Napier

Boundaries of Napier Electorate for 2008 and 2011 elections

Napier is a New Zealand Parliamentary electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. The current MP for Napier is Chris Tremain of the National Party.

Population centres

The electorate includes the following population centres:

• Napier
• Taradale
• Wairoa
• Frasertown
• Nuhaka

History

The electorate was created in 1861, and preceded by the Wairarapa and Hawkes 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]

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 Braybrooke, winning the electorate for the National Party for the first time since the 1951 election.^[2] In the 2008 election, Tremain retained the electorate with an increased majority over Fairbrother.^[3] In the 2011 election, Tremain beat Labour's Stuart Nash.^[4]

Members of Parliament

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

Key

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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

2011 election

General Election 2011: Napier[4]
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^[5]

2008 election

General election 2008: Napier[3]
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.^[2]

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Party Votes	%
National	Y Chris Tremain	17955	50.53	15086	42.17
Labour	N Russell Fairbrother	14364	40.42	14615	40.85
Green	Terry Creighton	1391	3.91	1864	5.21
NZ First	James Mist	855	2.40	1989	5.56
United	Graham Turner	473	1.3	872	2.44
ACT	-	-	-	390	1.09
Progressive	-	-	-	316	0.88
Destiny	-	-	-	193	0.54
Māori Party	-	-	-	150	0.42
Legalise Cannabis	-	-	-	80	0.22
Christian Heritage	-	-	-	44	0.12
Alliance	-	-	-	29	0.08
Democrats	-	-	-	16	0.04
Direct Democracy	-	-	-	11	0.03
Libertarianz	-	-	-	11	0.03
One NZ	-	-	-	11	0.03
99 MP	-	-	-	8	0.02
Family Rights PP	-	-	-	6	0.02
Republic of NZ	-	-	-	5	0.01
informal votes		305		129
total valid votes		35,536		35,777
National gain from Labour	Majority	3,591

References

External links

• Electorate Profile Parliamentary Library