Map showing extent of electorate for the 2008 and 2011 elections

Northcote is a New Zealand Parliamentary electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. The current MP for Northcote is Jonathan Coleman^[1] of the National Party. He has held this position since 2005.

Northcote is based around the suburbs of North Shore City at the northern end of the Auckland Harbour Bridge. Besides the eponymous Northcote, there is Birkenhead, Birkdale and the southern end of Glenfield. It was created ahead of the change to Mixed Member Proportional voting in 1996 by merging the seat of Birkenhead with most of the old Glenfield electorate; its boundaries have remained largely unchanged since.

Northcote continues the electoral habits of its predecessor seats; Birkenhead was a reasonably safe seat for the National Party, supplying it with Jim McLay, who lead the party in the mid 1980s, and remains the only National Party leader to never take his party to an election. In 1987, the seat that would provide National with a leader provided Labour with a gain, before swinging back into the blue column when Labour's fortunes thinned out at the 1990 election. Glenfield also followed this boom and bust model, being held by Labour Party MP Judy Keall through the duration of the fourth Labour government before the National Party landslide in 1990 claimed Keall as one of its victims.

The first MP for Northcote was Ian Revell from the National Party, who would rise to become the Deputy Speaker. Revell was caught up in a scandal for misuse of official letterhead and was defeated by Labour's Ann Hartley in New Zealand general election, 1999. Hartley herself was ousted by the seat's present representative, Jonathan Coleman when National consolidated the centre-right vote in 2005.

[edit] Members of Parliament for Northcote

[edit] List MPs from Northcote

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

[edit] Election results

[edit] 2008 election

General Election 2008: Northcote[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 Jonathan Coleman		20,132	57.87	-	17,827	50.41
	Labour	Hamish McCracken		10,772	30.97	-	10,517	29.74
	Green	Jeanette Elley		2,046	5.88	-	2,368	6.70
	ACT	Nick Kearney		664	1.91	-	1,877	5.31
	Family Party	Angela Xu		549	1.58	-	148	0.42
	Progressive	Brenda Hill		199	0.57	-	299	0.85
	Kiwi	Barry McDonald		144	0.41	-	182	0.51
	United Future	Steven Dromgool		143	0.41	-	348	0.98
	Libertarianz	Peter Linton		77	0.22	-	37	0.10
	RAM	Benjamin Doherty		60	0.17	-	9	0.03
	NZ First	-					1,118	3.16	-
	Māori	-					227	0.64	-
	Bill and Ben	-					159	0.45	-
	Legalise Cannabis	-					138	0.39	-
	Pacific	-					72	0.20	-
	NZ Democrats	-					13	0.04	-
	Workers Party	-					9	0.03	-
	Alliance	-					8	0.02	-
	RONZ	-					6	0.02	-
Informal votes				246			107
Total Valid votes				34,786			35,362
	National hold		Majority	9,360

[edit] 2005 election

General Election 2005: Northcote [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	Jonathan Coleman		16,854	49.36		14,927	43.01
	Labour	N Ann Hartley		14,471	42.38		13573	39.11
	NZ First	Paul Manning		833	2.44		1736	5.00
	Progressive	Grant Gillon		611	1.79		426	1.23
	ACT	Diane Dawson		435	1.27		921	2.65
	United Future	Beth Stone		389	1.14		826	2.38
	Destiny	Nigel Heslop		268	0.78		195	0.56
	Māori	Francis Wāka		227	0.66		145	0.42
	Libertarianz	Peter Linton		55	0.16		25	0.07
	Green	-					1763	5.08
	Legalise Cannabis	-					73	0.21
	Christian Heritage	-					39	0.11
	Alliance	-					11	0.03
	99 MP	-					10	0.03
	NZ Democrats	-					8	0.02
	Family Rights	-					8	0.02
	Direct Democracy	-					5	0.01
	One NZ	-					4	0.01
	RONZ	-					3	0.01
Informal votes				389			826
Total Valid votes				34,143			34707
	National gain from Labour		Majority	2383	6.98

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Electorate Profile Parliamentary Library

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