- Source: Pakuranga (New Zealand electorate)
Pakuranga is a New Zealand Parliamentary electorate. It gave the Social Credit Party one of its few MPs when Neil Morrison held the seat from 1984 to 1987, but otherwise the electorate seat has been held by the National Party since 1972.
Its current MP is Simeon Brown who has held the electorate since the 2017 general election.
Population centres
Pakuranga is one of 64 general electorates used in New Zealand general elections. It covers part of eastern Auckland around the eponymous suburb of Pakuranga. Other population centres include Farm Cove, Half Moon Bay, Bucklands Beach, parts of Highland Park and parts of Howick.
The boundaries of the Pakuranga electorate were last adjusted in the 2007 redistribution. Initially, the Representation Commission proposed substantial changes, but after hearing objections mainly about Pakuranga, Manukau East, and Manurewa, the shape of the Pakuranga electorate reverted to almost the boundaries prior to the review. No boundary adjustments were undertaken in the subsequent 2013/14 redistribution.
History
Pakuranga was first contested at the 1963 election, and won by future Labour Party frontbencher Bob Tizard. It was captured by National in 1972, and has stayed with National since, save for a brief interlude – the New Zealand Party's presence on the ballot paper in 1984 split the centre-right vote and handed the seat to Social Credit's Neil Morrison.
With the introduction of mixed-member proportional (MMP) representation in 1996 the seat was expanded to absorb most of the neighbouring seat of Howick. Its boundaries have remained largely unchanged since; an attempt in 2007 to resurrect a seat around Howick by pulling the Pakuranga boundaries across the Tamaki River and adding Panmure, Point England and Glen Innes from Auckland City was abandoned in the face of strenuous local objection. Instead, Howick was renamed Botany and centred on the rapid-growth areas of Flat Bush, Botany Downs and Dannemora.
Pakuranga is considered a safe National seat, with Maurice Williamson being easily re-elected at every election to 2014 after ousting Morrison in 1987. In the 2014 election, Williamson had a majority of 12,867 votes over his nearest challenger, Barry Kirker of the Labour Party.
Williamson announced in July 2016 that he would not stand for Parliament at the 2017 general election and the seat was won by Simeon Brown, retaining it for the National Party.
= Members of Parliament
=Unless otherwise stated, all MPs terms began and ended at a general election.
Key
Labour
National
Independent
Social Credit
NZ First
= List MPs
=Members of Parliament elected from party lists in elections where that person also unsuccessfully contested the Pakuranga electorate. Unless otherwise stated, all MPs terms began and ended at general elections.
Election results
= 2023 election
== 2020 election
== 2017 election
== 2014 election
== 2011 election
=Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 45,912
= 2008 election
== 2005 election
== 2002 election
== 1999 election
=Refer to Candidates in the New Zealand general election 1999 by electorate#Pakuranga for a list of candidates.
= 1993 election
== 1990 election
== 1987 election
== 1984 election
== 1981 election
== 1978 election
== 1975 election
== 1972 election
== 1969 election
== 1966 election
== 1963 election
=Table footnotes
Notes
References
Norton, Clifford (1988). New Zealand Parliamentary Election Results 1946–1987: Occasional Publications No 1, Department of Political Science. Wellington: Victoria University of Wellington. ISBN 0-475-11200-8.
External links
Electorate Profile Parliamentary Library
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Pakuranga (New Zealand electorate)
- Pakuranga
- Botany (New Zealand electorate)
- New Zealand electorates
- 2023 New Zealand general election
- Candidates in the 2005 New Zealand general election by electorate
- 1984 New Zealand general election
- 54th New Zealand Parliament
- Howick, New Zealand
- Social Credit Party (New Zealand)
