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Papakura has been the name of two seats in the New Zealand House of Representatives, both based around the south Auckland town of Papakura. Historically, the name refers to an electorate that existed between 1978 and 1996, which with the advent of Mixed Member Proportional voting and resulting reduction in the number of constituencies was folded into a new Hunua seat. Hunua was later modified, pulled northwards and renamed Clevedon.

In a modern sense, the name refers to a constituency which was fought for the first time at the 2008 election. This new Papakura seat is the successor to the old Clevedon seat. It also contains a set of towns to the west of Papakura, namely Drury, Karaka and Kingseat. The current MP is Judith Collins, who is a member of the National Party.

[edit] History

[edit] Members of Parliament for Papakura, 1978-1990

Name	Party	Elected	Left Office	Reason
Merv Wellington	National	1978, 1981, 1984, 1987	1990	retired
John Robertson¹	National	1990, 1993	1996	seat abolished

¹Robertson defected to the United party in 1995.

[edit] Members of Parliament for Papakura, 2008-

Name	Party	Elected	Left Office	Reason
Judith Collins	National	2008	incumbent

[edit] Election results

[edit] 2008 election

General Election 2008: Papakura^[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	Judith Collins		18,816	59.68	-	16,672	51.48
	Labour	David Hereora		8,539	27.09	-	9,493	29.31
	NZ First	Brent Catchpole		1,504	4.77	-	1,643	5.07
	Green	Rachel Grimwood		1,283	4.07	-	961	2.97
	ACT	John Thompson		1,057	3.35	-	1,967	6.07
	United Future	Bryan Penquinn Mockridge		225	0.71	-	269	0.83
	RAM	Pat O'Dea		102	0.32	-	14	0.04
	Māori	-					300	0.93	-
	Progressive	-					254	0.78	-
	Pacific	-					247	0.76	-
	Bill and Ben	-					177	0.55	-
	Family Party	{{{candidate}}}					143	0.44	-
	Legalise Cannabis	-					124	0.38	-
	Kiwi	-					76	0.23	-
	Alliance	-					18	0.06	-
	Workers Party	-					9	0.03	-
	Libertarianz	-					8	0.02	-
	NZ Democrats	-					5	0.02	-
	RONZ	-					3	0.01	-
Informal votes				418			188
Total Valid votes				31,526			32,383
	National win new seat		Majority	10,277