Invercargill (New Zealand electorate)
Invercargill is an electorate of the Parliament of New Zealand that has existed since 1866. The current representative is Eric Roy.
Population centres
The electorate covers Invercargill city and the surrounding rural area, including Stewart Island / Rakiura. In 1996 a boundary redistribution resulted in the abolition of the Awarua electorate and merged with Invercargill following re-drawing of boundaries due to the introduction of mixed-member proportional voting (MMP).
History
The electorate was established in 1866 when it separated from the Wallace electorate.[1]
The first representative was William Wood, who won the 1866 election.[2] Wood retired at the end of the parliamentary term in 1870. William Henderson Calder succeeded Wood in the 1871 election and he resigned in March 1873.[3] The resulting 1873 by-election was won by John Cuthbertson, who served until the end of the parliamentary term in 1875.[4]
Cuthbertson was defeated by George Lumsden in the 1875 election. Lumsden resigned in June 1878,[5] which caused the 1878 by-election. Henry Feldwick was the successful candidate and he commenced his first of three terms for the electorate.[6] At the 1879 election, Feldwick was defeated by James Walker Bain, who retired at the end of the parliamentary term in 1881.[7] At the 1881 election, Feldwick was again the successful candidate,[6] only to be defeated again at the 1884 election, on that occasion by Joseph Hatch.[8] At the 1887 election, Feldwick defeated Hatch and commenced his third and final term for the Invercargill electorate, serving until the end of the parliamentary term in 1890.[6]
James Whyte Kelly defeated Feldwick in the 1890 election. Kelly became a member of the Liberal Party and served for three parliamentary terms.[6] For the 1899 election, the Liberal Party selected Josiah Hanan instead of Kelly, and the two contested the election, with Hanan being successful.[9] Hanan served the electorate until 1925, when he retired.[10]
The 1925 election was narrowly won by the former Prime Minister Sir Joseph Ward. Until 1919, Ward had for many years represented Awarua.[11] Ward, a former leader of the Liberal Party, contested the election under the "Liberal" label, despite the fact that the remnants of the Liberal Party were now calling themselves by different names.[12] In 1928, Ward helped form the United Party[12] and won the 1928 election.[11] He died on 8 July 1930,[12] which caused the 1930 by-election won by his son Vincent Ward, who retired at the end of the parliamentary term in 1931.[11]
Vincent Ward was succeeded by James Hargest in the 1931 election. At the end of the parliamentary term in 1935, Hargest successfully contested the Awarua electorate.[11] He was succeeded in the Invercargill electorate by William Denham of the Labour Party, who held the electorate for three terms from 1935[13] until his defeat in the 1946 election by Ralph Hanan of the National Party.[10] Hanan was re-elected seven times and died in office on 24 July 1969; the need to hold a by-election before the general election on 29 November was avoided by a special act, the By-election Postponement Act 1969.
The successful candidate in the 1969 general election was John Chewings, who was defeated at the end of the parliamentary term at the 1972 election by Labour's J. B. Munro. At the next election in 1975, Munro was in turn beaten by National's Norman Jones. Jones retired at the end of his fourth term in August 1987 and died shortly thereafter on 19 November.[14]
Jones was succeeded by National's Rob Munro in the 1987 election. Munro served two parliamentary terms before being beaten by Labour's Mark Peck in the 1993 election. Peck retired after four parliamentary terms in 2005 and was succeeded by National's Eric Roy in the 2005 election. Roy is the incumbent.
Members of Parliament
Key
Independent Liberal United Labour National
List MPs
Members of Parliament elected from party lists in elections where that person also unsuccessfully contested the Invercargill electorate. Unless otherwise stated, all MPs terms began and ended at general elections.
| Election | Winner | |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 election | width=5 rowspan=2 bgcolor=Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color| | Eric Roy |
| 1999 election | ||
Election results
2011 election
| General Election 2011: Invercargill[15] | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notes: |
Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
| ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| National |  Eric Roy
|
17,275 | 54.58 | -1.39 | 16,140 | 49.88 | +2.35 | ||
| Labour | Lesley Soper | 11,012 | 34.79 | -1.96 | 9,296 | 28.73 | -8.15 | ||
| Green | David Kennedy | 2,433 | 7.69 | +2.73 | 2,723 | 8.42 | +4.16 | ||
| Democrats | Stephnie de Ruyter | 521 | 1.65 | +1.65 | 129 | 0.40 | +0.22 | ||
| ACT | Ian Carline | 276 | 0.87 | -0.33 | 397 | 1.23 | -1.47 | ||
| Libertarianz | Shane Pleasance | 133 | 0.42 | +0.04 | 34 | 0.11 | +0.05 | ||
| NZ First | 2,213 | 6.84 | +3.44 | ||||||
| Conservative Party of New Zealand | 643 | 1.99 | +1.99 | ||||||
| United Future New Zealand | 264 | 0.82 | -0.09 | ||||||
| Legalise Cannabis | 257 | 0.79 | +0.28 | ||||||
| Māori Party | 162 | 0.50 | -0.08 | ||||||
| Mana | 63 | 0.19 | +0.19 | ||||||
| Alliance | 34 | 0.11 | -0.05 | ||||||
| Informal votes | 863 | 324 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 31,650 | 32,355 | |||||||
| National hold | Majority | 6,263 | 19.79 | 0.58 | |||||
Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 45,014[16]
2008 election
| General Election 2008: Invercargill[17] | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notes: |
Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
| ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| National | Eric Roy
|
19,414 | 55.97 | +6.46 | 16,663 | 47.54 | +8.05 | ||
| Labour | Lesley Soper | 12,750 | 36.76 | -6.22 | 12,927 | 36.88 | -8.30 | ||
| Green | Craig Carson | 1,718 | 4.95 | +2.07 | 1,492 | 4.26 | +1.18 | ||
| ACT | Ian Carline | 416 | 1.20 | +0.06 | 947 | 2.70 | +1.55 | ||
| United Future New Zealand | Maureen Smith | 258 | 0.74 | -0.70 | 319 | 0.91 | -2.31 | ||
| Libertarianz | Shane Pleasance | 131 | 0.38 | - | 21 | 0.06 | +0.03 | ||
| NZ First | 1,192 | 3.40 | -1.41 | ||||||
| Bill and Ben | 413 | 1.18 | - | ||||||
| Progressive | 292 | 0.83 | -0.39 | ||||||
| Māori Party | 205 | 0.58 | +0.25 | ||||||
| Legalise Cannabis | 179 | 0.51 | +0.21 | ||||||
| Family Party | 145 | 0.41 | - | ||||||
| Kiwi | 105 | 0.30 | - | ||||||
| Democrats | 61 | 0.17 | -0.02 | ||||||
| Alliance | 54 | 0.15 | +0.08 | ||||||
| Pacific | 18 | 0.05 | - | ||||||
| Workers Party | 14 | 0.04 | - | ||||||
| RONZ | 4 | 0.01 | -0.00 | ||||||
| RAM | 1 | 0.00 | - | ||||||
| Informal votes | 338 | 143 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 34,687 | 35,052 | |||||||
| National hold | Majority | 6,664 | 19.21 | +12.69 | |||||
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
Notes
- ^ Scholefield 1950, p. 159.
- ^ Scholefield 1950, p. 149.
- ^ Scholefield 1950, p. 99.
- ^ Scholefield 1950, p. 102.
- ^ Scholefield 1950, p. 120.
- ^ a b c d Scholefield 1950, p. 105.
- ^ Scholefield 1950, p. 94.
- ^ Scholefield 1950, p. 112.
- ^ "The Invercargill Seat". Colonist. Volume XLIII, Issue 9659, 12 December 1899. p. 3. Retrieved 24 November 2011.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ a b Scholefield 1950, p. 111.
- ^ a b c d Scholefield 1950, p. 146.
- ^ a b c Bassett, Michael. "Ward, Joseph George 1856–1930". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 26 November 2011.
- ^ Scholefield 1950, p. 103.
- ^ "Obituary---N. P. H. Jones". VDIG group. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
- ^ Invercargill results, 2011
- ^ "Enrolment statistics". Electoral Commission. 26 November 2011. Retrieved 26 November 2011.
- ^ 2008 election results