- Māngere (New Zealand electorate)
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Māngere is a New Zealand Parliamentary electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. The current MP for Māngere is Su'a William Sio[1], elected for the Labour Party. He has held this seat since 2008.
Māngere (styled as Mangere before 1997) is based around the South Auckland suburbs of Mangere, Mangere Bridge, Favona and Mangere East. It has existed as a seat since 1969; its boundaries were extended ahead of the introduction of Mixed Member Proportional voting in 1996, swallowing up a section of the former Papatoetoe seat.
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History
Māngere, and all of South Auckland forms the safest part of the Labour Party's core vote. Even during landslide elections in the National Party's favour, such as in 1975 and 1990, no Labour candidate for a South Auckland seat was seriously troubled.
Māngere was first represented by Colin Moyle of the Labour Party in 1969. Moyle represented the seat until his resignation in 1977 over what became known as the 'Moyle Affair', and a subsequent by-election was won by a young barrister named David Lange, who would become Prime Minister after Labour's 1984 election victory. Lange retired in 1996 and the nomination was handed to Taito Phillip Field, at the time the MP for Otara. Field was returned with a high share of the vote in subsequent elections, but following his expulsion from the Labour caucus, his former party nominated former Manukau City deputy mayor Su'a William Sio in his place, who won the seat with a majority of over 7,000 votes in the 2008 election.[1]
Members of Parliament for Māngere
Unless otherwise stated, all MPs terms began and started at general elections.
Name Party Elected Left Office Reason Colin Moyle Labour 1969, 1972, 1975 1977 resigned David Lange Labour 1977 by-election, 1978, 1981, 1984, 1987, 1990, 1993 1996 retired Taito Phillip Field Labour1 1996, 1999, 2002, 2005 2008 defeated Su'a William Sio Labour 2008 Current MP List MPs from Māngere
Members of Parliament elected from party lists in elections where that person also unsuccessfully contested the Māngere electorate. Unless otherwise stated, all MPs terms began and ended at general elections.
Name Party First Elected Left Office Contested Māngere Clem Simich2 National Tamaki by-election 1992 2008 2005 1Field was expelled from the Labour caucus on February 14, 2007. 2Simich was MP for Tāmaki until the 2005 election
Election results
2008 election
General Election 2008: Māngere[2] Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list.
Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member.
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denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.Party Candidate Votes % ±% Party Votes % ±% Labour Su'a William Sio 12,651 52.40 - 15,446 61.60 Pacific Taito Lemalu Phillip Field5,525 22.89 - 2,683 10.70 National Mita Harris 3,368 13.95 - 4,120 16.43 Family Party Galumalemana Jerry Filipaina 999 4.14 - 297 1.18 Green Muamua Sofi Strickson-Pua 541 2.24 - 511 2.04 United Future Pulotu Selio Solomon 443 1.84 - 218 0.87 ACT Michael Tabachnik 247 1.02 - 280 1.12 RAM Roger Fowler 154 0.64 - 16 0.06 Progressive Tala Po'e 150 0.62 - 165 0.66 Independent Lemalu Talia Matatumua 63 0.26 - - - NZ First - 830 3.31 - Māori - 241 0.96 - Legalise Cannabis - 96 0.38 - Bill and Ben - 75 0.30 - Kiwi - 65 0.26 - Workers Party - 16 0.06 - Alliance - 6 0.02 - Libertarianz - 6 0.02 - Democrats - 2 0.01 - RONZ - 1 0.00 - Informal votes 411 279 Total Valid votes 24,141 25,074 Labour hold Majority 7,126
Note: lines coloured beige denote the winner of the electorate vote. Lines colored pink denote a candidate elected to Parliament from their party list.2005 election
Party Candidate Votes % Party Votes % Labour Taito Phillip Field19633 70.64 20900 72.89 National Clem Simich 3613 13.00 3894 13.58 Destiny Edward Saafi 892 3.21 445 1.55 NZ First Toa Greening 831 2.99 1189 4.15 Green Mua Strickson-Pua 767 2.76 503 1.75 United Neville Wilson 573 2.06 467 1.63 Māori Party Solomon Matthews 522 1.88 330 1.15 Progressive Tala Po'e 341 1.23 429 1.50 Family Rights PP Susie Po'a Williams 305 1.10 184 0.64 Alliance Len Richards 204 0.73 48 0.17 Direct Democracy Paul Teio 56 0.20 7 0.02 IND Mark Muller 56 0.20 - - ACT - - - 141 0.49 ALCP - - - 59 0.21 Christian Heritage - - - 42 0.15 One NZ - - - 8 0.03 Democrats - - - 5 0.02 Libertarianz - - - 5 0.02 99 MP - - - 2 0.01 Republic of NZ - - - 2 0.01 informal votes 453 293 total valid votes 27,793 28,674 Labour hold Majority 16,020 sourced from electionresults.govt.nz
References
External links
- Electorate Profile Parliamentary Library
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