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. Since the 2014 general election, Napier has been held by Stuart Nash of the New Zealand Labour Party. Previously, it had been held by Chris Tremain of the New Zealand National Party, who stood down prior to the 2014 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.
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 Henry Swan, but this was not correct.[3] Swan contested the election and was successful against the Liberal Party candidate Michael Gannon.[5] In the 1893 election, Swan was challenged by the Liberal Party candidate Samuel Carnell, with the latter being successful against the incumbent.[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.[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] Stuart 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. 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.
Key
Independent 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
2014 election
General election 2014: Napier[22] |
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 |
Stuart Nash |
15,343 |
42.41 |
+1.42 |
9,466 |
25.86 |
−3.40 |
|
National |
Wayne Walford |
11,493 |
31.77 |
−20.34 |
18,005 |
49.19 |
+0.42 |
|
Conservative |
Garth McVicar |
7,603 |
21.02 |
+19.01 |
2,270 |
6.20 |
+2.85 |
|
Green |
Paul Bailey |
1,363 |
3.77 |
−0.24 |
3,198 |
8.74 |
−1.07 |
|
Alliance |
Mary O'Neil |
59 |
0.16 |
+0.02 |
|
|
Democrats |
Bary Pulford |
51 |
0.14 |
+0.14 |
27 |
0.07 |
+0.02 |
|
NZ First |
|
2,709 |
7.40 |
+1.82 |
|
Internet Mana |
|
219 |
0.60 |
+0.36[lower-alpha 1] |
|
Māori |
|
160 |
0.44 |
−0.17 |
|
Legalise Cannabis |
|
153 |
0.42 |
−0.10 |
|
ACT |
|
103 |
0.28 |
−0.78 |
|
United Future |
|
63 |
0.17 |
−0.43 |
|
Ban 1080 |
|
58 |
0.16 |
+0.16 |
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|
16 |
0.04 |
+0.04 |
|
Independent Coalition |
|
7 |
0.02 |
+0.02 |
|
Focus |
|
6 |
0.02 |
+0.02 |
Informal votes |
236 |
|
|
145 |
|
|
Total Valid votes |
36,175 |
|
|
36,605 |
|
|
Turnout |
36,605 |
80.36 |
+3.76 |
|
|
Labour gain from National |
Majority |
3,850 |
10.64 |
+21.76 |
|
2011 election
General election 2011: Napier[14] |
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 |
% |
±% |
|
National |
Y Chris Tremain |
17,337 |
52.11 |
-7.58 |
16,538 |
48.77 |
+1.51 |
|
Labour |
Stuart Nash |
13,636 |
40.99 |
+7.05 |
9,921 |
29.26 |
-6.31 |
|
Green |
Paul Edward Bailey |
1,334 |
4.01 |
-1.13 |
3,327 |
9.81 |
+4.26 |
|
Conservative |
Roy Brown |
668 |
2.01 |
+2.01 |
1,137 |
3.35 |
+3.35 |
|
ACT |
John Ormond |
159 |
0.48 |
-0.74 |
359 |
1.06 |
-2.59 |
|
Mana |
Rod Paul |
86 |
0.26 |
+0.26 |
83 |
0.24 |
+0.24 |
|
Alliance |
Mary O'Neill |
48 |
0.14 |
+0.14 |
34 |
0.10 |
-0.03 |
|
NZ First |
|
1,893 |
5.58 |
+1.88 |
|
Māori |
|
207 |
0.61 |
-0.16 |
|
United Future |
|
203 |
0.60 |
-0.002 |
|
Legalise Cannabis |
|
175 |
0.52 |
+0.14 |
|
Democrats |
|
16 |
0.05 |
+0.02 |
|
Libertarianz |
|
14 |
0.04 |
+0.002 |
Informal votes |
678 |
|
|
321 |
|
|
Total Valid votes |
33,268 |
|
|
33,907 |
|
|
|
National hold |
Majority |
3,701 |
11.12 |
-14.64 |
|
Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 44,266[23]
2008 election
General election 2008: Napier[13] |
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 |
% |
±% |
|
National |
Y Chris Tremain |
20,898 |
59.70 |
+8.73 |
16,772 |
47.26 |
+4.94 |
|
Labour |
Russell Fairbrother |
11,880 |
33.94 |
-6.83 |
12,621 |
35.57 |
-5.43 |
|
Green |
Brett Stansfield |
1,801 |
5.14 |
+1.20 |
1,969 |
5.55 |
+0.32 |
|
ACT |
John Ormond |
428 |
1.22 |
- |
1,296 |
3.65 |
+2.56 |
|
NZ First |
- |
|
|
|
1,314 |
3.70 |
-1.88 |
|
Māori |
- |
|
|
|
272 |
0.77 |
+0.35 |
|
Progressive |
- |
|
|
|
269 |
0.76 |
-0.13 |
|
United Future |
- |
|
|
|
213 |
0.60 |
-1.85 |
|
Kiwi |
- |
|
|
|
212 |
0.60 |
- |
|
Bill and Ben |
- |
|
|
|
207 |
0.58 |
- |
|
Legalise Cannabis |
- |
|
|
|
132 |
0.37 |
+0.15 |
|
Family Party |
- |
|
|
|
67 |
0.19 |
- |
|
Alliance |
- |
|
|
|
47 |
0.13 |
+0.05 |
|
Pacific |
- |
|
|
|
43 |
0.12 |
- |
|
Workers Party |
- |
|
|
|
18 |
0.05 |
- |
|
Libertarianz |
- |
|
|
|
14 |
0.04 |
+0.01 |
|
Democrats |
- |
|
|
|
8 |
0.02 |
-0.02 |
|
RAM |
- |
|
|
|
7 |
0.02 |
- |
|
RONZ |
- |
|
|
|
5 |
0.01 |
+0.00 |
Informal votes |
358 |
|
|
169 |
|
|
Total Valid votes |
35,007 |
|
|
35,486 |
|
|
|
National hold |
Majority |
9,018 |
25.76 |
+15.57 |
|
2005 election
Beige denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink denotes a candidate elected to Parliament from their party list.[12]
1996 election
General election 1996: Napier[24][25][26] |
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 Geoff Braybrooke |
17,756 |
55.11 |
|
11,266 |
34.68 |
|
|
National |
Kathryn Ward |
7,610 |
23.62 |
|
9,554 |
29.41 |
|
|
Alliance |
Robin Gwynn |
2,865 |
8.89 |
|
3,931 |
12.10 |
|
|
NZ First |
Stuart Spencer |
2,567 |
7.97 |
|
3,687 |
11.35 |
|
|
ACT |
Jean Hill |
1,285 |
3.99 |
|
1,738 |
5.35 |
|
|
Natural Law |
Ian Levingston |
134 |
0.42 |
|
46 |
0.14 |
|
|
Christian Coalition |
|
1,167 |
3.59 |
|
|
Legalise Cannabis |
|
674 |
2.07 |
|
|
United NZ |
|
180 |
0.55 |
|
|
Animals First |
|
65 |
0.20 |
|
|
Progressive Green |
|
63 |
0.19 |
|
|
McGillicuddy Serious |
|
57 |
0.18 |
|
|
Green Society |
|
19 |
0.06 |
|
|
Superannuitants & Youth |
|
18 |
0.06 |
|
|
Ethnic Minority Party |
|
6 |
0.02 |
|
|
Advance New Zealand |
|
5 |
0.02 |
|
|
Mana Māori |
|
5 |
0.02 |
|
|
Asia Pacific United |
|
4 |
0.01 |
|
|
Conservatives |
|
2 |
0.01 |
|
|
Libertarianz |
|
2 |
0.01 |
|
|
Te Tawharau |
|
0 |
0.00 |
|
Informal votes |
394 |
|
|
121 |
|
|
Total Valid votes |
32,217 |
|
|
32,490 |
|
|
|
Labour hold |
Majority |
10,146 |
31.49 |
|
|
1931 election
1928 election
1925 election
1922 election
1919 election
1914 election
1911 election
1908 election
1905 election
1902 election
1899 election
1893 election
1861 by-election
- ↑ 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
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References
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External links
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Māori |
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