Manukau East was a New Zealand parliamentary

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that returned one member of parliament to the

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. It was first formed for the . Between the and the 2020 electorate adjustment it was held by

Jenny Salesa Jennifer Teresia Salesa (née Latu, born 1968) is a New Zealand politician and member of the Labour Party who has served as a Member of Parliament since 2014. She was first elected as MP for Manukau East, and after its abolition in 2020 won the ...

, a member of the Labour Party, who also won the replacement

Panmure-Ōtāhuhu Panmure-Ōtāhuhu is an electorate to the New Zealand House of Representatives. It was first contested at the . Population centres The electorate consists of the mid-eastern part of the Manukau Ward, and a long strip of suburbs along the wes ...

seat in the .

Population centres

In 2007, large changes were made to the Manukau East electorate. Its northern boundary extended past the Tamaki River to almost as far as Sylvia Park Rd to incorporate

Middlemore Middlemore is a suburb of the former Manukau City, one of the four cities that made up the conurbation of Auckland, in northern New Zealand, until 2010. The suburb is located on flat land at the southern end of the Ōtāhuhu isthmus, at the e ...

, Otahuhu and Westfield. Its eastern boundary shifted west to East Tamaki Rd resulting in East Tamaki and Botany Downs being included in the new

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electorate. Most of Otara and

Papatoetoe Papatoetoe is a suburb in Auckland, New Zealand. It is the largest suburb in Auckland by population and is located to the northwest of Manukau Central, and 18 kilometres southeast of Auckland CBD. Papatoetoe has the unofficial title of Auckland ...

West are now also included in the electorate. In the 2013 electorate boundary review, it was found that Manukau East electorate was above quota (based on the 2013 census). The draft proposal by the Representation Commission sees some population at Westfield to be transferred to the electorate.

History

Manukau East was created for the . It has been represented by two MPs, both of the Labour Party, Ross Robertson and

. It was considered one of Labour's safest electorates. On 6 June 2013 Robertson announced that he would retire from Parliament in order to pursue a career in local body politics. Jenny Salesa replaced him, with a comfortable, although smaller, majority of 13,254. During the 2020 electorate adjustment, the electorate was replaced with

Members of Parliament

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

List MPs

Election results

2017 election

2014 election

2011 election

Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 41,901

2008 election

2005 election

2002 election

1999 election

1996 election

Notes

References

External links

Electorate Profile
''Parliamentary Library'' {{Historical electorates of New Zealand Historical electorates of New Zealand Politics of the Auckland Region 1996 establishments in New Zealand