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  

Election Winner
1999 election Phil Goff
2002 election
2005 election
2008 election
2011 election
2014 election

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 Winner
2002 election Bernie Ogilvy
2005 election Jackie Blue
2008 election Jackie Blue
2011 election Jackie Blue
Julie Anne Genter
2014 election Parmjeet Parmar

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 Green tick or Red X denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.

Party Candidate Votes % ±% Party Votes % ±%
Labour Green tick 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 Green tick or Red X denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.

Party Candidate Votes % ±% Party Votes % ±%
Labour Green tick 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 Green tick 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

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