Northcote (New Zealand electorate)

Northcote electorate boundaries used since the 1999 election

Northcote is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the House of Representatives of New Zealand. The current MP for Northcote is Jonathan Coleman^[1] of the National Party. He has held this position since 2005.

Population centres

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 (MMP) voting in 1996 by merging the seat of Birkenhead with most of the old Glenfield electorate. A small boundary adjustment was done prior to the 1999 election, but no further boundary adjustments were undertaken in the subsequent redistributions in 2002,^[2] 2007,^[3] and 2013/14.^[4]

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.

History

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. In the 2008 election Coleman was re-elected in Northcote with a majority of 9,360 votes.^[5] He was again successful in the 2011 election, winning by a majority of 9,379 votes.^[6] He had a slightly increased majority in the 2014 election.^[7]

Members of Parliament

Key

National Labour Alliance

Election	Winner
1996 election		Ian Revell
1999 election		Ann Hartley
2002 election		Ann Hartley
2005 election		Jonathan Coleman
2008 election
2011 election
2014 election

List MPs

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.

Election	Winner
1996 election		Grant Gillon
1999 election		Grant Gillon
2005 election		Ann Hartley

Election results

2014 election

General election 2014: Northcote^[7]
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	%	±%
	National	Y Jonathan Coleman		19,696	57.02	−1.44	17,900	50.71	−1.55
	Labour	Richard Hills		10,032	29.04	−0.42	7,803	22.11	−2.91
	Green	Anne-Elise Smithson		3,030	8.77	+2.93	4,099	11.61	+0.07
	Conservative	Matthew James Webster		974	2.82	+1.93	1,522	4.31	+1.82
	ACT	Tim Kronfeld		383	1.11	+0.54	573	1.62	+0.15
	United Future	Damian Light		159	0.46	+0.46	121	0.34	−0.24
	Internet	Gil Ho		270	0.78	+0.78
	NZ First						2,584	7.32	+1.67
	Internet Mana						336	0.95	+0.64^{[lower-alpha 1]}
	Māori						162	0.46	−0.09
	Legalise Cannabis						122	0.35	−0.20
	Civilian						26	0.07	+0.07
	Democrats						20	0.06	+0.03
	Ban 1080						17	0.05	+0.05
	Independent Coalition						10	0.03	+0.03
	Focus						4	0.01	+0.01
Informal votes				306			117
Total Valid votes				34,850			35,416
Turnout				35,416	75.76	+3.45
	National hold		Majority	9,664	27.98	−1.02

2011 election

General election 2011: Northcote^[6]
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	%	±%
	National	Y Jonathan Coleman		18,908	58.46	+0.59	17,263	52.26	+1.85
	Labour	Paula Gillon		9,529	29.46	-1.51	8,264	25.02	-4.72
	Green	Vernon Tava		1,890	5.84	-0.04	3,614	10.94	+4.25
	NZ First	Dion Clifford Jelley		732	2.26	+2.26	1,865	5.65	+2.48
	Conservative	Matthew James Webster		593	1.83	+1.83	824	2.49	+2.49
	Legalise Cannabis	Leo Biggs		289	0.89	+0.89	181	0.55	+0.16
	ACT	Tim Kronfeld		185	0.57	-1.34	484	1.47	-3.84
	United Future	Steven Dromgool		113	0.35	-0.06	193	0.58	-0.40
	Libertarianz	Peter Linton		105	0.32	+0.10	37	0.11	+0.01
	Māori						182	0.55	-0.09
	Mana						103	0.31	+0.31
	Alliance						10	0.03	+0.01
	Democrats						10	0.03	-0.01
Informal votes				480			173
Total Valid votes				32,344			33,030
	National hold		Majority	9,379	29.00	+2.09

Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 45,675^[8]

2008 election

General election 2008: Northcote^[9]
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	%	±%
	National	Y Jonathan Coleman		20,132	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	26.91

2005 election

General election 2005: Northcote ^[10]
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	%	±%
	National	Jonathan Coleman		16,854	49.36		14,927	43.01
	Labour	N Ann Hartley		14,471	42.38		13,573	39.11
	NZ First	Paul Manning		833	2.44		1,736	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						1,763	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			34,707
	National gain from Labour		Majority	2,383	6.98

1996 election

General election 1996: Northcote^[11]^[12]^[13]
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	%	±%
	National	Ian Revell		13,779	41.01		12,997	38.49
	Labour	Ann Hartley		9,216	27.43		8,267	24.48
	Alliance	Grant Gillon		3,923	11.68		3,078	9.11
	NZ First	Janie Phillips		2,875	8.56		3,227	9.56
	United NZ	N Peter Hilt		1,955	5.82		455	1.35
	ACT	Kieran Bird		1,235	3.68		3,467	10.27
	McGillicuddy Serious	Bernard Smith		235	0.70		83	0.25
	Progressive Green	Peter Lee		213	0.63		110	0.33
	Green Society	Merete Molving		100	0.30		32	0.09
	Natural Law	Kevin O'Brien		52	0.15		49	0.15
	Republican	Pamera Warner		15	0.04
	Christian Coalition						1,318	3.90
	Legalise Cannabis						451	1.34
	Ethnic Minority Party						119	0.35
	Animals First						54	0.16
	Superannuitants & Youth						26	0.08
	Libertarianz						19	0.06
	Conservatives						7	0.02
	Mana Māori						5	0.01
	Asia Pacific United						4	0.01
	Advance New Zealand						2	0.01
	Te Tawharau						0	0.00
Informal votes				263			91
Total Valid votes				33,598			33,770
	National win new seat		Majority	4,563	13.58

Table footnotes

↑ 2014 Internet Mana swing is relative to the votes for Mana in 2011; it shared a party list with Internet in the 2014 election.

References

↑ New Zealand Parliament - Jonathan Coleman MP
↑ Report of the Representation Commission 2002 (PDF). Representation Commission. 21 March 2002. p. 8. ISBN 0-478-20169-9. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
↑ Report of the Representation Commission 2007 (PDF). Representation Commission. 14 September 2007. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-477-10414-2. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
↑ Report of the Representation Commission 2014 (PDF). Representation Commission. 4 April 2014. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-477-10414-2. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
↑ "Official Count Results -- Northcote". Chief Electoral Office. 22 November 2008. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
1 2 "Official Count Results – Northcote". electionresults.govt.nz. New Zealand Electoral Commission. 10 December 2011. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
1 2 "Official Count Results -- Northcote (2014)". Electoral Commission. 4 October 2014. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
↑ "Enrolment statistics". Electoral Commission. 26 November 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
↑ 2008 election results
↑ electionresults.govt.nz
↑ "Electorate Candidate and Party Votes Recorded at Each Polling Place - Northcote, 1996" (PDF). Retrieved 20 July 2013.
↑ "Part III - Party Lists of Successful Registered Parties" (PDF). Electoral Commission. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
↑ "Part III - Party Lists of unsuccessful Registered Parties" (PDF). Electoral Commission. Retrieved 22 June 2013.

External links

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