Ōtaki (New Zealand electorate)

Ōtaki electorate boundaries used since the 2014 election

Ōtaki (previously Otaki) is a New Zealand Parliamentary electorate, spanning part of the coast of the lower North Island. The bulk of its population comes from the Horowhenua District, but it also takes in part of the northern Kapiti Coast, including the towns of Otaki and Waikanae, and part of Paraparaumu. The current MP for Ōtaki is Nathan Guy of the National Party. He has held this position since 2008 election.

Population centres

In the 1892 electoral redistribution, population shift to the North Island required the transfer of one seat from the South Island to the north. The resulting ripple effect saw every electorate established in 1890 have its boundaries altered, and eight electorates were established for the first time, including Otaki.^[1]

History

Otaki was created for the 1893 election, and the first member for Otaki was James Wilson, who held the seat until 1896. For most of the early 1900s the seat was won by William Hughes Field, a Liberal-turn-independent-turn-Reform. He lost it to John Robertson of the Social Democratic Party (who had been nominated by the flax-workers union) in 1911, but won it back in 1914.

The seat was abolished in 1972, and Allan McCready transferred to the Manawatu electorate.

Otaki was recreated ahead of the change to Mixed Member Proportional voting in 1996, by combining two bellwether seats: the northern half of Kapiti with the entire Horowhenua seat. Since its inception the boundaries have been left largely unaltered, though after the 2007 boundary review a macron was added to the name, and it is now spelt Ōtaki. The first MP for Otaki was Judy Keall, who won by less than a thousand votes in 1996 before a more decisive victory in 1999.^[2] In 2002, her former electorate assistant Darren Hughes won the seat, becoming the youngest member of the House of Representatives. His 2002 majority was slashed to just 382 at the 2005 election by former Horowhenua District councillor Nathan Guy. In a 2008 rematch, Guy tipped out Hughes by 1,354 votes; Hughes returned to Parliament off the Labour Party list.

Members of Parliament

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

Key

Independent Liberal Reform Labour Labour National

Election	Winner
1893 election		James Wilson
1896 election 1899 election		Henry Augustus Field
1900 by-election 1902 election 1905 election		William Field
1908 election
1908 election
1911 election		John Robertson
1914 election 1919 election 1922 election 1925 election 1928 election 1931 election		William Field
1935 election 1938 election 1943 election		Leonard Lowry
1946 election 1949 election 1951 election 1954 election 1957 election		James Joseph Maher
1960 election 1963 election 1966 election 1969 election		Allan McCready
(electorate abolished 1972–1996, see Kapiti and Manawatu)
1996 election 1999 election		Judy Keall
2002 election 2005 election		Darren Hughes
2008 election 2011 election 2014 election		Nathan Guy

List MPs

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

Election	Winner
1996 election		Roger Sowry
1999 election
2002 election
2005 election		Nathan Guy
2008 election		Darren Hughes

Election results

2014 election

General election, 2014: Ōtaki^[3]
Notes:		Blue 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, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party Votes	%	±%
	National	Y Nathan Guy		20,980	54.80	+3.23	18,854	48.71	+1.92
	Labour	Rob McCann		13,198	34.47	−3.01	9,543	24.65	−4.94
	Green	Maddy Drew		2,462	6.43	+1.72	3,635	9.39	+0.21
	Conservative	Anne Lovelock		913	2.38	+0.65	1,695	4.38	+1.19
	Independent	Amanda Vickers		203	0.53	+0.53
	Independent	Frederick Macdonald		118	0.31	+0.31
	NZ First						3,827	9.89	+1.77
	Internet Mana						249	0.64	+0.43^{[lower-alpha 1]}
	Māori						169	0.44	−0.12
	Legalise Cannabis						138	0.36	−0.07
	ACT						111	0.29	−0.38
	United Future						74	0.19	−0.52
	Ban 1080						61	0.16	+0.16
	Democrats						19	0.05	+0.01
	Independent Coalition						19	0.05	+0.05
	Civilian						12	0.03	+0.03
	Focus						6	0.02	+0.02
Informal votes				412			298
Total Valid votes				38,286			38,710
Turnout				38,710	82.49	+3.23
	National hold		Majority	7,782	20.33	+6.24

2011 election

General election, 2011: Ōtaki^[4]
Notes:		Blue 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, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party Votes	%	±%
	National	Y Nathan Guy		19,151	51.57	+2.90	17,609	46.79	+2.02
	Labour	Peter Foster		13,920	37.48	-7.70	11,137	29.59	-7.36
	Green	Michael Gilchrist		1,750	4.71	+2.06	3,612	9.60	+3.96
	NZ First	David Scott		1,122	3.02	+1.02	3,057	8.12	+2.63
	Conservative	John Stephen Ryersson		644	1.73	+1.73	1,202	3.19	+3.19
	Legalise Cannabis	Fred MacDonald		253	0.68	+0.68	162	0.43	+0.14
	ACT	Peter McCaffrey		115	0.31	-0.23	253	0.67	-1.92
	United Future	Diane Brown		110	0.30	-0.09	266	0.71	-0.31
	Independent	Philip Dean Taueki		73	0.20	+0.20
	Māori						210	0.56	-0.26
	Mana						80	0.21	+0.21
	Libertarianz						19	0.05	+0.02
	Democrats						15	0.04	+0.01
	Alliance						11	0.03	-0.04
Informal votes				573			292
Total Valid votes				37,138			37,633
	National hold		Majority	5,231	14.09	+10.60

Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 47,483^[5]

2008 election

General election, 2008: Ōtaki^[6]
Notes:		Blue 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, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party Votes	%	±%
	National	Nathan Guy		18,885	48.67	+3.91	17,534	44.77	+3.10
	Labour	N Darren Hughes		17,531	45.18	-0.58	14,472	36.95	+4.72
	Green	Jim Kebbell		1,029	2.65		2,207	5.64	1.09
	NZ First	David John Scott		778	2.01		2,153	5.50	-1.29
	Progressive	Josie Pagani		221	0.57		453	1.16	-0.43
	ACT	Peter McCaffrey		210	0.54		1,014	2.59	+1.60
	United Future	Diane Brown		148	0.38	-1.25	397	1.01	-2.34
	Māori						321	0.82	+0.08
	Bill and Ben						177	0.45
	Kiwi						165	0.42
	Legalise Cannabis						115	0.29	+0.06
	Family Party						84	0.21
	Alliance						28	0.07	-0.13
	Libertarianz						12	0.03	+0.01
	Democrats						10	0.03	-0.02
	Pacific						9	0.02
	Workers Party						6	0.02
	RONZ						5	0.01	±0.00
	RAM						0	0.00
Informal votes				186			111
Total Valid votes				38,802			39,162
	National gain from Labour		Majority	1,354	3.49

2005 election

General election, 2005: Otaki^[7]
Notes:		Blue 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, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Y Darren Hughes		17,556	45.76	-7.27	16,131	41.67
	National	Nathan Guy		17,174	44.76	+13.79	15,174	39.20
	NZ First	Chris Perry		1,043	2.72		2,630	6.79
	Green	Nick Fisher		1,022	2.66		1,761	4.55
	United Future	Diane Brown		611	1.59		1,297	3.35
	Māori	Richard Orzecki		353	0.92		286	0.74
	Progressive	Russell Franklin		303	0.79		614	1.59
	ACT	Simon Ewing-Jarvie		163	0.42		383	0.99
	Alliance	Margaret Jeune		97	0.25		78	0.20
	Direct Democracy	Robert Atack		47	0.12		7	0.02
	Destiny						154	0.40
	Legalise Cannabis						88	0.23
	Family Rights						54	0.14
	Christian Heritage						37	0.10
	Democrats						21	0.05
	99 MP						14	0.04
	One NZ						14	0.04
	Libertarianz						9	0.02
	RONZ						5	0.01
Informal votes				242			134
Total Valid votes				38,369			38,707
	Labour hold		Majority	382	1.00	-21.07

1999 election

Refer to Candidates in the New Zealand general election 1999 by electorate#Otaki for a list of candidates.

1935 election

General election, 1935: Otaki^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Leonard Lowry	4,511	49.97
	United/Reform	G. A. Monk^[9]	2,791	30.92
	Independent	Will Appleton^[10]	975	10.80
	Democrat	Robert Westley Bothamley^[11]	750	8.31
Majority			1,720	19.05	+3.28
Turnout			9,027	83.26	-0.73
Registered electors			10,842

1931 election

General election, 1931: Otaki^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Reform	William Hughes Field	4,848	57.89
	Labour	Jim Thorn	3,527	42.11
Majority			1,321	15.77
Informal votes			92	1.09
Turnout			8,467	83.99
Registered electors			10,081

1900 by-election

Otaki by-election, 1900^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	William Hughes Field	1,755	52.44
	Conservative	Charles Morison	1,592	47.56	+2.09
Majority			163	4.87	-4.18
Turnout			3,347	62.35	-0.45
Registered electors			5,368

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

↑ McRobie 1989, pp. 59f.
↑ Counsell, Gerard (31 October 2008). "Swing seats: All eyes on Otaki". One News. Retrieved 8 October 2014.
↑ "Official Count Results -- Ōtaki (2014)". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
↑ 2011 election results
↑ "Enrolment statistics". Electoral Commission. 26 November 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
↑ 2008 Official Count Results – Ōtaki
↑ 2005 Official Count Results – Otaki
↑ "How the votes were cast". The Evening Post. CXX (130). 28 November 1935. p. 8. Retrieved 16 November 2013.
↑ "Otaki Seat". The Evening Post. CXX (55). 2 September 1935. p. 10. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
↑ "Mr. Appleton's Candidature". The Evening Post. CXX (97). 21 October 1935. p. 11. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
↑ "Election Notices". The Evening Post. CXIX (99). 29 April 1935. p. 2. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
↑ The General Election, 1931. Government Printer. 1932. p. 4. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
↑ "The Otaki Seat". The New Zealand Herald. XXXVII (11265). 8 January 1900. p. 5. Retrieved 5 February 2015.

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

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