East Coast Bays (NZ electorate) 

East Coast Bays is a New Zealand Parliamentary electorate. It is currently held by Murray McCully MP1.

The electorate is based around the north-eastern suburbs of North Shore City in north Auckland, including Torbay, Browns Bay and Mairangi Bay. The electorate crosses State Highway One at its southern end, which includes a section of Glenfield. East Coast Bays is a wealthy seat, with incomes above the national average and boasting some of the most expensive real estate in the country. The seat are also contains a lot of émigrés from South Africa.

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History

East Coast Bays was a seat in the New Zealand Parliament between 1972 and 1996, before being abolished to make way for a new seat called Albany at the change to Mixed Member Proportional voting. High population growth in North Auckland lead to the seat's western fringe being removed in 2002, and with it the eponymous suburb of Albany, thus recreating East Coast Bays ahead of the 2002 election.

Although now a safe seat for National, it was held for seven years by Social Credit MP Gary Knapp, from a byelection in 1980, where he defeated future National party leader Don Brash until the declining fortunes of the Democratic Party (as Social Credit renamed itself), lead to Knapp being defeated in 1987 by Murray McCully, who has held the seat since.

Members of Parliament for East Coast Bays

Name Party Elected Left Office Reason
Frank Gill National 1972, 1975, 1978 1980 resigned
Gary Knapp Social Credit 1980 by-election, 1981, 1984 1987 defeated
Murray McCully National 1987, 1990, 1993 1996 seat abolished, contested Albany instead (1996, 1999)
Murray McCully National 2002, 2005, 2008 incumbent

List MPs from East Coast Bays

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

Name Party Elected Left Office
Paul Adams United Future 2002 2005
Sue Bradford Green 2008 Current MP

Election results

2008 election

General Election 2008: East Coast Bays2

Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list.
A YesY or NoN denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Party Votes % ±%
Labour Vivienne Goldsmith 5,628 17.65 6,855 21.50 - 10.27
National YesY Murray McCully 18,428 57.79 + 10.77 19,617 61.52 + 9.25
NZ First Dail Jones 683 2.14 944 2.96 - 1.81
Green Sue Bradford 1,969 6.17 1,210 3.79 + 0.30
ACT Tim Kronfeld 1,149 3.60 1,844 5.78 + 3.39
Māori - 110 0.34 + 0.08
United Future Ian McInnes 200 0.63 234 0.73 - 1.66
Progressive - 196 0.61 - 0.30
No Commercial Airport at Whenuapai Toby Hutton 258 0.81
Alliance - 13 0.04 + 0.00
ALCP - 70 0.22 + 0.02
Bill and Ben - 124 0.39 + 0.39
Family Party Paul Adams 3,275 10.27 435 1.36 + 1.36
Kiwi Party - 84 0.26 + 0.26
Libertarianz Elah Zamora 50 0.16 21 0.00 - 0.04
Pacific - 8 0.00 + 0.00
RONZ - 6 0.00 - 0.02
RAM - 3 0.00 + 0.00
Workers Party - 8 0.00 + 0.00
Informal votes 247 95
Total Valid votes 31,887 31,889
National hold Majority 12,800

2005 election

General Election 2005: East Coast Bays3

Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list.
A YesY or NoN denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Party Votes % ±%
National YesY Murray McCully 17,213 47.02 +7.93 19,437 52.27 +27.44
Labour Hamish McCracken 9927 27.12 -7.03 11,813 31.77 -2.04
Independent Paul Adams 5809 15.87 -
Green Jeanette Elley 1287 3.52 -1.92 1297 3.49 -8.48
NZ First Anne Martin 942 2.57 1775 4.77 -5.20
ACT Andrew Stone 537 1.47 -4.95 956 2.39 -2.80
United Future Steven Dromgool 405 1.11 -8.14 890 2.39 -7.23
Progressive Fiona Beazley 253 0.69 -0.95 338 0.91 -0.36
Māori Rahuia Kapa 119 0.33 95 0.26
NZ Democrats Patrick Fahey 73 0.20 14 0.04
Destiny John Steemson 39 0.11 370 1.00
ALCP - 74 0.20 -0.19
Christian Heritage - 44 0.12 -0.93
Direct Democracy - 28 0.08
Alliance - 15 0.04 -0.86
Libertarianz - 14 0.04
RONZ - 7 0.02
99 MP - 6 0.02
Family Rights - 6 0.02
One NZ - 5 0.01 -0.23
Informal votes 324 100
Total Valid votes 36,604 37,184
National hold Majority 7286 19.90 +14.96

2002 election

General Election 2002: East Coast Bays4

Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list.
A YesY or NoN denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Party Votes % ±%
National Murray McCully 12,134 39.09 7876 24.83
Labour Hamish McCracken 10,600 34.15 10,722 33.81
United Future Paul Adams 2872 9.25 3052 9.62
ACT Jeanette Elley 1993 6.42 1646 5.19
Green Julie Pepper 1688 5.44 3796 11.97
One NZ Alan McCulloch 528 1.70 75 0.24
Progressive Jill Henry 508 1.64 403 1.27
Christian Heritage Ian Cummings 399 1.29 334 1.05
Alliance Fiona McLaren 316 1.02 287 0.90
NZ First - 3163 9.97
ORNZ - 227 0.72
ALCP - 123 0.39
NMP - 6 0.02
Mana Māori - 4 0.01
Informal votes 392 75
Total Valid votes 31,038 31,714
National win new seat Majority 1534 4.94

References

  1. ^ New Zealand Parliament - Murray McCully MP
  2. ^ election result East Coast Bays 2008
  3. ^ election result East Coast Bays 2005
  4. ^ election result East Coast Bays 2002

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