Whangaparāoa (New Zealand electorate)
| Whangaparāoa | |
|---|---|
| Single-member constituency for the New Zealand House of Representatives | |
| Region | Auckland |
| Current constituency | |
| Created | 2020 |
| Current MP | Mark Mitchell |
| Party | National |
Whangaparāoa is an electorate in the New Zealand House of Representatives. It was first created for the 2020 New Zealand general election and is represented by Mark Mitchell of the National Party; Mitchell had previously been the representative for the now abolished Rodney electorate.
Population centres
[edit]The electorate is located on the northern fringe of the Auckland metropolitan area, in the former Rodney District. It is centred on the Whangaparāoa Peninsula, and more broadly the Hibiscus Coast. It also extends south to include Dairy Flat, Coatesville, Paremoremo and some of the suburb of Albany, reaching the northern coast of the Waitematā Harbour.[1]
History
[edit]Whangaparāoa was created in the 2019/20 electoral redistribution. Rapid population growth in the area necessitated the splitting of the former Rodney electorate, with the northern section around Warkworth being incorporated into the new Kaipara ki Mahurangi electorate, and the rest of the electorate becoming Whangaparāoa.[2][3] A section around Coatesville and Dairy Flat was added from the former electorate of Helensville to bring the new electorate into quota tolerance.[3]
The electorate is reasonably safe for National, with the final MP for Rodney Mark Mitchell transferring to the seat upon its creation.
Members of Parliament
[edit]| Election | Winner | |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 election | Mark Mitchell | |
| 2023 election | ||
As of 2023 no candidates who have contested the Whangaparāoa electorate have been returned as list MPs.
Election results
[edit]2023 election
[edit]| 2023 general election: Whangaparāoa[4] | |||||||||
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| Notes: |
Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| National |  Mark Mitchell
|
30,742 | 66.45 | +14.02 | 25,091 | 53.20 | +16.65 | ||
| Labour | Estefania Muller Pallarès | 7,366 | 15.92 | -19.29 | 7,202 | 15.27 | -24.73 | ||
| Green | Lorraine Newman | 3,487 | 7.53 | +7.53 | 3,584 | 7.60 | +2.72 | ||
| ACT | Simon Angelo | 2,522 | 5.45 | +1.58 | 5,627 | 11.93 | +1.26 | ||
| NZ Loyal | Jeanette Wilson | 1,489 | 3.21 | +3.21 | 630 | 1.33 | +1.33 | ||
| DemocracyNZ | Craig Laybourn | 652 | 1.40 | +1.40 | 157 | 0.33 | +0.33 | ||
| NZ First | 2,952 | 6.26 | +4.12 | ||||||
| Opportunities | 770 | 1.63 | +0.42 | ||||||
| NewZeal | 460 | 0.97 | +0.97 | ||||||
| Te Pāti Māori | 222 | 0.47 | +0.27 | ||||||
| Legalise Cannabis | 131 | 0.27 | — | ||||||
| Freedoms NZ | 92 | 0.19 | +0.19 | ||||||
| Animal Justice Party | 91 | 0.19 | +0.19 | ||||||
| New Conservatives | 65 | 0.13 | -2.20 | ||||||
| Women's Rights | 36 | 0.07 | +0.07 | ||||||
| Leighton Baker Party | 29 | 0.06 | +0.06 | ||||||
| New Nation | 16 | 0.03 | +0.03 | ||||||
| Informal votes | 530 | 120 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 46,788 | 47,275 | |||||||
| National hold | Majority | 23,376 | 50.53 | +33.31 | |||||
2020 election
[edit]| 2020 general election: Whangaparāoa[5] | |||||||||
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| Notes: |
Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| National | Mark Mitchell
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23,822 | 52.43 | — | 16,696 | 36.55 | — | ||
| Labour | Lorayne Ferguson | 15,999 | 35.21 | — | 18,217 | 40.00 | — | ||
| ACT | Paul Grace | 1,757 | 3.87 | — | 4,872 | 10.67 | — | ||
| New Conservative | Fiona Mackenzie | 1,486 | 3.27 | — | 1,028 | 2.25 | — | ||
| Advance NZ | Kathryn Flay | 659 | 1.45 | — | 525 | 1.15 | — | ||
| Sustainable NZ | John Davies | 605 | 1.33 | — | 65 | 0.14 | — | ||
| Outdoors | Tricia Cheel | 400 | 0.88 | — | 48 | 0.11 | — | ||
| Green | 2,227 | 4.88 | — | ||||||
| NZ First | 979 | 2.14 | — | ||||||
| Opportunities | 554 | 1.21 | — | ||||||
| Legalise Cannabis | 124 | 0.27 | — | ||||||
| Māori Party | 91 | 0.20 | — | ||||||
| Sustainable NZ | 20 | 0.05 | — | ||||||
| ONE | 55 | 0.12 | — | ||||||
| TEA | 39 | 0.09 | — | ||||||
| Social Credit | 11 | 0.024 | — | ||||||
| Vision New Zealand | 9 | 0.019 | — | ||||||
| Heartland | 3 | 0.006 | — | ||||||
| Informal votes | 705 | 180 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 45,433 | 45,678 | |||||||
| Turnout | 45,678 | ||||||||
| National win new seat | Majority | 7,823 | 17.22 | ||||||
References
[edit]- ^ "Map of electorates for the 2020 and 2023 electorates". 17 April 2020. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
- ^ Whyte, Anna (17 April 2020). "New electorate revealed, as raft of boundary changes announced prior to election 2020". Retrieved 18 April 2020.
- ^ a b "Report of the Representation Commission 2020" (PDF). 17 April 2020. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
- ^ "Whangaparāoa – Official Result". Electoral Commission. n.d. Retrieved 8 November 2023.
- ^ "Whangaparāoa – Official Result". Electoral Commission. n.d. Retrieved 7 March 2021.