Mount Roskill (New Zealand electorate)

Mount Roskill shown as part of Auckland

Mount Roskill is a Parliamentary electorate in Auckland, New Zealand, returning one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Representatives. Phil Goff^[1] of the Labour Party has held the seat since the 1999 election.

Mount Roskill is located on the western edge of Auckland City, bordering the Manukau Harbour. It is anchored around the suburbs of Mount Roskill, Three Kings, Hillsborough and a large section of Balmoral. The 2008 election boundaries added in Lynfield and New Windsor at the expense of Onehunga, which returned to the Maungakiekie electorate after being cut out in 1999. The Mount Roskill electorate is working-class and multi-ethnic, with a high Pacific Island and Asian population, and has the highest number of overseas-born residents – nearly 40 per cent in 2001 – of any New Zealand electorate.

History

As population growth after the 1996 census in north and west Auckland dragged boundaries westward, so New Lynn was massively altered and was left sitting right at the edge of the boundary between Auckland and Waitakere cities and renamed Titirangi. The eastern side of New Lynn was amalgamated with the population excess of Epsom, the southern half of the defunct Owairaka seat and the western end of Maungakiekie, thus leading to Mount Roskill's creation, it being the first new seat drawn since the introduction of Mixed Member Proportional voting three years previous.

The only MP for Mount Roskill has been Phil Goff of the Labour Party. He was the MP for New Lynn and also represented Roskill, a smaller seat covering much of the same area, in previous parliaments. In the 2005 election, Goff's majority was slashed by 4,000 to a still unassailable 9,985, while Labour dominated the party vote, coming half a percent shy of exactly half of all party votes cast. In the same election Kenneth Wang was one of only two ACT Party electorate candidates to score more than five percent of votes cast.

Members of Parliament

Name	Party	Elected	Left office	Reason
Phil Goff	Labour	1999, 2002, 2005, 2008	Incumbent

List MPs from Mount Roskill

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

Name	Party	First elected	Left office	Contested Mount Roskill
Bernie Ogilvy	United Future	2002	2005	2002
Jackie Blue	National	2005	Current MP	2005, 2008

Election results

2008 election

General Election 2008: Mount Roskill[2]
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		18,615	55.80	-	14,533	42.64
	National	Jackie Blue		12,197	36.56	-	14,346	42.09
	Green	Lisa Er		1,086	3.26	-	1,459	4.28
	ACT	Shawn Tan		718	2.15	-	1,165	3.42
	Kiwi	Joseph Rebello		310	0.93	-	198	0.58
	United Future	Neville Wilson		211	0.63	-	296	0.87
	Progressive	Suki Amirapu		155	0.46	-	281	0.82
	RAM	Daphne Lawless		67	0.20	-	16	0.05
	NZ First	-					955	2.80	-
	Pacific	-					302	0.89	-
	Māori	-					163	0.48	-
	Family Party	-					119	0.35	-
	Bill and Ben	-					104	0.31	-
	Legalise Cannabis	-					90	0.26	-
	Alliance	-					23	0.07	-
	Workers Party	-					12	0.04	-
	Libertarianz	-					8	0.02	-
	RONZ	-					8	0.02	-
	Democrats	-					7	0.02	-
Informal votes				362			188
Total Valid votes				33,359			34,085
	Labour hold		Majority	6,418

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 Phil Goff	19476	59.94	16501	49.70
National	Jackie Blue	9581	29.49	11543	34.77
ACT	Kenneth Wang	1882	5.79	825	2.48
United	Richard Barter	860	2.65	826	2.49
Destiny	Brian Ane	338	1.04	191	0.58
Progressive	Suki Amirapu	257	0.79	391	1.18
Direct Democracy	Barry Scott	98	0.30	18	0.05
Green	-	-	-	1383	4.17
NZ First	-	-	-	1173	3.53
Māori Party	-	-	-	121	0.36
Family Rights PP	-	-	-	64	0.19
Christian Heritage	-	-	-	60	0.18
ALCP	-	-	-	36	0.11
Alliance	-	-	-	22	0.07
Libertarianz	-	-	-	18	0.05
99 MP	-	-	-	9	0.03
Democrats	-	-	-	7	0.02
Republic of NZ	-	-	-	7	0.02
One NZ	-	-	-	5	0.02
total valid votes		32,492		33,200
Labour hold	Majority	9,895

Sourced from electionresults.govt.nz

References

1. ^ New Zealand Parliament - Phil Goff MP
2. ^ 2008 election results

External links

• Electorate Profile Parliamentary Library