZ | Alan McCulloch | 528 | 1.70 | 75 | 0.24 | ||||
Progressive | Jill Henry | 508 | 1.64 | 403 | 1.27 | ||||
Christian Heritage | Ian Cummings | 399 | 1.29 | 334 | 1.05 | ||||
Alliance | Fiona McLaren | 316 | 1.02 | 287 | 0.90 | ||||
NZ First | 3,163 | 9.97 | |||||||
ORNZ | 227 | 0.72 | |||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 123 | 0.39 | |||||||
NMP | 6 | 0.02 | |||||||
Mana Māori | 4 | 0.01 | |||||||
Informal votes | 392 | 75 | |||||||
Total Valid votes | 31,038 | 31,714 | |||||||
National win new seat | Majority | 1,534 | 4.94 |
References
- ↑ New Zealand Parliament - Murray McCully MP
- ↑ East Coast Bays results, 2011
- ↑ "Enrolment statistics". Electoral Commission. 26 November 2011. Retrieved 28 November 2011.
- ↑ 2008 election results
- ↑ 2005 election results
- ↑ 2002 election results
External links
- Electorate Profile Parliamentary Library
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