- Northcote (New Zealand electorate)
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Map showing extent of electorate for the 2008 and 2011 elections
Northcote is a New Zealand Parliamentary electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. The current MP for Northcote is Jonathan Coleman[1] of the National Party. He has held this position since 2005.
Northcote is based around the suburbs of North Shore City at the northern end of the Auckland Harbour Bridge. Besides the eponymous Northcote, there is Birkenhead, Birkdale and the southern end of Glenfield. It was created ahead of the change to Mixed Member Proportional voting in 1996 by merging the seat of Birkenhead with most of the old Glenfield electorate; its boundaries have remained largely unchanged since.
Northcote continues the electoral habits of its predecessor seats; Birkenhead was a reasonably safe seat for the National Party, supplying it with Jim McLay, who led the party in the mid 1980s, and remains the only National Party leader to never take his party to an election. In 1987, the seat that would provide National with a leader provided Labour with a gain, before swinging back into the blue column when Labour's fortunes thinned out at the 1990 election. Glenfield also followed this boom and bust model, being held by Labour Party MP Judy Keall through the duration of the fourth Labour government before the National Party landslide in 1990 claimed Keall as one of its victims.
The first MP for Northcote was Ian Revell from the National Party, who would rise to become the Deputy Speaker. Revell was caught up in a scandal for misuse of official letterhead and was defeated by Labour's Ann Hartley in New Zealand general election, 1999. Hartley herself was ousted by the seat's present representative, Jonathan Coleman when National consolidated the centre-right vote in 2005.
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Members of Parliament for Northcote
Name Party Elected Left Office Reason Ian Revell National 1996 1999 defeated Ann Hartley Labour 1999, 2002 2005 defeated Jonathan Coleman National 2005, 2008 incumbent List MPs from Northcote
Members of Parliament elected from party lists in elections where that person also unsuccessfully contested the Northcote electorate. Unless otherwise stated, all MPs terms began and ended at general elections.
Name Party First Elected Left Office Contested Northcote Grant Gillon Alliance 1996 2002 1996, 1999 Ann Hartley Labour 1999 March 2008 1999, 2002, 2005 Election results
2008 election
General Election 2008: Northcote[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 % ±% National Jonathan Coleman20,132 57.87 - 17,827 50.41 Labour Hamish McCracken 10,772 30.97 - 10,517 29.74 Green Jeanette Elley 2,046 5.88 - 2,368 6.70 ACT Nick Kearney 664 1.91 - 1,877 5.31 Family Party Angela Xu 549 1.58 - 148 0.42 Progressive Brenda Hill 199 0.57 - 299 0.85 Kiwi Barry McDonald 144 0.41 - 182 0.51 United Future Steven Dromgool 143 0.41 - 348 0.98 Libertarianz Peter Linton 77 0.22 - 37 0.10 RAM Benjamin Doherty 60 0.17 - 9 0.03 NZ First - 1,118 3.16 - Māori - 227 0.64 - Bill and Ben - 159 0.45 - Legalise Cannabis - 138 0.39 - Pacific - 72 0.20 - Democrats - 13 0.04 - Workers Party - 9 0.03 - Alliance - 8 0.02 - RONZ - 6 0.02 - Informal votes 246 107 Total Valid votes 34,786 35,362 National hold Majority 9,360 2005 election
General Election 2005: Northcote [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 or denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.Party Candidate Votes % ±% Party Votes % ±% National Jonathan Coleman 16,854 49.36 14,927 43.01 Labour Ann Hartley14,471 42.38 13573 39.11 NZ First Paul Manning 833 2.44 1736 5.00 Progressive Grant Gillon 611 1.79 426 1.23 ACT Diane Dawson 435 1.27 921 2.65 United Future Beth Stone 389 1.14 826 2.38 Destiny Nigel Heslop 268 0.78 195 0.56 Māori Francis Wāka 227 0.66 145 0.42 Libertarianz Peter Linton 55 0.16 25 0.07 Green - 1763 5.08 Legalise Cannabis - 73 0.21 Christian Heritage - 39 0.11 Alliance - 11 0.03 99 MP - 10 0.03 Democrats - 8 0.02 Family Rights - 8 0.02 Direct Democracy - 5 0.01 One NZ - 4 0.01 RONZ - 3 0.01 Informal votes 389 826 Total Valid votes 34,143 34707 National gain from Labour Majority 2383 6.98 References
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