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. Its current representative is David Cunliffe, former leader of the Labour Party.

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.^[1] 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.^[2] 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.^[3] Phil Goff became the representative in New Lynn in 1996.^[4]

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.^[5] 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.^[5]

Members of Parliament

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

Key

  Labour  

List MPs

Election results

2011 election

General Election 2011: New Lynn[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	%	±%
	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^[7]

2008 election

General Election 2008: 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		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	18087	56.12	16208	49.19
National	Mita Harris	10009	31.05	10916	33.06
Green	Richard Green	1644	5.10	1850	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	-	-	-	1580	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[4][9][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 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 Greens	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

Notes

References

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