Manurewa (New Zealand electorate)

Manurewa is a New Zealand Parliamentary electorate.

It is currently held by George Hawkins MP^[1].

Population Centres

The electorate includes the following population centres:

Manurewa stretches north from the southern Auckland suburb of Manukau Central, and south to Wattle Downs. Main suburbs include Clendon Park and Manurewa. Electoral changes took place in 2002 with former Manurewa population areas going to Clevedon and Manukau East.

History

Manurewa is generally regarded as a safe Labour seat.

Boundary changes for the 2008 general election has made Manurewa even safer for Labour, although some party loyalists were reportedly upset that this had the effect of making the neighbouring seat of Papakura less marginal and more inclined towards National, especially as Manurewa had always been safe for Labour.

Members of Parliament for Manurewa

Unless otherwise stated, all MPs terms began and ended at general elections.

Name	Party	Elected	Left Office	Reason
Phil Amos	Labour	1963, 1966, 1969, 1972	1975	defeated
Merv Wellington	National	1975	1978	stood in Papakura electorate
Roger Douglas	Labour	1978, 1981, 1984, 1987	1990	retired
George Hawkins	Labour	1990, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2008	incumbent

List MPs from Manurewa

Members of Parliament elected from party lists in elections where that person also unsuccessfully contested the Manurewa electorate.

Name	Party	First Elected	Left Office	Contested Manurewa
Cam Calder1	National	2009		2008

¹Calder became an MP on the resignation of Richard Worth in June 2009.^[2]

Election results

2008 election

General Election 2008: Manurewa[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	%	±%
	Labour	Y George Hawkins		13,511	53.96	-	13,673	52.22
	National	Cam Calder		6,785	27.10	-	7,941	30.33
	Pacific	Vui K Sapa'u Vitale		1,138	4.55	-	909	3.47
	Green	Alan Johnson		963	3.85	-	588	2.25
	ACT	Michael James Bailey		879	3.51	-	633	2.42
	NZ First	John Hall		707	2.82	-	1,187	4.53
	Family Party	Richard Lewis		514	2.05	-	193	0.74
	Progressive	Sukhdev Singh Bains		263	1.05	-	276	1.05
	United Future	Jim Stowers		185	0.74	-	170	0.65
	Kiwi	Amjad Khan		92	0.37	-	66	0.25
	Māori	-					331	1.26	-
	Legalise Cannabis	-					92	0.35	-
	Bill and Ben	-					90	0.34	-
	Libertarianz	-					7	0.03	-
	RAM	-					7	0.03	-
	Workers Party	-					7	0.03	-
	RONZ	-					5	0.02	-
	Alliance	-					4	0.02	-
	Democrats	-					2	0.01	-
Informal votes				408			220
Total Valid votes				25,037			26,181
	Labour hold		Majority	6,726

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	Y George Hawkins	17759	59.66	18254	59.11
National	Fepulea'i Aiono	6092	20.42	7938	25.70
NZ First	Lindy Palmer	1868	6.26	1714	5.55
Māori Party	Rangi McLean	819	2.75	407	1.32
United	Noel Hinton	940	3.15	624	2.02
Destiny	Patrick Komene	692	2.32	387	1.25
Progressive	Raghbir Singh	609	2.04	397	1.29
ACT	Glen Snelgar	582	1.95	232	0.75
Family Rights PP	Amelia Fepulea'i	238	0.80	105	0.34
Alliance	Paul Protheroe	110	0.37	21	0.07
Direct Democracy	Kelvyn Alp	85	0.28	42	0.14
Green	-	-	-	603	1.95
ALCP	-	-	-	74	0.24
Christian Heritage	-	-	-	50	0.16
One NZ	-	-	-	10	0.03
Libertarianz	-	-	-	8	0.03
99 MP	-	-	-	6	0.02
Democrats	-	-	-	6	0.02
Republic of NZ	-	-	-	4	0.01
informal votes		474		188
total valid votes		29,834		30,882
Labour hold	Majority	11,707

sourced from electionresults.govt.nz

References

1. ^ New Zealand Parliament - George Hawkins MP
2. ^ "John Key statement on Richard Worth". The New Zealand Herald. 12 June 2009. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10578093. 
3. ^ 2008 election results

External links

• Electorate Profile Parliamentary Library