Tukituki (New Zealand electorate)
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Tukituki is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. Named after the Tukituki River which runs through the electorate, it was established for the 1996 general election and has existed since. The MP for Tukituki is Lawrence Yule of the National Party, who has held the position since the 2017 general election.
Population centres
Tukituki was created ahead of the change to mixed-member proportional (MMP) voting at the 1996 election; it is a merger of the old Hastings seat with Central Hawke's Bay District. Tukituki centres on the southern Hawke's Bay region, with the bulk of the electorate's population coming from the city of Hastings, with other towns drafted in to bring the electorate up to the required population. In 2008, a general northwards tug on boundaries in the Taranaki, Manawatu-Wanganui and Hawke's Bay regions saw Waipukurau and Waipawa moved into the Wairarapa electorate, in exchange for which Tukituki gained the suburbs and towns around Cape Kidnappers from the Napier electorate.[1] No boundary adjustments were undertaken in the subsequent 2013/14 redistribution.[2]
History
Labour's Rick Barker,[3] who had represented Hastings since 1993 was elected as MP for Tukituki, and re-elected twice before a large provincial swing to the National Party in 2005 cost Barker his seat.[4] This was the third time in over thirty years that a Hastings electorate had elected a National MP — the other two times being National's landslide victories in 1975 and 1990.
National's Craig Foss[5] first contested the Tukituki electorate in the 2002 election, but Barker comfortably held the electorate.[6] Ranked 47th on National's party list, Foss did not enter Parliament.[7]
Foss defeated the incumbent in the 2005 election.[4] He was returned to the 49th Parliament with a greatly increased majority in the 2008 election.[8] His majority increased to nearly 10,000 votes in the 2011 election.[9] In the 2014 election, his majority dropped to 6,490 votes.[10]
On 14 December 2016, Foss announced that he would quit politics at the 2017 general election.[11] The electorate was won at the election by Lawrence Yule, retaining it for the National Party.
Members of Parliament
Key
Election | Winner | |
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1996 election | rowspan=3 width=5 bgcolor=Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color| | Rick Barker |
1999 election | ||
2002 election | ||
2005 election | rowspan=4 bgcolor=Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color| | Craig Foss |
2008 election | ||
2011 election | ||
2014 election | ||
2017 election | bgcolor=Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color| | Lawrence Yule |
List MPs
Members of Parliament elected from party lists in elections where that person also unsuccessfully contested the Tukituki electorate. Unless otherwise stated, all MPs terms began and ended at general elections.
Election | Winner | |
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2005 election | rowspan=2 width=5 bgcolor=Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color| | Rick Barker |
2008 election |
Election results
2017 election
General election, 2017: Tukituki[12] | |||||||||
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Notes: |
Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
National | Lawrence Yule | 18,280 | 19,166 | 49.0 | |||||
Labour | Anna Lorck | 15,467 | 13,302 | 34.0 | |||||
NZ First | Joe Kairau | 2,027 | 3,062 | ||||||
Green | Christopher John Perley | 1,977 | 1,993 | ||||||
Conservative Party of New Zealand | Roger Larkins | 209 | 129 | ||||||
Independent | Allister David Tosh | 82 | |||||||
Democrats | Dick Ryan | 51 | 18 | ||||||
Opportunities | 758 | ||||||||
Māori Party | 135 | ||||||||
ACT | 134 | ||||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 123 | ||||||||
Ban 1080 | 40 | ||||||||
United Future | 33 | ||||||||
People's Party | 30 | ||||||||
Outdoors | 24 | ||||||||
Mana | 9 | ||||||||
Internet | 6 | ||||||||
Informal votes | 454 | 128 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 38,547 | 39,090 | |||||||
National hold | Majority | 2,813 |
2014 election
General election, 2014: Tukituki[13] | |||||||||
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Notes: |
Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
National | ![]() |
18,537 | 52.00 | -6.42 | 18,680 | 51.81 | -0.79 | ||
Labour | Anna Lorck | 12,047 | 33.80 | +4.50 | 8,205 | 22.76 | -1.38 | ||
Green | Chris Perley | 2,156 | 6.05 | -0.94 | 3,078 | 8.54 | -1.12 | ||
Conservative Party of New Zealand | Stephen Jenkinson | 1,920 | 5.39 | +2.14 | 2,357 | 6.54 | +2.74 | ||
Legalise Cannabis | Romana (Marnz) Manning | 355 | 0.96 | -0.08 | 150 | 0.42 | -0.16 | ||
ACT | Duncan Lennox | 163 | 0.46 | -0.30 | 144 | 0.40 | -1.06 | ||
Democrats | Dick Ryan | 97 | 0.27 | +0.05 | 18 | 0.05 | +0.01 | ||
NZ First | 2,357 | 7.66 | +1.81 | ||||||
Internet Mana | 244 | 0.68 | +0.34 | ||||||
Māori Party | 185 | 0.51 | -0.26 | ||||||
United Future | 59 | 0.16 | -0.49 | ||||||
Ban 1080 | 50 | 0.14 | +0.14 | ||||||
Civilian | 12 | 0.03 | +0.03 | ||||||
Focus | 5 | 0.01 | +0.01 | ||||||
Independent Coalition | 4 | 0.01 | +0.01 | ||||||
Informal votes | 368 | 135 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 35,643 | 36,057 | |||||||
National hold | Majority | 6,490 | 18.20 | -11.18 |
2011 election
General election, 2011: Tukituki[9] | |||||||||
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Notes: |
Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
National | ![]() |
19,378 | 58.42 | +1.24 | 17,935 | 52.60 | +2.36 | ||
Labour | Julia Haydon-Carr | 9,718 | 29.30 | -5.67 | 8,231 | 24.14 | -8.01 | ||
Green | Jim MacDonald | 2,319 | 6.99 | +1.89 | 3,294 | 9.66 | +3.64 | ||
Conservative Party of New Zealand | Stephen Jenkinson | 1,078 | 3.25 | +3.25 | 1,296 | 3.80 | +3.80 | ||
Legalise Cannabis | Romana (Marnz) Manning | 352 | 1.06 | +1.06 | 198 | 0.58 | +0.22 | ||
ACT | Robert Burnside | 252 | 0.76 | -0.73 | 498 | 1.46 | -2.89 | ||
Democrats | Barry Pulford | 74 | 0.22 | +0.02 | 15 | 0.04 | -0.02 | ||
NZ First | 1,995 | 5.85 | +2.68 | ||||||
Māori Party | 263 | 0.77 | -0.10 | ||||||
United Future | 220 | 0.65 | +0.10 | ||||||
Mana | 117 | 0.34 | +0.34 | ||||||
Libertarianz | 19 | 0.06 | +0.03 | ||||||
Alliance | 17 | 0.05 | -0.04 | ||||||
Informal votes | 787 | 225 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 33,171 | 34,098 | |||||||
National hold | Majority | 9,660 | 29.12 | +6.90 |
Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 44,708[14]
2008 election
General election, 2008: Tukituki[8] | |||||||||
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Notes: |
Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
National | ![]() |
20,103 | 57.18 | 17,904 | 50.24 | ||||
Labour | Rick Barker | 12,292 | 34.96 | 11,457 | 32.15 | ||||
Green | Quentin Duthie | 1,792 | 5.10 | 2,146 | 6.02 | ||||
ACT | Duncan Lennox | 523 | 1.49 | 1,552 | 4.35 | ||||
Progressive | Dawn Patchett | 270 | 0.77 | 309 | 0.87 | ||||
Alliance | Thomas O'Neill | 104 | 0.30 | 32 | 0.09 | ||||
Democrats | Barry Pulford | 73 | 0.21 | 22 | 0.06 | ||||
NZ First | 1,129 | 3.17 | |||||||
Māori Party | 310 | 0.87 | |||||||
United Future | 196 | 0.55 | - | ||||||
Bill and Ben | 187 | 0.52 | |||||||
Kiwi | 135 | 0.38 | |||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 127 | 0.36 | |||||||
Family Party | 63 | 0.18 | |||||||
Pacific | 37 | 0.10 | |||||||
Workers Party | 14 | 0.04 | |||||||
Libertarianz | 10 | 0.03 | |||||||
RAM | 5 | 0.01 | |||||||
RONZ | 4 | 0.01 | |||||||
Informal votes | 284 | 134 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 35,157 | 35,639 | |||||||
National hold | Majority | 7,811 | 22.22 |
2005 election
General election, 2005: Tukituki[4] | |||||||||
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Notes: |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
National | Craig Foss | 17,239 | 49.31 | +17.83 | 16,487 | 46.50 | |||
Labour | ![]() |
14,837 | 42.44 | -9.47 | 13,353 | 37.66 | |||
Green | Liz Earth | 1,171 | 3.35 | 1,373 | 3.87 | ||||
United Future | Jocelyn Smith | 670 | 1.92 | 856 | 2.41 | ||||
Māori Party | Ngahiwi Taumoana | 541 | 1.55 | 256 | 0.72 | ||||
ACT | John Ormond | 456 | 1.30 | 407 | 1.15 | ||||
Direct Democracy | Scott Burch | 49 | 0.14 | 10 | 0.03 | ||||
NZ First | 1,852 | 5.22 | |||||||
Progressive | 458 | 1.29 | |||||||
Destiny | 183 | 0.52 | |||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 87 | 0.25 | |||||||
Christian Heritage | 50 | 0.14 | |||||||
Alliance | 22 | 0.06 | |||||||
99 MP | 14 | 0.04 | |||||||
Democrats | 13 | 0.04 | |||||||
One NZ | 10 | 0.03 | |||||||
Libertarianz | 8 | 0.02 | |||||||
Family Rights | 6 | 0.02 | |||||||
RONZ | 3 | 0.01 | |||||||
Informal votes | 329 | 135 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 34,963 | 35,454 | |||||||
National gain from Labour | Majority | 2,402 | 6.87 | +27.30 |
1999 election
Refer to Candidates in the New Zealand general election 1999 by electorate#Tukituki for a list of candidates.
References
- ^ Report of the Representation Commission 2007 (PDF). Representation Commission. 14 September 2007. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-477-10414-2. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ^ Report of the Representation Commission 2014 (PDF). Representation Commission. 4 April 2014. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-477-10414-2. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ^ New Zealand Parliament - Rick Barker MP
- ^ a b c "Official Count Results -- Tukituki". Chief Electoral Office. 1 October 2005. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
- ^ "Hon Craig Foss". New Zealand Parliament. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
- ^ "Official Count Results -- Tukituki". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
- ^ "Party Lists of Successful Registered Parties". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
- ^ a b "Official Count Results -- Tukituki". Chief Electoral Office. 22 November 2008. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
- ^ a b "Official Count Results -- Tukituki". Electoral Commission. 10 December 2011. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
- ^ "Official Count Results -- Tukituki". Electoral Commission. 10 October 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
- ^ "National MP Craig Foss quits politics". NZ Herald – nzherald.co.nz. 14 December 2016. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
- ^ "Official Count Results -- Tukituki". Wellington: New Zealand Electoral Commission. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
- ^ "Official Count Results -- Tukituki". Electoral Commission. 10 October 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
- ^ "Enrolment statistics". Electoral Commission. 26 November 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
External links
- Electorate Profile Parliamentary Library