Pakuranga is a New Zealand Parliamentary electorate.

It is currently held by Maurice Williamson MP^[1].

Contents 1 Population Centres 2 History 3 Members of Parliament for Pakuranga 3.1 List MPs from Pakuranga 4 Election results 4.1 2008 election 4.2 2005 election 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Population Centres

Pakuranga is one of sixty-three general electorates used in New Zealand general elections. It covers the population centres of Pakuranga, Farm Cove, Half Moon Bay, Bucklands Beach, parts of Highland Park and parts of Howick.

[edit] History

Pakuranga was first contested in 1963, and won by future Labour Party frontbencher Bob Tizard. It was recaptured by National in 1972, and has stayed with National since, save for a brief interregnum - 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 MMP in 1996 the seat was expanded to absorb the 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 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 centered on the rapid-growth areas of Flat Bush, Botany Downs and Dannemora.

Pakuranga is a safe National seat, with current MP Maurice Williamson being easily re-elected at every election since ousting Morrison in 1987.

[edit] Members of Parliament for Pakuranga

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

Name	Party	Elected	Left Office	Reason
Bob Tizard	Labour	1963, 1966, 1969	1972	contested Otahuhu instead
Gavin Downie	National	1972, 1975	1978	deselected
Pat Hunt	National	1978, 1981	1984	defeated
Neil Morrison	Social Credit	1984	1987	defeated
Maurice Williamson	National	1987, 1990, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2008	incumbent

[edit] List MPs from Pakuranga

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.

Name	Party	First Elected	Left Office	Contested Pakuranga
Pita Paraone	New Zealand First	2002	2008	2002, 2005, 2008

[edit] Election results

[edit] 2008 election

General Election 2008: Pakuranga[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 Maurice Williamson		21,430	61.58	-	21,099	59.70
	Labour	Brian Kelly		7,524	21.62	-	7,872	22.27
	ACT	Andrew Jollands		2,205	6.34	-	2,541	7.19
	Green	Zachary Dorner		1,480	4.25	-	1,273	3.60
	NZ First	Pita Paraone		1,146	3.29	-	1,231	3.48
	United Future	Quentin Todd		409	1.18	-	338	0.96
	Progressive	Jeffrey Ly		354	1.02	-	265	0.75
	Kiwi	Brian Hilder		252	0.72	-	123	0.35
	Family Party	-					186	0.53	-
	Bill and Ben	-					137	0.39	-
	Māori	-					106	0.30	-
	Legalise Cannabis	-					79	0.22	-
	Pacific	-					38	0.11	-
	Alliance	-					15	0.04	-
	Libertarianz	-					13	0.04	-
	Workers Party	-					12	0.03	-
	RAM	-					6	0.02	-
	NZ Democrats	-					4	0.01	-
	RONZ	-					4	0.01	-
Informal votes				329			80
Total Valid votes				34,800			35,342
	National hold		Majority	13,906

[edit] 2005 election

General Election 2005: Pakuranga[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 Maurice Williamson		19,159	54.03		19,173	53.28
	Labour	Michael Wood		9577	27.01		10,810	30.31
	Independent	Steve Baron		5809	15.87		-
	NZ First	Pita Paraone		1398	3.54		2105	5.85
	ACT	Bronny Jacobson		1216	3.43		1354	3.76
	United Future	Ian McInnes		833	2.35		878	2.44
	Progressive	Ly Meng		560	1.58		297	0.83
	Destiny	David Jesze		488	1.38		206	0.57
	Christian Heritage	Ewen McQueen		373	1.05		80	0.22
	Direct Democracy	Kevin Moore		49	0.14		11	0.03
	Green	-					907	2.52
	Māori	-					73	0.20	-
	Legalise Cannabis	-					36	0.10
	Libertarianz	-					14	0.04
	Alliance	-					13	0.04
	RONZ	-					7	0.02
	99 MP	-					6	0.02
	One NZ	-					6	0.02
	Family Rights	-					5	0.01
	NZ Democrats	-					4	0.01
Informal votes				359			88
Total Valid votes				35,460			35,983
	National hold		Majority	9582	27.02

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Electorate Profile Parliamentary Library

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