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Tāmaki is a New Zealand Parliamentary electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. The current MP for Tāmaki is Allan Peachey of the National Party.^[1] He has held this position since 2005. It is named after the Tamaki River that runs immediately east of the seat.

Tāmaki is based around Auckland City's wealthy eastern beaches, Mission Bay, Meadowbank, Saint Heliers, Kohimarama and Glendowie; it also contains the working-class suburb of Glen Innes on its southern fringe. Tāmaki is the home of a selection of New Zealand's emblematic historical moments: Ngāti Whatua activism at Bastion Point (sparking a chain of events leading to the modern Treaty of Waitangi grievance settlement process) occurred inside the seat's boundaries, a seat at the time represented by the contentious Robert Muldoon, the Prime Minister responsible for the Crown's response to the occupation of Bastion Point. Among other Ngāti Whatua land taken through governmental application of public works legislation is Paratai Drive, now New Zealand's most expensive street. The area around Mission Bay is also home to the Savage Memorial, a huge site dedicated to the memory of former Labour Michael Joseph Savage, architect of the welfare state in New Zealand.

The National Party has held Tāmaki in all its various incarnations since 1960, when future Prime Minister Robert Muldoon (later Sir Robert) began his parliamentary career by ousting longtime Labour stalwart Bob Tizard, and staying firmly in place until his self-selected departure at the end of 1991. Muldoon's departure caused a by-election in 1992, where candidate Clem Simich won despite fierce competition in an environment where both major parties were out of favour with the electorate. Simich gave up his seat ahead of the 2005 election to high school principal Allan Peachey. Simich was returned to parliament off his party's list, having chosen to move from standing for one his party's safest seats to instead contest Māngere, easily Labour's safest seat.

Name	Party	Elected	Left Office	Reason
Tom Skinner	Labour	1946	1949	defeated
Eric Halstead	National	1949, 1951, 1954	1957	defeated
Bob Tizard	Labour	1957	1960	defeated
Sir Robert Muldoon	National	1960, 1963, 1966, 1969, 1972, 1975, 1978, 1981, 1984, 1987, 1990	17 December 1991	retired
Clem Simich	National	1992 byelection, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2002	2005	contested Māngere instead
Allan Peachey	National	2005, 2008	incumbent

[edit] List MPs from Tāmaki

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

Name	Party	First Elected	Left Office	Contested Tāmaki
Jonathan Hunt	Labour	1969	April 2005	1996
Patricia Schnauer	ACT	1996	1999	1996
Ken Shirley	ACT	1996	2005	2002, 2005

[edit] Election results

[edit] 2008 election

General Election 2008: Tāmaki^[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 Allan Peachey		24,863	65.74	-	23,205	60.22
	Labour	Josephine Bartley		7,843	20.74	-	8,152	21.16
	Green	Richard Leckinger		2,216	5.86	-	2,040	5.29
	ACT	Chris Simmons		1,683	4.45	-	3,053	7.92
	NZ First	Doug Nabbs		639	1.69	-	954	2.48
	Progressive	Ralph Taylor		292	0.77	-	188	0.49
	United Future	Gregory Graydon		282	0.75	-	294	0.76
	Māori	-					201	0.52	-
	Bill and Ben	-					104	0.27	-
	Pacific	-					98	0.25	-
	Kiwi	-					79	0.21	-
	Legalise Cannabis	-					65	0.17	-
	Family Party	-					46	0.12	-
	Libertarianz	-					20	0.05	-
	RAM	-					19	0.05	-
	Alliance	-					7	0.02	-
	NZ Democrats	-					3	0.01	-
	RONZ	-					2	0.01	-
	Workers Party	-					2	0.01	-
Informal votes				402			152
Total Valid votes				37,818			38,532
	National hold		Majority	17,020

[edit] 2005 election

General election 2005: Tamaki^[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	Allan Peachey		20,956	58.00	+22.69	19,829	53.87
	Labour	Leila Boyle		11,446	31.68	+0.09	11,890	32.30
	ACT	Ken Shirley		1258	3.48		1009	2.74
	NZ First	Brett Webster		973	2.69		1393	3.78
	Progressive	Matt Robson		950	2.63		265	0.72
	United Future	Greg Graydon		504	1.39		615	1.67
	Direct Democracy	Grant Burch		45	0.12		6	0.02
	Green	-					1423	3.87
	Māori	-					149	0.40	-
	Destiny	-					98	0.27
	Legalise Cannabis	-					54	0.15
	Christian Heritage	-					22	0.06
	Family Rights	-					19	0.05
	Alliance	-					18	0.05
	Libertarianz	-					12	0.03
	99 MP	-					6	0.02
	NZ Democrats	-					5	0.01
	RONZ	-					4	0.01
	One NZ	-					1	0.01
Informal votes				411			139
Total Valid votes				36,132			36,807
	National hold		Majority	9510	26.32	+22.61

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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