Papakura
Single-member constituency
for the New Zealand House of Representatives
Outline map
Location of Papakurawithin Auckland
RegionAuckland
Current constituency
Created2008 (recreated)
Current MPJudith Collins
PartyNational

Papakura is an electorate for the New Zealand House of Representatives, based in the south Auckland town of Papakura. Historically, the name refers to an electorate that existed between 1978 and 1996, which with the advent of Mixed Member Proportional voting and resulting reduction in the number of constituencies was folded into a new Hunua seat. In 2002 Hunua was modified, pulled northwards and renamed Clevedon.

In a modern sense, the name refers to a constituency which was fought for the first time at the 2008 election. This new Papakura seat is the successor to the old Clevedon seat. It also contains a set of towns to the west of Papakura, namely Drury, Karaka and Kingseat. Until 2014 it also included Waiau Pa and Clarks Beach. The current MP is Judith Collins, of the National Party.

Population centres

Papakura electorate boundaries used from the 2014 election until 2020

The 1977 electoral redistribution was the most overtly political since the Representation Commission had been established through an amendment to the Representation Act in 1886, initiated by Muldoon's National Government.[1] As part of the 1976 census, a large number of people failed to fill out an electoral re-registration card, and census staff had not been given the authority to insist on the card being completed. This had little practical effect for people on the general roll, but it transferred Māori to the general roll if the card was not handed in. Together with a northward shift of New Zealand's population, this resulted in five new electorates having to be created in the upper part of the North Island.[2] The electoral redistribution was very disruptive, and 22 electorates were abolished, while 27 electorates were newly created (including Papakura) or re-established. These changes came into effect for the 1978 election.[3]

History

In the 1978 election, the Papakura electorate was won by National's Merv Wellington, who had been MP for the Manurewa electorate since 1975.[4] When he retired at the 1990 election, he was succeeded by John Robertson.

Members of Parliament

Key

  National   United NZ

Elections Winner
1978 election Merv Wellington
1981 election
1984 election
1987 election
1990 election John Robertson1
1993 election
(Electorate abolished 1996–2008)
2008 election Judith Collins
2011 election
2014 election
2017 election
2020 election
2023 election

1Robertson defected to the United party in 1995.

List MPs

Members of Parliament elected from party lists in elections where that person also unsuccessfully contested the Papakura electorate. Unless otherwise stated, all MPs' terms began and ended at general elections.

Key   Labour

Election Winner
2020 election Anahila Kanongata'a-Suisuiki

Election results

2023 election

2023 general election: Papakura[5]
Notes:

Blue 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, or other incumbent.
A Green tickY or Red XN denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.

Party Candidate Votes % ±% Party votes % ±%
National Green tickY Judith Collins 24,109 57.79 +5.34 22,042 51.67 +14.76
Labour Anahila Kanongata'a-Suisuiki 10,590 25.38 -9.53 8,893 20.84 -21.67
ACT Mike McCormick 3,121 7.48 — 4,264 10 +1.24
NZ First Robert Monds 1,728 4.14 +1.96 2,238 5.25 +2.49
New Zealand Loyal Donna Kouka 636 1.52 — 418 0.98 —
Vision New Zealand Kathy Harvey 444 1.06 —
Independent Karin Kerr 427 1.02 —
Animal Justice Party   61 0.14 —
Legalise Cannabis   162 0.38 +0.01
DemocracyNZ   62 0.15 —
Freedoms NZ   210 0.49 —
Green   2,710 6.35 +2.33
Leighton Baker Party   11 0.03 —
New Conservatives   55 0.13 -1.44
New Nation   19 0.04 —
NewZeal   260 0.61 —
Te Pāti Māori   451 1.06 +0.74
Opportunities   542 1.27 —
Women's Rights   33 0.08 —
Informal votes 666 225
Total Valid votes 41,721 42,656
National hold Majority 13,519 32.40 +18.32

2020 election

2020 general election: Papakura[6]
Notes:

Blue 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, or other incumbent.
A Green tickY or Red XN denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.

Party Candidate Votes % ±% Party votes % ±%
National Green tickY Judith Collins 19,420 52.45 −2.28 14,854 36.91 −14.09
Labour Anahila Kanongata'a-Suisuiki 13,837 34.91 +0.40 17,106 42.51 +9.16
Green Sue Cowie 1,953 4.93 — 1,618 4.02 +1.21
ACT Bruce Whitehead 1,464 3.69 — 3,525 8.76 +8.20
NZ First Robert Monds 828 2.09 −5.41 1,112 2.76 −6.00
Conservative David Arvidson 792 2.00 — 631 1.57 +1.26
Advance NZ Vikki-Lee Pomare 328 0.83 — 277 0.69 —
Outdoors Teena Smith 234 0.59 — 36 0.09 +0.03
Opportunities   328 0.82 −0.37
Legalise Cannabis   149 0.37 +0.07
Māori Party   127 0.32 −0.31
Vision New Zealand   108 0.27 —
ONE   56 0.14 —
TEA   38 0.09 —
Heartland   25 0.06 —
Sustainable NZ   24 0.06 —
Social Credit   12 0.03 —
Informal votes 785 214
Total Valid votes 39,641 40,240
National hold Majority 5,583 14.08 −6.14

2017 election

2017 general election: Papakura[7]
Notes:

Blue 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, or other incumbent.
A Green tickY or Red XN denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.

Party Candidate Votes % ±% Party votes % ±%
National Green tickY Judith Collins 20,266 54.73 +8.66 19,464 51.00 −0.01
Labour Jesse Pabla 12,780 34.51 +3.57 12,730 33.35 +7.55
NZ First Toa Greening 2,778 7.50 −2.47 3,338 8.74 −2.01
Māori Party Raewyn Teresa Bhana 607 1.63 +0.92 242 0.63 +0.14
Green   1,074 2.81 −2.66
Opportunities   455 1.19 —
ACT   215 0.56 −0.07
Conservative   119 0.31 −3.81
Legalise Cannabis   116 0.30 −0.06
People's Party   111 0.29 —
Ban 1080   24 0.06 −0.01
Outdoors   24 0.06 —
United Future   19 0.04 −0.13
Mana   17 0.04 −0.75[lower-alpha 1]
Democrats   8 0.02 −0.01
Internet   8 0.02 −0.77[lower-alpha 2]
Informal votes 597 198
Total Valid votes 37,028 38,162
National hold Majority 7,486 20.22 +5.09

2014 election

2014 general election: Papakura[8]
Notes:

Blue 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, or other incumbent.
A Green tickY or Red XN denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.

Party Candidate Votes % ±% Party votes % ±%
National Green tickY Judith Collins 15,588 46.07 −13.52 17,733 51.01 −1.61
Labour Jerome Mika 10,469 30.94 +3.92 8,967 25.80 −1.41
NZ First Brent Catchpole 3,374 9.97 +4.31 3,737 10.75 +2.26
Green Caroline Conroy 1,790 5.29 +0.29 1,801 5.47 −0.29
Conservative Kevin Stitt 1,292 3.82 +1.78 1,431 4.12 +1.06
ACT John Thompson 412 1.22 +0.52 331 0.63 −0.42
Māori Party Ann Kendall 239 0.71 +0.71 172 0.49 −0.14
Mana Roger Fowler 174 0.51 +0.51
Internet Mana   275 0.79 +0.29[lower-alpha 3]
Legalise Cannabis   124 0.36 −0.12
United Future   60 0.17 −0.19
Ban 1080   23 0.07 +0.07
Civilian   20 0.06 +0.06
Democrats   9 0.03 ±0.00
Focus   5 0.01 +0.01
Independent Coalition   4 0.01 +0.01
Informal votes 499 186
Total Valid votes 33,837 34,765
Turnout 34,765 73.57 +1.97
National hold Majority 5,119 15.13 −17.44

Electorate (as at 4 October 2014): 45,992[9]

2011 election

2011 general election: Papakura[10]
Notes:

Blue 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, or other incumbent.
A Green tickY or Red XN denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.

Party Candidate Votes % ±% Party votes % ±%
National Green tickY Judith Collins 18,096 59.59 −0.10 16,640 52.62 +1.14
Labour Jerome Mika 8,206 27.02 −0.07 8,603 27.21 −2.11
NZ First Brent Catchpole 1,718 5.66 +0.89 2,680 8.48 +3.40
Green Caroline Conroy 1,519 5.00 +0.93 1,731 5.47 +2.51
Conservative Bob Daw 619 2.04 +2.04 967 3.06 +3.06
ACT John Thompson 212 0.70 −2.65 331 1.05 −5.03
Māori Party   183 0.58 −0.35
Mana   159 0.50 +0.50
Legalise Cannabis   152 0.48 +0.10
United Future   133 0.42 −0.41
Libertarianz   22 0.07 +0.04
Democrats   11 0.03 +0.02
Alliance   9 0.03 -0.03
Informal votes 814 250
Total Valid votes 30,370 31,621
National hold Majority 9,890 32.57 −0.03

Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 44,164[11]

2008 election

2008 general election: Papakura[12]
Notes:

Blue 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, or other incumbent.
A Green tickY or Red XN denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.

Party Candidate Votes % ±% Party votes % ±%
National Green tickY Judith Collins 18,816 59.68 16,672 51.48
Labour David Hereora 8,539 27.09 9,493 29.31
NZ First Brent Catchpole 1,504 4.77 1,643 5.07
Green Rachel Grimwood 1,283 4.07 961 2.97
ACT John Thompson 1,057 3.35 1,967 6.07
United Future Bryan Penquinn Mockridge 225 0.71 269 0.83
RAM Pat O'Dea 102 0.32 14 0.04
Māori Party   300 0.93
Progressive   254 0.78
Pacific   247 0.76
Bill and Ben   177 0.55
Family Party   143 0.44
Legalise Cannabis   124 0.38
Kiwi   76 0.23
Alliance   18 0.06
Workers Party   9 0.03
Libertarianz   8 0.02
Democrats   5 0.02
RONZ   3 0.01
Informal votes 418 188
Total Valid votes 31,526 32,383
National win new seat Majority 10,277 32.60

Table footnotes

  1. ↑ 2017 Mana Party swing is relative to the votes for Internet-Mana in 2014; it shared a party list with the Internet Party in the 2014 election
  2. ↑ 2017 Internet Party swing is relative to the votes for Internet-Mana in 2014; it shared a party list with Mana Party in the 2014 election
  3. ↑ 2014 Internet Mana swing is relative to the votes for Mana in 2011; it shared a party list with Internet in the 2014 election.

Notes

  1. ↑ McRobie 1989, pp. 8–9, 51, 119.
  2. ↑ McRobie 1989, p. 119.
  3. ↑ McRobie 1989, pp. 115–120.
  4. ↑ Wilson 1985, p. 244.
  5. ↑ "Official Count Results – Papakura". Wellington: New Zealand Electoral Commission. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
  6. ↑ "Official Count Results – Papakura". Wellington: New Zealand Electoral Commission. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  7. ↑ "Official Count Results – Papakura". Wellington: New Zealand Electoral Commission. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
  8. ↑ "Official Count Results – Papakura (2014)". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
  9. ↑ "Enrolment statistics". Electoral Commission. 4 October 2014. Archived from the original on 10 November 2011. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  10. ↑ 2011 election results
  11. ↑ "Enrolment statistics". Electoral Commission. 26 November 2011. Archived from the original on 10 November 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
  12. ↑ 2008 election results

References

  • McRobie, Alan (1989). Electoral Atlas of New Zealand. Wellington: GP Books. ISBN 0-477-01384-8.
  • Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.
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