Helensville (New Zealand electorate)

Helensville electorate boundaries used since the 2014 election

Helensville is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the House of Representatives. The electorate was first established for the 1978 election and was abolished again in 1984, and has existed again since the 2002 election. The current MP for Helensville is John Key, leader of the National Party and Prime Minister of New Zealand.^[1] He has held this electorate since 2002.

Population centres

The 1977 electoral redistribution was the most overtly political since the Representation Commission had been established through an amendment to the Representation Act in 1886, initiated by Muldoon's National Government.^[2] As part of the 1976 census, a large number of people failed to fill out an electoral re-registration card, and census staff had not been given the authority to insist on the card being completed. This had little practical effect for people on the general roll, but it transferred Māori to the general roll if the card was not handed in. Together with a northward shift of New Zealand's population, this resulted in five new electorates having to be created in the upper part of the North Island.^[3] The electoral redistribution was very disruptive, and 22 electorates were abolished, while 27 electorates were newly created (including Helensville) or re-established. These changes came into effect for the 1978 election.^[4]

In the 1983 electoral redistribution, the Helensville electorate was abolished, and its area went to West Auckland and Rodney.^[5] The electorate was re-established in time for the 2002 election in reaction to continued high population growth in and around Auckland. It was made by cutting off the northern flank of the electorate of Waitakere and adding in areas from the electorate of Rodney around its southern boundary.

Helensville covers an area of the rapidly growing northern Auckland urban fringe, drawing Helensville and Kumeu from Rodney District, moving south to take in Paremoremo, Greenhithe and Albany from North Shore City, and finally tacking west to include Whenuapai, Hobsonville and West Harbour from Waitakere City.

History

John Key's electorate office

In the 1978 election, the Helensville electorate was won by Dail Jones, who had been MP for the Waitemata electorate since 1975 election.^[6] After the Helensville electorate was abolished, Jones stood in the West Auckland electorate in the 1984 election but was defeated by the Labour Party candidate, Jack Elder.^[7]

Since the Helensville electorate was re-established for the 2002 election, its only MP has been the current Prime Minister, John Key, who beat sitting Waitakere MP Brian Neeson to the nomination, and in a tight year for his party, won the electorate by 1,705 votes in a split field when a disgruntled Neeson chose to stand as an independent. Helensville is partly rural, and wealthy beyond the national average, making it a safe National electorate, and the results in 2002 notwithstanding, Key was returned easily in 2005, 2008 and 2011 with large majorities.

Members of Parliament

Key

National NZ First Labour ACT Green

Election	Winner
1978 election		Dail Jones
1981 election		Dail Jones
Electorate abolished in 1984 (see West Auckland and Rodney)
2002 election		John Key
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 Helensville electorate. Unless otherwise stated, all MPs terms began and ended at general elections.

Election	Winner
2002 election		Dail Jones
2008 election		Darien Fenton
2008 election		David Garrett¹
2009		David Clendon²
2014 election		Kennedy Graham

¹ Garrett resigned in September 2010, and his list position was taken by Hilary Calvert
² Clendon entered Parliament in October 2009 following the resignation of Sue Bradford

Election results

2014 election

General election, 2014: Helensville^[8]
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 John Key		22,720	65.17	−9.21	20,689	58.39	−7.40
	Green	Kennedy Graham		4,433	12.72	+5.36	4,801	13.55	+4.91
	Labour	Corie Haddock		4,425	12.69	−1.45	4,430	12.50	−1.85
	Internet	Laila Harré		1,315	3.77	+3.77
	Conservative	Deborah Dougherty		963	2.76	−0.07	1,692	4.78	+1.27
	Independent	Penny Bright		420	1.20	+1.20
	ACT	Phelan Pirrie		302	0.87	+0.36	262	0.74	−0.65
	Independent	Brendan Whyte		74	0.21	+0.21
	NZ First						2,608	7.36	+2.76
	Internet Mana						338	0.95	+0.78^{[lower-alpha 1]}
	Māori						192	0.54	+0.02
	Legalise Cannabis						161	0.45	−0.04
	United Future						93	0.26	−0.20
	Ban 1080						48	0.14	+0.14
	Democrats						23	0.06	+0.04
	Independent Coalition						13	0.04	+0.04
	Civilian						8	0.02	+0.02
	Focus						3	0.01	+0.01
Informal votes				208			73
Total Valid votes				34,860			35,434
Turnout				35,507	82.29	+5.65
	National hold		Majority	18,287	52.46	−7.78

2011 election

General Election 2011: Helensville ^[9]
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 John Key		26,011	74.38	+0.77	23,558	65.79	+2.09
	Labour	Jeremy Greenbrook-Held		4,945	14.14	-2.97	5,138	14.35	-4.11
	Green	Jeanette Elley		2,575	7.36	+1.41	3,094	8.64	+3.74
	Conservative	Richard Drayson		941	2.69	+2.69	1,258	3.51	+3.51
	Legalise Cannabis	Adrian McDermott		319	0.91	+0.91	174	0.49	+0.16
	ACT	Nick Kearney		180	0.51	0-1.72	499	1.39	-5.31
	NZ First						1,648	4.60	+2.06
	Māori						186	0.52	+0.03
	United Future						163	0.46	-0.33
	Mana						60	0.17	+0.17
	Libertarianz						19	0.05	-0.004
	Democrats						8	0.02	+0.001
	Alliance						4	0.01	-0.04
Informal votes				574			198
Total Valid votes				34,971			35,809
	National hold		Majority	21,066	60.24	+3.74

Electorate (as at 11 November 2011): 46,983^[10]

2008 election

General Election 2008: Helensville^[11]^[12]
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 John Key		26,771	73.61	+9.51	23,559	63.69	+8.60
	Labour	Darien Fenton		6,224	17.11	-9.77	6,826	18.45	-9.52
	Green	David Clendon		2,166	5.96	+5.79	1,814	4.90	+0.87
	ACT	David Garrett		811	2.23	+1.10	2,481	6.71	+4.36
	United Future	Angela Lovelock		309	0.85	-0.82	289	0.78	-1.69
	Libertarianz	Peter Osborne		89	0.24		21	0.06	+0.01
	NZ First						940	2.54	-3.34
	Progressive						195	0.53	-0.28
	Family Party						182	0.49
	Māori						182	0.49	+0.08
	Bill and Ben						170	0.46
	Legalise Cannabis						131	0.35	+0.16
	Kiwi						105	0.28
	Pacific						45	0.12
	Alliance						19	0.05	+0.02
	Workers Party						9	0.02
	Democrats						8	0.02	±0.00
	RAM						8	0.02
	RONZ						4	0.01	±0.00
Informal votes				251			110
Total Valid votes				36,370			36,988
Turnout				37,298	82.27	-0.58
	National hold		Majority	20,547	56.49

2005 election

General Election 2005: Hellensville^[12]^[13]^[14]
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 John Key		22,008	64.10	+29.92	19,224	55.09	+29.28
	Labour	Judy Lawley		9,230	26.88	-0.24	9761	27.97	-2.86
	NZ First	Dail Jones		1,400	4.08	-5.45	2051	5.88	-6.06
	United Future	Andrea Deeth		573	1.67	-2.47	863	2.47	-5.82
	ACT	Stephen Langford-Tebby		389	1.13		821	2.35	-10.26
	Māori	Awa Hudson		359	1.05		142	0.41
	Progressive	Julian Aaron		318	0.93	-0.02	218	0.81	-0.08
	Green	Helen Koster		58	0.17		1407	4.03	-1.99
	Destiny						151	0.43
	Legalise Cannabis						66	0.19	-0.21
	Christian Heritage						48	0.14	-0.85
	Libertarianz						16	0.05
	Direct Democracy						11	0.03
	Alliance						9	0.03	-1.00
	Democrats						8	0.02
	Family Rights						8	0.02
	99 MP						5	0.01
	RONZ						5	0.01
	One NZ						4	0.01	-0.04
Informal votes				253			110
Total Valid votes				34,335			34,896
Turnout				35,222	82.85	+3.21
	National hold		Majority	12,778	37.22	+31.26

2002 election

General Election 2002: Helensville^[13]^[15]
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	John Key		9,775	34.18		7,524	25.81
	Labour	Gary Russell		8,070	28.21		8,988	30.83
	Independent	Brian Neeson		5,644	19.73
	NZ First	Dail Jones		2,725	9.53		3,481	11.94
	United Future	Andrea Deeth		1,184	4.14		2,416	8.29
	Alliance	Helen MacKinlay		581	2.03		299	1.03
	Christian Heritage	David Simpkin		350	1.22		288	0.99
	Progressive	Clare Dickson		273	0.95		272	0.93
	ACT						3,676	12.61
	Green						1,755	6.02
	ORNZ						313	1.07
	Legalise Cannabis						118	0.40
	One NZ						15	0.05
	Mana Māori						10	0.03
	NMP						2	0.01
Informal votes				327			78
Total Valid votes				28,602			29,157
Turnout				29,428	79.64
	National win new seat		Majority	1,705	5.96

Table footnotes

↑ 2014 Internet Mana swing is relative to the votes for Mana in 2011; it shared a party list with Internet in the 2014 election.

Notes

↑ New Zealand Parliament - John Key MP
↑ McRobie 1989, pp. 8–9, 51, 119.
↑ McRobie 1989, p. 119.
↑ McRobie 1989, pp. 115–120.
↑ McRobie 1989, pp. 118–123.
↑ Wilson 1985, p. 208.
↑ Wilson 1985, pp. 194, 208.
↑ Electoral Commission (10 October 2014). "Official Count Results – Helensville". Retrieved 31 January 2016.
↑ Helensville results, 2011
↑ "Enrolment statistics". Electoral Commission. 4 November 2011. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
↑ Election results 2008
1 2 "Helensville:Electoral Profile". New Zealand Parliament. 26 August 2009. Retrieved 5 October 2009.
1 2 "Electorate Profile Helensville" (PDF). New Zealand Parliament. 1 November 2005. Retrieved 5 October 2009.
↑ Election result 2005
↑ Election results 2002

References

McRobie, Alan (1989). Electoral Atlas of New Zealand. Wellington: GP Books. ISBN 0-477-01384-8.
Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.

External links

Electorate Profile Parliamentary Library

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