Papakura (New Zealand electorate)

Papakura has been the name of two seats in the New Zealand House of Representatives, both based around the south Auckland town of Papakura. Historically, the name refers to an electorate that existed between 1978 and 1996, which with the advent of Mixed Member Proportional voting and resulting reduction in the number of constituencies was folded into a new Hunua seat. Hunua was later modified, pulled northwards and renamed Clevedon.

In a modern sense, the name refers to a constituency which was fought for the first time at the 2008 election. This new Papakura seat is the successor to the old Clevedon seat. It also contains a set of towns to the west of Papakura, namely Drury, Karaka, Kingseat, Waiau Pa and Clarks Beach. The current MP is Judith Collins, who is a member of the National Party.

History

Members of Parliament for Papakura, 1978-1990

Name	Party	Elected	Left Office	Reason
Merv Wellington	National	1978, 1981, 1984, 1987	1990	retired
John Robertson1	National	1990, 1993	1996	seat abolished

¹Robertson defected to the United party in 1995.

Members of Parliament for Papakura, 2008-

Name	Party	Elected	Left Office	Reason
Judith Collins	National	2008	incumbent

Election results

2011 election

General Election 2011: Papakura
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 Judith Collins		18,096	59.59	-0.10	16,640	52.62	+1.14
	Labour	Jerome Mika		8,206	27.02	-0.07	8,603	27.21	-2.11
	NZ First	Brent Catchpole		1,718	5.66	+0.89	2,680	8.48	+3.40
	Green	Caroline Conroy		1,519	5.00	+0.93	1,731	5.47	+2.51
	Conservative	Bob Daw		619	2.04	+2.04	967	3.06	+3.06
	ACT	John Thompson		212	0.70	-2.65	331	1.05	-5.03
	Māori						183	0.58	-0.35
	Mana						159	0.50	+0.50
	Legalise Cannabis						152	0.48	+0.10
	United Future						133	0.42	-0.41
	Libertarianz						22	0.07	+0.04
	Democrats						11	0.03	+0.02
	Alliance						9	0.03	-0.03
Informal votes				814			250
Total Valid votes				30,370			31,621
	National hold		Majority	9,890	32.57	-0.03

Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 44,164

2008 election

General Election 2008: Papakura
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	Judith Collins		18,816	59.68		16,672	51.48
	Labour	David Hereora		8,539	27.09		9,493	29.31
	NZ First	Brent Catchpole		1,504	4.77		1,643	5.07
	Green	Rachel Grimwood		1,283	4.07		961	2.97
	ACT	John Thompson		1,057	3.35		1,967	6.07
	United Future	Bryan Penquinn Mockridge		225	0.71		269	0.83
	RAM	Pat O'Dea		102	0.32		14	0.04
	Māori						300	0.93
	Progressive						254	0.78
	Pacific						247	0.76
	Bill and Ben						177	0.55
	Family Party						143	0.44
	Legalise Cannabis						124	0.38
	Kiwi						76	0.23
	Alliance						18	0.06
	Workers Party						9	0.03
	Libertarianz						8	0.02
	Democrats						5	0.02
	RONZ						3	0.01
Informal votes				418			188
Total Valid votes				31,526			32,383
	National win new seat		Majority	10,277	32.60