New Lynn (New Zealand electorate)

Map showing extent of electorate for the 2008 and 2011 elections

New Lynn is a New Zealand Parliamentary electorate, returning one member to the New Zealand House of Representatives. Its current representative is David Cunliffe^[1], a member of the Labour Party. He has represented the seat since 2002. Cunliffe was the MP for Titirangi from 1999 to 2002. Titirangi replaced New Lynn in 1999 when population changes in Auckland lead to the creation of Mount Roskill. Three years later, population growth in north Auckland led to the creation of Helensville. The flow-on effect of this was to pull Titirangi eastwards, resulting in the reclamation of its former name.

New Lynn is based in west Auckland, straddling the borders of Auckland and Waitakere cities. It contains the suburbs of Blockhouse Bay, New Lynn and Titirangi, and its borders extend to cover all the beach-side towns on the north coast of Manukau Harbour.

Members of Parliament for New Lynn

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

Name	Party	Elected	Left Office	Reason
Rex Mason	Labour	1963	1966	retired
Jonathan Hunt	Labour	1966, 1969, 1972, 1975, 1978, 1981, 1984, 1987, 1990, 1993,	1996	contested Tamaki instead
Phil Goff	Labour	1996	1999	seat abolished
David Cunliffe	Labour	2002, 2005, 2008	incumbent

Election results

2008 election

General Election 2008: New Lynn[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	%	±%
	Labour	Y David Cunliffe		17,331	50.35	-	14,165	40.27
	National	Tim Groser		13,306	38.66	-	14,105	40.09
	Green	Kath Dewar		2,200	6.39	-	2,684	7.63
	ACT	Michael Tasker		1,011	2.94	-	1,306	3.71
	United Future	Kerryanne Dalgleish		330	0.96	-	296	0.84
	Progressive	Mohammad Kazemi Yazdi		244	0.71	-	318	0.90
	NZ First	-					1,253	3.56	-
	Māori	-					246	0.70	-
	Pacific	-					226	0.64	-
	Bill and Ben	-					154	0.44	-
	Kiwi	-					146	0.42	-
	Legalise Cannabis	-					121	0.34	-
	Family Party	-					91	0.26	-
	Alliance	-					23	0.07	-
	Libertarianz	-					14	0.04	-
	Workers Party	-					13	0.04	-
	RAM	-					8	0.02	-
	Democrats	-					7	0.02	-
	RONZ	-					3	0.01	-
Informal votes				451			203
Total Valid votes				34,422			35,179
	Labour hold		Majority	4,025

Note: lines coloured beige denote the winner of the electorate vote. Lines coloured pink denote a candidate elected to Parliament from their party list.

2005 election

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Party Votes	%
Labour	Y David Cunliffe	18087	56.12	16208	49.19
National	Mita Harris	10009	31.05	10916	33.06
Green	Richard Green	1644	5.10	1850	5.60
United	Anne Drake	943	2.93	818	2.48
ACT	Barbara Steinijans	701	2.07	747	2.26
Destiny	Karen Penney	468	1.45	158	0.58
Progressive	Seyed Mohammed Kazemi Yazdi	282	0.87	407	1.23
Direct Democracy	Gary Burch	98	0.30	98	0.12
NZ First	-	-	-	1580	4.79
Māori Party	-	-	-	128	0.39
Christian Heritage	-	-	-	56	0.17
ALCP	-	-	-	41	0.15
Alliance	-	-	-	21	0.06
Libertarianz	-	-	-	11	0.03
99 MP	-	-	-	7	0.02
One NZ	-	-	-	7	0.02
Family Rights PP	-	-	-	7	0.02
Democrats	-	-	-	5	0.02
Republic of NZ	-	-	-	4	0.01
informal votes		549		183
total valid votes		33,232		33,019
Labour hold	Majority	8,078

sourced from electionresults.govt.nz

References

1. ^ New Zealand Parliament - David Cunliffe MP
2. ^ 2008 election results

External links

• Electorate Profile Parliamentary Library