Tukituki (New Zealand electorate)

Tukituki electorate boundaries used since the 2008 election

Tukituki is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the House of Representatives of New Zealand. Named after the Tukituki River which runs through the electorate, it was established for the 1996 general election and has existed since. The current MP for Tukituki is Craig Foss of the National Party, who has held this position since 2005.

Population centres

Tukituki was created ahead of the change to mixed-member proportional (MMP) voting at the 1996 election; it is a merger of the old Hastings seat with Central Hawke's Bay District. Tukituki centres on the southern Hawke's Bay region, with the bulk of the electorate's population coming from the city of Hastings, with other towns drafted in to bring the electorate up to the required population. In 2008, a general northwards tug on boundaries in the Taranaki, Manawatu-Wanganui and Hawke's Bay regions saw Waipukurau and Waipawa moved into the Wairarapa electorate, in exchange for which Tukituki gained the suburbs and towns around Cape Kidnappers from the Napier electorate.^[1] No boundary adjustments were undertaken in the subsequent 2013/14 redistribution.^[2]

History

Labour's Rick Barker,^[3] who had represented Hastings since 1993 was elected as MP for Tukituki, and re-elected twice before a large provincial swing to the National Party in 2005 cost Barker his seat.^[4] This was the third time in over thirty years that a Hastings electorate had elected a National MP — the other two times being National's landslide victories in 1975 and 1990.

National's Craig Foss^[5] first contested the Tukituki electorate in the 2002 election, but Barker comfortably held the electorate,^[6] and ranked 47th on National's party list, Foss did not enter Parliament.^[7]

Foss beat the incumbent in the 2005 election.^[4] He was returned to the 49th Parliament with a greatly increased majority in the 2008 election.^[8] His majority increased to nearly 10,000 votes in the 2011 election.^[9] In the 2014 election, his majority dropped to 6,490 votes.^[10]

Members of Parliament

Key

Labour National

Election	Winner
1996 election		Rick Barker
1999 election
2002 election
2005 election		Craig Foss
2008 election
2011 election
2014 election

List MPs

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

Election	Winner
2005 election		Rick Barker
2008 election		Rick Barker

Election results

2011 election

General election 2011: Tukituki^[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	%	±%
	National	Y Craig Foss		19,378	58.42	+1.24	17,935	52.60	+2.36
	Labour	Julia Haydon-Carr		9,718	29.30	-5.67	8,231	24.14	-8.01
	Green	Jim MacDonald		2,319	6.99	+1.89	3,294	9.66	+3.64
	Conservative	Stephen Jenkinson		1,078	3.25	+3.25	1,296	3.80	+3.80
	Legalise Cannabis	Romana (Marnz) Manning		352	1.06	+1.06	198	0.58	+0.22
	ACT	Robert Burnside		252	0.76	-0.73	498	1.46	-2.89
	Democrats	Barry Pulford		74	0.22	+0.02	15	0.04	-0.02
	NZ First						1,995	5.85	+2.68
	Māori						263	0.77	-0.10
	United Future						220	0.65	+0.10
	Mana						117	0.34	+0.34
	Libertarianz						19	0.06	+0.03
	Alliance						17	0.05	-0.04
Informal votes				787			225
Total Valid votes				33,171			34,098
	National hold		Majority	9,660	29.12	+6.90

Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 44,708^[11]

2008 election

General election 2008: Tukituki^[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 Craig Foss		20,103	57.18		17,904	50.24
	Labour	Rick Barker		12,292	34.96		11,457	32.15
	Green	Quentin Duthie		1,792	5.10		2,146	6.02
	ACT	Duncan Lennox		523	1.49		1,552	4.35
	Progressive	Dawn Patchett		270	0.77		309	0.87
	Alliance	Thomas O'Neill		104	0.30		32	0.09
	Democrats	Barry Pulford		73	0.21		22	0.06
	NZ First						1,129	3.17
	Māori						310	0.87
	United Future						196	0.55	-
	Bill and Ben						187	0.52
	Kiwi						135	0.38
	Legalise Cannabis						127	0.36
	Family Party						63	0.18
	Pacific						37	0.10
	Workers Party						14	0.04
	Libertarianz						10	0.03
	RAM						5	0.01
	RONZ						4	0.01
Informal votes				284			134
Total Valid votes				35,157			35,639
	National hold		Majority	7,811	22.22

2005 election

General election 2005: Tukituki^[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	Craig Foss		17,239	49.31	+17.83	16,487	46.50
	Labour	N Rick Barker		14,837	42.44	-9.47	13,353	37.66
	Green	Liz Earth		1,171	3.35		1,373	3.87
	United Future	Jocelyn Smith		670	1.92		856	2.41
	Māori	Ngahiwi Taumoana		541	1.55		256	0.72
	ACT	John Ormond		456	1.30		407	1.15
	Direct Democracy	Scott Burch		49	0.14		10	0.03
	NZ First						1,852	5.22
	Progressive						458	1.29
	Destiny						183	0.52
	Legalise Cannabis						87	0.25
	Christian Heritage						50	0.14
	Alliance						22	0.06
	99 MP						14	0.04
	Democrats						13	0.04
	One NZ						10	0.03
	Libertarianz						8	0.02
	Family Rights						6	0.02
	RONZ						3	0.01
Informal votes				329			135
Total Valid votes				34,963			35,454
	National gain from Labour		Majority	2,402	6.87	+27.30

References

↑ Report of the Representation Commission 2007 (PDF). Representation Commission. 14 September 2007. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-477-10414-2. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
↑ Report of the Representation Commission 2014 (PDF). Representation Commission. 4 April 2014. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-477-10414-2. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
↑ New Zealand Parliament - Rick Barker MP
1 2 3 "Official Count Results -- Tukituki". Chief Electoral Office. 1 October 2005. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
↑ "Hon Craig Foss". New Zealand Parliament. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
↑ "Official Count Results -- Tukituki". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
↑ "Party Lists of Successful Registered Parties". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
1 2 "Official Count Results -- Tukituki". Chief Electoral Office. 22 November 2008. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
1 2 "Official Count Results -- Tukituki". Electoral Commission. 10 December 2011. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
↑ "Official Count Results -- Tukituki". Electoral Commission. 10 October 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
↑ "Enrolment statistics". Electoral Commission. 26 November 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2011.

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