Tauranga (New Zealand electorate)
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Tauranga is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. The current MP for Tauranga is Simon Bridges of the National Party, who won the seat in the 2008 New Zealand general election, after the previous MP, Bob Clarkson of the National Party, retired.
Population centres
The previous electoral redistribution was undertaken in 1875 for the 1875–1876 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 Tauranga, and two electorates that had previously been abolished to be recreated. This necessitated a major disruption to existing boundaries.[1]
The electorate includes Tauranga, Mt Maunganui and Omanu Beach, but excluding Hairini, Maungatapu, Matapihi and Welcome Bay.
History
Tauranga electorate was created for the 1881 election, which determined the composition of the 8th Parliament. Initially, it existed until the 1890 election and during that time, it was represented by four MPs.[2]
The 1881 election was hotly contested. Four candidates were nominated: George Morris, who had previously represented the East Coast electorate; George Vesey Stewart, then the owner of the Bay of Plenty Times; William Kelly, who had also previously represented the East Coast electorate; and Henry Thomas Rowe, a surveyor and commission agent.[3] Rowe announced his retirement from the contest on 6 December three days out from election day, urging his supporters to vote for Stewart instead.[4] The unofficial results were released the day after the election (Saturday, 10 December) and Morris had a majority of 13 votes over Stewart, with the official declaration to be made on 12 December.[5] This was deferred until 14 December, with Morris ahead by 10 votes.[6] Stewart stood for the Tauranga mayoralty a few months later and was elected the town's first mayor.[7]
Morris was re-elected in the 1884 election, but resigned in April 1885, as he had been appointed to the Legislative Council.[8] The resulting by-election on 22 May 1885 was won by John Sheehan, who died on 12 June 1885.[9] The second 1885 by-election on 11 July was won by Lawrence Grace, who represented the electorate until the end of the term in 1887.[10] The 1887 election was won by William Kelly, who represented the electorate until the end of the term in 1890,[11] at which time the electorate was abolished.[2]
The electorate was recreated in 1908.[2] William Herries was the first representative, elected at the 1908 election; he had since the 1896 election represented the Bay of Plenty electorate. He became a member of the Reform Party when it formed itself in the following year. Herries represented the electorate until his death on 22 February 1923.[12]
The resulting 1923 by-election was won by Charles MacMillan, who also represented the Reform Party. MacMillan won the three subsequent general elections[13] before he was beaten in the 1935 election by Labour's Charles Burnett.[14] At the next election held in 1938, Burnett was beaten by National's Frederick Doidge, who held the electorate until his retirement in 1951.[15]
Doidge was succeeded by George Walsh, who won the 1951 election. Walsh served for seven terms and retired in 1972. Keith Allen was the next representative, first elected in 1972 and an MP until his death shortly before the 1984 election.
Allen's death did not cause a by-election, as it occurred within six months of the next general election. The 1984 election was won by Winston Peters, who had previously represented the Hunua electorate. In 1990 until March 1991, Peters was Minister of Māori Affairs,[16] but he was sacked from Cabinet by Prime Minister Jim Bolger in October 1991 after repeatedly criticising his National Party leadership. Peters remained as a National backbencher, continuing to criticise the party. In late 1992, when the National Party was considering possible candidates for the elections in the following year, it was decided that Peters would not be allowed to seek renomination for the Tauranga electorate. Peters unsuccessfully challenged this decision in the High Court, and in early 1993, he chose to resign from the party and from Parliament. This prompted a by-election in Tauranga some months before the scheduled general election. Peters stood as an independent and won with over 90% of the vote, assisted by the major parties not standing candidates against him.[17] Shortly before the 1993 election, Peters established New Zealand First and retained the Tauranga electorate. He continued to represent Tauranga until he was defeated in the 2005 election by National's Bob Clarkson.[18]
Clarkson's defeat of Winston Peters was significant, as this resulted in New Zealand First losing its only electorate seat. The party still gained parliamentary representation by polling over the five percent threshold, however. Clarkson retired at the end of the parliamentary term. He was succeeded by National's Simon Bridges, who won the 2008 election, with Peters coming a distant second.[19] Bridges was re-elected in 2011.[20]
Members of Parliament
Key
Independent Reform Labour National NZ First United Future
List MPs
Members of Parliament elected from party lists in elections where that person also unsuccessfully contested the Tauranga electorate. Unless otherwise stated, all MPs terms began and ended at general elections.
Election | Winner | |
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1996 election | width=5 bgcolor=Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color| | Katherine O'Regan |
1999 election | bgcolor=Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color| | Margaret Wilson |
2002 election | bgcolor=Template:United Future New Zealand/meta/color| | Larry Baldock |
bgcolor=Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color| | Margaret Wilson | |
2005 election | bgcolor=Template:New Zealand First/meta/color| | Winston Peters |
2011 election | bgcolor=Template:New Zealand First/meta/color| | Brendan Horan |
2014 election | bgcolor=Template:New Zealand First/meta/color| | Clayton Mitchell |
2017 election | bgcolor=Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color| | Jan Tinetti |
bgcolor=Template:New Zealand First/meta/color| | Clayton Mitchell |
Election results
2017 election
2017 general election: Tauranga[21] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
National | ![]() |
21,499 | 54.29 | -2.59 | 21,182 | 52.6 | -3.21 | ||
Labour | Jan Tinetti | 10,247 | 25.88 | +9.76 | 10,737 | 26.7 | +12.2 | ||
NZ First | Clayton Mitchell | 4,829 | 12.19 | -3.88 | 4,523 | 11.24 | -3.26 | ||
Green | Emma-Leigh Hodge | 1,935 | 4.89 | -1.09 | 1,562 | 3.88 | -3.24 | ||
Māori Party | Joseph James Borell | 267 | 0.67 | +0.15 | 211 | 0.52 | -0.08 | ||
ACT | Stuart Pedersen | 205 | 0.52 | +0.1 | 242 | 0.6 | +0.24 | ||
Independent | Rusty Kane | 72 | 0.18 | — | |||||
United Future | Ben Rickard | 64 | 0.16 | -0.08 | 40 | 0.1 | -0.15 | ||
Independent | Yvette Lamare | 50 | 0.13 | — | |||||
Independent | Hugh E Robb | 49 | 0.12 | — | |||||
Democrats | Jason Jobsis | 33 | 0.08 | — | 14 | 0.03 | -0.02 | ||
Opportunities | 1,282 | 3.18 | — | ||||||
Conservative Party of New Zealand | 113 | 0.28 | -5.5 | ||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 89 | 0.22 | -0.08 | ||||||
Outdoors | 27 | 0.07 | — | ||||||
Ban 1080 | 22 | 0.05 | +0.02 | ||||||
People's Party | 17 | 0.04 | — | ||||||
Mana | 8 | 0.02 | -0.46[a] | ||||||
Internet | 6 | 0.01 | -0.47[b] | ||||||
Informal votes | 350 | 180 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 39,600 | 40,255 | |||||||
National hold | Majority | 11,252 | 28.41 | -12.35 |
2014 election
2014 general election: Tauranga[22] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
National | ![]() |
20,711 | 56.88 | −4.52 | 20,728 | 55.81 | +1.58 | ||
Labour | Rachel Jones | 5,869 | 16.12 | +2.97 | 5,361 | 14.50 | −0.58 | ||
NZ First | Clayton Mitchell | 5,851 | 16.07 | +3.19 | 5,387 | 14.50 | −0.40 | ||
Green | Ian McLean | 2,177 | 5.98 | −0.89 | 2,645 | 7.12 | −1.64 | ||
Conservative Party of New Zealand | Nathaniel Heslop | 1,065 | 2.92 | −1.31 | 2,146 | 5.78 | +1.69 | ||
Māori Party | Verna Ohai-Gate | 188 | 0.52 | +0.18 | 222 | 0.60 | +0.10 | ||
Independent Coalition | Michael O'Neill | 179 | 0.49 | — | 96 | 0.26 | — | ||
ACT | Stuart Pedersen | 154 | 0.42 | −0.11 | 134 | 0.36 | −0.80 | ||
United Future | James Maxwell | 87 | 0.24 | — | 94 | 0.25 | −0.31 | ||
Independent | Rusty Kane | 84 | 0.23 | — | |||||
Independent | Yvette Lamare | 46 | 0.13 | −0.04 | |||||
Internet Mana | 180 | 0.48 | +0.32[c] | ||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 110 | 0.30 | −0.20 | ||||||
Democrats | 17 | 0.05 | −0.01 | ||||||
Ban 1080 | 12 | 0.03 | — | ||||||
Civilian | 7 | 0.02 | — | ||||||
Focus | 3 | 0.01 | — | ||||||
Informal votes | 312 | 152 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 36,411 | 37,142 | |||||||
Turnout | 37,294 | ||||||||
National hold | Majority | 14,842 | 40.76 | −7.48 |
2011 election
2011 general election: Tauranga[20] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
National | ![]() |
21,971 | 61.40 | +4.59 | 19,858 | 54.23 | -0.08 | ||
Labour | Deborah Mahuta-Coyle | 4,707 | 13.15 | +5.45 | 5,496 | 15.01 | -7.61 | ||
NZ First | Brendan Horan | 4,611 | 12.88 | -12.24 | 5,455 | 14.90 | +4.78 | ||
Green | Ian McLean | 2,458 | 6.87 | +2.93 | 3,208 | 8.76 | +4.18 | ||
Conservative Party of New Zealand | Larry Baldock | 1,512 | 4.23 | -0.78[d] | 1,499 | 4.09 | — | ||
ACT | Kath McCabe | 190 | 0.53 | -0.05 | 426 | 1.16 | -1.73 | ||
Māori Party | Awanui Black | 123 | 0.34 | +0.34 | 182 | 0.50 | -0.07 | ||
Mana | Jayson Gardiner | 90 | 0.25 | +0.25 | 59 | 0.16 | +0.16 | ||
Democrats | Katherine Ransom | 63 | 0.18 | +0.09 | 22 | 0.06 | -0.01 | ||
Independent | Yvette Lamare | 61 | 0.17 | +0.17 | |||||
United Future | 205 | 0.56 | -0.12 | ||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 184 | 0.50 | +0.13 | ||||||
Libertarianz | 18 | 0.05 | -0.01 | ||||||
Alliance | 8 | 0.02 | -0.02 | ||||||
Informal votes | 699 | 283 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 35,786 | 36,620 | |||||||
National hold | Majority | 17,264 | 48.24 | +16.55 |
Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 48,133[23]
2008 election
2008 general election: Tauranga[19] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
National | Simon Bridges | 21,051 | 56.81 | +15.19 | 20,418 | 54.31 | +9.04 | ||
NZ First | Winston Peters | 9,309 | 25.12 | -14.47 | 3,804 | 10.12 | -3.15 | ||
Labour | Anne Pankhurst | 2,856 | 7.71 | -3.43 | 8,504 | 22.62 | -7.61 | ||
Kiwi | Larry Baldock | 1,893 | 5.11 | 897 | 2.39 | ||||
Green | Karen Summerhays | 1,461 | 3.94 | +1.58 | 1,721 | 4.58 | +1.07 | ||
ACT | Ron Scott | 217 | 0.59 | +0.42 | 1,086 | 2.89 | +1.99 | ||
Independent | Gray Eatwell | 111 | 0.30 | ||||||
United Future | John D. Willocks | 76 | 0.21 | -3.46 | 257 | 0.68 | -3.79 | ||
Democrats | Katherine Ransom | 31 | 0.08 | -0.00 | 27 | 0.07 | +0.01 | ||
Independent | Terry Leaming | 30 | 0.08 | ||||||
RONZ | David Macartney | 20 | 0.05 | 26 | 0.07 | +0.06 | |||
Māori Party | 215 | 0.57 | +0.23 | ||||||
Bill and Ben | 179 | 0.48 | |||||||
Progressive | 178 | 0.47 | -0.30 | ||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 140 | 0.37 | +0.19 | ||||||
Family Party | 81 | 0.22 | |||||||
Libertarianz | 21 | 0.06 | -0.00 | ||||||
Alliance | 15 | 0.04 | +0.02 | ||||||
Workers Party | 14 | 0.04 | |||||||
Pacific | 9 | 0.02 | |||||||
RAM | 2 | 0.01 | |||||||
Informal votes | 229 | 147 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 37,055 | 37,594 | |||||||
National hold | Majority | 11,742 | 31.69 | +29.67 |
2005 election
2005 general election: Tauranga[18] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
National | Bob Clarkson | 15,020 | 41.62 | +25.30 | 16,559 | 45.28 | +23.30 | ||
NZ First | ![]() |
14,290 | 39.59 | -13.08 | 4,851 | 13.26 | -8.80 | ||
Labour | Sally Barrett | 4,020 | 11.14 | -9.70 | 11,055 | 30.23 | -1.93 | ||
United Future | Larry Baldock | 1,323 | 3.67 | -1.39 | 1,636 | 4.47 | -5.09 | ||
Green | Noel Petersen | 853 | 2.36 | -0.31 | 1,283 | 3.51 | -2.15 | ||
Destiny | Neils Jensen | 272 | 0.75 | +0.75 | 295 | 0.81 | +0.81 | ||
Progressive | Karandeep Singh Lall | 164 | 0.45 | +0.06 | 282 | 0.77 | -0.02 | ||
ACT | Francis Denz | 61 | 0.17 | -0.75 | 329 | 0.90 | -3.79 | ||
Libertarianz | Russell Watkins | 57 | 0.16 | -0.32 | 22 | 0.06 | +0.06 | ||
Democrats | Katherine Ransom | 31 | 0.09 | +0.09 | 27 | 0.07 | +0.07 | ||
Māori Party | 124 | 0.34 | +0.34 | ||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 65 | 0.18 | -0.25 | ||||||
Christian Heritage | 22 | 0.06 | -0.98 | ||||||
Alliance | 7 | 0.02 | -0.56 | ||||||
One NZ | 7 | 0.02 | -0.06 | ||||||
99 MP | 4 | 0.01 | +0.01 | ||||||
Direct Democracy | 3 | 0.01 | +0.01 | ||||||
RONZ | 3 | 0.01 | +0.01 | ||||||
Family Rights | 2 | 0.01 | +0.01 | ||||||
Informal votes | 229 | 152 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 36,091 | 36,573 | |||||||
National gain from NZ First | Majority | 730 | 2.02 | +38.37 |
2002 election
2002 general election: Tauranga[24] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
NZ First | ![]() |
17,145 | 52.67 | +22.40 | 7,278 | 22.06 | +9.14 | ||
Labour | Margaret Wilson | 6,783 | 20.84 | -7.34 | 10,608 | 32.16 | -1.34 | ||
National | Tim Macindoe | 5,312 | 16.32 | -13.76 | 7,250 | 21.98 | -7.72 | ||
United Future | Larry Baldock | 1,647 | 5.06 | +5.06 | 3,155 | 9.56 | +9.56 | ||
Green | Ian G. Douglas | 870 | 2.67 | -0.68 | 1,865 | 5.65 | +0.84 | ||
ACT | Ron Scott | 300 | 0.92 | +0.92 | 1517 | 4.60 | -1.55 | ||
Christian Heritage | Margaret Canter-Leighton | 207 | 0.64 | -1.55 | 342 | 1.04 | -1.75 | ||
Libertarianz | Russell Watkins | 157 | 0.49 | +0.49 | |||||
Progressive | Gary Oster | 129 | 0.40 | +0.40 | 262 | 0.79 | +0.79 | ||
ORNZ | 337 | 1.02 | +1.02 | ||||||
Alliance | 191 | 0.58 | -4.01 | ||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 140 | 0.42 | -0.31 | ||||||
One NZ | 27 | 0.08 | -0.00 | ||||||
Mana Māori | 12 | 0.04 | +0.00 | ||||||
NMP | 5 | 0.02 | -0.05 | ||||||
Informal votes | 176 | 111 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 32,550 | 32,989 | |||||||
NZ First hold | Majority | 10,362 | 31.83 | +31.65 |
1999 election
1999 general election: Tauranga[25][26] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
NZ First | ![]() |
10,225 | 30.27 | −19.70 | 4,387 | 12.92 | -12.92 | ||
National | Katherine O'Regan | 10,162 | 30.08 | +1.23 | 10,083 | 29.70 | -2.64 | ||
Labour | Margaret Wilson | 9,519 | 28.18 | +18.33 | 11,372 | 33.50 | +12.02 | ||
Christian Democrats | Larry Baldock | 1,456 | 4.31 | +4.31 | 1,182 | 3.48 | +3.48 | ||
Green | Karen Summerhays | 1,131 | 3.35 | +3.35 | 1,634 | 4.81 | +4.81 | ||
Christian Heritage | Frank Grover | 738 | 2.18 | +2.18 | 945 | 2.78 | +2.78 | ||
Alliance | Tekarehana Wicks | 453 | 1.34 | −2.79 | 1,558 | 4.59 | -2.29 | ||
Independent | John Hepburn | 73 | 0.22 | +0.22 | |||||
NMP | Vivienne Berry-Evans | 24 | 0.07 | +0.07 | 23 | 0.07 | +0.07 | ||
ACT | 2088 | 6.15 | +2.01 | ||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 249 | 0.73 | -0.28 | ||||||
United NZ | 159 | 0.47 | -0.03 | ||||||
Libertarianz | 112 | 0.33 | +0.31 | ||||||
McGillicuddy Serious | 44 | 0.13 | -0.16 | ||||||
Animals First | 39 | 0.11 | +0.00 | ||||||
One NZ | 28 | 0.08 | +0.08 | ||||||
Natural Law | 16 | 0.05 | -0.00 | ||||||
Mana Māori | 12 | 0.04 | +0.02 | ||||||
Mauri Pacific | 7 | 0.02 | +0.02 | ||||||
The People's Choice | 4 | 0.01 | +0.01 | ||||||
Freedom Movement | 3 | 0.01 | +0.01 | ||||||
Republican | 3 | 0.01 | +0.01 | ||||||
South Island | 3 | 0.01 | +0.01 | ||||||
Informal votes | 464 | 294 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 33,781 | 33,951 | |||||||
NZ First hold | Majority | 63 | 0.19 | −20.93 |
1996 election
1996 general election: Tauranga[27] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
NZ First | ![]() |
18,997 | 49.97 | −5.36 | 9,849 | 25.84 | |||
National | Katherine O'Regan | 10,969 | 28.85 | +8.21 | 12,325 | 32.33 | |||
Labour | Stephanie Hammond | 3,745 | 9.85 | -2.58 | 8,187 | 21.48 | |||
Christian Coalition | Kel Steiner | 1,679 | 4.42 | +4.42 | 2,612 | 6.85 | |||
Alliance | Gary Barham | 1,570 | 4.13 | −4.91 | 2,621 | 6.88 | |||
Independent | Michael Ryan | 615 | 1.62 | +1.62 | |||||
McGillicuddy Serious | Graeme Cairns | 310 | 0.82 | -0.05 | 109 | 0.29 | |||
Natural Law | Helen Treadwell | 72 | 0.19 | −0.07 | 19 | 0.05 | |||
Te Tawharau | Steven Te Kani | 31 | 0.08 | +0.08 | 94 | 0.01 | |||
Independent | Maxine Leech | 27 | 0.07 | +0.07 | |||||
ACT | 1580 | 4.15 | |||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 386 | 1.01 | |||||||
United NZ | 189 | 0.50 | |||||||
Progressive Green | 76 | 0.20 | |||||||
Superannuitants & Youth | 62 | 0.16 | |||||||
Animals First | 43 | 0.11 | |||||||
Green Society | 21 | 0.06 | |||||||
Conservatives | 10 | 0.03 | |||||||
Mana Māori | 7 | 0.02 | |||||||
Libertarianz | 6 | 0.02 | |||||||
Advance NZ | 5 | 0.01 | |||||||
Asia Pacific | 5 | 0.01 | |||||||
Ethnic Minority | 3 | 0.01 | |||||||
Informal votes | 244 | 141 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 38,015 | 38,118 | |||||||
NZ First hold | Majority | 8028 | 21.12 | −13.57 |
1993 election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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NZ First | Winston Peters | 12,638 | 55.33 | −35.39 | |
National | John Cronin | 4,714 | 20.64 | ||
Labour | Cliff Lee | 2,839 | 12.43 | ||
Alliance | Gary Barham | 2,064 | 9.04 | +7.57 | |
Christian Heritage | Barbara Smith | 331 | 1.45 | ||
McGillicuddy Serious | Greg Pittams | 198 | 0.87 | −1.28 | |
Natural Law | Jacqueline Hughes | 59 | 0.26 | ||
Majority | 7,924 | 34.69 | −53.88 | ||
Informal votes | 412 | 1.77 | −1.66 | ||
Turnout | 23,255 | 85.87 | +36.79 | ||
Registered electors | 27,082 |
1993 by-election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent | Winston Peters | 11,458 | 90.71 | +25.07 | |
McGillicuddy Serious | Greg Pittams | 271 | 2.15 | ||
Independent | Peter Wakeman | 190 | 1.50 | ||
HFA | Gary Barham | 185 | 1.46 | ||
Silent Majority | Peter Richard Watson | 184 | 1.46 | ||
Independent | Ian Baikie | 109 | 0.86 | ||
Natural Law | Lynne Lee | 101 | 0.80 | ||
HEMP | Ashley Bedford | 55 | 0.44 | ||
Blokes' Liberation Front | Rhona Tengblad | 29 | 0.23 | ||
Aotearoa Partnership | Raymond Campbell | 25 | 0.20 | ||
Christ's Ambassadors Union | Victor Bryers | 24 | 0.19 | ||
Informal votes | 449 | 3.43 | |||
Majority | 11,187 | 88.57 | +44.61 | ||
Turnout | 13,080 | 49.08 | −38.99 | ||
Registered electors | 26,651 |
1990 election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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National | Winston Peters | 13,906 | 65.64 | +12.22 | |
Labour | Bill Delaney | 4,592 | 21.67 | ||
Green | Terry Coles | 1,566 | 7.39 | ||
NewLabour | Muriel Powell | 605 | 2.85 | ||
Social Credit | Trevor Powell | 287 | 1.35 | ||
McGillicuddy Serious | Richard Barr | 141 | 0.66 | ||
Democrats | Douglas Meiklejohn | 87 | 0.41 | ||
Majority | 9,314 | 43.96 | +32.33 | ||
Turnout | 21,184 | 88.07 | +0.14 | ||
Registered electors | 24,052 |
1987 election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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National | Winston Peters | 11,256 | 53.42 | +11.14 | |
Labour | J M Seddon | 8,805 | 41.78 | ||
Democrats | G Oster | 1,009 | 4.78 | ||
Majority | 2,451 | 11.63 | −9.74 | ||
Turnout | 21,070 | 87.93 | −4.37 | ||
Registered electors | 23,961 |
1984 election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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National | Winston Peters | 9,716 | 42.28 | ||
NZ Party | David Parlour | 4,804 | 20.90 | ||
Labour | Ted Howard | 4,667 | 20.30 | ||
Social Credit | Paul Hills | 3,793 | 16.50 | −17.19 | |
Majority | 4,912 | 21.37 | |||
Turnout | 22,980 | 92.30 | +2.85 | ||
Registered electors | 24,896 |
1935 election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Charles Burnett | 3,602 | 35.06 | ||
Reform | Charles MacMillan | 3,567 | 34.72 | −7.58 | |
Country Party | Albert Robinson | 2,243 | 21.83 | ||
Democrat | Charles Thomas McFarlane | 806 | 7.84 | ||
Independent | Fred Polley | 53 | 0.51 | ||
Informal votes | 79 | 0.76 | +0.23 | ||
Majority | 35 | 0.34 | |||
Turnout | 10,271 | 89.35 | +10.62 | ||
Registered electors | 11,495 |
1931 election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Reform | Charles MacMillan | 3,147 | 42.30 | −0.64 | |
Independent | Bill Sullivan[nb 1] | 2,489 | 33.46 | ||
Country Party | Frank Colbeck[nb 2] | 1,803 | 24.24 | +1.26 | |
Informal votes | 40 | 0.53 | −0.78 | ||
Majority | 658 | 8.85 | −0.02 | ||
Turnout | 7,479 | 78.73 | −7.05 | ||
Registered electors | 9,499 |
Table footnotes:
- ^ Bill Sullivan was a member of the United Party, but Charles MacMillan was the official candidate of the United–Reform Coalition, hence Sullivan stood as an Independent
- ^ For biographical details of Frank Colbeck, please refer to his father's article
1928 election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Reform | Charles MacMillan | 3,285 | 42.94 | ||
Labour | Douglas Charles Chalmers | 2,607 | 34.08 | ||
Country Party | Frank Colbeck[mb 1] | 1,758 | 22.98 | ||
Majority | 678 | 8.86 | |||
Informal votes | 102 | 1.32 | |||
Turnout | 7,752 | 85.78 | |||
Registered electors | 9,037 |
Table footnotes:
- ^ For biographical details of Frank Colbeck, please refer to his father's article
1923 by-election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Reform | Charles Macmillan | 4,360 | 57.41 | ||
Liberal | Sir Joseph Ward | 3,235 | 42.59 | ||
Informal votes | 35 | 0.46 | |||
Majority | 1,125 | 14.81 | |||
Turnout | 7,630 | 85.53 | |||
Registered electors | 8,921 | ||||
Reform hold | Swing |
1919 election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Reform | William Herries | 3,946 | 65.42 | ||
Liberal | Benjamin Robbins[38] | 2,086 | 34.58 | ||
Majority | 1,860 | 30.84 | |||
Informal votes | 118 | 1.92 | |||
Turnout | 6,150 | 68.19 | |||
Registered electors | 9,019 |
1881 election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | George Morris | 381 | 36.18 | ||
Independent | George Vesey Stewart | 371 | 35.23 | ||
Independent | William Kelly | 301 | 28.58 | ||
Majority | 10 | 0.95 | |||
Turnout | 1,053 | 71.34 | |||
Registered electors | 1,476 |
Table footnotes
- ^ 2017 Mana Party swing is relative to the votes for Internet-Mana in 2014; it shared a party list with the Internet Party in the 2014 election
- ^ 2017 Internet Party swing is relative to the votes for Internet-Mana in 2014; it shared a party list with Mana Party in the 2014 election
- ^ 2014 Internet Mana swing is relative to the votes for Mana in 2011; it shared a party list with Internet in the 2014 election
- ^ Larry Baldock contested the electorate in 2008 as a candidate for the Kiwi Party
References
- ^ McRobie 1989, pp. 43–48.
- ^ a b c Scholefield 1950, p. 164.
- ^ a b "Nomination of Candidates for the Tauranga Electorate". Bay of Plenty Times. Vol. X, no. 1152. 30 November 1881. p. 2. Retrieved 28 November 2013.
- ^ "The Bay of Plenty Times". Bay of Plenty Times. Vol. X, no. 1158. 7 December 1881. p. 2. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
- ^ "The Bay of Plenty Times". Bay of Plenty Times. Vol. X, no. 1161. 10 December 1881. p. 2. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
- ^ a b "Declaration of the Poll for the Tauranga Electorate". Bay of Plenty Times. Vol. X, no. 1164. 14 December 1881. p. 2. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
- ^ Rorke, Jinty. "George Vesey Stewart". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 1 December 2011.
- ^ Scholefield 1950, pp. 81, 127.
- ^ Scholefield 1950, p. 138.
- ^ Scholefield 1950, p. 109.
- ^ Scholefield 1950, p. 118.
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- ^ Election results 1993, p. 113.
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- ^ Hislop 1923, p. 10.
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- ^ "Liberal Selection for Tauranga". Wairarapa Daily Times. Vol. 45, no. 13977. 11 November 1919. p. 5. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
Bibliography
- Hislop, J. (1923). The General Election, 1922. Government Printer. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
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External links
- Electorate profile, Parliamentary Library