New Lynn is a New Zealand parliamentary

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, returning one member to the New Zealand

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of the Labour Party has represented the electorate since the 2017 general election.

Population centres

New Lynn is based in West Auckland, straddling the borders of the former Auckland City and areas of

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. It contains the areas of

New Lynn New Lynn is a residential suburb in West Auckland, New Zealand, located 10 kilometres to the southwest of the Auckland city centre. The suburb is located along the Whau River, one of the narrowest points of the North Island, and was the locat ...

Titirangi Titirangi is a suburb of West Auckland in the Waitākere Ranges local board area of the city of Auckland in northern New Zealand. It is an affluent, residential suburb located 13 kilometres (8 miles) to the southwest of the Auckland city centre ...

and Waitakere Ranges to cover all the beach-side towns on the north coast of the

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and then up the West Coast till Bethell's Beach.

History

New Lynn was first formed for the . It has always been held by members of the Labour Party. The electorate's first representative was

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, who had been an MP since and who retired at the end of the term. Mason was succeeded by Jonathan Hunt, who held the electorate for the next 30 years until he contested the electorate in the instead.

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became the representative in New Lynn in 1996. The electorate was abolished in 1999 and Goff successfully stood in . Titirangi replaced New Lynn in 1999 when population changes in Auckland lead to the creation of Mount Roskill, and Titirangi was won by

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. Three years later, population growth in north Auckland led to the creation of the Helensville electorate. The flow-on effect of this was to pull Titirangi eastwards, resulting in the reclamation of its former name for the . Cunliffe represented the New Lynn electorate until 2017. In November 2016, Labour leader Andrew Little announced that Cunliffe would not seek re-election at the 2017 general election, and the seat was won in the election by

, retaining it for the Labour 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 New Lynn. 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): 46,139

2008 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.

2005 election

2002 election

1996 election

1993 election

1990 election

1987 election

1984 election

1981 election

1978 election

1975 election

1972 election

1969 election

1966 election

1963 election

Table footnotes

References

Bibliography

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External links

Electorate Profile
''Parliamentary Library'' {{electorates of New Zealand New Zealand electorates in the Auckland Region Politics of the Auckland Region 1963 establishments in New Zealand 1999 disestablishments in New Zealand 2002 establishments in New Zealand