Clevedon (New Zealand electorate)

Clevedon was a New Zealand Parliamentary electorate from 2002 to 2008.

It was held by Judith Collins MP^[1] throughout its existence.

Population Centres

Clevedon takes in the urban population centres of Flat Bush, Botany Downs and Dannemora to the west, Beachlands and Maraetai to the north and the sparsely populated Hunua Ranges to the east.

History

The Clevedon seat was first created in 2002, replacing the seat of Hunua.

Under finalised boundary changes for the 2008 general election, the Clevedon seat ceased to exist, with its population centres being distributed among the new seat of Botany, a redrawn and renamed seat of Papakura and the resurrected seat of Hunua. National Party MP Judith Collins, who held Clevedon since its inception, won Papakura in 2008.

Clevedon was always a safe National Party seat.

Election results

Name	Party	Elected	Left Office	Reason
Judith Collins	National	2002, 2005	2008	Electorate abolished; contested Papakura instead

2005 election

General Election 2005: Clevedon[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. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party Votes	%	±%
	National	Y Judith Collins		21,828	59.23	+21.54	19,527	51.82	+27.39
	Labour	Dave Hereora		8,957	24.31	-3.25	11,866	31.61	-2.19
	NZ First	Brent Catchpole		2,010	5.45	-6.40	2,523	6.72	-6.99
	Green	Steve Bayliss		1,424	3.86	-0.77	924	2.46	-1.41
	United Future	John L. Walker		882	2.39		808	2.51	-4.67
	ACT	Iain Ogilvie		500	1.36	-4.85	903	2.41	-8.85
	Progressive	Brenda Hill		450	1.22	+0.12	381	0.37	-0.64
	Destiny	Mason Chet Lee		390	1.06		218	0.58
	Māori	David Sinclair King		311	0.84		199	0.53
	Family Rights	Lale Ene-Ulugia		56	0.15		17	0.05
	Direct Democracy	Leanne Martinovich		42	0.11		16	0.04
	Legalise Cannabis						68	0.18	-0.20
	Christian Heritage						48	0.13	-1.21
	Libertarianz						16	0.04
	Alliance						11	0.03	-0.66
	Democrats						7	0.02
	99 MP						5	0.01
	One NZ						4	0.01	-0.03
	RONZ						3	0.01
Informal votes				401			140
Total Valid votes				36,850			37,544
	National hold		Majority	12,871	34.93

2002 election

General Election 2002: Clevedon[3]
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. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party Votes	%	±%
	National	Judith Collins		11,627	37.69		7,764	24.43
	Labour	Dave Hereora		8,500	27.56		10,739	33.80
	NZ First	Brent Catchpole		3,655	11.85		4,355	13.71
	Independent	Glenn Archibald		2,263	7.34
	ACT	John Thompson		1,914	6.21		3,578	11.26
	Green	Sue Cowie		1,427	4.63		1,229	3.87
	Christian Heritage	David Arvidson		891	2.89		426	1.34
	Progressive	Arthur Toms		340	1.10		320	1.01
	Alliance	Nick Corlett		229	0.74		218	0.69
	United Future						2,281	7.18
	ORNZ						350	1.10
	Legalise Cannabis						122	0.38
	One NZ						14	0.04
	Mana Māori						13	0.04
	NMP						6	0.02
Informal votes				359			70
Total Valid votes				30,846			31,775
	National win new seat		Majority	3,127	10.14

References

1. ^ New Zealand Parliament - Judith Collins MP
2. ^ Official Count Results – Clevedon
3. ^ Official Count Results – Clevedon

External links

• Electorate Profile Parliamentary Library