Manurewa (New Zealand electorate)

Manurewa is a New Zealand Parliamentary electorate.

It is currently held by Louisa Wall MP.

Population Centres

The electorate includes the following population centres:

Manurewa stretches north from the southern Auckland suburb of Manukau Central, and south to Wattle Downs. Main suburbs include Clendon Park and Manurewa. Electoral changes took place in 2002 with former Manurewa population areas going to Clevedon and Manukau East.

History

Manurewa is generally regarded as a safe Labour seat.

Boundary changes for the 2008 general election has made Manurewa even safer for Labour, although some party loyalists were reportedly upset that this had the effect of making the neighbouring seat of Papakura less marginal and more inclined towards National, especially as Manurewa had always been safe for Labour.

Members of Parliament

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

Key

  Labour     National  

Election	Winner
1963 election		Phil Amos
1966 election
1969 election
1972 election
1975 election		Merv Wellington
1978 election		Roger Douglas
1981 election
1984 election
1987 election
1990 election		George Hawkins
1993 election
1996 election
1999 election
2002 election
2005 election
2008 election
2011 election		Louisa Wall

List MPs

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

Election	Winner
20091		Cam Calder
2011 election

¹Calder became an MP on the resignation of Richard Worth in June 2009.

Election results

2011 election

General Election 2011: Manurewa
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	Louisa Wall		14,961	63.27	+9.31	14,517	57.43	+5.21
	National	Cam Calder		6,351	26.86	-0.24	6,606	26.13	-4.20
	NZ First	John Hall		1,122	4.47	+1.92	1,861	7.36	+2.83
	Conservative	Richard Addis		636	2.69	+2.69	572	2.26	+2.26
	Mana	Richard Shortland Cooper		387	1.64	+1.64	215	0.85	+0.85
	ACT	David Peterson		189	0.80	-2.71	153	0.22	-0.43
	Green						995	3.94	+1.69
	Māori						163	0.64	-0.62
	Legalise Cannabis						101	0.40	+0.05
	United Future						56	0.22	-0.43
	Alliance						22	0.09	+0.02
	Libertarianz						13	0.05	+0.02
	Democrats						3	0.01	+0.004
Informal votes				1,108			411
Total Valid votes				23,646			25,688
	Labour hold		Majority	8,610	36.41	+9.55

Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 39,461

2008 election

General Election 2008: Manurewa
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 George Hawkins		13,511	53.96		13,673	52.22
	National	Cam Calder		6,785	27.10		7,941	30.33
	Pacific	Vui K Sapa'u Vitale		1,138	4.55		909	3.47
	Green	Alan Johnson		963	3.85		588	2.25
	ACT	Michael James Bailey		879	3.51		633	2.42
	NZ First	John Hall		707	2.82		1,187	4.53
	Family Party	Richard Lewis		514	2.05		193	0.74
	Progressive	Sukhdev Singh Bains		263	1.05		276	1.05
	United Future	Jim Stowers		185	0.74		170	0.65
	Kiwi	Amjad Khan		92	0.37		66	0.25
	Māori						331	1.26
	Legalise Cannabis						92	0.35
	Bill and Ben						90	0.34
	Libertarianz						7	0.03
	RAM						7	0.03
	Workers Party						7	0.03
	RONZ						5	0.02
	Alliance						4	0.02
	Democrats						2	0.01
Informal votes				408			220
Total Valid votes				25,037			26,181
	Labour hold		Majority	6,726	26.86

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 George Hawkins	17759	59.66	18254	59.11
National	Fepulea'i Aiono	6092	20.42	7938	25.70
NZ First	Lindy Palmer	1868	6.26	1714	5.55
Māori Party	Rangi McLean	819	2.75	407	1.32
United	Noel Hinton	940	3.15	624	2.02
Destiny	Patrick Komene	692	2.32	387	1.25
Progressive	Raghbir Singh	609	2.04	397	1.29
ACT	Glen Snelgar	582	1.95	232	0.75
Family Rights PP	Amelia Fepulea'i	238	0.80	105	0.34
Alliance	Paul Protheroe	110	0.37	21	0.07
Direct Democracy	Kelvyn Alp	85	0.28	42	0.14
Green	-	-	-	603	1.95
ALCP	-	-	-	74	0.24
Christian Heritage	-	-	-	50	0.16
One NZ	-	-	-	10	0.03
Libertarianz	-	-	-	8	0.03
99 MP	-	-	-	6	0.02
Democrats	-	-	-	6	0.02
Republic of NZ	-	-	-	4	0.01
informal votes		474		188
total valid votes		29,834		30,882
Labour hold	Majority	11,707

sourced from electionresults.govt.nz

External links

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