Mount Roskill (New Zealand electorate)

Mount Roskill electorate boundaries used since the 2014 election

Mount Roskill is a parliamentary electorate in Auckland, New Zealand, returning one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Representatives of New Zealand. Phil Goff^[1] of the Labour Party has held the seat since the 1999 election.

Mount Roskill is located on the western edge of the former Auckland City, bordering the Manukau Harbour. It is anchored around the suburbs of Mount Roskill, Three Kings, Hillsborough and a large section of Balmoral. The 2008 election boundaries added in Lynfield and New Windsor at the expense of Onehunga, which returned to the Maungakiekie electorate after being cut out in 1999. The Mount Roskill electorate is working class and multi-ethnic, with a high Pacific Island and Asian population, and has the highest number of overseas-born residents of any New Zealand electorate, nearly 40 per cent (as of 2001).

History

The 1996 census showed population growth in the north and west of Auckland, necessitating the redistribution of electorates for the 1999 election. The existing New Lynn seat was renamed Titirangi, with its boundaries shifted to fall in between Auckland and Waitakere cities. The eastern side of the New Lynn residential area was amalgamated with the population excess of Epsom, the southern half of Owairaka seat (which was itself renamed Mount Albert) and the western end of Maungakiekie to form a new seat. Named Mount Roskill, it was the first new seat drawn since the introduction of Mixed Member Proportional voting three years previous.

The only MP for Mount Roskill has been Phil Goff of the Labour Party. He was the sitting MP for New Lynn and also represented Roskill, a smaller seat covering much of the same area, in previous parliaments.

Members of Parliament

Key

  Labour  

List MPs

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

Key

  United Future     National     Green  

Election results

2011 election

General Election 2011: Mount Roskill[2]
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 Phil Goff		17,906	57.15	+1.35	14,098	43.61	+0.97
	National	Jackie Blue		10,635	33.94	-2.62	12,781	39.54	-2.56
	Green	Julie Anne Genter		1,258	4.01	+0.76	2,351	7.27	+2.99
	Conservative	Feleti Key		550	1.76	+1.76	783	2.42	+2.42
	NZ First	Mahesh Bindra		468	1.49	+1.49	1,513	4.68	+1.88
	ACT	Pratima Nand		240	0.77	-1.39	350	1.08	-2.34
	Legalise Cannabis	Jasmin Hewlett		167	0.53	+0.53	108	0.33	+0.07
	United Future	Bryan Mockridge		77	0.25	-0.39	125	0.39	-0.48
	Communist League	Patrick Brown		32	0.10	+0.10
	Māori						124	0.38	-0.09
	Mana						65	0.20	+0.20
	Democrats						11	0.03	+0.01
	Libertarianz						11	0.03	+0.01
	Alliance						10	0.03	-0.04
Informal votes				766			389
Total Valid votes				31,333			32,330
	Labour hold		Majority	7,271	23.21	+3.97

Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 46,332^[3]

2008 election

General Election 2008: Mount Roskill[4]
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 Phil Goff		18,615	55.80		14,533	42.64
	National	Jackie Blue		12,197	36.56		14,346	42.09
	Green	Lisa Er		1,086	3.26		1,459	4.28
	ACT	Shawn Tan		718	2.15		1,165	3.42
	Kiwi	Joseph Rebello		310	0.93		198	0.58
	United Future	Neville Wilson		211	0.63		296	0.87
	Progressive	Suki Amirapu		155	0.46		281	0.82
	RAM	Daphne Lawless		67	0.20		16	0.05
	NZ First						955	2.80
	Pacific						302	0.89
	Māori						163	0.48	-
	Family Party						119	0.35
	Bill and Ben						104	0.31
	Legalise Cannabis						90	0.26
	Alliance						23	0.07
	Workers Party						12	0.04
	Libertarianz						8	0.02
	RONZ						8	0.02
	Democrats						7	0.02
Informal votes				362			188
Total Valid votes				33,359			34,085
	Labour hold		Majority	6,418

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

2005 election

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Party Votes	%
Labour	Y Phil Goff	19476	59.94	16501	49.70
National	Jackie Blue	9581	29.49	11543	34.77
ACT	Kenneth Wang	1882	5.79	825	2.48
United	Richard Barter	860	2.65	826	2.49
Destiny	Brian Ane	338	1.04	191	0.58
Progressive	Suki Amirapu	257	0.79	391	1.18
Direct Democracy	Barry Scott	98	0.30	18	0.05
Green	-	-	-	1383	4.17
NZ First	-	-	-	1173	3.53
Māori Party	-	-	-	121	0.36
Family Rights PP	-	-	-	64	0.19
Christian Heritage	-	-	-	60	0.18
ALCP	-	-	-	36	0.11
Alliance	-	-	-	22	0.07
Libertarianz	-	-	-	18	0.05
99 MP	-	-	-	9	0.03
Democrats	-	-	-	7	0.02
Republic of NZ	-	-	-	7	0.02
One NZ	-	-	-	5	0.02
total valid votes		32,492		33,200
Labour hold	Majority	9,895

Sourced from electionresults.govt.nz

References

External links

• Electorate profile, Parliamentary Library