Clutha-Southland

Clutha-Southland electorate boundaries used since the 2008 election

Clutha-Southland is a parliamentary constituency returning one member to the New Zealand House of Representatives. The current MP for Clutha Southland is Todd Barclay of the National Party. He entered parliament at the 2014 general election, replacing Bill English who had held the seat since 1996.

Population centres

Clutha-Southland was promulgated as one of the original 65 MMP electorates, centred on Southland district and covering an area stretching from Fiordland across the far south of the South Island to the south Otago coast. Its largest population centres are Gore and Balclutha. In 2008, the seat of Otago was abolished and split between the Waitaki and Clutha-Southland electorates, and parts of Central Otago, primarily around Arrowtown, Queenstown and Roxburgh were also transferred to Clutha-Southland.

Clutha-Southland is the successor to the old Wallace, Clutha and Awarua constituencies. Its boundaries had changed at all three redistributions undertaken since its creation, as dwindling populations in both the old Clutha-Southland electorate and in the neighbouring Invercargill electorate have forced both seats northwards to ensure every electorate population stays within certain limits. This trend stopped in the 2013 redistribution, however, with both the Clutha-Southland and Invercargill electorates remaining unchanged in area.^[1]

History

Because of its largely rural nature, Clutha-Southland is one of the National Party's safest seats. Bill English, who is the current deputy Prime Minister, held the seat from 1996 to 2014. Previously, English represented the Wallace electorate (1990-1996). English announced in January 2014 that he would retire as the electorate MP at the 2014 general election, becoming a list MP only.^[2]^[3]

Todd Barclay won the 2014 election by a significant margin to Labour's Liz Craig,^[4] obtaining nearly 64% of the candidate votes.^[5] Barclay is currently the youngest MP in the House of Representatives.^[6]

Members of Parliament for Clutha-Southland

The electorate has been represented by two Members of Parliament so far.

Key National

Election	Winner
1996 election		Bill English
1999 election
2002 election
2005 election
2008 election
2011 election
2014 election		Todd Barclay

Election results

2014 election

General election, 2014: Clutha-Southland^[7]
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 Todd Barclay		21,561	63.37	−5.46	21,694	63.18	+0.29
	Labour	Liz Craig		6,675	19.62	+2.85	5,036	14.67	−1.54
	Green	Rachael Goldsmith		2,398	7.05	−1.43	2,647	7.71	−0.93
	Conservative	Lachie Ashton		1,403	4.12	+1.59	1,726	5.03	+1.91
	Ban 1080	James Veint		915	2.69	+2.69	268	0.78	+0.78
	ACT	Don Nicolson		447	1.31	−1.25	122	0.36	−1.47
	Independent Coalition	Karl Barkley		168	0.49	+0.49	32	0.09	+0.09
	Democrats	Jason Jobsis		88	0.26	−0.15	36	0.10	−0.14
	NZ First						2,135	6.22	+1.33
	Legalise Cannabis						184	0.54	−0.12
	Internet Mana						158	0.46	+0.31^{[lower-alpha 1]}
	Māori						113	0.33	−0.10
	United Future						68	0.20	−0.61
	Civilian						10	0.03	+0.03
Informal votes				370			107
Total Valid votes				34,025			34,336
Turnout				34,443	78.51	+4.68
	National hold		Majority	14,886	43.75	−8.31

2011 election

General election 2011: Clutha-Southland^[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 Bill English		21,375	68.83	+0.96	20,020	62.89	+3.03
	Labour	Tat Loo		5,207	16.77	-4.69	5,160	16.21	-7.73
	Green	Rachael Goldsmith		2,633	8.48	+1.57	2,751	8.64	+3.54
	ACT	Don Nicolson		796	2.56	+0.79	583	1.83	-2.06
	Conservative	Ross Calverley		787	2.53	+2.53	992	3.12	+3.12
	Sovereignty Party	Tony Corbett		130	0.42	+0.42
	Democrats	Robert Mills		128	0.41	+0.41	75	0.24	+0.18
	NZ First						1,556	4.89	+2.02
	United Future						259	0.81	+0.06
	Legalise Cannabis						210	0.66	+0.27
	Māori						136	0.43	+0.01
	Mana						48	0.15	+0.15
	Libertarianz						24	0.08	+0.03
	Alliance						17	0.05	-0.13
Informal votes				810			209
Total Valid votes				31,056			31,831
	National hold		Majority	16,168	52.06	+5.65

Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 43,395^[9]

2008 election

General election 2008: Clutha-Southland^[10]
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 Bill English		22,631	67.87	+1.39	20,235	59.87	+2.73
	Labour	Don Pryde		7,156	21.46	-1.74	8,091	23.94	-4.76
	Green	Tim Gow		2,304	6.91	+4.23	1,726	5.11	+2.74
	ACT	Roly Henderson		590	1.77	+0.18	1,315	3.89	+1.98
	Family Party	Paul Tankard		515	1.54	+1.54	193	0.57	+0.57
	Alliance	Marvin Hubbard		149	0.45	+0.45	63	0.19	+0.11
	NZ First						968	2.86	-1.70
	Bill and Ben						259	0.77	+0.77
	United Future						254	0.75	-2.64
	Progressive						226	0.67	-0.09
	Māori						141	0.42	-0.21
	Legalise Cannabis						131	0.39	+0.13
	Kiwi						131	0.39	+0.39
	Democrats						18	0.05	-0.03
	Workers Party						18	0.05	+0.05
	Libertarianz						16	0.05	-0.02
	Pacific						8	0.02	+0.02
	RAM						4	0.01	+0.01
	RONZ						2	0.01	-0.004
Informal votes				354			142
Total Valid votes				33,345			33,799
	National hold		Majority	15,475	46.41	+3.14

Note: lines coloured beige denote the winner of the electorate vote. Lines coloured pink denote a candidate elected to Parliament from their party's list.

2005 election

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Party Votes	%
National	Y Bill English	20,020	66.70	17,334	57.14
Labour	David Talbot	6,988	23.28	8,705	28.70
NZ First	Dave Mackie	999	3.33	1,386	4.57
Green	Robert Guyton	808	2.69	719	2.37
United	Joy Leitze	701	2.34	1,028	3.39
ACT	John Cameron Fraser	479	1.60	579	1.91
IND	David Webber	121	0.40	-	-
Progressive	-	-	-	230	0.76
Destiny	-	-	-	99	0.33
ALCP	-	-	-	79	0.26
Māori Party	-	-	-	63	0.21
Democrats	-	-	-	26	0.09
Christian Heritage	-	-	-	24	0.08
Alliance	-	-	-	23	0.08
99 MP	-	-	-	13	0.04
Family Rights PP	-	-	-	9	0.03
Libertarianz	-	-	-	7	0.02
One NZ	-	-	-	6	0.02
Republic of NZ	-	-	-	3	0.01
Direct Democracy	-	-	-	2	0.01
informal votes		211		150
total valid votes		30,116		30,335
National hold	Majority	13,032

sourced from electionresults.govt.nz

1996 election

General election 1996: Clutha-Southland^[11]^[12]^[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	Bill English		14,764	47.09		13,449	42.74
	Labour	Lesley Soper		5,721	18.25		6,058	19.25
	NZ First	Alan Wise		5,075	16.19		4,709	14.97
	Alliance	Tracey Hicks		2,326	7.42		2,345	7.45
	ACT	Peter Snow		2,049	6.54		1,901	6.04
	Christian Coalition	Russell Zwies		1,060	3.38		2,147	6.82
	McGillicuddy Serious	Robyn West		306	0.98		133	0.42
	Natural Law	Gilbert Urquhart		50	0.16		24	0.08
	Legalise Cannabis						390	1.24
	United NZ						181	0.58
	Animals First						37	0.12
	Progressive Green						33	0.10
	Green Society						15	0.05
	Conservatives						14	0.04
	Superannuitants & Youth						11	0.03
	Libertarianz						10	0.03
	Advance New Zealand						2	0.01
	Asia Pacific United						2	0.01
	Ethnic Minority Party						2	0.01
	Mana Māori						2	0.01
	Te Tawharau						0	0.00
Informal votes				202			88
Total Valid votes				31,351			31,465
	National win new seat		Majority	9,043	28.84

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.

References

↑ Report of the Representation Commission 2014 (PDF). Representation Commission. 4 April 2014. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-477-10414-2. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
↑ Bennett, Adam (1 November 2013). "English to give up Clutha-Southland seat". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 3 November 2013.
↑ "Life after Bill". The Southland Times. 10 January 2014. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
↑ "Election 2014: Southland decides". The Southland Times. 20 September 2014. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
↑ Hayes, Lauren; Railton, Bridget; Jamieson, Debbie (20 September 2014). "Landslide win for Barclay". The Southland Times. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
↑ Rutherford, Hamish (29 April 2014). "Who is National's Todd Barclay?". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
↑ New Zealand Electoral Commission (22 January 2016). "Official Count Results – Clutha-Southland". Retrieved 22 January 2016.
↑ 2011 election results
↑ "Enrolment statistics". Electoral Commission. 26 November 2011. Retrieved 28 November 2011.
↑ Official Count Results -- Clutha-Southland, 2008 General Election. Chief Electoral Office, Wellington. Retrieved 23 September 2010.
↑ "Electorate Candidate and Party Votes Recorded at Each Polling Place - Clutha-Southland, 1996" (PDF). Retrieved 11 July 2013.
↑ "Part III - Party Lists of Successful Registered Parties" (PDF). Electoral Commission. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 February 2013. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
↑ "Part III - Party Lists of unsuccessful Registered Parties" (PDF). Electoral Commission. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 February 2013. Retrieved 22 June 2013.

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