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Whangarei is a New Zealand Parliamentary electorate.

It is currently held by Phil Heatley MP^[1].

[edit] Population Centres

The electorate includes the following population centres:

(To be completed)

[edit] History

The electorate was created for the 1972 general election.

[edit] Members of Parliament for Whangarei

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

Name	Party	Elected	Left Office	Reason
Murray Robert Smith	Labour	1972	1975	defeated
John Gordon Elliott	National	1975, 1978,	1981	defeated (for New Lynn)
John Banks	National	1981, 1984, 1987, 1990, 1993, 1996	1999	retired
Phil Heatley	National	1999, 2002, 2005, 2008	incumbent

[edit] List MPs from Whangarei

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

Name	Party	First Elected	Left Office	Contested Whanganui
Brian Donnelly	New Zealand First	1996	February 2008	1996, 1999, 2002, 2005
Muriel Newman	ACT	1996	2005	1996, 1999, 2002, 2005

[edit] Election results

[edit] 2008 election

General Election 2008: Whangarei^[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 Phil Heatley		23,056	64.16	-	18,252	50.04
	Labour	Paul Chalmers		8,393	23.36	-	10,433	28.60
	Green	Paul Doherty		2,731	7.60	-	2,187	6.00
	Progressive	Viv Shepherd		636	1.77	-	531	1.46
	ACT	Thomas John McClelland		304	0.85	-	1,385	3.80
	RAM	Martin Kaipo		281	0.78	-	25	0.07
	NZ Democrats	Edgar Kenneth Goodhue		179	0.50	-	66	0.18
	Independent	Simon Vallings		113	0.31	-	-	-
	United Future	Maureen Gunston		107	0.30	-	260	0.71
	Independent	Don Hedges		74	0.21	-	-	-
	Libertarianz	Helen Hughes		61	0.17	-	18	0.05
	NZ First	-					2,246	6.16	-
	Māori	-					333	0.91	-
	Bill and Ben	-					231	0.63	-
	Legalise Cannabis	-					169	0.46	-
	Kiwi	-					167	0.46	-
	Family Party	-					128	0.35	-
	Alliance	-					17	0.05	-
	Workers Party	-					13	0.04	-
	Pacific	-					12	0.03	-
	RONZ	-					3	0.01	-
Informal votes				413			240
Total Valid votes				35,935			36,476
	National hold		Majority	14,663

[edit] 2005 election

General election 2005: Whangarei^[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	Philip Heatley		18,900	53.81	+10.56	15,333	43.11
	Labour	Paul Chalmers		9811	27.93	-5.27	12,884	36.22
	NZ First	Brian Donnelly		2983	8.49	-3.31	3217	9.04
	Green	Moea Armstrong		1240	3.53		1648	4.63
	ACT	Muriel Newman		1067	3.04		707	1.99
	Māori	Rangi Ngāti Huna Tahiao		384	1.09		264	0.74
	Progressive	Viv Shepherd		311	0.89		409	1.15
	Destiny	Tony Ford		178	0.51		240	0.67
	United Future	Craig Hunt		168	0.48		637	1.79
	Libertarianz	Helen Hughes		80	0.23		39	0.11
	Legalise Cannabis	-					81	0.23
	Christian Heritage	-					46	0.13
	NZ Democrats	-					23	0.06
	Alliance	-					19	0.05
	RONZ	-					6	0.02
	99 MP	-					4	0.01
	Direct Democracy	-					4	0.01
	One NZ	-					4	0.01
	Family Rights	-					3	0.01
Informal votes				243			117
Total Valid votes				35,122			35,568
	National hold		Majority	9089	25.88	+15.83

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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