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Maungakiekie is a New Zealand Parliamentary electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. The current MP for Maungakiekie is Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga of the National Party. The name 'Maungakiekie' is the Māori name for One Tree Hill, a large and symbolically important hill at the western end of the seat; the name denotes the presence of kiekie vines on the hill.

The core of Maungakiekie is the suburbs of Auckland clustered around the Southern Motorway, and the most southern parts of Auckland City facing the Manukau Harbour. As at 2008, these include Penrose, Panmure, Onehunga and Royal Oak. In character, the seat is a minority-majority seat, with a large Māori, Pacific Island and Asian population. It is also quite a young seat, with 46.8 percent of the seat's residents under the age of thirty.

Maungakiekie has existed in various forms since its creation ahead of the introduction of Mixed Member Proportional voting in 1996. It was created from merging most of Onehunga with a large section of Panmure, both of them reasonably safe Labour seats. Its original incarnation included both Onehunga and Otahuhu, though for the nine years from New Zealand general election 1996, Onehunga was part of Mount Roskill, and from 2008 onwards, Otahuhu formed the northernmost part of Manukau East. The same boundary changes that took Otahuhu out put Panmure in at the expense of Tāmaki.

Because of the area's seats tendency to vote Labour, and because Labour suffered its worst result since World War II in 1996, with votes splintering off to both the Alliance and New Zealand First, Onehunga MP Richard Northey found himself ousted from Parliament in 1996 at the hands of then unknown National Party candidate Belinda Vernon. Vernon's own party suffered a dramatic reversal of fortune that started at the 1999 election and her three year term as MP for Maungakiekie ended in favour of Mark Gosche, who held the seat until 2008, notching up a majority of around 6,500 in the intermediate elections. Sam Lotu-Iiga captured the seat again for National in the large swing against Labour in 2008.

[edit] Members of Parliament for Maungakiekie

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

Name	Party	Elected	Left Office	Reason
Belinda Vernon	National	1996	1999	defeated
Mark Gosche	Labour	1999, 2002, 2005	2008	retired
Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga	National	2008	incumbent

[edit] List MPs from Maungakiekie

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

Name	Party	First Elected	Left Office	Contested Maungakiekie
Matt Robson¹	Alliance	1996	2005	1996, 1999
Belinda Vernon	National	1996	2002	1996 (successfully), 1999, 2002
Carol Beaumont	Labour	2008	Current MP	2008

¹Robson was a founding member of the Progressive Party in 2002.

[edit] Election results

[edit] 2008 election

General Election 2008: Maungakiekie^[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	Sam Lotu-Iiga		15,491	45.55	+13.95	14,903	42.48	+9.00
	Labour	Carol Beaumont		13,549	39.84	-13.50	13,873	39.55	-11.16
	Green	Rawiri Paratene		1,639	4.82	+1.78	1,921	5.48
	ACT	Athol McQuilkan		969	2.85	+0.75	1,589	4.53	+2.62
	Progressive	Matt Robson		756	2.22	-0.32	334	0.95	-0.41
	NZ First	Asenati Lole-Taylor		630	1.85	-1.37	1,035	2.95	-1.24
	United Future	Denise Krum		413	1.21	-0.88	397	1.13	-0.91
	Pacific	Darren Jones		246	0.72		229	0.65
	Kiwi	Bernie Ogilvy		173	0.51		113	0.32
	RAM	Elliott Blade		85	0.25		21	0.06
	Communist League	Patrick Brown		58	0.17
	Māori						239	0.68	+0.08
	Family Party						132	0.38
	Bill and Ben						126	0.36
	Legalise Cannabis						104	0.30	+0.12
	Libertarianz						30	0.09	+0.07
	Alliance						17	0.05	+0.01
	Workers Party						11	0.03
	NZ Democrats						4	0.01	-0.01
	RONZ						3	0.01	±0.00
Informal votes				474			191
Total Valid votes				34,009			35,081
	National gain from Labour		Majority	1,942	5.71	+27.46

[edit] 2005 election

General Election 2005: Maungakiekie^[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 Mark Gosche		15,821	53.34	-1.80	15,484	50.71	+0.09
	National	Paul Goldsmith		9,371	31.60	+1.97	10,223	33.48	+16.42
	NZ First	Joe Williams		956	3.22		1,278	4.19	-3.48
	Green	Paul Quatrough		901	3.04	-1.26	583	1.77	-3.73
	ACT	Michelle Lorenz		624	2.10	-1.57	584	1.91	-6.55
	United Future	Bernie Ogilvy		619	2.09	-1.26	623	2.04	-3.81
	Progressive	Sione Fonua		564	1.90	+0.46	414	1.36	-0.61
	Māori	Bill Puru		263	0.89		184	0.60
	Independent	Patrick Brown		54	0.18
	Republican	Bevin Berg		14	0.05
	Destiny						159	0.47
	Family Rights						144	0.44
	Legalise Cannabis						55	0.18	-0.17
	Christian Heritage						46	0.15	-0.85
	Alliance						11	0.04	-0.82
	Direct Democracy						11	0.04
	99 MP						9	0.03
	NZ Democrats						7	0.02
	Libertarianz						7	0.02
	One NZ						2	0.01	-0.03
	RONZ						2	0.01
Informal votes				409			149
Total Valid votes				29,659			30,532
	Labour hold		Majority	6,450	21.75	-3.76

[edit] 2002 election

General Election 2002: Maungakiekie^[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 Mark Gosche		14,273	55.14	+10.65	13,491	50.62	+4.18
	National	Belinda Vernon		7,670	29.63	-5.90	4,547	17.06	-10.59
	Green	Don Fairley		1,114	4.30	+0.86	1,466	5.50	+1.35
	ACT	Robin Roodt		949	3.67	+0.91	2,256	8.46	+0.73
	United Future	Kevin Harper		867	3.35		1,558	5.85
	Progressive	Dawn Patchett		373	1.44		524	1.97
	Christian Heritage	Barry Pepperell		346	1.34	+0.21	266	1.00
	Alliance	Joseph Randall		222	0.86	-6.62	250	0.94	-5.70
	Communist League	Janet Roth		72	0.28
	NZ First						2,044	7.67	+4.83
	ORNZ						129	0.48
	Legalise Cannabis						93	0.35
	Mana Māori						14	0.05
	One NZ						10	0.04
	NMP						3	0.01
Informal votes				510			208
Total Valid votes				25,886			26,651
	Labour hold		Majority	6,603	25.51	+16.55

[edit] 1999 election

General Election 1999: Maungakiekie^[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	%	±%
	Labour	Mark Gosche		12,469	44.49		13,234	46.44
	National	N Belinda Vernon		9,957	35.53		7,878	27.65
	Alliance	Matt Robson		2,096	7.48		1,891	6.64
	Green	Jon Carapiet		964	3.44		1183	4.15
	ACT	Angus Ogilvie		774	2.76		2,202	7.73
	NZ First	Gilbert Myles		734	2.62		810	2.84
	Future NZ	Jason Keiller		387	1.38
	Christian Heritage	Mary Paki		313	1.12
	Independent	Sue Henry		152	0.54
	Natural Law	Graeme Lodge		73	0.26
	Independent	Tony Cranston		67	0.24
	Republican	Brian Freeth		40	0.14
	United NZ						169	0.59
	Unsuccessful parties^{[note 1]}						1127	3.96
Total Valid votes				28,026			28,494
	Labour gain from National		Majority	2,512	8.96

^ Results for unsuccessful parties cannot be found with a party-by-party breakdown.

[edit] References

^ Official Count Results – Maungakiekie
^ Official Count Results – Maungakiekie
^ Official Count Results – Maungakiekie
^ "Electorate Profile Maungakiekie". Parliamentary Library. October 2005. http://www.parliament.nz/NR/rdonlyres/BFF2CE43-C9F3-4C49-B58C-137239BEAD60/144/Maungakiekie1.pdf.

[4] Results for unsuccessful parties cannot be found with a party-by-party breakdown.

[0] Official Count Results – Maungakiekie

[1] Official Count Results – Maungakiekie

[2] Official Count Results – Maungakiekie

[3] "Electorate Profile Maungakiekie". Parliamentary Library. October 2005. http://www.parliament.nz/NR/rdonlyres/BFF2CE43-C9F3-4C49-B58C-137239BEAD60/144/Maungakiekie1.pdf.

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