Roskill (New Zealand electorate)
Roskill was a New Zealand parliamentary electorate, from 1919 to 1996. The electorate was represented by eight Members of Parliament.
Population centres
In the 1918 electoral redistribution, the North Island gained a further three electorates from the South Island due to faster population growth. Only two existing electorates were unaltered, five electorates were abolished, two former electorate were re-established, and three electorates, including Roskill, were created for the first time.[1]
The electorate was in the western suburbs of Auckland, New Zealand.
History
The electorate was created in 1919, and existed continuously until 1996, the first mixed-member proportional representation (MMP) election, when it was included in the New Lynn electorate. The first representative was Vivian Potter, who represented the electorate for three terms for the Reform Party.[2] In the 1928 election, Potter stood in the Eden electorate as an independent but was beaten by Arthur Stallworthy.[3]
In the Roskill electorate, George Munns of the United Party won the 1928 election.[4] He was defeated in 1931 by Arthur Shapton Richards.[5] In 1935, Richards was challenged by the former representative Vivian Potter, but Potter came fourth out of the five candidates, with the incumbent winning the election.[6] In the 1946 election, Richards successfully transferred to the Mount Albert electorate.[7]
In 1999, the electorate was recreated as Mount Roskill, and is held by Phil Goff, the former leader of the Labour Party.
Members of Parliament
The Roskill electorate was represented by eight Members of Parliament:[8]
Key
Gilbert Myles' changes of allegiance, 1990–93
National Independent Liberal (1992) Alliance NZ First
Election results
1931 election
| General election, 1931: Roskill[9] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Arthur Shapton Richards | 4,885 | 38.81 | ||
| Reform | William John Holdsworth[10] | 4,714 | 37.45 | ||
| United | George Munns | 2,988 | 23.74 | ||
| Majority | 171 | 1.36 | |||
| Informal votes | 14 | 0.11 | |||
| Turnout | 12,601 | 81.83 | |||
| Registered electors | 15,399 | ||||
Notes
- ↑ McRobie 1989, pp. 75–80.
- ↑ Wilson 1985, p. 227.
- ↑ The General Election, 1928. Government Printer. 1929. p. 2. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
- ↑ Wilson 1985, p. 222.
- ↑ Wilson 1985, pp. 222, 230.
- ↑ "Blomfield and Jaget Singh". The Evening Post CXX (136). 5 December 1935. p. 5. Retrieved 29 December 2013.
- ↑ Wilson 1985, p. 230.
- ↑ Wilson 1985, p. 271.
- ↑ The General Election, 1931. Government Printer. 1932. p. 4. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
- ↑ "Electoral". The New Zealand Herald. LXVIII (21051). 9 December 1931. p. 18. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
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.