Port Hills (New Zealand electorate)
- Port Hills (New Zealand electorate)
Port Hills is a new electorate of New Zealand created for the 2008 general election. It largely replaces the Banks Peninsula electorate, held by the Hon. Ruth Dyson. The new electorate is wholly urban, and has lost the rural Peninsula areas of the old electorate.
Population Centres
Port Hills was created after a review of electoral boundaries conducted in the wake of the 2006 census of population and dwellings. The bulk of Port Hills comes from the old Banks Peninsula seat, including the suburbs of Opawa and Woolston, the suburban areas around the Cashmere Hills, and the towns on the north coast of Lyttelton Harbour. The south Christchurch suburbs of Bromley and Sydenham have been added from Christchurch East and Wigram respectively. Because the new suburbs are strong Labour-voting areas, this could increase the chance of Banks Peninsula MP Ruth Dyson retaining the seat in a year where polling has consistently shown a swing to the opposition National Party.
External links
* [http://www.elections.org.nz/mapping/?electorate=port_hills Electorate Map from Elections NZ]
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