Kelston (New Zealand electorate)

Electorate boundaries for the Kelston electorate, which was first formed for the 2014 election

Kelston is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate that returns one member to the House of Representatives. It was first formed for the 2014 election and was won by Labour's Carmel Sepuloni.

Population centres

Kelston is located in an area in Auckland south-west of Waitemata Harbour covering part of Te Atatu South, the suburbs of Glen Eden, Sunnyvale, Glendene, Kelston, New Lynn, and Avondale, part of Mt Albert and the suburb of Waterview, with the name coming from one of its component suburbs.[1]

History

Kelston was proposed in the 2013/14 electorate boundary review and confirmed by the Electoral Commission on 17 April 2014.[2] The increase in population in the Auckland region as recorded in the 2013 census meant an extra electorate was required to keep all electorates within five percent of their quota. To accommodate an extra electorate the Electoral Commission abolished Waitakere and established two new electorates, namely Kelston and Upper Harbour. The two new electorates will stay in place in their initial form for at least two general elections, with the first one held in 2014 and the second one expected in 2017.[2]

The Kelston electorate took over parts of the Te Atatū, New Lynn, Mount Albert and Waitakere electorates. The first three electorates are all safe Labour electorates while Waitakere was marginal; National's Paula Bennett won the electorate by just nine votes in 2011 from Labour's Carmel Sepuloni. Consequently, Kelston was regarded as a safe Labour electorate. Labour selected Sepuloni as its candidate for the 2014 general election,[3] and she won the election with a majority of over 5,000 votes to National's Christopher Penk.[4]

Members of Parliament

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

Key   Labour  

Election Winner
2014 election Carmel Sepuloni

As of 2014 no candidates who have contested the Kelston electorate have been returned as list MPs.

Election results

2014 election

General election 2014: Kelston[4]

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 Green tickY or Red XN denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.

Party Candidate Votes % ±% Party Votes % ±%
Labour Carmel Sepuloni 15,091 50.90 12,934 42.13
National Christopher Penk 9,724 32.80 9,924 32.32
Green Ruth Irwin 2,052 6.92 3,298 10.74
NZ First Anne Degia-Pala 1,283 4.33 2,595 8.45
Conservative Paul Sommer 613 2.07 910 2.96
Legalise Cannabis Jeff Lye 301 1.02 108 0.35
ACT Bruce Haycock 267 0.90 308 1.00
Internet Roshni Sami 234 0.79
United Future Jason Woolston 82 0.28 48 0.16
Internet Mana   432 1.41
Māori   94 0.31
Civilian   15 0.05
Ban 1080   13 0.04
Democrats   8 0.03
Focus   7 0.02
Independent Coalition   7 0.02
Informal votes 415 179
Total Valid votes 30,062 30,880
Turnout 30,810 72.71[5]
Labour win new seat Majority 5,367 18.10

References

  1. ↑ McQuillan, Laura; Marwick, Felix (21 November 2013). "Sweeping changes to electorates". Newstalk ZB. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
  2. 1 2 "New electorate boundaries finalised". Electoral Commission (New Zealand). 2014. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
  3. ↑ Small, Vernon (22 November 2013). "Bennett won't make way for Craig". The Dominion Post. Fairfax New Zealand. Archived from the original on 9 June 2014.
  4. 1 2 "Official Count Results – Kelston". Electoral Commission. 4 October 2014. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  5. ↑ "2014 General Election Voter Turnout Statistics – Kelston". Electoral Commission. 21 January 2016. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
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