Maungakiekie is a New Zealand parliamentary

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, returning one Member of Parliament to the

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. The current MP for Maungakiekie is

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of the Labour Party. The name is from

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, a large and symbolically important hill at the western end of the seat; the name denotes the presence of kiekie vines on the hill. The core of Maungakiekie is the suburbs of

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clustered around the Southern Motorway, and the most southern parts of the

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facing the

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. As at

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, these include Penrose, Panmure,

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and

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. In character, the seat is a

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seat, with a large Māori,

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and

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population. It is also quite a young seat, with 46.8 percent of the seat's residents under the age of thirty.

History

Maungakiekie has existed in various forms since its creation ahead of the introduction of

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voting in the . It was created from merging most of with a large section of , both of them reasonably safe Labour seats. Its original incarnation included both

and Otahuhu, though for the nine years from , Onehunga was part of , and from 2008 onwards, Otahuhu formed the northernmost part of

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. The same boundary changes that took Otahuhu out put Panmure in at the expense of . In 2020, the seat lost Panmure to and gained Royal Oak from . Because of the area's seats' tendency to vote Labour, and because Labour suffered its worst result since World War II in 1996, with votes splintering off to both the

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and

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, Onehunga MP

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found himself ousted from Parliament in 1996 at the hands of then unknown National Party candidate Belinda Vernon. Vernon's own party suffered a dramatic reversal of fortune that started at the and her three-year term as MP for Maungakiekie ended in favour of

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, who held the seat until , notching up a majority of around 6,500 in the intermediate elections. Sam Lotu-liga captured the seat again for National in the large swing against Labour in 2008. On 13 December 2016, Lotu-liga announced that he was quitting politics, to take effect at the 2017 general election. The electorate was won by

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at the election, retaining the seat for the National Party.

Members of Parliament

Unless otherwise stated, all MPs' terms began and ended at general elections. Key

List MPs

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

Election results

2020 election

2017 election

2014 election

2011 election

Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 46,637

2008 election

2005 election

2002 election

1999 election

1996 election

Table footnotes

References

{{electorates of New Zealand New Zealand electorates in the Auckland Region 1996 establishments in New Zealand