Māngere (New Zealand electorate)

Māngere electorate boundaries used since the 2008 election

Māngere, styled as Mangere before 1997, is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate, returning one member of parliament to the Representatives of New Zealand. The current MP for Māngere is William Sio,^[1] elected for the Labour Party. He has held this electorate since 2008.

Population centres

Through an amendment in the Electoral Act in 1965, the number of electorates in the South Island was fixed at 25, an increase of one since the 1962 electoral redistribution.^[2] It was accepted that through the more rapid population growth in the North Island, the number of its electorates would continue to increase, and to keep proportionality, three new electorates were allowed for in the 1967 electoral redistribution for the next election.^[3] In the North Island, five electorates were newly created (including Mangere) and one electorate was reconstituted while three electorates were abolished.^[4] In the South Island, three electorates were newly created and one electorate was reconstituted while three electorates were abolished.^[5] The overall effect of the required changes was highly disruptive to existing electorates, with all but three electorates having their boundaries altered.^[6] These changes came into effect with the 1969 election.^[3]

Māngere is based around the South Auckland suburbs of Mangere, Mangere Bridge, Favona and Mangere East. It has existed as an electorate since 1969; its boundaries were extended ahead of the introduction of mixed-member proportional (MMP) voting in 1996, swallowing up a section of the former Papatoetoe electorate.

In the 2007 boundary redistribution, Papatoetoe and Middlemore were transferred to the Manukau East electorate.^[7] The 2013/14 redistribution did not change the boundaries further.^[8]

History

Māngere, and all of South Auckland, forms the safest part of the Labour Party's core vote. Even during landslide elections in the National Party's favour, such as in 1975 and 1990, no Labour candidate for a South Auckland seat was seriously troubled.

Māngere was first represented by Colin Moyle of the Labour Party in 1969. Moyle represented the electorate until his resignation in 1977 over what became known as the 'Moyle Affair', and a subsequent by-election was won by a young barrister named David Lange, who would become Prime Minister after Labour's 1984 election victory. Lange retired in 1996 and the nomination was handed to Taito Phillip Field, at the time the MP for Otara. Field was returned with a high share of the vote in subsequent elections, but following his expulsion from the Labour caucus in 2007, his former party nominated former Manukau City deputy mayor William Sio in his place, who won the seat with a majority of over 7,000 votes in the 2008 election.^[1] In the 2011 and 2014 elections, Sio's majority was circa 15,000 votes.^[9][10]

Members of Parliament

Unless otherwise stated, all MPs terms began and started at general elections.

Key

  Labour     National  

List MPs

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

Election results

2011 election

General election 2011: Māngere[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	%	±%
	Labour	Y William Sio		18,177	75.90	+23.49	17,960	71.82	+10.22
	National	Claudette Hauiti		3,018	12.60	-1.35	3,592	14.36	-2.07
	Green	Todd Ross		1,030	4.30	+2.06	962	3.85	+1.81
	NZ First	Olivia Ilalio		597	2.49	+2.49	1,466	5.86	+2.55
	Conservative	Fa'avae Gagamoe		584	2.44	+2.44	402	1.61	+1.61
	Mana	James Papali'i		422	1.76	+1.76	252	1.01	+1.01
	ACT	Casey Costello		121	0.51	-0.52	77	0.31	-0.81
	Māori						134	0.54	-0.43
	Legalise Cannabis						95	0.38	-0.003
	United Future						49	0.20	-0.67
	Alliance						14	0.06	+0.03
	Libertarianz						4	0.02	-0.01
	Democrats						0	0.00	-0.01
Informal votes				856			518
Total Valid votes				23,949			25,007
	Labour hold		Majority	15,159	63.30	+33.78

Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 39,534^[11]

2008 election

General election 2008: Māngere[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	%	±%
	Labour	William Sio		12,651	52.40		15,446	61.60
	Pacific	N Taito Lemalu Phillip Field		5,525	22.89		2,683	10.70
	National	Mita Harris		3,368	13.95		4,120	16.43
	Family Party	Galumalemana Jerry Filipaina		999	4.14		297	1.18
	Green	Muamua Sofi Strickson-Pua		541	2.24		511	2.04
	United Future	Pulotu Selio Solomon		443	1.84		218	0.87
	ACT	Michael Tabachnik		247	1.02		280	1.12
	RAM	Roger Fowler		154	0.64		16	0.06
	Progressive	Tala Po'e		150	0.62		165	0.66
	Independent	Lemalu Talia Matatumua		63	0.26
	NZ First						830	3.31
	Māori						241	0.96
	Legalise Cannabis						96	0.38
	Bill and Ben						75	0.30
	Kiwi						65	0.26
	Workers Party						16	0.06
	Alliance						6	0.02
	Libertarianz						6	0.02
	Democrats						2	0.01
	RONZ						1	0.00
Informal votes				411			279
Total Valid votes				24,141			25,074
	Labour hold		Majority	7,126	29.52

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

General election, 2005 - Mangere^[13]

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Party Votes	%
Labour	Y Taito Phillip Field	19633	70.64	20900	72.89
National	Clem Simich	3613	13.00	3894	13.58
Destiny	Edward Saafi	892	3.21	445	1.55
NZ First	Toa Greening	831	2.99	1189	4.15
Green	Mua Strickson-Pua	767	2.76	503	1.75
United	Neville Wilson	573	2.06	467	1.63
Māori Party	Solomon Matthews	522	1.88	330	1.15
Progressive	Tala Po'e	341	1.23	429	1.50
Family Rights PP	Susie Po'a Williams	305	1.10	184	0.64
Alliance	Len Richards	204	0.73	48	0.17
Direct Democracy	Paul Teio	56	0.20	7	0.02
IND	Mark Muller	56	0.20	–	–
ACT	–	–	–	141	0.49
ALCP	–	–	–	59	0.21
Christian Heritage	–	–	–	42	0.15
One NZ	–	–	–	8	0.03
Democrats	–	–	–	5	0.02
Libertarianz	–	–	–	5	0.02
99 MP	–	–	–	2	0.01
Republic of NZ	–	–	–	2	0.01
informal votes		453		293
total valid votes		27,793		28,674
Labour hold	Majority	16,020

1996 election

Footnotes

Notes

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