Mount Roskill (New Zealand electorate)

Mount Roskill electorate boundaries used since the 2014 election

Mount Roskill is a parliamentary electorate in Auckland, New Zealand, returning one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Representatives of New Zealand. Phil Goff^[1] of the Labour Party held the seat from the 1999 election until he resigned from Parliament on 12 October 2016^[2] after contesting and being elected Mayor of Auckland on 8 October 2016 in the 2016 mayoral election. His resignation necessitated a byelection in this electorate which was won by Michael Wood.^[3]

Mount Roskill is located on the western edge of the former Auckland City, bordering the Manukau Harbour. It is anchored around the suburbs of Mount Roskill, Three Kings, Hillsborough and a large section of Balmoral. The 2008 election boundaries added in Lynfield and New Windsor at the expense of Onehunga, which returned to the Maungakiekie electorate after being cut out in 1999. The Mount Roskill electorate is working class and multi-ethnic, with a high Pacific Island and Asian population, and has the highest number of overseas-born residents of any New Zealand electorate, nearly 40 per cent (as of 2001).

History

The 1996 census showed population growth in the north and west of Auckland, necessitating the redistribution of electorates for the 1999 election. The existing New Lynn seat was renamed Titirangi, with its boundaries shifted to fall in between Auckland and Waitakere cities. The eastern side of the New Lynn residential area was amalgamated with the population excess of Epsom, the southern half of Owairaka seat (which was itself renamed Mount Albert) and the western end of Maungakiekie to form a new seat. Named Mount Roskill, it was the first new seat drawn since the introduction of Mixed Member Proportional voting three years previous.

So far there have been two MPs for Mount Roskill, both of the Labour Party, Phil Goff and Michael Wood. Goff was the first representative, having previously held New Lynn, another electorate in Auckland, and Roskill, an electorate covering much of the same area as Mount Roskill. After Goff was elected Mayor of Auckland in October 2016, a by-election date was set for 3 December 2016.^[4] Michael Wood won the by-election with more than half the votes.

Members of Parliament

Key

Labour

Election	Winner
1999 election		Phil Goff
2002 election
2005 election
2008 election
2011 election
2014 election
2016 by-election		Michael Wood

List MPs

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

Key

United Future National Green NZ First

Election	Winner
2002 election		Bernie Ogilvy
2005 election		Jackie Blue
2008 election		Jackie Blue
2011 election		Jackie Blue
2011 election		Julie Anne Genter
2014 election		Mahesh Bindra
2014 election		Parmjeet Parmar
2016		Barry Coates¹

¹Coates was elected from the party list in October 2016 following the resignation of Kevin Hague.

Election results

2016 by-election

The following table shows final by-election results:^[5]

Mount Roskill by-election, 2016
Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the by-election. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list prior to the by-election. Yellow background denotes the winner of the by-election, who was a list MP prior to the by-election. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Michael Wood	11,623	66.51	+10.69
	National	Parmjeet Parmar	4,771	27.30	-4.28
	People's Party	Roshan Nauhria	739	4.23	+4.23
	Democrats	Andrew Leitch	126	0.72	+0.72
	Legalise Cannabis	Brandon Stronge	84	0.48	+0.48
	Not A Party	Richard Goode	43	0.25	+0.25
	Independent	Tua Schuster	40	0.23	+0.23
Informal votes			50
Majority			6,852	39.20	+14.97
Turnout			17,476

2014 election

General election, 2014: Mount Roskill^[6]
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 Phil Goff		18,637	55.81	−1.34	12,086	35.45	−8.16
	National	Parmjeet Parmar		10,546	31.58	−2.36	14,275	41.87	+2.33
	Green	Barry Coates		1,682	5.04	+1.03	3,279	9.62	+2.35
	Conservative	Paul Davie		1,094	3.28	+1.52	1,240	3.64	+1.22
	NZ First	Mahesh Bindra		717	2.15	+0.66	1,805	5.29	+0.61
	Mana	John Minto		300	0.90	+0.90
	ACT						610	1.79	+0.71
	Internet Mana						304	0.89	+0.69^{[lower-alpha 1]}
	Māori						132	0.39	+0.01
	Legalise Cannabis						74	0.22	−0.11
	United Future						69	0.20	−0.19
	Ban 1080						17	0.05	+0.05
	Democrats						10	0.03	±0.00
	Civilian						8	0.02	+0.02
	Focus						6	0.02	+0.02
	Independent Coalition						6	0.02	+0.02
Informal votes				416			176
Total Valid votes				33,392			34,097
Turnout				34,097	73.69	+3.91
	Labour hold		Majority	8,091	24.23	+1.02

2011 election

General election, 2011: Mount Roskill^[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	%	±%
	Labour	Y Phil Goff		17,906	57.15	+1.35	14,098	43.61	+0.97
	National	Jackie Blue		10,635	33.94	-2.62	12,781	39.54	-2.56
	Green	Julie Anne Genter		1,258	4.01	+0.76	2,351	7.27	+2.99
	Conservative	Feleti Key		550	1.76	+1.76	783	2.42	+2.42
	NZ First	Mahesh Bindra		468	1.49	+1.49	1,513	4.68	+1.88
	ACT	Pratima Nand		240	0.77	-1.39	350	1.08	-2.34
	Legalise Cannabis	Jasmin Hewlett		167	0.53	+0.53	108	0.33	+0.07
	United Future	Bryan Mockridge		77	0.25	-0.39	125	0.39	-0.48
	Communist League	Patrick Brown		32	0.10	+0.10
	Māori						124	0.38	-0.09
	Mana						65	0.20	+0.20
	Democrats						11	0.03	+0.01
	Libertarianz						11	0.03	+0.01
	Alliance						10	0.03	-0.04
Informal votes				766			389
Total Valid votes				31,333			32,330
	Labour hold		Majority	7,271	23.21	+3.97

Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 46,332^[8]

2008 election

General election, 2008: Mount Roskill^[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 Phil Goff		18,615	55.80		14,533	42.64
	National	Jackie Blue		12,197	36.56		14,346	42.09
	Green	Lisa Er		1,086	3.26		1,459	4.28
	ACT	Shawn Tan		718	2.15		1,165	3.42
	Kiwi	Joseph Rebello		310	0.93		198	0.58
	United Future	Neville Wilson		211	0.63		296	0.87
	Progressive	Suki Amirapu		155	0.46		281	0.82
	RAM	Daphne Lawless		67	0.20		16	0.05
	NZ First						955	2.80
	Pacific						302	0.89
	Māori						163	0.48
	Family Party						119	0.35
	Bill and Ben						104	0.31
	Legalise Cannabis						90	0.26
	Alliance						23	0.07
	Workers Party						12	0.04
	Libertarianz						8	0.02
	RONZ						8	0.02
	Democrats						7	0.02
Informal votes				362			188
Total Valid votes				33,359			34,085
	Labour hold		Majority	6,418

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

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Party Votes	%
Labour	Y Phil Goff	19,476	59.94	16,501	49.70
National	Jackie Blue	9,581	29.49	11,543	34.77
ACT	Kenneth Wang	1,882	5.79	825	2.48
United	Richard Barter	860	2.65	826	2.49
Destiny	Brian Ane	338	1.04	191	0.58
Progressive	Suki Amirapu	257	0.79	391	1.18
Direct Democracy	Barry Scott	98	0.30	18	0.05
Green	-	-	-	1,383	4.17
NZ First	-	-	-	1,173	3.53
Māori Party	-	-	-	121	0.36
Family Rights PP	-	-	-	64	0.19
Christian Heritage	-	-	-	60	0.18
ALCP	-	-	-	36	0.11
Alliance	-	-	-	22	0.07
Libertarianz	-	-	-	18	0.05
99 MP	-	-	-	9	0.03
Democrats	-	-	-	7	0.02
Republic of NZ	-	-	-	7	0.02
One NZ	-	-	-	5	0.02
total valid votes		32,492		33,200
Labour hold	Majority	9,895

Sourced from electionresults.govt.nz

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

↑ New Zealand Parliament - Phil Goff MP
↑ "Notice of vacancy in seat in House of Representatives". New Zealand Gazette. 13 October 2016. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
↑ "Phil Goff elected Mayor of Auckland". NZ Herald. 8 October 2016. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
↑ Demelza Leslie (11 October 2016). "Mt Roskill becomes National-Labour battleground". Radio NZ. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
↑ "Mt Roskill - Official Result". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
↑ "Official Count Results -- Mt Roskill (2014)". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
↑ Mount Roskill results, 2011
↑ "Enrolment statistics". Electoral Commission. 21 October 2011. Retrieved 17 November 2011.
↑ 2008 election results

External links

Electorate profile, Parliamentary Library

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