Rangitīkei (New Zealand electorate)

Rangitīkei electorate boundaries used since the 2014 election

Rangitīkei (before 2008 styled as Rangitikei without a macron) is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. The current MP for Rangitīkei is Ian McKelvie of the National Party.^[1] He has held this position since 2011.

The electorate has existed continuously since the 1861 general election.

Geographic coverage

Rangitīkei covers an area of the lower North Island. It extends from the outskirts of Palmerston North, through the Rangitïkei catchment area north to the North Island Volcanic Plateau. The main towns included are Taumarunui, Waiouru, Taihape, Mangaweka, Hunterville, Marton, Bulls, and Feilding, and the suburbs of Ashhurst, Aokautere, Turitea and Linton in Palmerston North.^[2]

The current boundaries of the seat date from the introduction of mixed-member proportional (MMP) voting in 1996. The seat was created by adding the southern tip of King Country to the northern tip of the Manawatu seat, and drafting in the towns to the east of Whanganui from Waitotara. The rural conservative nature of the seat makes it a safe National seat, though this belies the fact that for six years it was held by a third party MP, Social Credit leader Bruce Beetham.

History

A seat named Wanganui and Rangitikei was contested at the very first general election in New Zealand in 1853. The use of an electorate named Rangitikei in its own right dates from the third session of the New Zealand Parliament. In a somewhat auspicious start for the seat, the first Member of Parliament for the seat in 1861 was future Prime Minister William Fox. Fox resigned twice; first on 16 May 1865, causing the 1865 by-election (won by Robert Pharazyn), and then on 11 March 1875, causing the 1875 by-election (won by John Ballance).^[3]

Three members died while holding the seat: Douglas Hastings Macarthur died on 24 May 1892 and was succeeded by John Stevens; Arthur Remington died on 17 August 1909 and was succeeded by Robert Smith; and Sir Roy Jack died on 24 December 1977 and was succeeded by Bruce Beetham.

Members of Parliament

Key

Independent Conservative Liberal Reform Labour National Social Credit

Election	Winner
1861 election		William Fox
1865 by-election		Robert Pharazyn
1866 election		William Hogg Watt
1868 by-election		William Fox
1871 election		William Fox
1875 by-election		John Ballance
1876 election		John Ballance
1879 election		William Willis
1880 by-election		William Fox
1881 election		John Stevens
1884 election		Robert Bruce
1887 election		Robert Bruce
1890 election		Douglas Macarthur
1892 by-election		Robert Bruce
1893 election		John Stevens
1896 election 1899 election		Frank Lethbridge
1902 election 1905 election 1908 election		Arthur Remington
1909 by-election		Robert Smith
1911 election 1914 election		Edward Newman
1919 election 1922 election 1925 election		William Spiers Glenn
1928 election		James Thomas Hogan
1931 election		Alexander Stuart
1935 election		Ormond Wilson
1938 election 1943 election 1946 election 1949 election 1951 election		Edward Gordon
1954 election 1957 election 1960 election 1963 election 1966 election 1969 election		Norman Shelton
1972 election 1975 election		Sir Roy Jack
1978 by-election 1978 election 1981 election		Bruce Beetham
1984 election 1987 election 1990 election 1993 election 1996 election		Denis Marshall
1999 election 2002 election 2005 election 2008 election		Simon Power
2011 election 2014 election		Ian McKelvie

Election results

2014 election

General election 2014: Rangitīkei^[4]
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 Ian McKelvie		20,487	59.72	+0.85	18,596	53.46	−0.48
	Labour	Deborah Russell		9,427	27.48	−1.18	6,408	18.42	−2.77
	NZ First	Romuald Rudzki		2,352	6.86	+6.86	3,914	11.25	+3.99
	Conservative	Roy Brown		1,505	4.39	+0.66	2,115	6.08	+1.86
	ACT	Neil Wilson		179	0.52	−0.45	131	0.38	−1.13
	Green						2,709	7.79	−1.65
	Internet Mana						208	0.60	+0.40^{[lower-alpha 1]}
	Māori						195	0.56	−0.22
	Legalise Cannabis						151	0.43	−0.05
	Ban 1080						106	0.30	+0.30
	United Future						75	0.22	−0.60
	Civilian						23	0.07	+0.07
	Democrats						15	0.04	−0.05
	Independent Coalition						12	0.03	+0.03
	Focus						7	0.02	+0.02
Informal votes				355			119
Total Valid votes				34,305			34,784
	National hold		Majority	11,060	32.24	+2.03

2011 election

General election 2011: Rangitīkei^[5]
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	Ian McKelvie		18,284	58.87	-6.83	17,115	53.94	+1.49
	Labour	Josie Pagani		8,902	28.66	-0.75	6,723	21.19	-6.35
	Green	Maree Brannigan		2,108	6.79	+6.79	2,994	9.44	+4.00
	Conservative	Ian Robertson		1,159	3.73	+3.73	1,333	4.20	+4.20
	ACT	Hayden Fitzgerald		302	0.97	-0.64	478	1.51	-2.78
	Mana	Peter Cleave		110	0.35	+0.35	62	0.20	+0.20
	Independent	Charles Turner		102	0.33	+0.33
	Independent	Grant Seton		91	0.29	+0.29
	NZ First						2,305	7.26	+2.17
	United Future						260	0.82	-0.33
	Māori						247	0.78	-0.13
	Legalise Cannabis						152	0.48	-+0.08
	Democrats						27	0.09	+0.03
	Libertarianz						23	0.07	+0.01
	Alliance						12	0.04	-0.06
Informal votes				695			363
Total Valid votes				31,058			31,731
	National hold		Majority	9,382	30.21	-6.08

Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 41,343^[6]

2008 election

General election 2008: Rangitīkei^[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 Simon Power		21,801	65.70		17,711	52.45
	Labour	Jills Angus Burney		9,759	29.41		9,298	27.53
	Independent	Steve Gibson		786	2.37	+2.37
	ACT	Jean Thompson		535	1.61		1,448	4.29
	United Future	John Langford		300	0.90		388	1.15
	Green						1,836	5.44
	NZ First						1,719	5.09
	Progressive						309	0.92
	Māori						307	0.92
	Bill and Ben						291	0.86
	Legalise Cannabis						135	0.40
	Kiwi						132	0.39
	Family Party						80	0.24
	Alliance						33	0.10
	Libertarianz						22	0.07
	Workers Party						20	0.06
	Democrats						18	0.05
	Pacific						17	0.05
	RAM						2	0.01
	RONZ						2	0.01
Informal votes				362			138
Total Valid votes				33,181			33,768
	National hold		Majority	12,042	36.29

2005 election

General election 2005: Rangitikei^[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 Simon Power		19,119	60.42		14,721	46.03
	Labour	Marilyn Brown		9,459	29.89		11,538	36.08
	NZ First	Murray Strawbridge		1,335	4.22		2,363	7.39
	United Future	Rob Moodie		718	2.27		1,027	3.21
	Independent	Richard Peirce		426	1.35
	Māori	Abe Hepi		369	1.17		195	0.61
	ACT	John Waugh		215	0.68		446	1.39
	Green						1,083	3.39
	Progressive						287	0.90
	Destiny						114	0.36
	Legalise Cannabis						85	0.27
	Christian Heritage						47	0.15
	Alliance						22	0.07
	Democrats						12	0.04
	Libertarianz						12	0.04
	One NZ						9	0.03
	99 MP						6	0.02
	Family Rights						5	0.02
	RONZ						5	0.02
	Direct Democracy						2	0.01
Informal votes				216			100
Total Valid votes				31,641			31,979
	National hold		Majority	9,660	30.53

1978 by-election

Rangitikei by-election, 1978
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Social Credit	Bruce Beetham	6,804	48.03	+11.64
	National	Jim Bull	5,469	38.61	-8.66
	Labour	Dr J.J. Stewart	1,614	11.39	-2.63
	Values	Dr Denis Hocking	264	1.68	+0.12
	Independent	M. Leniston	13	0.09	-
Majority			1,335	9.42
Turnout			14,164
	Social Credit gain from National		Swing

1931 election

General election, 1931: Rangitikei^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Reform	Alexander Stuart	4,162	50.09
	Independent	James Thomas Hogan	4,147	49.91
Majority			15	0.18
Informal votes			23	0.28
Turnout			8,332	82.39
Registered electors			10,113

1909 by-election

Rangitikei by-election, 1909: Second ballot^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Robert Smith	2,410	54.51	+29.26
	Reform	Frank Hockly	2,011	45.49	+8.45
Majority			399	9.03
Turnout			4,421

Rangitikei by-election, 1909: First ballot^[11]^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Reform	Frank Hockly	1,548	37.04
	Liberal	Robert Smith	1,055	25.25
	Liberal	William Meldrum	903	21.61
	Independent	James Georgetti	340	8.14
	Liberal-Labour	Robert Hornblow	333	7.97
Turnout			4,179

1899 election

General election, 1899: Rangitikei^[13]^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Frank Lethbridge	1,985	53.42
	Liberal	James Jervis Bagnall	1,453	39.10
	Independent Liberal	Edward Gascoigne	278	7.48
Majority			532	14.32
Turnout			3,716	66.25
Registered electors			5,609

1892 by-election

Rangitikei by-election, 1892^[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Robert Bruce	1,094	51.43
	Independent Liberal	John Stevens	1,033	48.57
Majority			61	2.87
Turnout			2,127

1890 election

General election, 1890: Rangitikei^[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Douglas Hastings Macarthur	978	50.84
	Conservative	Francis Arkwright	946	49.16
Majority			32	1.66
Turnout			1,924	59.45
Registered electors			3,236

1880 by-election

Rangitikei by-election, 1880^[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	William Fox	233	54.82
	Independent	Donald Fraser	123	28.94
	Independent	Henry Lyon	69	16.24
Majority			110	25.88
Turnout			425

1876 election

General election, 1876: Rangitikei^[17]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Independent	John Ballance	201	61.28	+15.38
	Independent	James Bull	127	38.72
Majority			74	22.56	+19.70
Turnout			328	26.64
Registered electors			1,231

1875 by-election

Rangitikei by-election, 1875^[18]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	John Ballance	112	45.90
	Independent	William Hogg Watt	105	43.03
	Independent	George Hutchison	27	11.06
Majority			7	2.86
Turnout			244

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

↑ New Zealand Parliament - Simon Power MP
↑ "Electorate Profile Rangitikei" (PDF). New Zealand Parliament. Retrieved 3 July 2010.
↑ Scholefield 1950, p. 107.
↑ "Official Count Results -- Rangitīkei (2014)". Electoral Commission. 10 October 2014. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
↑ 2011 election results
↑ "Enrolment statistics". Electoral Commission. 26 November 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
↑ 2008 election results
↑ election result Rangitīkei 2005
↑ The General Election, 1931. Government Printer. 1932. p. 4. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
↑ "The Rangitikei By-election". Wanganui Herald. 44 (12882). 24 September 1909. p. 5. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
↑ "Final Returns". Taranaki Herald. 55 (14012). 17 September 1909. p. 3. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
↑ "The Electoral District of Rangitikei". Wanganui Herald. XXXIV (12873). 13 September 1909. p. 1. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
↑ "The General Election, 1899". Wellington: Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives. 19 June 1900. p. 2. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
↑ "Rangitikei Election". Feilding Star. XXI (141). 14 December 1899. p. 3. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
1 2 "Rangitikei Election". Evening Star. 28 (3425). 10 May 1880. p. 2. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
↑ "The General Election, 1890". National Library. 1891. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
↑ "The Rangitikei Election". VIII (2672). Wanganui Herald. 6 January 1876. p. 2. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
↑ McIvor 1989, p. 53.

References

McIvor, Timothy (1989). The Rainmaker: A biography of John Ballance journalist and politician 1839–1893. Auckland: Heinemann Reed. ISBN 0-7900-0024-5.
Scholefield, Guy (1950) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1949 (3rd ed.). Wellington: Govt. Printer.
Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.

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