Remutaka (New Zealand electorate)

Rimutaka is an electorate returning one member to the New Zealand House of Representatives. The current representative is Chris Hipkins, a member of the Labour Party who has represented the seat since 2008.^[1]

Profile

Centred on Upper Hutt City, the western boundary of the Rimutaka electorate is defined by the Hutt River from Avalon and Naenae in the south, through Stokes Valley, Trentham and Upper Hutt, to Te Marua, Kaitoke, and Cloustonville in the north. Boundary changes in 2014 saw Rimutaka gain Naenae from the Hutt South electorate, while losing Belmont and Kelson to Hutt South.^[2]

Population growth in the Rimutaka electorate was 2.4% between 2006 and 2013, less than half the national average (5.3%). Of those employed in 2013: 15.0% were clerical and administrative workers (the highest proportion of any general electorate); 12.6% worked in public administration (third-highest); 10.4% were community and personal service workers (fourth-highest). Of those working on census day 2013, 9.1% travelled to work by train, the third-highest share among general electorates and almost eight times the New Zealand average (1.2%).^[2]

History

Rimutaka was created in 1996 ahead of the change to Mixed Member Proportional voting. It was created by merging the old Upper Hutt-based seat of Heretaunga with Stokes Valley, Taitā and a large section of Naenae from the defunct Eastern Hutt seat. Eastern Hutt had been held by Labour's Paul Swain since 1987, while Heretaunga had been won by National's Peter McCardle in 1990. Peter McCardle (who had been re-elected in 1993) defected to New Zealand First in 1996. Swain was the clear winner in every election from 1996 to 2005; the inclusion of the working-class areas of Hutt City helped make Rimutaka safer for the Labour Party, though on the campaign trail in 2008, Labour's chances for winning both party vote and the electorate were summarised as: "Labour support is 'rock solid' in the south of the electorate but things are volatile in Upper Hutt, where there is 'still work to do'".^[3]

Following the 2014 boundary review, Rimutaka gained Naenae and a small part of Epuni from the Hutt South electorate and lost Kelson and Belmont to Hutt South.

Members of Parliament

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

Key

Labour NZ First

Election	Winner
1996 election	width=5 rowspan=4 bgcolor=Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color\|	Paul Swain
1999 election
2002 election
2005 election
2008 election	width=5 rowspan=4 bgcolor=Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color\|	Chris Hipkins
2011 election
2014 election
2017 election

List MPs

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

Election	Winner
1996 election	Template:Meta color	Peter McCardle¹

¹ McCardle was the National MP for Heretaunga from 1990 to 1996

Election results

2017 election

General election, 2017: Rimutaka^[4]
Notes:		Blue 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, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	Labour	Y Chris Hipkins		21,725	55.48	+2.97	17,180	43.3
	National	Carolyn O'Fallon		13,116	33.49	-0.87	15,433	38.9
	Green	Stefan Grand-Meyer		1,815	4.63	-0.07	2,156
	NZ First	Talani Meikle		1,604	4.09	-0.77	2,938
	Conservative Party of New Zealand	Philip Lynch		356			169
	ACT	Grae O'Sullivan		190			147
	Opportunities						1095
	Māori Party						181
	Legalise Cannabis						96
	Ban 1080						33
	United Future						32
	People's Party						22
	Outdoors						16
	Internet						12
	Democrats						10
	Mana						10
Informal votes				347			148
Total valid votes				39,153			39,678
	Labour hold		Majority	8,609

2014 election

General election, 2014: Rimutaka^[5]
Notes:		Blue 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, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	Labour	Y Chris Hipkins		19,286	52.51	+2.25	12,176	32.73	−0.16
	National	Lewis Holden		12,622	34.36	−6.27	15,352	41.28	−3.16
	NZ First	Aaron Hunt		1,785	4.86	+4.86	3,806	10.23	+6.21
	Green	Susanne Ruthven		1,727	4.70	−1.12	3,422	9.90	−1.41
	Conservative Party of New Zealand	Philip Michael Lynch		973	2.65	+2.65	955	4.01	+1.25
	Internet Mana						324	0.87	+0.64^[a]
	Legalise Cannabis						194	0.52	+0.05
	Māori Party						149	0.40	−0.15
	ACT						126	0.34	−0.34
	United Future						122	0.33	−0.66
	Ban 1080						84	0.23	+0.23
	Civilian						19	0.05	+0.05
	Independent Coalition						19	0.05	+0.05
	Democrats						14	0.04	+0.00
	Focus						4	0.01	+0.01
Informal votes				241			159
Total valid votes				36,393			37,194
	Labour hold		Majority	6,664	18.14	+8.52

Electorate (as at 20 September 2014): 46,526^[6]

2011 election

General election, 2011: Rimutaka^[7]
Notes:		Blue 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, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	Labour	Y Chris Hipkins		17,171	51.58	12.31	11,375	33.13	-8.18
	National	Jonathan Fletcher		13,885	41.71	+4.60	15,364	44.75	+4.10
	Green	Tane Woodley		1,990	5.98	+0.96	3,422	9.97	+4.04
	ACT	Alwyn Courtenay		241	0.72	-0.57	235	0.68	-1.87
	NZ First						2,148	6.26	+2.17
	Conservative Party of New Zealand						955	2.78	+2.78
	United Future						340	0.99	-0.41
	Māori Party						190	0.55	-0.18
	Legalise Cannabis						164	0.48	+0.13
	Mana						80	0.23	+0.23
	Libertarianz						28	0.08	+0.04
	Alliance						20	0.06	-0.02
	Democrats						12	0.03	+0.01
Informal votes				879			240
Total valid votes				33,287			34,333
	Labour hold		Majority	3,286	9.87	+7.72

Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 44,403^[8]

2008 election

General election, 2008: Rimutaka^[9]
Notes:		Blue 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, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	Labour	Chris Hipkins		13,735	39.27		14,685	41.31
	National	Richard Whiteside		12,982	37.12		14,452	40.65
	NZ First	Ron Mark		5,257	15.03		1,453	4.09
	Green	Lynette Vigrass		1,755	5.02		2,107	5.93
	United Future	Jenni Hurn		522	1.49		499	1.40
	ACT	Nigel Kearney		453	1.30		909	2.56
	Progressive	John Maurice		272	0.78		345	0.97
	Māori Party						260	0.73
	Bill and Ben						255	0.72
	Kiwi						242	0.68
	Legalise Cannabis						122	0.34
	Family Party						85	0.24
	Pacific						57	0.16
	Alliance						28	0.08
	Workers Party						18	0.05
	Libertarianz						13	0.04
	Democrats						8	0.02
	RONZ						7	0.02
	RAM						4	0.01
Informal votes				297			126
Total valid votes				34,976			35,549
	Labour hold		Majority	753	2.15

2005 election

General election, 2005: Rimutaka^[10]
Notes:		Blue 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, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	Labour	Y Paul Swain		18,681	54.74	-4.67	16,558	47.80
	National	Mike Leddy		10,404	30.49	+11.18	11,791	34.04
	United Future	Bernard McLelland		1,777	5.21		1,615	4.66
	Green	Michael Morris		1,243	3.64		1,446	4.17
	NZ First	David Fowler		1,094	3.21		1,736	5.01
	Independent	Dave Reynolds		549	1.61
	ACT	John Waugh		380	1.11		414	1.20
	Legalise Cannabis						691	1.99
	Progressive						451	1.30
	Destiny						197	0.57
	Māori Party						181	0.52
	Christian Heritage						54	0.16
	Alliance						28	0.08
	Libertarianz						19	0.05
	99 MP						14	0.04
	Democrats						10	0.03
	Family Rights						9	0.03
	One NZ						8	0.02
	Direct Democracy						6	0.02
	RONZ						2	0.01
Informal votes				353			145
Total valid votes				34,128			34,640
	Labour hold		Majority	8,277	24.25	-16.10

2002 election

General election, 2002: Rimutaka^[11]
Notes:		Blue 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, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	Labour	Y Paul Swain		18,688			14,856
	National	Mike Leddy		6,073			5,387
	United Future	Wayne Chapman		1,957			2,933
	Green	Russel Norman		1,267			1,683
	ACT	Nick Kearney		1,168			2,004
	Independent	Nick Kelly		376
	NZ First						2,641
	Legalise Cannabis						179
	Alliance						28	0.08
Informal votes				404			146
Total valid votes				31,861			32,079
	Labour hold		Majority	12,615

1999 election

Refer to Candidates in the New Zealand general election 1999 by electorate#Rimutaka for a list of candidates.

Table footnotes

^ 2014 Internet Mana swing is relative to the votes for Mana in 2011; it shared a party list with Internet in the 2014 election.

References

^ New Zealand Parliament - Chris Hipkinsn MP
^ ^a ^b "Rimutaka electorate profile". Parliamentary Library. June 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2016. This article incorporates text by the Parliamentary Library available under the CC BY 3.0 license.
^ "Labour stronghold shapes up as a battleground". stuff.co.nz. 2008-10-28. Retrieved 2008-11-01. ^{[dead link]}
^ "Official Count Results -- Rimutaka". Wellington: New Zealand Electoral Commission. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
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^ "Enrolment statistics". Electoral Commission. 20 September 2014. Retrieved 22 October 2014.
^ 2011 election results
^ "Enrolment statistics". Electoral Commission. 26 November 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
^ 2008 election results
^ election result Rimutaka 2005
^ election result Rimutaka 2002 Archived 2015-01-15 at the Wayback Machine

External links

Electorate Profile Parliamentary Library
2005 election results electionresults.govt.nz
2002 election results electionresults.govt.nz

[Internet_Mana-6] 2014 Internet Mana swing is relative to the votes for Mana in 2011; it shared a party list with Internet in the 2014 election.

[1] New Zealand Parliament - Chris Hipkinsn MP

[Electorate_profile-2] "Rimutaka electorate profile". Parliamentary Library. June 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2016. This article incorporates text by the Parliamentary Library available under the CC BY 3.0 license.

[stuff_whatyoutalkingaboutfonz-3] "Labour stronghold shapes up as a battleground". stuff.co.nz. 2008-10-28. Retrieved 2008-11-01. ^{[dead link]}

[2017_Rimutaka-4] "Official Count Results -- Rimutaka". Wellington: New Zealand Electoral Commission. Retrieved 22 December 2017.

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[7] "Enrolment statistics". Electoral Commission. 20 September 2014. Retrieved 22 October 2014.

[8] 2011 election results

[enrolment-9] "Enrolment statistics". Electoral Commission. 26 November 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2011.

[10] 2008 election results

[11] tion result Rimutaka 2005

[12] tion result Rimutaka 2002 Archived 2015-01-15 at the Wayback Machine

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