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This is a summary of the electoral history of Helen Clark, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1999–2008), Leader of the Labour Party (1993–2008) and Member of Parliament for Mount Albert (1981–2008).

Parliamentary elections

1975 election

1975 general election: Piako[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
National Jack Luxton 10,248 59.9 +4.5
Labour Helen Clark 4,074 23.8
Social Credit Alexander Raymond Mikkelson 2,322 13.6 −1.8
Values Sally Ruth Child 460 2.7
Majority 6,174 36.1 +6.7
Turnout 20,538 83.5

1981 election

1981 general election: Mount Albert[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Helen Clark 10,027 51.32
National Warren Moyes 6,120 31.32
Social Credit Harold Dance 3,391 17.35 +5.84
Majority 3,907 19.99
Turnout 19,538 86.34 +2.00
Registered electors 22,627

1984 election

1984 general election: Mount Albert[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Helen Clark 12,231 56.74 +5.42
National Rod Cavanagh 6,024 27.94
NZ Party Michelle Gonsalves 2,390 11.08
Social Credit Douglas McGee 908 4.21
Majority 6,207 28.79 +8.80
Turnout 21,553 89.82 +3.48
Registered electors 23,995

1987 election

1987 general election: Mount Albert[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Helen Clark 11,326 62.25 +5.51
National Rob Wheeler 5,989 32.91
Democrats Gillian Dance 861 4.73
Independent Malcolm Moses 17 0.09
Majority 5,537 30.43 +1.64
Turnout 18,193 84.02 −5.80
Registered electors 21,653

1990 election

1990 general election: Mount Albert[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Helen Clark 7,914 43.48 −18.77
National Larry Belshaw 6,684 36.72
Green Harry Parke 1,774 9.74
NewLabour Jennie Walker 1,418 7.79
McGillicuddy Serious Adrian Holroyd 151 0.82
Social Credit Richard Povall 133 0.73
Democrats Syd Leach 127 0.69
Majority 1,230 6.75 −23.68
Turnout 18,201 82.19 −1.83
Registered electors 22,143

1993 election

1993 general election: Mount Albert[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Helen Clark 9,546 49.41 +5.93
National Vanessa Brown 4,890 25.31
Alliance Doug McGee 2,873 14.87
NZ First Elizabeth Anderson 1,370 7.09
Christian Heritage Jens Meder 259 1.34
McGillicuddy Serious KT Julian 195 1.00
Workers Rights Ivan Sowry 97 0.50
Natural Law Stewart Sanson 62 0.32
Defence Movement Anthony Van Den Heuvel 25 0.12
Majority 4,656 24.10 +17.35
Turnout 19,317 83.45 +1.26
Registered electors 23,146

1996 election

1996 general election: Owairaka[5][6][7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Helen Clark 16,686 51.20 +1.79
National Phil Raffills 10,706 32.85
NZ First Jason Keiller 2,297 7.05
Alliance Keith Locke 1,775 5.45
ACT Andrew Couper 768 2.36
McGillicuddy Serious Julia Johnson 217 0.67
Natural Law Martin Davy 90 0.28
Advance New Zealand Eric Chuah 50 0.15
Majority 5,980 18.35 −5.75
Turnout 32,589

1999 election

1999 general election: Mount Albert
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Helen Clark 18,982 64.37 +13.17
National Noelene Buckland 5,874 19.92
Alliance Jill Ovens 1,139 3.86
ACT Daniel King 1,062 3.60
Green Mike Johnson 1,032 3.50
Christian Heritage Diane Taylor 658 2.23
NZ First Seini Mafi 403 1.37
McGillicuddy Serious Kerry Hoole 193 0.65
United NZ Hassan Hosseini 124 0.42
Republican Jane Hotere 23 0.08
Majority 13,108 44.45 +26.10
Turnout 29,490

2002 election

2002 general election: Mount Albert[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Helen Clark 19,514 68.49 +4.12
National Raewyn Bhana 3,490 12.24
ACT Bruce Williams 1,550 5.44
Green Jon Carapiet 1,537 5.39
United Future New Zealand Hassan Hosseini 726 2.54 +2.1
Christian Heritage Pauline Cooper 426 1.49
Alliance Jill Ovens 334 1.17 −2.7
Progressive Gillian Dance 299 1.04
Legalise Cannabis Daphna Whitmore 116 0.40
Independent Rick Stevenson 52 0.18
Majority 16,024 56.24 +11.79
Turnout 28,491

2005 election

2005 general election: Mount Albert[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Helen Clark 20,918 66.55 −1.94
National Ravi Musuku 6,169 19.63
Green Jon Carapiet 1,485 4.72
NZ First Julian Batchelor 746 2.37
ACT David Seymour 746 2.37
United Future New Zealand Tony Gordon 529 1.68
Progressive Jenny Wilson 407 1.29
Destiny Anne Williamson 337 1.07
Independent Jim Bagnall 83 0.26
Anti-Capitalist Daphna Whitmore 79 0.25 −0.15
Independent Anthony Ravlich 47 0.15
Direct Democracy Howard Ponga 30 0.10
Independent Erik Taylor 29 0.09
Majority 14,749 46.40 −9.84
Turnout 31,747

2008 election

Helen Clark listed on a ballot paper for the 2008 election
2008 general election: Mount Albert[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Helen Clark 20,157 59.29 −7.26
National Ravi Musuku 9,806 28.84 +9.21
Green Jon Carapiet 2,019 5.94 +1.22
ACT Kathleen McCabe 1,392 4.09
Kiwi Christian Dawson 249 0.73
Pacific Milo Siilata 234 0.69
Independent Anthony van den Heuvel 87 0.26
RONZ Dave Llewell 53 0.16
Majority 10,351 29.30 −17.10
Turnout 33,997

Leadership elections

1989 deputy-leadership election

Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color" | Helen Clark 29 53.71
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color" | Roger Douglas 25 46.29
Majority 4 7.40
Turnout 54 —

1993 leadership election

Candidate Votes %
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color" | Helen Clark 26 57.77
style="background-color: Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color" | Mike Moore 19 42.23
Majority 7 15.55
Turnout 45 —

United Nations elections

United Nations Secretary-General selection, 2016

United Nations Secretary-General selection straw poll results
Candidate 21 July[11][12] 5 August[13][14] 29 August[15][16] 9 September[17][18] 26 September[18][19] 5 October[20][21] Final Vote[22]
E D N E D N E D N E D N E D N E D N
Bulgaria Irina Bokova 9 4 2 7 7 1 7 5 3 7 5 3 6 7 2 7 (3P) 7 (2P) 1 Withdrawn
New Zealand Helen Clark 8 5 2 6 8 1 6 8 1 6 7 2 6 9 0 6 (1P) 8 (3P) 1 (1P) Withdrawn
Costa Rica Christiana Figueres 5 5 5 5 8 2 2 12 1 5 10 0 Withdrawn[23]
Bulgaria Kristalina Georgieva Not yet nominated 5 (2P) 8 (2P) 2 (1P) Withdrawn
Moldova Natalia Gherman 4 4 7 3 10 2 2 12 1 3 11 1 3 11 1 3 (1P) 11 (3P) 1 (1P) Withdrawn
Portugal António Guterres 12 0 3 11 2 2 11 3 1 12 2 1 12 2 1 13 (4P) 0 2 (1P) Acclaimed
Serbia Vuk Jeremić 9 5 1 8 4 3 7 5 3 9 4 2 8 6 1 7 (2P) 6 (3P) 2 Withdrawn
North Macedonia Srgjan Kerim 9 5 1 6 7 2 6 7 2 8 7 0 6 9 0 5 (2P) 9 (3P) 1 Withdrawn
Slovakia Miroslav Lajčák 7 3 5 2 6 7 9 5 1 10 4 1 8 7 0 7 (2P) 6 (2P) 2 (1P) Withdrawn
Montenegro Igor Lukšić 3 7 5 2 9 4 Withdrawn[24]
Argentina Susana Malcorra 7 4 4 8 6 1 7 7 1 7 7 1 7 7 1 5 (2P) 7 (1P) 3 (2P) Withdrawn
Croatia Vesna Pusić 2 11 2 Withdrawn[25]
Slovenia Danilo Türk 11 2 2 7 5 3 5 6 4 7 6 2 7 7 1 5 (1P) 8 (4P) 2 Withdrawn
Candidate received at least one "encouraged" from a veto-wielding P5 member
Candidate received at least one "discouraged" from a veto-wielding P5 member

Notes

  1. ^ Norton 1988, p. 319.
  2. ^ a b c Norton 1988, p. 281.
  3. ^ Part 1: Votes recorded at each polling place (Technical report). New Zealand Chief Electoral Office. 1990.
  4. ^ Part 1: Votes recorded at each polling place (Technical report). New Zealand Chief Electoral Office. 1993.
  5. ^ "Electorate Candidate and Party Votes Recorded at Each Polling Place – Owairaka, 1996" (PDF). Retrieved 9 July 2013.
  6. ^ "Part III – Party Lists of Successful Registered Parties" (PDF). Electoral Commission. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 February 2013. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
  7. ^ "Part III – Party Lists of unsuccessful Registered Parties" (PDF). Electoral Commission. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 February 2013. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
  8. ^ 2002 election results
  9. ^ 2005 election results Archived 31 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ 2008 election results Archived 11 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ Orestes, Benjamin [@boreskes] (21 July 2016). "SOURCE: #NEXTSG straw poll: 1)Guterres 2) Turk 3) Bokova 4) Jeremic/Kerim 5)Clark 6)Lajčák 7)Malcorra 8)Figueres9)Gherman10)Luksic 11)Pusic" (Tweet). Retrieved 21 July 2016 – via Twitter.
  12. ^ Lee, Matthew Russell (21 July 2016). "On Next SG Straw Poll, Results & Questions of Dual Nationalities, Exclusive". Inner City Press. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
  13. ^ Abi Saab, Nabil [@NabilAbiSaab] (5 August 2016). "1/2 Results of 2nd round of voting on next #UNSG: (Yes, No, no opinion) Guterres 11,2,2 Jeremic 8,4,3 Malcorra 8,6,1 Turk 7,5,3 Clark 6,8,1" (Tweet). Retrieved 5 August 2016 – via Twitter.
  14. ^ Abi Saab, Nabil [@NabilAbiSaab] (5 August 2016). "2/2 Figueres 5,8,2 Kerim 6, 7, 2 Luksic 2,9,4 Bokova 7,7,1 Gherman 3,10,2 Lajcak 2,6,7" (Tweet). Retrieved 5 August 2016 – via Twitter.
  15. ^ World Federation of United Nations Associations [@WFUNA] (29 August 2016). "As part of our commitment to Transparency and Accountability, here are full results of the 3rd #NextSG Straw Poll:" (Tweet). Retrieved 29 August 2016 – via Twitter.
  16. ^ Bryce-Pease, Sherwin (29 August 2016). "Results of latest straw poll to select next #UNSG". SABC News. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  17. ^ World Federation of United Nations Associations [@WFUNA] (9 September 2016). "As part of our continued push for #Transparency at the #UN Full #NextSG 4th Straw Poll Results:" (Tweet). Retrieved 9 September 2016 – via Twitter.
  18. ^ a b "Who will lead the United Nations". Reuters. 9 September 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  19. ^ World Federation of United Nations Associations [@WFUNA] (26 September 2016). "WFUNA presents the results of 5th #NextSG Straw Poll" (Tweet). Retrieved 26 September 2016 – via Twitter.
  20. ^ World Federation of United Nations Associations [@WFUNA] (5 October 2016). "Full results of the sixth and final #NextSG strawpoll. Formal result tomorrow. (P5 voting intentions excluded)" (Tweet). Retrieved 5 October 2016 – via Twitter.
  21. ^ Sengupta, Somini (5 October 2016). "Security Council Backs António Guterres to Be Next U.N. Secretary General". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  22. ^ Foroohar, Kambiz (5 October 2016). "Portugal's Guterres Wins Unanimous Backing to Lead the UN". Bloomberg News. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
  23. ^ "Figueres ends UN Secretary General bid". News.com.au. 13 September 2016.
  24. ^ "Montenegro's Luksic drops out of race to be next UN chief". Associated Press. 23 August 2016.
  25. ^ "Vesna Pusić Withdraws as Candidate for UN Secretary General". Total Croatia News. 4 August 2016.

References

  • Norton, Clifford (1988). New Zealand Parliamentary Election Results 1946–1987: Occasional Publications No 1, Department of Political Science. Wellington: Victoria University of Wellington. ISBN 0-475-11200-8.
  • Edwards, Brian (2001). Helen: Portrait of A Prime Minister. Auckland: Exisle Publishing. ISBN 0-908988-20-6.
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