East Coast Bays is a New Zealand Parliamentary electorate. It is currently held by Murray McCully MP^[1].

The electorate is based around the north-eastern suburbs of North Shore City in north Auckland, including Torbay, Browns Bay and Mairangi Bay. The electorate crosses State Highway One at its southern end, which includes a section of Glenfield. East Coast Bays is a wealthy seat, with incomes above the national average and boasting some of the most expensive real estate in the country. The seat also contains many émigrés from South Africa.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Members of Parliament for East Coast Bays 1.2 List MPs from East Coast Bays 2 Election results 2.1 2008 election 2.2 2005 election 2.3 2002 election 3 References 4 External links

[edit] History

East Coast Bays was a seat in the New Zealand Parliament between 1972 and 1996, before being abolished to make way for a new seat called Albany at the change to Mixed Member Proportional voting. High population growth in North Auckland lead to the seat's western fringe being removed in 2002, and with it the eponymous suburb of Albany, thus recreating East Coast Bays ahead of the 2002 election.

Although now a safe seat for National, it was held for seven years by Social Credit MP Gary Knapp, from a byelection in 1980, where he defeated future National party leader Don Brash until the declining fortunes of the Democratic Party (as Social Credit renamed itself), lead to Knapp being defeated in 1987 by Murray McCully, who has held the seat since.

[edit] Members of Parliament for East Coast Bays

Name	Party	Elected	Left Office	Reason
Frank Gill	National	1972, 1975, 1978	1980	resigned
Gary Knapp	Social Credit	1980 by-election, 1981, 1984	1987	defeated
Murray McCully	National	1987, 1990, 1993	1996	seat abolished, contested Albany instead (1996, 1999)
Murray McCully	National	2002, 2005, 2008	incumbent

[edit] List MPs from East Coast Bays

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

Name	Party	First Elected	Left Office	Contested East Coast Bays
Paul Adams	United Future	2002	2005	2005, 2008
Sue Bradford	Green	2008	current MP	2008

[edit] Election results

[edit] 2008 election

General Election 2008: East Coast Bays[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	%	±%
	National	Y Murray McCully		20,151	58.09	+11.06	21,681	61.40	+9.13
	Labour	Vivienne (Viv) Goldsmith		6,177	17.81	-9.31	7,642	21.64	-10.13
	Family Party	Paul Adams[note 1]		3,570	10.29	-5.58	505	1.43	-
	Green	Sue Bradford		2,263	6.52	+3.01	1,439	4.08	+0.59
	ACT	Tim Kronfeld		1,246	3.59	+2.12	2,000	5.66	+3.09
	NZ First	Dail Jones		730	2.10	-0.47	1,001	2.83	-1.94
	No Commercial Airport at Whenuapai	Toby Hutton		283	0.82	-
	United Future	Ian McInnes		215	0.62	-0.49	263	0.74	-1.65
	Libertarianz	Elah Zamora		56	0.16	-	25	0.07	+0.03
	Progressive	-					214	0.61	-0.30
	Bill and Ben	-					149	0.42	-
	Māori	-					141	0.40	+0.14
	Legalise Cannabis	-					98	0.28	+0.08
	Kiwi	-					90	0.25	-
	Alliance	-					14	0.04	-0.00
	Pacific	-					14	0.04	-
	NZ Democrats	-					13	0.04	-0.00
	Workers Party	-					8	0.02	-
	RONZ	-					7	0.02	+0.00
	RAM	-					5	0.01	-
Informal votes				281			91
Total Valid votes				34,691			35,309
	National hold		Majority	13,974	40.28	+20.38

1. ^ Paul Adams contested the 2005 election as an Independent: the "±% electoral votes" figure here compares Adams' percentage of electoral votes for the Family Party in 2008 with the 2005 percentage as an Independent.

[edit] 2005 election

General Election 2005: East Coast Bays[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	%	±%
	National	Y Murray McCully		17,213	47.02	+7.93	19,437	52.27	+27.44
	Labour	Hamish McCracken		9927	27.12	-7.03	11,813	31.77	-2.04
	Independent	Paul Adams		5809	15.87		-
	Green	Jeanette Elley		1287	3.52	-1.92	1297	3.49	-8.48
	NZ First	Anne Martin		942	2.57		1775	4.77	-5.20
	ACT	Andrew Stone		537	1.47	-4.95	956	2.39	-2.80
	United Future	Steven Dromgool		405	1.11	-8.14	890	2.39	-7.23
	Progressive	Fiona Beazley		253	0.69	-0.95	338	0.91	-0.36
	Māori	Rahuia Kapa		119	0.33		95	0.26
	NZ Democrats	Patrick Fahey		73	0.20		14	0.04
	Destiny	John Steemson		39	0.11		370	1.00
	Legalise Cannabis	-					74	0.20	-0.19
	Christian Heritage	-					44	0.12	-0.93
	Direct Democracy	-					28	0.08
	Alliance	-					15	0.04	-0.86
	Libertarianz	-					14	0.04
	RONZ	-					7	0.02
	99 MP	-					6	0.02
	Family Rights	-					6	0.02
	One NZ	-					5	0.01	-0.23
Informal votes				324			100
Total Valid votes				36,604			37,184
	National hold		Majority	7286	19.90	+14.96

[edit] 2002 election

General Election 2002: East Coast Bays[4]
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	Murray McCully		12,134	39.09		7876	24.83
	Labour	Hamish McCracken		10,600	34.15		10,722	33.81
	United Future	Paul Adams		2872	9.25		3052	9.62
	ACT	Julie Pepper		1993	6.42		1646	5.19
	Green	Jeanette Elley		1688	5.44		3796	11.97
	One NZ	Alan McCulloch		528	1.70		75	0.24
	Progressive	Jill Henry		508	1.64		403	1.27
	Christian Heritage	Ian Cummings		399	1.29		334	1.05
	Alliance	Fiona McLaren		316	1.02		287	0.90
	NZ First			-			3163	9.97
	ORNZ			-			227	0.72
	Legalise Cannabis			-			123	0.39
	NMP			-			6	0.02
	Mana Māori			-			4	0.01
Informal votes				392			75
Total Valid votes				31,038			31,714
	National win new seat		Majority	1534	4.94

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Electorate Profile Parliamentary Library

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