- Dunedin North (New Zealand electorate)
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Dunedin North (known as North Dunedin between 1946 and 1963) is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate, returning one Member of Parliament (MP) to the New Zealand House of Representatives. It is among one of New Zealand's oldest electorates, being contested continuously since 1905.
It is currently held by Pete Hodgson of the New Zealand Labour Party.[1] It is considered a safe Labour seat, with Labour holding the seat for all but one term (1975-78) since 1928.
Dunedin North's analogous Maori electorate is Te Tai Tonga.
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Make-up of the electorate
As the name suggests, the Dunedin North electorate covers the northern half of the city of Dunedin. It is bordered by Waitaki in the north, Dunedin South in west, south, and south-east, and the Pacific Ocean in the north-east.
The electorate covers what is the equivalent of the Waikouaiti Coast-Chalmers ward of the Dunedin City Council outside the actual urban area of Dunedin. This includes the population centre of Waikouaiti, Karitane, Waitati, Seacliff, Warrington, Port Chalmers, Sawyers Bay, Roseneath, and Aramoana.
In urban Dunedin it covers most of northern, central and western Dunedin. This includes the city centre and the suburbs of City Rise, Pine Hill, Dunedin North, North East Valley, Opoho, Ravensbourne, Mornington, Roslyn, Maori Hill, Glenleith, Kaikorai Valley, Brockville, Halfway Bush, and Wakari.
A notable influence on voting patterns in the electorate is the location of the University of Otago and Otago Polytechnic in Dunedin North. The electorate has the highest proportion of persons aged 15 to 19 in the country, with 14.1%. It also has the highest proportion of people on a student allowance (8.8%), employed in the education and training industry (11.7%), and employed in the health care and social assistance industry (12.3%).[2]
Dunedin North has a low rate of enrolment compared to New Zealand as a whole. As of 28 February 2011, 79.3% of the estimate eligible population is enrolled to vote, compared to 91.4% nationally. The figure is brought down by the low number of people aged 18 to 24 enrolled - less than half (48.5%) of the estimated eligible population is enrolled, compared to 71.3% nationally. Enrolments of those aged 25 and over are comparable to the national averages.[3]
Members of Parliament
Name Party Elected Left Office Reason Alfred Richard Barclay Liberal 1905 1908 defeated George Thomson Independent 1908 1911 joined Reform George Thomson Reform 1911 1914 defeated Andrew Walker1 United Labour 1914 1919 defeated Edward Kellett Independent 1919 1922 died James Wright Munro Labour 1922 byelection, 1922 1925 defeated Harold Livingstone Tapley Reform 1925 1928 defeated James Wright Munro Labour 1928, 1931, 1935, 1943 1945 died Robert Walls Labour 1945 byelection, 1946, 1949, 1951 1953 died Ethel McMillan Labour 1953 byelection, 1954, 1957, 1960, 1963, 1966, 1969, 1972 1975 retired Richard Walls National 1975 1978 defeated Stan Rodger Labour 1978, 1981, 1984, 1987 1990 retired Pete Hodgson Labour 1990, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2008 2011 retired 1 Walker was one of the founding members of the modern Labour Party in 1916, and affiliated thus from 1916 onwards.
List MPs from Dunedin North
Members of Parliament elected from party lists in elections where that person also unsuccessfully contested the Dunedin North electorate. Unless otherwise stated, all MPs terms began and ended at general elections.
Name Party First Elected Left Office Contested Dunedin North Katherine Rich National 1999 2008 2002, 2005 Michael Woodhouse National 2008 Current MP 2008 Metiria Turei Green 2002 Current MP 2008 Hilary Calvert ACT October 2010 2011 2008 Election results
2011 election
General Election, 26 November 2011: Dunedin North[4] 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 % ±% Alliance Victor Billot Labour David Clark Legalise Cannabis Julian Crawford United Future Peter George ACT Guy McCallum Democrats Jeremy Noble Green Metiria Turei National Michael Woodhouse Conservative – Libertarianz – Mana – Māori – NZ First – Informal votes Total Valid votes 2008 election
General Election 2008: Dunedin North[5] 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 or denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.Party Candidate Votes % ±% Party Votes % ±% Labour Pete Hodgson17,127 52.62 -2.46 14,608 44.24 -10.58 National Michael Woodhouse 9,972 30.64 -0.79 9,692 29.35 +4.21 Green Metiria Turei 3,611 11.09 +3.64 5,221 15.81 +4.99 ACT Hilary Calvert 573 1.76 +1.15 749 2.27 +1.28 Legalise Cannabis Julian Crawford 483 1.48 -0.06 143 0.43 +0.14 Alliance Victor Billot 448 1.38 +0.54 106 0.32 +0.12 United Future Mary Edwards 228 0.70 -1.32 312 0.94 -1.82 Democrats Olive McRae 105 0.32 - 36 0.11 - NZ First - 1,132 3.43 +0.58 Progressive - 310 0.94 -1.38 Bill and Ben - 252 0.76 - Māori - 230 0.70 - Kiwi - 125 0.38 - Family Party - 57 0.17 - Workers Party - 18 0.05 - Pacific - 14 0.04 - Libertarianz - 9 0.03 -0.01 RAM - 4 0.01 - RONZ - 2 0.01 -0.01 Informal votes 234 89 Total Valid votes 32,547 33,020 Labour hold Majority 7155 21.98 -1.67 2005 election
General Election 2005: Dunedin North 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 or denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.Party Candidate Votes % ±% Party Votes % ±% Labour Pete Hodgson17,769 55.08 -4.42 17,915 54.82 +5.11 National Katherine Rich 10,139 31.02 +7.94 8,217 25.14 +8.95 Green Philippa Jamieson 2,405 7.46 +0.59 3,536 10.82 -1.54 United Future Mark Peters 652 2.02 -0.34 901 2.76 -2.78 Legalise Cannabis Jason Baker-Sherman 498 1.54 -0.51 95 0.29 -0.42 Progressive James Boyack 330 1.02 -0.02 431 1.32 -0.65 Alliance Victor Billot 270 0.84 -1.14 65 0.20 -2.89 ACT Willie Martin 196 0.61 -1.15 322 0.99 -3.20 NZ First 931 2.85 -1.61 Māori 96 0.29 - Destiny 78 0.24 - Christian Heritage 35 0.11 -0.72 Democrats 21 0.06 - Libertarianz 14 0.04 - 99 MP 10 0.03 - Direct Democracy 4 0.01 - One NZ - 4 0.01 - RONZ 4 0.01 - Family Rights - 3 0.01 - Informal votes 241 71 Total Valid votes 32,259 32,682 Labour hold Majority 7,630 23.65 -12.36 History
The electorate was created in 1905, when the City of Dunedin electorate with three members of parliament (and other main centre multi-member electorates) were broken up. From 1946 to 1963 it was called North Dunedin.
References
- ^ New Zealand Parliament - Pete Hodgson MP
- ^ "Dunedin North - Electorate Profile". Parliamentary Library. 24 July 2009. http://www.parliament.nz/NR/rdonlyres/3946C4A7-1EDE-4C96-A038-24DCC910A6CC/111817/DunedinNorth_profile_3.pdf. Retrieved 29 March 2011.
- ^ "Enrolment Statistics". Elections New Zealand. http://www.elections.org.nz/ages/. Retrieved 29 March 2010.
- ^ 2011 election results
- ^ 2008 election results
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