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Dunedin South is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate. It first existed from 1881–1890, then from 1905–1946 and was re-established for the introduction of MMP in 1996. A Labour Party stronghold, it has been represented by Clare Curran since the 2008 election.
Population centres
The previous electoral redistribution was undertaken in 1875 for the 1875–76 election. In the six years since, New Zealand's European population had increased by 65%. In the 1881 electoral redistribution, the House of Representatives increased the number of European representatives to 91 (up from 84 since the 1875–76 election). The number of Māori electorates was held at four. The House further decided that electorates should not have more than one representative, which led to 35 new electorates being formed, including Dunedin South, and two electorates that had previously been abolished to be recreated. This necessitated a major disruption to existing boundaries.[1]
As the name suggests, the electorate is based on the southern suburbs of Dunedin. It stretches out westwards to take in towns on the Taieri Plains such as Mosgiel, Green Island and Fairfield. The Otago Peninsula is also in the electorate.
The current Dunedin South electorate was created in 1996 as one of the original 65 MMP electorates, as a merger between St Kilda and a large part of Dunedin West. Until the 2008 election, it was enlarged at every electoral boundary review, but in the 2013 review, its boundaries were kept.[2] Middlemarch was first included in the electorate for the 2008 election; other localities include:
History
The electorate was first established for the 1881 election and abolished after three parliamentary terms in 1890, when several Dunedin electorates were amalgamated to form the City of Dunedin electorate.[3] During the nine years of its first existence, the electorate was represented by two MPs, Henry Fish (1881–1884 and 1887–1890)[4] and James Gore (1884–1887).[5]
Dunedin South was re-established after the abolition of the City of Dunedin electorate for the 1905 election.[3] The first representative was James Frederick Arnold, who was an independent liberal and who served until the end of the parliamentary term in 1908, when he successfully contested Dunedin Central.[6]
Thomas Sidey of the Liberal Party who had since a 1901 by-election represented St Kilda won the 1908 election for Dunedin South. He represented the electorate for six parliamentary terms until 1928.[7] In 1919, Tom Paul nearly won the seat for Labour, losing by only 84 votes.
Sidey was succeeded by William Burgoyne Taverner of the United Party in the 1928 election.[8] At the next election in 1931, the electorate was won by Fred Jones of the Labour Party. Jones held the electorate until 1946, when it was abolished, and successfully stood in St Kilda that year.[9]
The electorate was re-established for the 1996 election and won by Michael Cullen, who later became Finance minister. Cullen had previously represented St Kilda (1981–1996). At the next election in 1999, Cullen stood as a list candidate only and was succeeded by David Benson-Pope as the electorate MP. After three parliamentary terms, Benson-Pope was not selected by the Labour Party as their candidate, but Clare Curran was chosen instead. Curran has represented the electorate since the 2008 election.
The city of Dunedin is a New Zealand Labour Party stronghold; The last National MP elected from a Dunedin constituency was Richard Walls in 1975. However, in 2011, National Party candidate, Jo Hayes, reduced the incumbent, Clare Curran's majority from 6449 in 2008[10] to 4175 in 2011,[11] and National gained a majority of the party vote in Dunedin South by 1837 votes.[11] The winning of the party vote is unprecedented in Dunedin South, which was seen, pre 2011, as a Labour Party stronghold. However the predecessor seat of St Kilda was represented by Jim Barnes of the National Party between 1951–1957.[12] In the 2014 election, Curran was successful against National's Hamish Walker.[13]
Members of Parliament
Key Independent Liberal–Labour Liberal United Labour
Election results
2014 election
General election, 2014: Dunedin South[14] | |||||||||
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Notes: |
Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
Labour | ![]() |
18,182 | 48.56 | −0.33 | 12,518 | 33.13 | −1.84 | ||
National | Hamish Walker | 14,324 | 38.26 | +1.49 | 15,003 | 39.70 | −0.48 | ||
Green | Shane Gallagher | 2,813 | 7.51 | −1.77 | 4,626 | 12.24 | −1.37 | ||
Conservative Party of New Zealand | Cindy Kerr | 727 | 1.94 | +1.94 | 1,104 | 2.92 | +1.44 | ||
Legalise Cannabis | Julian Crawford | 453 | 1.21 | +1.21 | 171 | 0.45 | ±0.00 | ||
Democrats | Warren Voight | 234 | 0.62 | −0.07 | 80 | 0.21 | −0.15 | ||
Internet | Andrew Lepine | 177 | 0.47 | +0.47 | |||||
ACT | Colin Nicholls | 143 | 0.38 | −0.24 | 125 | 0.33 | −0.27 | ||
NZ First | 3,429 | 9.07 | +1.92 | ||||||
Internet Mana | 307 | 0.81 | +0.63[a] | ||||||
Māori Party | 95 | 0.25 | −0.05 | ||||||
Ban 1080 | 77 | 0.20 | +0.20 | ||||||
United Future New Zealand | 63 | 0.17 | −0.36 | ||||||
Civilian | 18 | 0.05 | +0.05 | ||||||
Focus | 7 | 0.02 | +0.02 | ||||||
Independent Coalition | 5 | 0.01 | +0.01 | ||||||
Informal votes | 389 | 161 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 37,442 | 37,789 | |||||||
Turnout | 37,831 | 81.60 | +4.60 | ||||||
Labour hold | Majority | 3,858 | 10.30 | −1.82 |
2011 election
General election, 2011: Dunedin South[11] | |||||||||
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Notes: |
Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
Labour | ![]() |
16,844 | 48.89 | -3.40 | 12,326 | 34.97 | -11.76 | ||
National | Jo Hayes | 12,669 | 36.77 | +2.05 | 14,163 | 40.18 | +5.97 | ||
Green | Shane Gallagher | 3,197 | 9.28 | +2.44 | 4,798 | 13.61 | +5.64 | ||
NZ First | Randall Ratana | 979 | 2.84 | +2.84 | 2,522 | 7.15 | +2.59 | ||
Democrats | Warren Voight | 238 | 0.69 | +0.22 | 126 | 0.36 | +0.18 | ||
ACT | Kimberly Hannah | 215 | 0.62 | -0.81 | 210 | 0.60 | -1.51 | ||
Restore All Things In Christ | Robert Wansink | 167 | 0.48 | +0.18 | |||||
Alliance | Kay Murray | 142 | 0.41 | -0.13 | 58 | 0.16 | -0.03 | ||
Conservative Party of New Zealand | 520 | 1.48 | +1.48 | ||||||
United Future New Zealand | 186 | 0.53 | -0.21 | ||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 157 | 0.45 | +0.06 | ||||||
Māori Party | 107 | 0.30 | -0.13 | ||||||
Mana | 62 | 0.18 | +0.18 | ||||||
Libertarianz | 16 | 0.05 | +0.01 | ||||||
Informal votes | 830 | 318 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 34,451 | 35,569 | |||||||
Labour hold | Majority | 4,175 | 12.12 | -5.45 |
Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 45,818[15]
2008 election
General election, 2008: Dunedin South[10] | |||||||||
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Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
Labour | Clare Curran | 19,199 | 52.29 | -4.71 | 17,408 | 46.73 | -10.40 | ||
National | Conway Powell | 12,750 | 34.73 | +8.00 | 12,742 | 34.20 | +6.99 | ||
Green | Shane Gallagher | 2,511 | 6.84 | +0.58 | 2,971 | 7.98 | +2.57 | ||
ACT | Colin Nicholls | 528 | 1.44 | +0.79 | 785 | 2.11 | +1.36 | ||
Progressive | J M McAlpine | 498 | 1.36 | -0.56 | 461 | 1.24 | -0.17 | ||
United Future New Zealand | Pauline Moffat | 264 | 0.72 | -1.78 | 276 | 0.74 | -1.73 | ||
Kiwi | Philip Wescombe | 261 | 0.71 | - | 144 | 0.39 | - | ||
Independent | David Bernhardt | 222 | 0.60 | - | |||||
Alliance | Kay Murray | 199 | 0.54 | +0.00 | 72 | 0.19 | +0.05 | ||
Democrats | Dawn McIntosh | 172 | 0.47 | - | 66 | 0.18 | +0.09 | ||
Restore All Things In Christ | Robert Wansink | 113 | 0.31 | +0.05 | |||||
NZ First | 1,700 | 4.56 | +0.18 | ||||||
Bill and Ben | 209 | 0.56 | - | ||||||
Māori Party | 160 | 0.43 | 0.21 | ||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 144 | 0.39 | +0.13 | ||||||
Family Party | 58 | 0.16 | - | ||||||
Pacific | 17 | 0.05 | - | ||||||
Libertarianz | 15 | 0.04 | +0.02 | ||||||
Workers Party | 14 | 0.04 | - | ||||||
RONZ | 7 | 0.02 | +0.01 | ||||||
RAM | 3 | 0.01 | - | ||||||
Informal votes | 484 | 183 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 36,717 | 37,252 | |||||||
Labour hold | Majority | 6,449 | 17.56 | -12.71 |
2005 election
Note: lines coloured beige denote the winner of the electorate vote. Lines coloured pink denote a candidate elected to Parliament from their party's list.
sourced from electionresults.govt.nz
1999 election
Refer to Candidates in the New Zealand general election 1999 by electorate#Dunedin South for a list of candidates.
1996 election
General election, 1996: Dunedin South[16][17][18] | |||||||||
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Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
Labour | Michael Cullen | 12,829 | 36.37 | 14,253 | 40.24 | ||||
Alliance | Leah McBey | 8,553 | 24.25 | 4,979 | 14.06 | ||||
National | Malcolm MacPherson | 5,859 | 16.61 | 9,241 | 26.09 | ||||
United NZ | Clive Matthewson | 5,058 | 14.34 | 942 | 2.66 | ||||
NZ First | Noeline McGlynn | 1,782 | 5.05 | 2,929 | 8.27 | ||||
ACT | Roland Henderson | 505 | 1.43 | 901 | 2.54 | ||||
Independent | Alan William McDonald | 410 | 1.16 | ||||||
Progressive Green | David Beatty | 215 | 0.61 | 107 | 0.30 | ||||
Natural Law | Inga Schader | 58 | 0.16 | 26 | 0.07 | ||||
Christian Coalition | 1,150 | 3.25 | |||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 668 | 1.89 | |||||||
McGillicuddy Serious | 69 | 0.19 | |||||||
Animals First | 60 | 0.17 | |||||||
Advance New Zealand | 37 | 0.10 | |||||||
Green Society | 19 | 0.05 | |||||||
Superannuitants & Youth | 12 | 0.03 | |||||||
Mana Māori | 9 | 0.03 | |||||||
Conservatives | 8 | 0.02 | |||||||
Ethnic Minority Party | 6 | 0.02 | |||||||
Libertarianz | 4 | 0.01 | |||||||
Asia Pacific United | 2 | 0.01 | |||||||
Te Tawharau | 0 | 0.00 | |||||||
Informal votes | 269 | 116 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 35,269 | 35,422 | |||||||
Labour win new seat | Majority | 4,276 | 12.12 |
1931 election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Fred Jones | 6,559 | 57.43 | ||
United | William Burgoyne Taverner[nb 1] | 2,915 | 25.52 | −14.69 | |
Reform | D C Cameron | 1,947 | 17.05 | ||
Majority | 3,644 | 31.91 | +31.61 | ||
Informal votes | 28 | 0.24 | −0.78 | ||
Turnout | 11,449 | 88.78 | −2.43 | ||
Registered electors | 12,896 |
Table footnotes:
- ^ William Burgoyne Taverner was the official candidate for the United/Reform Coalition
1928 election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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United | William Burgoyne Taverner | 4,462 | 40.21 | ||
Labour | R. W. Hall | 4,429 | 39.92 | ||
Reform | Charles Todd | 2,205 | 19.87 | ||
Majority | 33 | 0.30 | |||
Informal votes | 115 | 1.03 | |||
Turnout | 11,211 | 91.21 | |||
Registered electors | 12,291 |
Table footnotes
Notes
- ^ McRobie 1989, pp. 43–48.
- ^ Report of the Representation Commission 2014 (PDF). Representation Commission. 4 April 2014. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-477-10414-2. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
- ^ a b Scholefield 1950, pp. 156–157.
- ^ Scholefield 1950, p. 106.
- ^ Scholefield 1950, p. 109.
- ^ Scholefield 1950, p. 93.
- ^ Scholefield 1950, p. 139.
- ^ Scholefield 1950, p. 142.
- ^ Scholefield 1950, p. 117.
- ^ a b "Official Count Results -- Dunedin South". Chief Electoral Office. 22 November 2008. Archived from the original on 13 January 2015. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
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- ^ Eunson, Keith. "Barnes, James George". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
- ^ "Agony and ecstasy for Dunedin party faithful". Otago Daily Times. 20 September 2014. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
- ^ Electoral Commission (22 January 2016). "Official Count Results – Dunedin South". Retrieved 22 January 2016.
- ^ "Enrolment statistics". Electoral Commission. 26 November 2011. Retrieved 28 November 2011.
- ^ "Electorate Candidate and Party Votes Recorded at Each Polling Place - Dunedin South, 1996" (PDF). Retrieved 12 July 2013.
- ^ "Part III - Party Lists of Successful Registered Parties" (PDF). Electoral Commission. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 February 2013. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
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- ^ "Prospects in Otago". The New Zealand Herald. Vol. LXVIII, no. 21037. 23 November 1931. p. 11. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
- ^ The General Election, 1928. Government Printer. 1929. p. 2. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
References
- McRobie, Alan (1989). Electoral Atlas of New Zealand. Wellington: GP Books. ISBN 0-477-01384-8.
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External links
- Electorate Profile Parliamentary Library