New Lynn (New Zealand electorate)

New Lynn electorate boundaries used since the 2014 election

New Lynn is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate, returning one member to the New Zealand House of Representatives. The current representative is David Cunliffe, former leader of the Labour Party. In November 2016, Labour leader Andrew Little announced that Cunliffe would not seek re-election at the 2017 general election.^[1]

Population centres

New Lynn is based in west Auckland, straddling the borders of the former Auckland City and Waitakere City. It contains the suburbs of Blockhouse Bay, New Lynn and Titirangi, and its borders extend to cover all the beach-side towns on the north coast of Manukau Harbour.

History

New Lynn was first formed for the 1963 election.^[2] It has always been held by members of the Labour Party. The electorate's first representative was Rex Mason, who had been an MP since 1926 and who retired at the end of the term.^[3] Mason was succeeded by Jonathan Hunt, who held the electorate for the next 30 years until he contested the Tamaki electorate in the 1996 election instead.^[4] Phil Goff became the representative in New Lynn in 1996.^[5]

The electorate was abolished in 1999 and Goff successfully stood in Mount Roskill. Titirangi replaced New Lynn in 1999 when population changes in Auckland lead to the creation of Mount Roskill, and Titirangi was won by David Cunliffe.^[6] Three years later, population growth in north Auckland led to the creation of Helensville. The flow-on effect of this was to pull Titirangi eastwards, resulting in the reclamation of its former name for the 2002 election. Since then, Cunliffe has represented the New Lynn electorate.^[6]

Members of Parliament

Unless otherwise stated, all MPs' terms began and ended at general elections.

Key

Labour

Election	Winner
1963 election		Rex Mason
1966 election		Jonathan Hunt
1969 election
1972 election
1975 election
1978 election
1981 election
1984 election
1987 election
1990 election
1993 election
1996 election		Phil Goff
(Electorate abolished 1999–2002; see Titirangi)
2002 election		David Cunliffe
2005 election
2008 election
2011 election
2014 election

List MPs

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

Election	Winner
2008 election		Tim Groser
2011 election
2014 election

Election results

2014 election

General election, 2014: New Lynn^[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	%	±%
	Labour	Y David Cunliffe		16,534	50.08	−2.04	12,085	35.90	−1.10
	National	Tim Groser		11,977	36.28	+0.06	13,136	39.02	−0.20
	Green	Daniel Rogers		2,579	7.81	+0.56	3,365	10.00	−2.15
	Conservative	Steve Taylor		1,269	3.84	+1.32	1,233	3.66	+1.07
	Democrats	Andrew Leitch		128	0.39	+0.39	33	0.10	+0.07
	NZ First						2,403	7.14	+0.96
	ACT						542	1.61	+0.62
	Internet Mana						367	1.09	+0.64^{[lower-alpha 1]}
	Māori						119	0.35	−0.09
	Legalise Cannabis						101	0.30	−0.14
	United Future						56	0.17	−0.21
	Civilian						17	0.05	+0.05
	Ban 1080						16	0.05	+0.05
	Independent Coalition						8	0.02	+0.02
	Focus						3	0.01	+0.01
Informal votes				530			177
Total Valid votes				33,017			33,661
Turnout				33,661	74.92	+1.91
	Labour hold		Majority	4,557	13.80	−2.12

2011 election

General election, 2011: New Lynn^[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 Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Y David Cunliffe		16,999	52.14	+1.80	12,462	37.00	-3.27
	National	Tim Groser		11,809	36.22	-2.43	13,211	39.22	-0.88
	Green	Saffron Toms		2,364	7.25	+0.86	4,094	12.15	+4.52
	Conservative	Ivan Bailey		820	2.52	+2.52	871	2.59	+2.59
	Legalise Cannabis	Sean Davidson		343	1.05	+1.05	149	0.44	+0.10
	ACT	Barbara Steinijans		265	0.81	-2.12	334	0.99	-2.72
	NZ First						2,081	6.18	+2.62
	Mana						151	0.45	+0.45
	Māori						148	0.44	-0.26
	United Future						129	0.38	-0.46
	Libertarianz						29	0.09	+0.05
	Alliance						16	0.05	-0.02
	Democrats						10	0.03	+0.01
Informal votes				844			295
Total Valid votes				32,600			33,685
	Labour hold		Majority	5,190	15.92	+4.23

Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 46,139^[9]

2008 election

General election, 2008: New Lynn^[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	%	±%
	Labour	Y David Cunliffe		17,331	50.35		14,165	40.27
	National	Tim Groser		13,306	38.66		14,105	40.09
	Green	Kath Dewar		2,200	6.39		2,684	7.63
	ACT	Michael Tasker		1,011	2.94		1,306	3.71
	United Future	Kerryanne Dalgleish		330	0.96		296	0.84
	Progressive	Mohammad Kazemi Yazdi		244	0.71		318	0.90
	NZ First						1,253	3.56
	Māori						246	0.70
	Pacific						226	0.64
	Bill and Ben						154	0.44
	Kiwi						146	0.42
	Legalise Cannabis						121	0.34
	Family Party						91	0.26
	Alliance						23	0.07
	Libertarianz						14	0.04
	Workers Party						13	0.04
	RAM						8	0.02
	Democrats						7	0.02
	RONZ						3	0.01
Informal votes				451			203
Total Valid votes				34,422			35,179
	Labour hold		Majority	4,025	11.69

Note: lines coloured beige denote the winner of the electorate vote. Lines coloured pink denote a candidate elected to Parliament from their party list.

2005 election

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Party Votes	%
Labour	Y David Cunliffe	18,087	56.12	16,208	49.19
National	Mita Harris	10,009	31.05	10,916	33.06
Green	Richard Green	1,644	5.10	1,850	5.60
United	Anne Drake	943	2.93	818	2.48
ACT	Barbara Steinijans	701	2.07	747	2.26
Destiny	Karen Penney	468	1.45	158	0.58
Progressive	Seyed Mohammed Kazemi Yazdi	282	0.87	407	1.23
Direct Democracy	Gary Burch	98	0.30	98	0.12
NZ First	-	-	-	1,580	4.79
Māori Party	-	-	-	128	0.39
Christian Heritage	-	-	-	56	0.17
ALCP	-	-	-	41	0.15
Alliance	-	-	-	21	0.06
Libertarianz	-	-	-	11	0.03
99 MP	-	-	-	7	0.02
One NZ	-	-	-	7	0.02
Family Rights PP	-	-	-	7	0.02
Democrats	-	-	-	5	0.02
Republic of NZ	-	-	-	4	0.01
informal votes		549		183
total valid votes		33,232		33,019
Labour hold	Majority	8,078

sourced from electionresults.govt.nz

1996 election

General election, 1996: New Lynn^[5]^[11]^[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 Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Y Phil Goff		15,392	50.29		10,953	35.55
	National	Richard Gardner		8,254	26.97		9,266	30.07
	Alliance	Cliff Robinson		3,554	11.61		2,916	9.46
	NZ First	Dawn Mullins		2,616	8.55		3,300	10.71
	Progressive Green	Mark Darin		301	0.98		101	0.33
	McGillicuddy Serious	Richard Foster		203	0.66		73	0.24
	United NZ	John Hubscher		128	0.42		172	0.56
	Advance New Zealand	James Prescott		91	0.30		38	0.12
	Natural Law	Les McGrath		68	0.12		36	0.12
	Christian Coalition						1,674	5.43
	ACT						1,506	4.89
	Legalise Cannabis						423	1.37
	Ethnic Minority Party						232	0.75
	Animals First						52	0.17
	Superannuitants & Youth						26	0.08
	Green Society						18	0.06
	Libertarianz						8	0.03
	Mana Māori						7	0.02
	Asia Pacific United						6	0.02
	Conservatives						5	0.02
	Te Tawharau						0	0.00
Informal votes				317			112
Total Valid votes				30,607			30,812
	Labour hold		Majority	7,138	23.32

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.

Notes

↑ "Former Labour leader David Cunliffe to stand down at 2017 election". Stuff.co.nz. 1 November 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
↑ Wilson 1985, p. 268.
↑ Wilson 1985, p. 218.
↑ "Electorate Candidate and Party Votes Recorded at Each Polling Place - Tamaki, 1996" (PDF). Retrieved 25 July 2013.
1 2 "Electorate Candidate and Party Votes Recorded at Each Polling Place - New Lynn, 1996" (PDF). Retrieved 20 July 2013.
1 2 "Hon David Cunliffe". New Zealand Parliament. Retrieved 25 July 2013.
↑ "Official Count Results -- New Lynn (2014)". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
↑ 2011 election results
↑ "Enrolment statistics". Electoral Commission. 26 November 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
↑ 2008 election results
↑ "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.

References

Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.

External links

Electorate Profile Parliamentary Library

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