Ōtaki (New Zealand electorate)
Ōtaki (previously Otaki) is a New Zealand Parliamentary electorate, spanning part of the coast of the lower North Island. The bulk of its population comes from the Horowhenua District, but it also takes in part of the northern Kapiti Coast, including the towns of Otaki and Waikanae, and part of Paraparaumu. The current MP for Ōtaki is Nathan Guy of the National Party. He has held this position since 2008 election.
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Population centres
In the 1892 electoral redistribution, population shift to the North Island required the transfer of one seat from the South Island to the north. The resulting ripple effect saw every electorate established in 1890 have its boundaries altered, and eight electorates were established for the first time, including Otaki.[1]
History
Otaki was created for the 1893 election, and the first member for Otaki was James Wilson, who held the seat until 1896. For most of the early 1900s the seat was won by William Hughes Field, a Liberal-turn-independent-turn-Reform. He lost it to John Robertson of the Social Democratic Party (who had been nominated by the flax-workers union) in 1911, but won it back in 1914.
The seat was abolished in 1972, and Allan McCready transferred to the Manawatu electorate.
Otaki was recreated ahead of the change to Mixed Member Proportional voting in 1996, by combining two bellwether seats: the northern half of Kapiti with the entire Horowhenua seat. Since its inception the boundaries have been left largely unaltered, though after the 2007 boundary review a macron was added to the name, and it is now spelt Ōtaki. The first MP for Otaki was Judy Keall, who won by less than a thousand votes in 1996 before a more decisive victory in 1999.[2] In 2002, her former electorate assistant Darren Hughes won the seat, becoming the youngest member of the House of Representatives. His 2002 majority was slashed to just 382 at the 2005 election by former Horowhenua District councillor Nathan Guy. In a 2008 rematch, Guy tipped out Hughes by 1,354 votes; Hughes returned to Parliament off the Labour Party list.
Members of Parliament
Unless otherwise stated, all MPs' terms began and ended at general elections.
Key
Independent Liberal Reform Labour (original) Labour National
List MPs
Members of Parliament elected from party lists in elections where that person also unsuccessfully contested the electorate. Unless otherwise stated, all MPs' terms began and ended at general elections.
Election | Winner | |
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1996 election | Roger Sowry | |
1999 election | ||
2002 election | ||
2005 election | Nathan Guy | |
2008 election | Darren Hughes |
Election results
2014 election
General election 2014: Ōtaki[3] | |||||||||
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Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party Votes | % | ±% | ||
National | ![]() |
20,980 | 54.80 | +3.23 | 18,854 | 48.71 | +1.92 | ||
Labour | Rob McCann | 13,198 | 34.47 | −3.01 | 9,543 | 24.65 | −4.94 | ||
Green | Maddy Drew | 2,462 | 6.43 | +1.72 | 3,635 | 9.39 | +0.21 | ||
Conservative | Anne Lovelock | 913 | 2.38 | +0.65 | 1,695 | 4.38 | +1.19 | ||
Independent | Amanda Vickers | 203 | 0.53 | +0.53 | |||||
Independent | Frederick Macdonald | 118 | 0.31 | +0.31 | |||||
NZ First | 3,827 | 9.89 | +1.77 | ||||||
Internet Mana | 249 | 0.64 | +0.43[lower-alpha 1] | ||||||
Māori | 169 | 0.44 | −0.12 | ||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 138 | 0.36 | −0.07 | ||||||
ACT | 111 | 0.29 | −0.38 | ||||||
United Future | 74 | 0.19 | −0.52 | ||||||
Ban 1080 | 61 | 0.16 | +0.16 | ||||||
Democrats | 19 | 0.05 | +0.01 | ||||||
Independent Coalition | 19 | 0.05 | +0.05 | ||||||
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Focus | 6 | 0.02 | +0.02 | ||||||
Informal votes | 412 | 298 | |||||||
Total Valid votes | 38,286 | 38,710 | |||||||
Turnout | 38,710 | 82.49 | +3.23 | ||||||
National hold | Majority | 7,782 | 20.33 | +6.24 |
2011 election
General Election 2011: Ōtaki[4] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party Votes | % | ±% | ||
National | ![]() |
19,151 | 51.57 | +2.90 | 17,609 | 46.79 | +2.02 | ||
Labour | Peter Foster | 13,920 | 37.48 | -7.70 | 11,137 | 29.59 | -7.36 | ||
Green | Michael Gilchrist | 1,750 | 4.71 | +2.06 | 3,612 | 9.60 | +3.96 | ||
NZ First | David Scott | 1,122 | 3.02 | +1.02 | 3,057 | 8.12 | +2.63 | ||
Conservative | John Stephen Ryersson | 644 | 1.73 | +1.73 | 1,202 | 3.19 | +3.19 | ||
Legalise Cannabis | Fred MacDonald | 253 | 0.68 | +0.68 | 162 | 0.43 | +0.14 | ||
ACT | Peter McCaffrey | 115 | 0.31 | -0.23 | 253 | 0.67 | -1.92 | ||
United Future | Diane Brown | 110 | 0.30 | -0.09 | 266 | 0.71 | -0.31 | ||
Independent | Philip Dean Taueki | 73 | 0.20 | +0.20 | |||||
Māori | 210 | 0.56 | -0.26 | ||||||
Mana | 80 | 0.21 | +0.21 | ||||||
Libertarianz | 19 | 0.05 | +0.02 | ||||||
Democrats | 15 | 0.04 | +0.01 | ||||||
Alliance | 11 | 0.03 | -0.04 | ||||||
Informal votes | 573 | 292 | |||||||
Total Valid votes | 37,138 | 37,633 | |||||||
National hold | Majority | 5,231 | 14.09 | +10.60 |
Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 47,483[5]
2008 election
General Election 2008: Ōtaki[6] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party Votes | % | ±% | ||
National | Nathan Guy | 18,885 | 48.67 | +3.91 | 17,534 | 44.77 | +3.10 | ||
Labour | ![]() |
17,531 | 45.18 | -0.58 | 14,472 | 36.95 | +4.72 | ||
Green | Jim Kebbell | 1,029 | 2.65 | 2,207 | 5.64 | 1.09 | |||
NZ First | David John Scott | 778 | 2.01 | 2,153 | 5.50 | -1.29 | |||
Progressive | Josie Pagani | 221 | 0.57 | 453 | 1.16 | -0.43 | |||
ACT | Peter McCaffrey | 210 | 0.54 | 1,014 | 2.59 | +1.60 | |||
United Future | Diane Brown | 148 | 0.38 | -1.25 | 397 | 1.01 | -2.34 | ||
Māori | 321 | 0.82 | +0.08 | ||||||
Bill and Ben | 177 | 0.45 | |||||||
Kiwi | 165 | 0.42 | |||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 115 | 0.29 | +0.06 | ||||||
Family Party | 84 | 0.21 | |||||||
Alliance | 28 | 0.07 | -0.13 | ||||||
Libertarianz | 12 | 0.03 | +0.01 | ||||||
Democrats | 10 | 0.03 | -0.02 | ||||||
Pacific | 9 | 0.02 | |||||||
Workers Party | 6 | 0.02 | |||||||
RONZ | 5 | 0.01 | ±0.00 | ||||||
RAM | 0 | 0.00 | |||||||
Informal votes | 186 | 111 | |||||||
Total Valid votes | 38,802 | 39,162 | |||||||
National gain from Labour | Majority | 1,354 | 3.49 |
2005 election
General Election 2005: Otaki[7] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party Votes | % | ±% | ||
Labour | ![]() |
17,556 | 45.76 | -7.27 | 16,131 | 41.67 | |||
National | Nathan Guy | 17,174 | 44.76 | +13.79 | 15,174 | 39.20 | |||
NZ First | Chris Perry | 1,043 | 2.72 | 2,630 | 6.79 | ||||
Green | Nick Fisher | 1,022 | 2.66 | 1,761 | 4.55 | ||||
United Future | Diane Brown | 611 | 1.59 | 1,297 | 3.35 | ||||
Māori | Richard Orzecki | 353 | 0.92 | 286 | 0.74 | ||||
Progressive | Russell Franklin | 303 | 0.79 | 614 | 1.59 | ||||
ACT | Simon Ewing-Jarvie | 163 | 0.42 | 383 | 0.99 | ||||
Alliance | Margaret Jeune | 97 | 0.25 | 78 | 0.20 | ||||
Direct Democracy | Robert Atack | 47 | 0.12 | 7 | 0.02 | ||||
Destiny | 154 | 0.40 | |||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 88 | 0.23 | |||||||
Family Rights | 54 | 0.14 | |||||||
Christian Heritage | 37 | 0.10 | |||||||
Democrats | 21 | 0.05 | |||||||
99 MP | 14 | 0.04 | |||||||
One NZ | 14 | 0.04 | |||||||
Libertarianz | 9 | 0.02 | |||||||
RONZ | 5 | 0.01 | |||||||
Informal votes | 242 | 134 | |||||||
Total Valid votes | 38,369 | 38,707 | |||||||
Labour hold | Majority | 382 | 1.00 | -21.07 |
1935 election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Leonard Lowry | 4,511 | 49.97 | ||
United/Reform | G. A. Monk[9] | 2,791 | 30.92 | ||
Independent | Will Appleton[10] | 975 | 10.80 | ||
Democrat | Robert Westley Bothamley[11] | 750 | 8.31 | ||
Majority | 1,720 | 19.05 | +3.28 | ||
Turnout | 9,027 | 83.26 | -0.73 | ||
Registered electors | 10,842 |
1931 election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Reform | William Hughes Field | 4,848 | 57.89 | ||
Labour | Jim Thorn | 3,527 | 42.11 | ||
Majority | 1,321 | 15.77 | |||
Informal votes | 92 | 1.09 | |||
Turnout | 8,467 | 83.99 | |||
Registered electors | 10,081 |
1900 by-election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | William Hughes Field | 1,755 | 52.44 | ||
Opposition | Charles Morison | 1,592 | 47.56 | +2.09 | |
Majority | 163 | 4.87 | -4.18 | ||
Turnout | 3,347 | 62.35 | -0.45 | ||
Registered electors | 5,368 |
Table footnotes
Notes
- ↑ McRobie 1989, pp. 59f.
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References
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External links
- Electorate Profile Parliamentary Library