East Coast

East Coast is a New Zealand Parliamentary electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. From 1996 to 2002, the electorate was called Mahia. The current MP for East Coast is Anne Tolley of the National Party, who has held office since 2005^[1].

Population centres

The electorate's main centres are Opotiki, Gisborne (32,529), Tolaga Bay, and Whakatane (18,800). Wairoa was excluded following the 2007 boundary changes. [1][2]

History

Unless otherwise stated, all MPs terms began and ended at general elections. The electorate was called Mahia from 1996 when MMP was introduced, and previously the area was in the Gisborne and East Cape electorates.

Members of Parliament for Mahia

Members of Parliament for East Coast

List MPs from East Coast

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

Election results

2008 election

General Election 2008: East Coast[2]
Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party Votes	%	±%
	National	Y Anne Tolley		16,463	52.46	+7.65	15,160	47.63	+5.43
	Labour	Moana Mackey		10,050	32.02	-8.78	10,075	31.65	-7.34
	NZ First	Brendan Horan		2,147	6.84	+3.35	1,862	5.85	-0.92
	Green	Catherine Delahunty		1,684	5.37	+1.75	2,025	6.36	+2.11
	United Future	Judy Turner		1,040	3.31	-0.57	698	2.19	-0.76
	ACT	-					816	2.56	+1.87
	Māori	-					457	1.44	-0.16
	Progressive	-					199	0.63	-0.37
	Bill and Ben	-					175	0.55	-
	Kiwi Party	-					115	0.36	-
	ALCP	-					99	0.31	+0.12
	Family Party	-					83	0.26	-
	Alliance	-					19	0.06	+0.00
	Libertarianz	-					13	0.04	+0.02
	NZ Democrats	-					12	0.04	-0.03
	Workers Party	-					10	0.03	-
	Pacific	-					7	0.02	-
	RONZ	-					5	0.02	+0.01
	RAM	-					2	0.01	-
Informal votes				246			130
Total Valid votes				31,384			31,832
	National hold		Majority	6,413	20.43	+16.44

2005 election

Note: lines coloured beige denote the winner of the electorate vote. Lines coloured pink denote a candidate elected to Parliament from their party list.

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Party Votes	%
National	Y Anne Tolley	13666	44.80	13070	42.20
Labour	Moana Mackey	12447	40.81	12076	38.99
United	Judy Turner	1186	3.89	916	2.96
Green	Catherine Delahunty	1104	3.62	1316	4.25
NZ First	Joe Glenn	1064	3.49	2098	6.77
Māori Party	John Harré	589	1.93	494	1.59
Destiny	Bill Sadler	446	1.46	336	1.08
Progressive	-	-	-	309	1.00
ACT	-	-	-	214	0.69
ALCP	-	-	-	60	0.19
Christian Heritage	-	-	-	20	0.06
Democrats	-	-	-	20	0.06
Alliance	-	-	-	17	0.05
Family Rights PP	-	-	-	8	0.03
Libertarianz	-	-	-	6	0.02
99 MP	-	-	-	5	0.02
One NZ	-	-	-	3	0.01
Direct Democracy	-	-	-	2	0.01
Republic of NZ	-	-	-	2	0.01
informal votes		266		125
total valid votes		30,502		30,972
National gain from Labour	Majority	1219

sourced from electionresults.govt.nz

References

External links

• Electorate Profile Parliamentary Library

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