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Napier (New Zealand electorate)

Napier is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the House of Representatives. It is named after the city of Napier, the main urban area within the electorate. The electorate was established for the 1861 election and has existed since. It has been held by Katie Nimon of the New Zealand National Party since the 2023 general election. It was held by Stuart Nash of the New Zealand Labour Party from the 2014 general election until 2023, when he did not stand for re-election.

Population centres

The electorate includes the following population centres:

History

The electorate was created in 1861, and preceded by the Wairarapa and Hawke's Bay electorate from 1853 to 1860 and then briefly the County of Hawke electorate in 1860. It was a two-member electorate from 1876 to 1881.[1]

The first representative was Henry Powning Stark, who won the election on 19 February 1861.[2]

There were speculations that Douglas Maclean would be the conservative candidate in the Napier electorate in the 1890 election upon his return from England instead of George Swan, but this was not correct.[3] Swan contested the election and was successful against the Liberal Party candidate Michael Gannon.[4][5] In the 1893 election, Swan was challenged by the Liberal Party candidate Samuel Carnell, with the latter being successful against the incumbent.[6][7] In the 1896 election, Carnell in turn was challenged by the conservative candidate Douglas Maclean, with Maclean achieving a large majority against the incumbent.[8][9]

In the 1931 election, the incumbent, Bill Barnard of the Labour Party, was challenged by John Butler of the Reform Party as the official candidate of the United–Reform Coalition, and United Party member Vigor Brown as an Independent. Brown, at the time Mayor of Napier and previously MP for Napier for many years, withdrew just before the election, but too late for his name to be excluded from the ballot papers.[10] The election was won by Barnard.[11]

Labour's Russell Fairbrother was first elected in the electorate in the 2002 election, replacing long-standing MP Geoff Braybrooke. In the 2005 election, Chris Tremain defeated Fairbrother, winning the electorate for the National Party for the first time since the 1951 election.[12] In the 2008 election, Tremain retained the electorate with an increased majority over Fairbrother.[13] In the 2011 election, Tremain beat Labour's Stuart Nash.[14]

Tremain announced in September 2013 that he would not contest the 2014 election.[15] Wayne Walford succeeded Tremain as National's candidate for the seat,[16] Nash contested the electorate for the Labour Party for the second time, and Garth McVicar stood for the Conservative Party. McVicar had a high-profile due to his previous involvement with the Sensible Sentencing Trust lobby group. In July 2014, Walford was referred to Police by the Electoral Commission for breaching the Electoral Act by failing to display an authorisation statement on his campaign vehicle.[17]

Nash had a majority of 3,850 votes over Walford.[18] McVicar's 7,603 votes split the traditional National Party votes (24.8% of electors who gave their party vote to National gave their electorate vote to McVicar, a total of 4,465 votes),[19] which helped Nash win the election.[18][20][21]

Members of Parliament

Unless otherwise stated, all MPs terms began and ended at a general election.[1]

Key

  Independent  Conservative  Liberal  Labour  Reform  Democratic Labour  National  ACT

single-member electorate

multi-member electorate

single-member electorate

List MPs

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

Election results

2023 election

2020 election

2017 election

2014 election

2011 election

Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 44,266[26]

2008 election

2005 election

2002 election

1999 election

1996 election

1993 election

1990 election

1987 election

1984 election

1981 election

1978 election

1975 election

1972 election

1969 election

1966 election

1963 election

1960 election

1957 election

1954 election

1951 election

1949 election

1946 election

1943 election

1938 election

1935 election

1931 election

1928 election

1925 election

1922 election

1919 election

1914 election

1911 election

1908 election

1905 election

1902 election

1899 election

1893 election

1890 election

1877 by-election

1861 by-election

Table footnotes

  1. ^ Awatere Huata was expelled from serving as a list MP on 19 November 2004.
  2. ^ 2017 Mana Party swing is relative to the votes for Internet-Mana in 2014; it shared a party list with the Internet Party in the 2014 election
  3. ^ 2017 Internet Party swing is relative to the votes for Internet-Mana in 2014; it shared a party list with Mana Party in the 2014 election
  4. ^ 2014 Internet Mana swing is relative to the votes for Mana in 2011; it shared a party list with Internet in the 2014 election.

Notes

  1. ^ a b Scholefield 1950, p. 161.
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  3. ^ "Election News". Poverty Bay Herald. Vol. XVIII, no. 5902. 22 October 1890. p. 2. Retrieved 21 May 2013.
  4. ^ Wilson 1985, p. 237.
  5. ^ "The General Election, 1890". National Library. 1891. p. 1. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
  6. ^ Wilson 1985, p. 188.
  7. ^ "The General Election, 1893". National Library. 1894. p. 1. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
  8. ^ Wilson 1985, p. 217.
  9. ^ "The General Election". Poverty Bay Herald. Vol. XXIII, no. 7794. 5 December 1896. p. 2. Retrieved 21 May 2013.
  10. ^ "Candidate Withdraws". Auckland Star. Vol. LXII, no. 279. 25 November 1931. p. 11. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  11. ^ a b The General Election, 1931. Government Printer. 1932. p. 4. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
  12. ^ a b "Official Count Results – Napier". Wellington: Chief Electoral Office. 2005. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
  13. ^ a b "Official Count Results – Napier". Wellington: Chief Electoral Office. 2008. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
  14. ^ a b "Official Count Results – Napier". Wellington: Chief Electoral Office. 2011. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
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  16. ^ Watkins, Tracy (10 March 2014). "Labour announces Chch Central candidate". The Press. p. A2. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
  17. ^ "Referral to the Police 21 July 2014". Electoral Commission. 21 July 2014. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
  18. ^ a b "Election Results – Napier". Electoral Commission. 4 October 2014. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  19. ^ "2014 General Election Split Voting Statistics – Napier". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
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  22. ^ "Napier – Preliminary Count". New Zealand Electoral Commission. Retrieved 8 November 2023.
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  24. ^ "Official Count Results (2017) – Napier". Electoral Commission. 7 October 2017. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
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  26. ^ "Enrolment statistics". Electoral Commission. 26 November 2011. Archived from the original on 10 November 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
  27. ^ 2002 election results
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  29. ^ "Part III – Party Lists of Successful Registered Parties" (PDF). Electoral Commission. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 February 2013. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
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  31. ^ Part 1: Votes recorded at each polling place (Technical report). New Zealand Chief Electoral Office. 1993. p. 67.
  32. ^ Part 1: Votes recorded at each polling place (Technical report). New Zealand Chief Electoral Office. 1990. p. 71.
  33. ^ a b c d e f Norton 1988, pp. 284.
  34. ^ a b c d e f g Norton 1988, pp. 283.
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  36. ^ "The General Election, 1946". National Library. 1947. pp. 1–11, 14. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  37. ^ "The General Election, 1943". National Library. 1944. p. 11. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
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  39. ^ The General Election, 1935. National Library. 1936. pp. 1–35. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
  40. ^ The General Election, 1928. Government Printer. 1929. p. 3. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
  41. ^ The General Election, 1925. Government Printer. 1926. p. 3. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
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  43. ^ "An Amazing Statement". Maoriland Worker. Vol. 12, no. 301. 6 December 1922. p. 3. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
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  51. ^ AtoJs 1908 election 1909, p. 8.
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  57. ^ "The General Election, 1899". Wellington: Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives. 19 June 1900. p. 1. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
  58. ^ McRobie 1989, p. 63.
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  62. ^ Oliver, Steven. "Kate Wyllie". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
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