Northcote (New Zealand electorate)

Northcote is a New Zealand Parliamentary electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. The current MP for Northcote is Jonathan Coleman. of the National Party. He has held this position since 2005.

Northcote is based around the suburbs of North Shore City at the northern end of the Auckland Harbour Bridge. Besides the eponymous Northcote, there is Birkenhead, Birkdale and the southern end of Glenfield. It was created ahead of the change to Mixed Member Proportional voting in 1996 by merging the seat of Birkenhead with most of the old Glenfield electorate; its boundaries have remained largely unchanged since.

Northcote continues the electoral habits of its predecessor seats; Birkenhead was a reasonably safe seat for the National Party, supplying it with Jim McLay, who lead the party in the mid 1980s, and remains the only National Party leader to never take his party to an election. In 1987, the seat that would provide National with a leader provided Labour with a gain, before swinging back into the blue column when Labour's fortunes thinned out at the 1990 election. Glenfield also followed this boom and bust model, being held by Labour Party MP Judy Keall through the duration of the fourth Labour government before the National Party landslide in 1990 claimed Keall as one of its victims.

The first MP for Northcote was Ian Revell from the National Party, who would rise to become the Deputy Speaker. Revell was caught up in a scandal for misuse of offical letterhead and was defeated by Labour's Ann Hartley in New Zealand general election, 1999. Hartley herself was ousted by the seat's present representative, Jonathan Coleman when National consolidated the centre-right vote in 2005.

Members of Parliament for Northcote

Name	Party	Elected	Left Office	Reason
Ian Revell	bgcolor=Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color| National	1996	1999	defeated
Ann Hartley	bgcolor=Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color| Labour	1999, 2002	2005	defeated
Jonathan Coleman	bgcolor=Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color| National	2005	incumbent

List MPs from Northcote

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

Name	Party	First Elected	Left Office	Contested Northcote
Grant Gillon	bgcolor=Template:Alliance (New Zealand political party)/meta/color| Alliance	1996	2002	1996, 1999
Ann Hartley	bgcolor=Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color| Labour	1999	March 2008	1999, 2002, 2005

Election results

General Election 2005: Northcote
Notes:		Blue 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, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	National	Jonathan Coleman		16,854	49.36		14,927	43.01
	Labour	N Ann Hartley		14,471	42.38		13573	39.11
	NZ First	Paul Manning		833	2.44		1736	5.00
	Progressive	Grant Gillon		611	1.79		426	1.23
	ACT	Diane Dawson		435	1.27		921	2.65
	United Future New Zealand	Beth Stone		389	1.14		826	2.38
	Destiny	Nigel Heslop		268	0.78		195	0.56
	Māori Party	Francis Wāka		227	0.66		145	0.42
	Libertarianz	Peter Linton		55	0.16		25	0.07
	Green	-					1763	5.08
	Legalise Cannabis	-					73	0.21
	Christian Heritage	-					39	0.11
	Alliance	-					11	0.03
	99 MP	-					10	0.03
	Democrats	-					8	0.02
	Family Rights	-					8	0.02
	Direct Democracy	-					5	0.01
	One NZ	-					4	0.01
	RONZ	-					3	0.01
Informal votes				389			826
Total valid votes				34,143			34707
	National gain from Labour		Majority	2383	6.98

External links

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