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Auckland Central is a New Zealand electoral division returning one member to the New Zealand House of Representatives. Its current representative is Nikki Kaye, a member of the National Party; she has represented the seat since 2008.

Auckland Central contains downtown Auckland, the suburbs of Ponsonby, Grey Lynn, Westmere, St Mary's Bay, Newton and Eden Terrace at the west side of the city. Because of the location of the main Auckland ferry terminal, Auckland Central also contains the islands of the Hauraki Gulf. At the 2008 election, Grafton became part of Epsom, and Point Chevalier moved into Mount Albert. To offset these changes, the suburb of Newton was drafted in from Mount Albert.

[edit] History

Auckland Central was created ahead of the 1887 election; it was carved from parts of the electorates of Auckland North and the Auckland West and focused around upper Queen Street, Grafton, and Newton. It lasted only until the 1890 elections, when a reduction in the number of electorates meant Auckland Central was re-incorporated into single larger Auckland electorate. At the 1905 elections, the Auckland seat was split into three seats, including a recreated Auckland Central.

The seat has been held by the Labour Party for most of its existence — since 1919, the seat has spent only three years in the hands of another party (the left-wing Alliance, from 1993 to 1996). However, the 2008 election saw the National Party win the electorate for the first time.

[edit] Members of Parliament for Auckland Central

Unless otherwise stated, all MPs terms began and ended at general elections.

Name	Party	Elected	Left Office	Reason
George Edward Grey	Independent	1887	1890	electorate abolished

Alfred Kidd	Liberal	1905	1908	Deselected
Albert Glover	Liberal	1908, 1911, 1914	1919	Defeated
Bill Parry	Labour	1919, 1922, 1925, 1928, 1931, 1935, 1938, 1943,	1946	contested Arch Hill instead
Bill Anderton	Labour	1946, 1949, 1951, 1954, 1957	1960	retired
Norman Douglas	Labour	1960, 1963, 1966, 1969, 1972	1975	retired
Richard Prebble	Labour	1975, 1978, 1981, 1984, 1987, 1990	1993	defeated
Sandra Lee-Vercoe	Alliance	1993	1996	Defeated in enlarged Auckland Central seat
Judith Tizard	Labour	1996, 1999, 2002, 2005	2008	defeated
Nikki Kaye	National	2008	(incumbent)

[edit] List MPs from Auckland Central

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

Name	Party	First Elected	Left Office	Contested Auckland Central
Sandra Lee-Vercoe	Alliance	1993	2002	1996, 1999
Rodney Hide	ACT	1996	current MP	1996
Pansy Wong	National	1996	current MP	2002, 2005
Nandor Tanczos	Green	1999	26 June 2008	1999, 2002, 2005

[edit] Election results

[edit] 2008 election

General Election 2008: Auckland Central^[1]
Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party Votes	%	±%
	National	Nikki Kaye		14,677	42.91	+9.81	14,112	40.08	+6.36
	Labour	N Judith Tizard		13,180	38.53	-5.36	12,166	34.55	-10.68
	Green	Denise Roche		4,592	13.43	-1.38	5,446	15.47	+2.49
	ACT	Scott Uren		581	1.70	+0.15	1,456	4.14	+2.35
	Legalise Cannabis	Kevin O'Connell		349	1.02	-	101	0.29	+0.12
	Progressive	Justin Robson		274	0.80	+0.06	226	0.64	-0.17
	RAM	Oliver Woods		132	0.39	-	16	0.05	-
	United Future	Aaron Galey-Young		128	0.37	-0.91	168	0.48	-0.82
	Independent	Thomas Forde		84	0.25	-0.01	-
	Independent	Stephen Greenfield		68	0.20	-	-
	Human Rights	Anthony Ravlich		67	0.20	-
	Alliance	Sarita Divis		39	0.11	-	11	0.03	-0.02
	RONZ	Kerry Bevin		32	0.09	+0.00	10	0.03	+0.02
	NZ First	-					806	2.29	-0.55
	Māori	-					328	0.93	+0.33
	Bill and Ben	-					132	0.37	-
	Pacific	-					73	0.21	-
	Kiwi	-					70	0.20	-
	Family Party	-					38	0.11	-
	Libertarianz	-					27	0.08	+0.01
	Workers Party	-					12	0.03	-
	NZ Democrats	-					10	0.03	+0.00
Informal votes				290			101
Total Valid votes				34,203			35,208
	National gain from Labour		Majority	1,497	4.38	-6.42

[edit] 2005 election

General Election 2005: Auckland Central^[2]
Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Y Judith Tizard		15,794	43.89	+0.56	16,639	45.24
	National	Pansy Wong		11,910	33.10	+6.73	12,403	33.72
	Green	Nandor Tanczos		5327	14.80		4775	12.98
	NZ First	Susan Baragwanath		996	2.77		1044	2.84
	ACT	Helen Simpson		559	1.55		658	1.79
	United Future	Steve Taylor		461	1.28		477	1.30
	Māori	Bronwyn Yates		330	0.92		223	0.61
	Progressive	Petronella Townsend		266	0.74		297	0.81
	Destiny	Maureen Vincent		150	0.42		80	0.22
	Independent	Thomas Forde		91	0.25		-	-
	Direct Democracy	Dilip Rupa		69	0.19		15	0.04
	RONZ	Alan Candy		32	0.09		3	0.01
	Legalise Cannabis						61	0.17
	Christian Heritage						29	0.08
	Libertarianz						25	0.07
	Alliance						19	0.05
	Family Rights						13	0.04
	NZ Democrats						10	0.03
	99 MP						5	0.01
	One NZ						5	0.01
Informal votes				292			115
Total Valid votes				35,985			36,781
	Labour hold		Majority	3,884	10.79	-6.17

[edit] 2002 election

General Election 2002: Auckland Central^[3]
Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Y Judith Tizard		13,298	43.33		13,929	44.10
	National	Pansy Wong		8093	26.37		4748	15.03
	Green	Nandor Tanczos		6212	20.24		4990	15.80
	ACT	Lech Beltowski		1223	3.98		3358	10.63
	United Future	Steve Taylor		770	2.51		1266	4.01
	Alliance	Mike Treen		365	1.19		513	1.62
	Progressive	Vivienne Shepherd		333	1.08		468	1.48
	Christian Heritage	Sean Michael Reynolds		235	0.77		163	0.52
	Independent	Neil Head		97	0.32
	Independent	Anthony Van Den Heuvel		66	0.22
	NZ First						1809	5.73
	Legalise Cannabis						164	0.52
	ORNZ						137	0.43
	Mana Māori						20	0.06
	One NZ						15	0.05
	NMP						3	0.01
Informal votes				357			89
Total Valid votes				30,692			31,583
	Labour hold		Majority	5205	16.96

[edit] External links

Parliament of New Zealand - Auckland Central Electorate Profile

[edit] References

[0] 2008 election results

[1] 2005 election results

[2] 2002 election results

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