Mount Albert (New Zealand electorate)

Mount Albert electorate boundaries used since the 2014 election

Mount Albert is a parliamentary electorate in Auckland, New Zealand, returning one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Representatives of New Zealand. It has been represented by David Shearer since a by-election on 13 June 2009. It was represented by Helen Clark from the 1981 general election until her resignation from Parliament on 17 April 2009. It has elected only Labour Party MPs since it was first contested at the 1946 election.

Population centres

The 1941 census had been postponed due to World War II, so the 1946 electoral redistribution had to take ten years of population growth and movements into account. The North Island gained a further two electorates from the South Island due to faster population growth. The abolition of the country quota through the Electoral Amendment Act, 1945 reduced the number and increased the size of rural electorates. None of the existing electorates remained unchanged, 27 electorates were abolished, eight former electorates were re-established, and 19 electorates were created for the first time, including Mount Albert.[1]

Mount Albert covers a segment of western Auckland City, based around the suburb of Mount Albert and stretching from Kingsland on the eastern periphery of the central city down to Sandringham and extending as far as Avondale on the seat's western edge. Changes brought about by an electoral redistribution after the 2006 census saw a swap of suburbs with neighbouring Auckland Central – Newton on the city fringe being returned to Auckland Central, having been moved out in 1999, and Point Chevalier being drafted in.

The present incarnation of Mount Albert dates to 1999, when the creation of the Mount Roskill seat necessitated removing the suburbs clustered around the north side of Manukau Harbour from the Owairaka electorate. The name Mount Albert had been out of use for only three years – before Owairaka was drawn up ahead of the change to Mixed Member Proportional voting in 1996, the Mount Albert electorate had been part of the New Zealand electoral landscape for fifty years.

History

Mount Albert was first created for the 1946 election.[2] The electorate is notable for being contested by two later Prime Ministers, Robert Muldoon and Helen Clark.

The first representative, Arthur Shapton Richards, died after only one year in the office.[3]

Richards was succeeded by Warren Freer in the 1947 by-election, and Freer held the electorate until he retired in 1981.[4] Freer was challenged in the 1954 election by National's Muldoon, Prime Minister from 1975 to 1984, and this was Muldoon's first attempt of entering Parliament.[5] He tried to claim the seat from Labour, but no National Party candidate has managed to do what Muldoon could not – Mount Albert's inner-suburb, working-class composition makes it one of the Labour Party's safest seats. Muldoon had earlier, in 1951, failed to win the National nomination for the Mount Albert electorate.[5]

Freer was succeeded by Helen Clark,[6] who held the electorate until 1993, when it was abolished and she moved to the Owairaka electorate instead. When the Mount Albert electorate was re-established for the 1999 election, Clark became the representative again. Clark was Prime Minister from 1999 to 2008. In 2009, she resigned to become head of the United Nations Development Program,[7]

Clark was succeeded by David Shearer through the 13 June 2009 by-election. He is the current representative of Mount Albert.

Members of Parliament

Key

  Labour  

Election Winner
1946 election Arthur Shapton Richards
1947 by-election Warren Freer
1949 election
1951 election
1954 election
1957 election
1960 election
1963 election
1966 election
1969 election
1972 election
1975 election
1978 election
1981 election Helen Clark
1984 election
1987 election
1990 election
1993 election
(Electorate abolished 1993–1999)
1999 election Helen Clark (2nd period)
2002 election
2005 election
2008 election
2009 by-election David Shearer
2011 election
2014 election

List MPs

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

Key

  National     Green  

Election Winner
2011 election David Clendon
Melissa Lee
2014 election Melissa Lee

Election results

2014 election

General election 2014: Mount Albert[8]

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

Party Candidate Votes % ±% Party Votes % ±%
Labour Green tickY David Shearer 20,970 58.17 −1.02 10,823 29.31 −7.78
National Melissa Lee 10,314 28.61 +1.11 14,359 38.89 +2.22
Green Jeanette Elley 3,152 8.74 −0.75 8,005 21.68 +4.53
Conservative Jeffrey Johnson 525 1.46 −1.03 719 1.95 +0.34
ACT Tommy Fergusson 321 0.89 −0.45 356 0.96 +0.03
Mana Joe Carolan 290 0.80 +0.80
Human Rights Anthony van den Heuvel 76 0.21 +0.21
Independent Michael Wackrow 68 0.19 +0.19
NZ First   1,512 4.10 −0.43
Internet Mana   603 1.63 +1.05[lower-alpha 1]
Māori   178 0.48 −0.04
Legalise Cannabis   93 0.25 −0.16
United Future   57 0.15 −0.20
Ban 1080   12 0.03 +0.03
Civilian   11 0.03 +0.03
Democrats   7 0.02 ±0.00
Focus   6 0.02 +0.02
Independent Coalition   5 0.01 +0.01
Informal votes 336 176
Total Valid votes 36,052 36,922
Turnout 36,922 79.41 +6.42
Labour hold Majority 10,656 29.56 −2.13

2011 election

General Election 2011: Mount Albert[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 Green tickY or Red XN denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.

Party Candidate Votes % ±% Party Votes % ±%
Labour Green tickY David Shearer 18,716 59.19 -0.10 12,238 37.09 -5.51
National Melissa Lee 8,695 27.50 -1.35 12,102 36.67 +1.01
Green David Clendon 3,000 9.49 +3.55 5,660 17.15 +6.15
Conservative Frank Poching 786 2.49 +2.49 532 1.61 +1.61
ACT Stephen Boyle 425 1.34 -2.75 306 0.93 -2.58
NZ First   1,494 4.53 +1.85
Mana   191 0.58 -+0.58
Māori   172 0.52 -0.26
Legalise Cannabis   135 0.41 +0.12
United Future   114 0.35 -0.32
Libertarianz   29 0.09 +0.04
Alliance   21 0.06 +0.01
Democrats   5 0.02 -0.005
Informal votes 969 272
Total Valid votes 31,622 32,999
Labour hold Majority 10,021 31.69 +1.24

Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 45,208[10]

2009 by-election

Mount Albert by-election, 2009

Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the by-election.
Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list prior to the by-election.
Yellow background denotes the winner of the by-election, who was a list MP prior to the by-election.
A Green tickY or Red XN denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.

Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour David Shearer 13,260 63.49 +4.20
National Melissa Leea 3,542 16.96 -11.88
Green Russel Normana 2,567 12.29 +6.35
ACT John Boscawena 968 4.63 +0.54
Bill and Ben Ben Boyce 158 0.76
Legalise Cannabis Dakta Green 92 0.44
Kiwi Simonne Dyer 91 0.44
United Future Judy Turner 89 0.43
Libertarianz Julian Pistorius 39 0.19
Independent Jim Bagnell 24 0.11
Independent Ari Baker 15 0.07
Human Rights Anthony Van den Heuvel 13 0.06
People Before Profit Malcom France 13 0.06
Independent Jackson James Wood 9 0.04
People's Choice Rusty Kane 5 0.02
Informal votes 58
Total Valid votes 20,885
Labour hold Majority 9,718 46.40 +4.02

a Three candidates were list MPs elected at the 2008 election.

2008 election

General Election 2008: Mount Albert[11]

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

Party Candidate Votes % ±% Party Votes % ±%
Labour Green tickY Helen Clark 20,157 59.29 -7.26 14,894 42.60 -11.73
National Ravi Musuku 9,806 28.84 +9.21 12,468 35.66 +9.31
Green Jon Carapiet 2,019 5.94 +1.22 3,846 11.00 +1.73
ACT Kathleen McCabe 1,392 4.09 +1.72 1,227 3.51 +1.49
Kiwi Christian Dawson 249 0.73 157 0.45
Pacific Milo Siilata 234 0.69 273 0.78
Human Rights Anthony van den Heuvel 87 0.26
RONZ Dave Llewell 53 0.16 +0.16 16 0.05 +0.03
NZ First   936 2.68 -0.70
Māori   273 0.78 -0.26
Progressive   244 0.70
United Future   232 0.66
Bill and Ben   132 0.38
Legalise Cannabis   101 0.29
Family Party   92 0.26
Alliance   19 0.05
RAM   19 0.05
Libertarianz   16 0.05
Workers Party   11 0.03
Democrats   7 0.02
Informal votes 410 256
Total Valid votes 33,997 34,963
Labour hold Majority 10,351

2005 election

General Election 2005: Mount Albert[12]

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

Party Candidate Votes % ±% Party Votes % ±%
Labour Green tickY Helen Clark 20,918 66.55 -3.03 17,501 54.33
National Ravi Musuku 6,169 19.63 8,488 26.35
Green Jon Carapiet 1,485 4.72 2,985 9.27
NZ First Julian Batchelor 746 2.37 1,089 3.38
ACT David Seymour 746 2.37 651 2.02
United Future Tony Gordon 529 1.68 649 2.01
Progressive Jenny Wilson 407 1.29 525 1.59
Destiny Anne Williamson 337 1.07 157 0.49
Independent James Bagnall 83 0.26
Anti-Capitalist Daphna Whitmore 79 0.25 -0.16
Independent Anthony Ravlich 47 0.15
Direct Democracy Howard Ponga 30 0.10 10 0.03
Independent Erik Taylor 29 0.09
Māori   168 0.52
Legalise Cannabis   43 0.13
Christian Heritage   40 0.12
Alliance   22 0.07
Family Rights   20 0.06
Libertarianz   19 0.06
RONZ   8 0.02
99 MP   6 0.02
Democrats   3 0.01
One NZ   0 0.00
Informal votes 316 130
Total Valid votes 31,747 32,342
Labour hold Majority 14,749

1947 by-election

Mount Albert by-election, 1947[13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Warren Freer 7,235 56.01
National J. C. Garland 5,682 43.99
Majority 1,553 12.02
Informal votes 26
Registered electors 14,861
Turnout 12,943 87.09
Labour hold Swing

Table footnotes

  1. ↑ 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

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