West Coast-Tasman

West Coast-Tasman electorate boundaries used since the 2008 election

West Coast-Tasman is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate. Since its formation for the 1996 election, it has been held by Damien O'Connor of the Labour Party apart from one parliamentary term, when National's Chris Auchinvole was the representative from 2008 to 2011.

Population centres

West Coast-Tasman is the second-largest general electorate in New Zealand, behind Clutha-Southland. It is one of the longest. The Representation Commission last adjusted the boundaries in the 2007 review, which first applied at the 2008 election, when the northern boundary moved closer to Nelson, and Wakefield, Foxhill and Belgrove were added.^[1] The electorate was not changed in the 2013/14 review.^[2]

The electorate includes the following population centres:

History

The electorate was formed in 1996 for the Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) voting system by combining the former Tasman and West Coast electorates.

Damien O'Connor was the first representative and he held the electorate until the 2008 general election, when he was beaten by National candidate Chris Auchinvole, who had previously been a list MP. Auchinvole's majority was 971.^[3] His position on the Labour Party list meant that O'Connor couldn't return to Parliament immediately. When the list MP Michael Cullen retired in May 2009, O'Connor regained his position as Member of the House of Representatives because he was the highest-ranked candidate on the list not already an MP.^[4] In contrast to the overall trend, he regained the electorate in the 2011 election.^[5]

Auchinvole retired from politics at the end of the 2011–2014 parliamentary term, and former Mayor of Westland District, Maureen Pugh, gained the nomination for the National Party.^[6]^[7] O'Connor was once again successful. Based on preliminary results for the 2014 election, Pugh was the lowest-ranked National Party list member who was returned to Parliament,^[8]^[9] but when the final results were released two weeks later, National had lost one list seat and Pugh did not get returned to Parliament.^[10]

Members of Parliament

West Coast-Tasman has been represented by two electorate MPs so far:

Key

Labour National Green

Election	Winner
1996 election		Damien O'Connor
1999 election
2002 election
2005 election
2008 election		Chris Auchinvole
2011 election		Damien O'Connor
2014 election		Damien O'Connor

List MPs

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

Election	Winner
2005 election		Chris Auchinvole
2008 election		Kevin Hague
2009		Damien O'Connor¹
2011 election		Chris Auchinvole
2011 election		Kevin Hague
2014 election		Kevin Hague

¹In the 2008 election Damien O'Connor's list position of 37 meant he was not returned until Michael Cullen resigned in May 2009.

Election results

2011 election

General election 2011: West Coast-Tasman^[11]
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	Damien O'Connor		15,753	47.51	+3.85	9,200	27.25	-6.22
	National	N Chris Auchinvole		13,214	39.85	-6.66	15,462	45.79	+1.72
	Green	Kevin Hague		2,123	6.40	+0.23	4,787	14.18	+3.32
	Conservative	Claire Holley		623	1.88	+1.88	1,075	3.18	+3.18
	ACT	Allan Birchfield		487	1.47	+1.47	278	0.82	-1.34
	United Future	Clyde Graf		454	1.37	+0.63	468	1.39	+0.23
	Legalise Cannabis	Steven Wilkinson		450	1.36	-0.47	249	0.74	+0.14
	Youth	Robert Terry		52	0.16	+0.01
	NZ First						1,931	5.72	+1.91
	Māori						145	0.43	-0.20
	Mana						91	0.27	+0.27
	Democrats						33	0.10	-0.01
	Libertarianz						31	0.09	+0.03
	Alliance						16	0.05	-0.04
Informal votes				628			288
Total Valid votes				33,156			33,766
	Labour gain from National		Majority	2,539	7.66	+10.51

Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 44,556^[12]

2008 election

General election 2008: West Coast-Tasman^[13]
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	Chris Auchinvole		15,844	46.51	+5.59	15,187	44.07
	Labour	N Damien O'Connor		14,873	43.66	-4.03	11,532	33.46
	Green	Kevin Hague		2,102	6.17	+1.38	3,740	10.85
	Legalise Cannabis	Steven Wilkinson		623	1.83	+0.21	206	0.60
	McGillicuddy Serious	Steve Richards		259	0.76
	United Future	Jocelyn Smith		252	0.74	-1.33	398	1.15
	NZ Representative Party	Reg Turner		62	0.18
	Aotearoa NZ Youth Party	Robert Terry		50	0.15
	NZ First						1,313	3.81
	ACT						744	2.16
	Kiwi						349	1.01
	Progressive						292	0.85
	Bill and Ben						243	0.71
	Māori						216	0.63
	Family Party						122	0.35
	Democrats						37	0.11
	Alliance						29	0.08
	Libertarianz						20	0.06
	Workers Party						14	0.04
	Pacific						10	0.03
	RAM						5	0.01
	RONZ						3	0.01
Informal votes				366			223
Total Valid votes				34,065			34,460
	National gain from Labour		Majority	971	2.85

2005 election

General election 2005: West Coast-Tasman^[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	%	±%
	Labour	Y Damien O'Connor		15,178	47.69	-6.14	12,012	37.22
	National	Chris Auchinvole		13,024	40.93	+13.05	12,776	39.59
	Green	Richard Davies		1,526	4.80		2,913	9.03
	United Future	Milton Osborne		658	2.07		977	3.03
	Legalise Cannabis	Steve Wilkinson		515	1.62		174	0.54
	Progressive	Lew Holland		358	1.12		558	1.73
	Christian Heritage	Derek Blight		314	0.99		131	0.41
	ACT	Kevin Gill		251	0.79		348	1.08
	NZ First						2,029	6.29
	Māori						118	0.37
	Destiny						111	0.34
	Democrats						30	0.09
	Libertarianz						21	0.07
	Alliance						20	0.06
	Family Rights						12	0.04
	One NZ						11	0.03
	99 MP						10	0.03
	Direct Democracy						10	0.03
	RONZ						10	0.03
Informal votes				354			131
Total Valid votes				31,824			32,271
	Labour hold		Majority	2,154	6.77	-19.18

References

↑ Report of the Representation Commission 2007 (PDF). Representation Commission. 14 September 2007. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-477-10414-2. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
↑ Report of the Representation Commission 2014 (PDF). Representation Commission. 4 April 2014. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-477-10414-2. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
↑ "Official Count Results -- West Coast-Tasman". Chief Electoral Office, Wellington. Retrieved 21 November 2011.
↑ "O'Connor to return to Parliament". Radio New Zealand. 13 April 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-05-05.
↑ "O'Connor on course to grab West Coast seat". AAP. Retrieved 26 November 2011.
↑ "Pugh to seek Coast seat". The Nelson Mail. 16 December 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
↑ Conway, Glenn (16 December 2013). "Former Westland mayor to stand for National". The Press.
↑ Mathewson, Nicole; Stylianou, Georgina; Fulton, Tim (21 September 2014). "Election 2014: Canterbury decides". The Press. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
↑ Farrar, David (21 September 2014). "Election 2014: All the MPs for each party, plus those who failed to make the cut". National Business Review. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
↑ Rutherford, Hamish (4 October 2014). "National loses majority, Greens pick up one". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
↑ 2011 election results
↑ "Enrolment statistics". Electoral Commission. 26 November 2011. Retrieved 28 November 2011.
↑ "Official Count Results -- West Coast-Tasman". Chief Electoral Office. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
↑ "Official Count Results -- West Coast-Tasman". Chief Electoral Office. Retrieved 19 September 2014.

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