Mana (New Zealand electorate)

Mana is a New Zealand Parliamentary electorate north of Wellington. It is held by Kris Faafoi MP.

Population centres [edit]

The electorate includes the following population centres:

• Paraparaumu (south of the airport, and east of the railway)
• Raumati
• Paekakariki
• Pukerua Bay
• Karehana Bay
• Plimmerton
• Mana
• Camborne
• Paremata
• Whitby
• Pauatahanui
• Porirua
• Linden

History [edit]

This section requires expansion. (June 2008)

The electorate was created for the introduction of MMP in 1996 from the Porirua electorate; and from the southern part of the Kapiti electorate, i.e. Paraparaumu south of the airport and Raumati.

Members of Parliament [edit]

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

Key

  Labour     National     Green  

List MPs [edit]

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

¹ Also contested 2010 by-election

Election results [edit]

2011 election [edit]

Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 44,393^[2]

2010 by-election [edit]

2008 election [edit]

General Election 2008: Mana[3]
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 Winnie Laban		18,070	53.06	-0.16	15,209	43.91
	National	Hekia Parata		11,915	34.99	+3.14	12,701	36.67
	Green	Michael Gilchrist		2,288	6.72	+1.47	2,903	8.38
	ACT	Mike Collins		628	1.84	+0.81	819	2.36
	United Future	Robin Gunston		472	1.39	-2.45	458	1.32
	Kiwi	Renton MacLachlan		337	0.99		206	0.59
	Pacific	Tim Salele'a Manu		282	0.83		189	0.55
	Libertarianz	Richard Goode		64	0.19		17	0.05
	NZ First						1,029	2.97
	Māori						356	1.03
	Progressive						274	0.79
	Bill and Ben						213	0.61
	Legalise Cannabis						133	0.38
	Family Party						85	0.25
	Alliance						17	0.05
	Workers Party						15	0.04
	Democrats						5	0.01
	RAM						5	0.01
	RONZ						2	0.01
Informal votes				277			123
Total Valid votes				34,056			34,636
	Labour hold		Majority	6,155	18.07	-3.31

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 [edit]

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Party Votes	%
Labour	Y Winnie Laban	16763	53.22	16016	49.98
National	Chris Finlayson	10029	31.84	10108	31.54
Green	Nicola Harvey	1654	5.25	1995	6.23
United	Robin Gunston	1207	3.83	1346	4.20
Destiny	Tala Leiasamaivao	518	1.64	224	0.70
Māori Party	Sonny Hosking	403	1.28	248	0.77
ACT	Michael Collins	395	1.25	83	0.26
Progressive	Fale Leleisiuao	291	0.92	345	1.08
Alliance	Kelly Buchanan	100	0.32	49	0.15
IND	Jasmine Fremantle	79	0.25	-	-
Direct Democracy	Jason Anderson	56	0.18	7	0.02
NZ First	-	-	-	1244	3.88
ALCP	-	-	-	56	0.15
Christian Heritage	-	-	-	22	0.07
Libertarianz	-	-	-	9	0.03
99 MP	-	-	-	8	0.02
Democrats	-	-	-	7	0.02
Family Rights PP	-	-	-	5	0.02
One NZ	-	-	-	5	0.02
Republic of NZ	-	-	-	3	0.01
informal votes		335		147
total valid votes		31,495		32,046
Labour hold	Majority	6,734

sourced from electionresults.govt.nz

References [edit]

External links [edit]

• Electorate Profile Parliamentary Library