North Shore (New Zealand electorate)

Map showing extent of electorate for 2008 and 2011 elections

North Shore is a New Zealand Parliamentary electorate returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. The MP for North Shore is Maggie Barry of the National Party.

North Shore stretches up the eastern coast of North Shore City in Auckland, starting in the south at Devonport and moving northwards to take in Lake Pupuke and the suburbs of Takapuna, Westlake and Campbells Bay. North Shore is predominately New Zealand European, and has an average income high above the national average, boasting some of the most expensive real estate in the country.

The seat has been contested at every election in New Zealand since 1946, and notwithstanding a single victory by future Attorney-General Martyn Finlay in its first contest, has been safely held by the National Party ever since.

Members of Parliament

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

Name	Party	Elected	Left office	Reason
Martyn Finlay	Labour	1946	1949	defeated
Dean Eyre	National	1949, 1951, 1954, 1957, 1960, 1963	1966	retired
George Gair	National	1966, 1969, 1972, 1975, 1978, 1981, 1984, 1987	1990	retired
Bruce Cliffe1	National	1990, 1993	1996	retired
Wayne Mapp	National	1996, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2008	2011	retired
Maggie Barry	National	2011	incumbent

List MPs

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

Name	Party	First elected	Left office	Contested North Shore
Ann Batten2	NZ First	1996	1999	1996
Derek Quigley	ACT	1996	1999	1996
Helen Duncan	Labour	1998	2005	1999, 2002
Deborah Coddington	ACT	2002	2005	2002
Phil Twyford	Labour	2008	Current MP	2008
John Boscawen	ACT	2008	Current MP	2008

¹ Cliffe left the National Party in 1995 and represented the seat for the United Party until his retirement from politics in 1996 ² Batten deserted New Zealand First for Mauri Pacific in 1998

Election results

2011 election

General Election 2011: North Shore
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	%	±%
	National	Y Maggie Barry		22,709	62.44	+0.59	23,113	62.16	+4.10
	Labour	Ben Clark		7,481	20.57	-3.44	6,036	16.23	-5.17
	Green	Pieter Watson		2,802	7.70	+1.50	4,035	10.85	+4.24
	ACT	Don Brash		1,293	3.56	-0.41	714	1.92	-5.55
	Conservative	Craig Jensen		904	2.49	+2.49	829	2.23	+2.23
	NZ First	Andrew Williams		900	2.47	+0.89	1,806	4.86	+1.92
	United Future	Damien Light		173	0.48	-0.20	179	0.48	-0.46
	Libertarianz	Michael Murphy		108	0.30	+0.05	41	0.11	+0.03
	Māori						223	0.60	+0.002
	Legalise Cannabis						123	0.33	+0.07
	Mana						62	0.17	+0.17
	Democrats						12	0.03	+0.01
	Alliance						8	0.02	-0.04
Informal votes				592			174
Total Valid votes				36,370			36,962
			Majority	15,228	41.87	+4.03

Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 48,963

2008 election

General Election 2008: North Shore
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	%	±%
	National	Y Wayne Mapp		23,824	61.85		22,738	58.06
	Labour	Phil Twyford		9,250	24.01		8,381	21.40
	Green	Pieter Watson		2,389	6.20		2,590	6.61
	ACT	John Boscawen		1,528	3.97		2,927	7.47
	NZ First	Joe Gregory		612	1.59		1,149	2.93
	Family Party	Louise Cleary		514	1.33		176	0.45
	United Future	Damian Light		261	0.68		370	0.94
	Libertarianz	Michael Murphy		94	0.24		33	0.08
	RAM	Stephen Cooper		47	0.12		13	0.03
	Māori						234	0.60
	Progressive						165	0.42
	Bill and Ben						139	0.35
	Legalise Cannabis						104	0.27
	Kiwi						83	0.21
	Alliance						24	0.06
	Pacific						13	0.03
	Workers Party						10	0.03
	Democrats						9	0.02
	RONZ						4	0.01
Informal votes				268			102
Total Valid votes				38,519			39,162
	National hold		Majority	14,574	37.84

2005 election

General Election 2005: North Shore
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	%	±%
	National	Y Wayne Mapp		21,975	59.56	+15.58	20,125	53.49	+26.06
	Labour	Phil Twyford		12,274	33.26	+4.16	11,252	29.91	-1.36
	United Future	Ross Tizard		865	2.34	-1.54	807	2.14	-4.81
	ACT	Nick Kearney		835	2.26	-6.55	1144	3.04	-11.09
	Progressive	Paula Gillon		544	1.47	+0.61	261	0.69	-0.36
	Māori	Raewyn Harrison		265	0.72		106	0.28
	Libertarianz	Michael Murphy		140	0.38		21	0.06
	Green						1940	5.16	-1.28
	NZ First						1683	4.47	-5.70
	Destiny						120	0.32
	Legalise Cannabis						55	0.15	-0.17
	Christian Heritage						53	0.14	-0.70
	One NZ						13	0.03	-0.02
	99 MP						11	0.03
	Alliance						10	0.03	-0.78
	Direct Democracy						10	0.03
	Family Rights						6	0.02
	Democrats						5	0.01
	RONZ						1	0.003
Informal votes				430			90
Total Valid votes				36,898			37,623
	National hold		Majority	9,701	26.30	+11.42

External links

• Electorate Profile Parliamentary Library