Rongotai | |||||||
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Single-member general constituency for the New Zealand House of Representatives | |||||||
Formation | 1996 | ||||||
Region | Wellington Chatham Islands | ||||||
Character | Urban | ||||||
Term | 3 years | ||||||
Member for Rongotai | |||||||
Julie Anne Genter since 14 October 2023 | |||||||
Party | Green | ||||||
List MPs | Nicole McKee (ACT) | ||||||
Previous MP | Paul Eagle (Labour) | ||||||
Party vote distribution
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Rongotai is a New Zealand electorate, returning a single member to the New Zealand House of Representatives. The current MP for Rongotai is Julie Anne Genter of the Green Party. She has held this position since the 2023 general election.
Population centres
The Rongotai electorate is centred on the southern and eastern suburbs of Wellington City. It stretches from Miramar in the east to take in the suburbs of Rongotai, Kilbirnie, Lyall Bay and Hataitai and runs from the south coast at Island Bay up through the southern section of the Brooklyn Hill to an east–west border next to Wellington Hospital in Newtown. Because Wellington Airport is within Rongotai's boundaries, the constituency also contains the Chatham Islands. It is named after the suburb of Rongotai which is roughly in its centre. Other suburbs include Berhampore, Ōwhiro Bay, Seatoun, and Roseneath.
A revision after 1996 pulled the boundary southwards, moving the suburbs around the Basin Reserve and the Massey University campus into the Wellington Central electorate.[citation needed] In the 2002 redistribution, the area covered by the Rongotai electorate did not change.[1] Changes to boundaries were done in the 2007 redistribution,[2][3] but no further changes were done in the 2013/14[4] or 2019/20 redistributions.[5]
History
Rongotai was one of the original 65 mixed-member proportional (MMP) representation electorates drawn in 1994 ahead of the 1996 election. It is the successor to the old Island Bay and Miramar electorates, though the areas in these seats in the orbit of the central city were incorporated into a redrawn Wellington Central electorate.
Labour's Annette King was elected and re-elected as the member of parliament for Rongotai at all seven elections from 1996 to 2014.[6] In five out of the seven elections, Labour also won the party vote; the exception being in 1996 when National out-polled Labour by just 68 votes,[7] and in 2014, when National's majority was 852 votes.[8] Chris Finlayson of the National Party opposed King, his distant cousin, since the 2008 election. After the 2014 election, he told his supporters that on current trends, he should be able to win the electorate by 2038.[9]
King announced in March 2017 that she was stepping down from her role as Labour's deputy leader and would retire from politics at the 2017 general election.[10] The electorate of Rongotai was won in the election by Paul Eagle, retaining it for Labour.[11]
During the 2020 general election, Eagle retained Rongotai for Labour based on preliminary results.[12] Eagle announced in June 2022 that he would contest the 2022 Wellington City mayoral election and should he be successful, he would resign from Parliament and trigger a by-election.[13]
Members of Parliament
Unless otherwise stated, all MPs terms began and ended at general elections.
Key
Labour | ACT | United Future |
Green | National |
Election | Winner | |
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1996 election | Annette King | |
1999 election | ||
2002 election | ||
2005 election | ||
2008 election | ||
2011 election | ||
2014 election | ||
2017 election | Paul Eagle | |
2020 election | ||
2023 election | Julie Anne Genter |
List MPs
Members of Parliament elected from party lists in elections where that person also unsuccessfully contested the Rongotai electorate. Unless otherwise stated, all MPs terms began and ended at general elections.
Election | Winner | |
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1999 election | Stephen Franks | |
2002 election | Gordon Copeland | |
2005 election | ||
2008 election | Chris Finlayson | |
Russel Norman | ||
2011 election | Chris Finlayson | |
Russel Norman | ||
2014 election | Chris Finlayson | |
Russel Norman[a] | ||
2017 election | Chris Finlayson[b] | |
2020 election | Nicole McKee | |
2023 election |
Election results
2023 election
2023 general election results: Rongotai[14] | |||||||||
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Notes: |
Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
Green | Julie Anne Genter | 16,586 | 39.03 | +24.23 | 13,664 | 32.06 | +8.48 | ||
Labour | Fleur Fitzsimons | 13,869 | 32.64 | –24.65 | 13,361 | 31.35 | –20.96 | ||
National | Kāruna Muthu | 8,794 | 20.70 | +6.5 | 9,088 | 21.33 | +8.16 | ||
ACT | Nicole McKee | 1,179 | 2.77 | +0.64 | 1,680 | 4.55 | +0.62 | ||
NZ First | Geoff Mills | 860 | 2.02 | +0.98 | 1,411 | 2.21 | +0.28 | ||
New Conservative | Bruce Welsh | 275 | 0.64 | –0.31 | 35 | 0.08 | –0.43 | ||
Animal Justice | Atom Emet | 216 | 0.5 | 85 | 0.20 | ||||
Independent | Don Newt McDonald | 130 | 0.31 | +0.07 | |||||
Vision New Zealand | Merania Roa | 96 | 0.23 | ||||||
Opportunities | 1,792 | 5.32 | +2.53 | ||||||
Māori Party | 1,006 | 2.27 | +1.83 | ||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 153 | 0.36 | +0.21 | ||||||
NZ Loyal | 126 | 0.15 | |||||||
NewZeal | 67 | 0.02 | |||||||
Freedoms NZ | 61 | 0.01 | +0.06 | ||||||
Women's Rights | 46 | 0.01 | |||||||
DemocracyNZ | 21 | 0.01 | |||||||
New Nation | 13 | 0.003 | |||||||
Leighton Baker Party | 6 | 0.001 | |||||||
Informal votes | 488 | 206 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 42,493 | 42,821 | |||||||
Turnout | |||||||||
Green gain from Labour | Majority | 2,717 | 6.39 | +17.84 |
2020 election
2020 general election: Rongotai[15] | |||||||||
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Notes: |
Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
Labour | Paul Eagle | 25,926 | 57.11 | +5.39 | 23,878 | 52.31 | +8.05 | ||
Green | Teall Crossen | 6,719 | 14.80 | -0.15 | 10,765 | 23.58 | +5.82 | ||
National | David Patterson | 6,447 | 14.20 | −10.86 | 6,013 | 13.17 | −14.84 | ||
Opportunities | Geoff Simmons | 3,387 | 7.46 | +3.37 | 1,272 | 2.79 | -1.83 | ||
ACT | Nicole McKee | 965 | 2.13 | +1.86 | 1,795 | 3.93 | +3.59 | ||
NZ First | Taylor Arneil | 472 | 1.04 | -1.04 | 883 | 1.93 | -1.71 | ||
New Conservative | Bruce Welsh | 431 | 0.95 | +0.40 | 232 | 0.51 | -0.37 | ||
Integrity | Troy Mihaka | 162 | 0.36 | — | |||||
Independent | Don Newt McDonald | 110 | 0.24 | — | |||||
Māori Party | 201 | 0.44 | -0.06 | ||||||
Advance NZ | 184 | 0.40 | — | ||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 70 | 0.15 | -0.01 | ||||||
ONE | 45 | 0.1 | — | ||||||
Sustainable NZ | 27 | 0.06 | — | ||||||
Outdoors | 21 | 0.04 | +0.01 | ||||||
Vision NZ | 21 | 0.04 | — | ||||||
Social Credit | 10 | 0.02 | +0.01 | ||||||
TEA | 7 | 0.015 | — | ||||||
Heartland | 7 | 0.015 | — | ||||||
Informal votes | 779 | 259 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 45,398 | 45,649 | |||||||
Turnout | 45,649 | ? | ? | ||||||
Labour hold | Majority | 19,207 | 42.31 | +15.65 |
2017 election
2017 general election: Rongotai[16] | |||||||||
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Notes: |
Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
Labour | Paul Eagle | 21,146 | 51.72 | +2.29 | 18,323 | 44.26 | +12.39 | ||
National | Chris Finlayson | 10,246 | 25.06 | +0.86 | 11,598 | 28.01 | −6.17 | ||
Green | Teall Crossen | 6,115 | 14.95 | −5.66 | 7,353 | 17.76 | −9.83 | ||
Opportunities | Paddy Plunket | 1,676 | 4.09 | — | 1,915 | 4.62 | — | ||
NZ First | Geoffrey John Mills | 851 | 2.08 | ±0.00 | 1,509 | 3.64 | −2.07 | ||
Conservative | Bruce Welsh | 225 | 0.55 | −0.96 | 58 | 0.14 | −1.56 | ||
ACT | Chris Sole | 114 | 0.27 | — | 142 | 0.34 | +0.01 | ||
Not A Party | Simon Smythe | 31 | 0.07 | — | |||||
Māori Party | 208 | 0.50 | −0.14 | ||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 70 | 0.16 | −0.20 | ||||||
United Future | 23 | 0.05 | −0.33 | ||||||
Ban 1080 | 14 | 0.03 | −0.02 | ||||||
Outdoors | 14 | 0.03 | — | ||||||
Mana | 12 | 0.02 | −1.52[c] | ||||||
Internet | 8 | 0.01 | −1.53[d] | ||||||
People's Party | 8 | 0.01 | — | ||||||
Democrats | 5 | 0.01 | −0.01 | ||||||
Informal votes | 480 | 140 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 40,884 | 41,400 | |||||||
Turnout | 41,746 | 85.41[17] | +2.66 | ||||||
Labour hold | Majority | 10,900 | 26.66 | +1.43 |
2014 election
2014 general election: Rongotai[18] | |||||||||
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Notes: |
Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
Labour | Annette King | 18,840 | 49.43 | −1.09 | 11,754 | 31.87 | −2.31 | ||
National | Chris Finlayson | 9,223 | 24.20 | −1.18 | 12,606 | 34.18 | +1.19 | ||
Green | Russel Norman | 7,856 | 20.61 | +0.43 | 10,176 | 27.59 | +3.40 | ||
NZ First | Brent Pierson | 793 | 2.08 | +0.72 | 2,097 | 5.71 | +1.26 | ||
Conservative | Bruce Welsh | 576 | 1.51 | +0.30 | 623 | 1.70 | +0.59 | ||
Mana | Ariana Paretutanganui-Tamati | 225 | 0.59 | +0.59 | |||||
United Future | Sultan Eusoff | 95 | 0.24 | +0.24 | 143 | 0.38 | −0.21 | ||
Independent | Don Richards | 89 | 0.23 | −0.19 | |||||
Climate | Aaron Carter | 66 | 0.17 | +0.17 | |||||
Patriotic Revolutionary Front | Johnny Overton | 48 | 0.12 | +0.12 | |||||
Internet Mana | 568 | 1.54 | +1.00[e] | ||||||
Māori Party | 237 | 0.64 | −0.04 | ||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 131 | 0.36 | −0.09 | ||||||
ACT | 120 | 0.33 | −0.32 | ||||||
Civilian | 21 | 0.06 | +0.06 | ||||||
Ban 1080 | 19 | 0.05 | +0.05 | ||||||
Democrats | 9 | 0.02 | −0.01 | ||||||
Independent Coalition | 7 | 0.02 | +0.02 | ||||||
Focus | 3 | 0.01 | +0.01 | ||||||
Informal votes | 304 | 217 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 38,115 | 38,731 | |||||||
Turnout | 38,731 | 82.75 | +2.84 | ||||||
Labour hold | Majority | 9,617 | 25.23 | +0.09 |
Electorate (as at 30 April 2016): 48,525[19]
2011 election
2011 general election: Rongotai[20] | |||||||||
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Notes: |
Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
Labour | Annette King | 18,179 | 50.52 | -1.93 | 12,606 | 34.18 | -8.51 | ||
National | Chris Finlayson | 9,132 | 25.38 | -2.95 | 12,168 | 32.99 | +1.63 | ||
Green | Russel Norman | 7,262 | 20.18 | +4.34 | 8,920 | 24.19 | +7.22 | ||
NZ First | Brent Pierson | 488 | 1.36 | +1.36 | 1,640 | 4.45 | +1.93 | ||
Conservative | Bruce Welsh | 435 | 1.21 | +1.21 | 409 | 1.11 | +1.11 | ||
ACT | Joel Latimer | 168 | 0.47 | -0.67 | 238 | 0.65 | -1.34 | ||
Māori Party | Aroha Rickus | 168 | 0.47 | +0.47 | 251 | 0.68 | -0.24 | ||
Independent | Don Richards | 152 | 0.42 | +0.42 | |||||
United Future | 217 | 0.59 | -0.27 | ||||||
Mana | 198 | 0.54 | +0.54 | ||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 167 | 0.45 | +0.04 | ||||||
Libertarianz | 31 | 0.08 | -0.01 | ||||||
Alliance | 23 | 0.06 | -0.03 | ||||||
Democrats | 11 | 0.03 | +0.02 | ||||||
Informal votes | 617 | 302 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 35,984 | 36,879 | |||||||
Labour hold | Majority | 9,047 | 25.14 | +1.02 |
Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 46,153[21]
2008 election
2008 general election: Rongotai[22] | |||||||||
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Notes: |
Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
Labour | Annette King | 19,614 | 52.45 | 16,263 | 42.69 | ||||
National | Chris Finlayson | 10,594 | 28.33 | 11,950 | 31.37 | ||||
Green | Russel Norman | 5,925 | 15.84 | 6,464 | 16.97 | ||||
Kiwi | Gordon Copeland | 515 | 1.38 | 169 | 0.44 | ||||
ACT | Michael Bridge | 425 | 1.14 | 758 | 1.99 | ||||
United Future | Karuna Muthu | 223 | 0.60 | 326 | 0.86 | ||||
Libertarianz | Mitch Lees | 100 | 0.27 | 34 | 0.09 | ||||
NZ First | 960 | 2.52 | |||||||
Māori Party | 351 | 0.92 | |||||||
Progressive | 291 | 0.76 | |||||||
Bill and Ben | 188 | 0.49 | |||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 158 | 0.41 | |||||||
Family Party | 53 | 0.14 | |||||||
Pacific | 48 | 0.13 | |||||||
Alliance | 37 | 0.10 | |||||||
Workers Party | 33 | 0.09 | |||||||
RONZ | 6 | 0.02 | |||||||
Democrats | 4 | 0.01 | |||||||
RAM | 4 | 0.01 | |||||||
Informal votes | 356 | 167 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 37,396 | 38,097 | |||||||
Labour hold | Majority | 9,020 | 21.12 |
2005 election
2005 general election: Rongotai[23] | |||||||||
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Notes: |
Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
Labour | Annette King | 21,376 | 59.38 | +3.23 | 18,327 | 49.96 | |||
National | Nicola Young | 8,738 | 24.27 | +3.78 | 10,210 | 27.84 | |||
Green | Luci Highfield | 2,921 | 8.11 | 4,630 | 12.71 | ||||
United Future | Gordon Copeland | 1,581 | 2.68 | 1,069 | 2.91 | ||||
Māori Party | Morris Te Whiti Love | 499 | 1.39 | 232 | 0.63 | ||||
ACT | Gavin Middleton | 425 | 1.18 | 379 | 1.03 | ||||
Progressive | Vladimir Bell | 333 | 0.93 | 394 | 1.07 | ||||
Alliance | Jocelyn Brooks | 127 | 0.35 | 31 | 0.08 | ||||
NZ First | 1,109 | 3.02 | |||||||
Destiny | 107 | 0.29 | |||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 83 | 0.23 | |||||||
Christian Heritage | 39 | 0.11 | |||||||
Libertarianz | 20 | 0.05 | |||||||
99 MP | 18 | 0.05 | |||||||
Family Rights | 11 | 0.03 | |||||||
Democrats | 10 | 0.03 | |||||||
One NZ | 7 | 0.02 | |||||||
RONZ | 3 | 0.01 | |||||||
Direct Democracy | 1 | 0.00 | |||||||
Informal votes | 431 | 164 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 36,000 | 36,680 | |||||||
Labour hold | Majority | 12,638 | 35.11 | -0.55 |
1999 election
Refer to Candidates in the New Zealand general election 1999 by electorate#Rongotai for a list of candidates.
Table footnotes
- ^ Norman resigned as a list MP effective 30 October 2015.
- ^ Finlayson resigned as a list MP effective 30 January 2019.
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
- ^ Report of the Representation Commission 2002 (PDF). Representation Commission. 21 March 2002. p. 9. ISBN 0-478-20169-9. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ^ Report of the Representation Commission 2007 (PDF). Representation Commission. 14 September 2007. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-477-10414-2. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ^ Farrar, David. "Proposed 2008 Boundaries". Kiwiblog. Retrieved 3 October 2014.
Note that what is discussed in this entry was what the Representation Commission put out for public consultation; this does not represent the final decision.
- ^ Report of the Representation Commission 2014 (PDF). Representation Commission. 4 April 2014. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-477-10414-2. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ^ "Report of the Representation Commission 2020" (PDF). 17 April 2020. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
- ^ "Hon Annette King". New Zealand Parliament. 22 September 2014. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
- ^ "Part V – Electorate Summary of Votes for Registered Parties" (PDF). Electoral Commission. Retrieved 9 October 2014.
- ^ "Official Count Results – Rongotai". Electoral Commission. 4 October 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
- ^ Finlayson, Chris (27 September 2014). "Diary Australia". The Spectator.
- ^ "Claire Trevett on Annette King's resignation: 'Labour has lost one of its giants'". The New Zealand Herald. 1 March 2017. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
- ^ "Rongotai - Preliminary Count". Electoral Commission. 23 September 2017. Archived from the original on 17 January 2020. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
- ^ "Rongotai - Preliminary Count". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
- ^ Campbell, Georgina (27 June 2022). "Rongotai MP Paul Eagle announces Wellington mayoral bid". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
- ^ "Rongotai -". New Zealand Electoral Commission. Retrieved 3 November 2023.
- ^ "Rongotai - Official Results". New Zealand Electoral Commission. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
- ^ "Official Count Results – Rongotai". Wellington: New Zealand Electoral Commission. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
- ^ "Party Votes and Turnout by Electorate". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
- ^ "Official Count Results – Rongotai (2014)". Electoral Commission. 10 October 2014. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
- ^ "Enrolment statistics by Electorate". Electoral Commission. 30 April 2016. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
- ^ 2011 election results
- ^ "Enrolment statistics". Electoral Commission. 26 November 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
- ^ "Official Count Results – Rongotai". Chief Electoral Office. 22 November 2008. Retrieved 9 October 2014.
- ^ election result Rongotai 2005
External links
- Electorate Profile Parliamentary Library
- Election results for Rongotai at the 2005 election Elections New Zealand
- Election results for Rongotai at the 2002 election Elections New Zealand