Papakura (New Zealand electorate)

Papakura electorate boundaries used since the 2014 election

Papakura is an electorate in the New Zealand House of Representatives, based in the south Auckland town of Papakura. Historically, the name refers to an electorate that existed between 1978 and 1996, which with the advent of Mixed Member Proportional voting and resulting reduction in the number of constituencies was folded into a new Hunua seat. In 2002 Hunua was modified, pulled northwards and renamed Clevedon.

In a modern sense, the name refers to a constituency which was fought for the first time at the 2008 election. This new Papakura seat is the successor to the old Clevedon seat. It also contains a set of towns to the west of Papakura, namely Drury, Karaka and Kingseat. Until 2014 it also included Waiau Pa and Clarks Beach. The current MP is Judith Collins, of the National Party.

History

Key

  National  

¹Robertson defected to the United party in 1995.

Election results

2014 election

General Election 2014: Papakura[1]
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	%	±%
	National	Y Judith Collins		15,588	46.07	-13.52	17,733	51.01	-1.61
	Labour	Jerome Mika		10,469	30.94	+3.92	8,967	25.80	-1.41
	NZ First	Brent Catchpole		3,374	9.97	+4.31	3,737	10.75	+2.26
	Green	Caroline Conroy		1,790	5.29	+0.29	1,801	5.47	-0.29
	Conservative	Kevin Stitt		1292	3.82	+1.78	1431	4.12	+1.06
	ACT	John Thompson		212	1.22	+0.52	331	0.63	-0.42
	Māori						172	0.49	-0.14
	Mana						0	0.00	-0.50
	Internet Mana						275	0.79	+0.79
	Legalise Cannabis						124	0.36	-0.12
	United Future						133	0.17	-0.19
	Democrats						11	0.03	+0.00
Informal votes				499			186
Total Valid votes				33,837			34765
	National hold		Majority	5119	15.13	-17.44

Electorate (as at 4 October 2014): 45,992^[2]

2011 election

General Election 2011: Papakura[3]
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	%	±%
	National	Y Judith Collins		18,096	59.59	-0.10	16,640	52.62	+1.14
	Labour	Jerome Mika		8,206	27.02	-0.07	8,603	27.21	-2.11
	NZ First	Brent Catchpole		1,718	5.66	+0.89	2,680	8.48	+3.40
	Green	Caroline Conroy		1,519	5.00	+0.93	1,731	5.47	+2.51
	Conservative	Bob Daw		619	2.04	+2.04	967	3.06	+3.06
	ACT	John Thompson		212	0.70	-2.65	331	1.05	-5.03
	Māori						183	0.58	-0.35
	Mana						159	0.50	+0.50
	Legalise Cannabis						152	0.48	+0.10
	United Future						133	0.42	-0.41
	Libertarianz						22	0.07	+0.04
	Democrats						11	0.03	+0.02
	Alliance						9	0.03	-0.03
Informal votes				814			250
Total Valid votes				30,370			31,621
	National hold		Majority	9,890	32.57	-0.03

Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 44,164^[2]

2008 election

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