Manukau East

Manukau East is a New Zealand Parliamentary electorate.

It is currently held by Ross Robertson MP.

Population areas

In 2007, large changes were made to the Manukau East electorate. Its northern boundary extended past the Tāmaki River to almost as far as Sylvia Park Rd to incorporate Middlemore, Otahuhu and Westfield. Its eastern boundary shifted west to East Tamaki Rd resulting in East Tāmaki and Botany Downs being included in the new Botany electorate. Most of Otara and Papatoetoe West are now also included in the electorate. [1]

History

Manukau East was created for the 1996 election. It has only ever been represented by one Labour MP, and is considered one of Labour's safest seats.

Members of Parliament

Unless otherwise stated, all MPs terms began and started at general elections.

Name	Party	Elected	Left Office	Reason
Ross Robertson	Labour	1996, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2008, 2011	incumbent

Election results

2011 election

General Election 2011: Manukau East
Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Y Ross Robertson		19,399	77.11	+11.03	17,977	66.68	+7.35
	National	Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi		3,561	14.16	-4.26	5,287	19.61	-4.58
	NZ First	Asenati Taylor		999	3.97	+3.97	1,703	6.32	+2.64
	Mana	John Minto		461	1.83	+1.83	253	0.94	+0.94
	Conservative	Frank John Naea		425	1.69	+1.69	393	1.46	+1.46
	ACT	Jonathan MacFarlane		248	0.99	-1.67	143	0.53	-1.08
	Communist League	Felicity Coggan		63	0.25	+0.19
	Green						913	3.39	+1.60
	Māori						131	0.49	-0.53
	Legalise Cannabis						93	0.34	-0.001
	United Future						41	0.15	-0.31
	Libertarianz						10	0.04	+0.02
	Alliance						9	0.03	±0.00
	Democrats						7	0.03	±0.00
Informal votes				1,371			524
Total Valid votes				25,156			26,960
	Labour hold		Majority	15,838	62.96	+15.29

Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 41,901

2008 election

General Election 2008: Manukau East
Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Y Ross Robertson		17,254	66.08		16,137	59.33
	National	Kanwal Singh Bakshi		4,809	18.42		6,579	24.19
	Pacific	Tevaga Sione Leavasa		1,406	5.39		1,219	4.48
	ACT	Lyn Murphy		693	2.65		439	1.61
	Family Party	Papali'i Poutoa Papali'I		648	2.48		238	0.88
	Green	Donna Wynd		628	2.41		487	1.79
	Progressive	Trevor Barnard		333	1.28		374	1.38
	Kiwi	Kevin Stitt		155	0.59		102	0.38
	United Future	Manogi Turua Head		112	0.43		126	0.46
	Workers Party	Daphna Whitmore		55	0.21		25	0.09
	Communist League	Annalucia Vermunt		16	0.06
	NZ First						999	3.67
	Māori						276	1.01
	Legalise Cannabis						94	0.35
	Bill and Ben						69	0.25
	Alliance						9	0.03
	RAM						9	0.03
	Democrats						7	0.03
	Libertarianz						6	0.02
	RONZ						4	0.01
Informal votes				459			287
Total Valid votes				26,109			27,199
	Labour hold		Majority	12,445	47.67

Note: lines coloured beige denote the winner of the electorate vote. Lines colored pink denote a candidate elected to Parliament from their party list.

2005 election

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Party Votes	%
Labour	Y Ross Robertson	18804	59.40	18100	58.87
National	Ken Yee	8914	28.16	10219	30.98
ACT	Hamish Stevens	725	2.29	629	1.91
Green	Irene Bentley	648	2.05	583	1.77
Progressive	Trevor Barnard	407	1.29	525	1.59
United	Ram Parkash	336	1.06	486	1.47
Māori Party	Mama Tere Tahere	303	0.96	204	0.62
Family Rights PP	Tapu Anne Po-Wihongi	225	0.71	144	0.44
IND	Raj Subramanian	76	0.24	-	-
Alliance	Jill Ovens	64	0.20	21	0.06
NZ First	-	-	-	1434	4.35
Destiny	-	-	-	159	0.47
ALCP	-	-	-	62	0.19
Christian Heritage	-	-	-	44	0.13
Democrats	-	-	-	24	0.07
Libertarianz	-	-	-	15	0.05
99 MP	-	-	-	8	0.02
One NZ	-	-	-	8	0.02
Republic of NZ	-	-	-	8	0.02
Direct Democracy	-	-	-	6	0.02
informal votes		555		204
total valid votes		31,655		32,989
Labour hold	Majority	9,890

sourced from electionresults.govt.nz

External links

• Electorate Profile Parliamentary Library