Northcote is a New Zealand parliamentary

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, returning one member of parliament to the

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. Currently, the Member for Northcote is

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of the Labour Party, who won the seat at the 2020 election.

Population centres

Northcote is based around the suburbs of Auckland's North Shore that are closest to the northern end of the Auckland Harbour Bridge. In addition to the eponymous Northcote, there are

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, Beach Haven and the southern end of Glenfield. It was created ahead of the change to

mixed-member proportional Mixed-member proportional representation (MMP or MMPR) is a mixed electoral system in which votes cast are considered in local elections and also to determine overall party vote tallies, which are used to allocate additional members to produce ...

(MMP) voting in

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by merging the seat of

with most of the old Glenfield electorate. A small boundary adjustment was done prior to the , but no further boundary adjustments were undertaken in the subsequent redistributions in 2002, 2007, and 2013/14. Northcote continues the electoral habits of its predecessor seats; Birkenhead was a reasonably safe seat for the National Party, supplying it with

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, who led the party from 1984 to 1986. In

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, the seat was won by Labour, before swinging back into the blue column when Labour's fortunes thinned out at the 1990 election. Glenfield also followed this boom and bust model, being held by Labour Party MP

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through the duration of the fourth Labour government before the National Party landslide in 1990 claimed Keall as one of its victims.

Members

The first member for Northcote was

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from the National Party, who would rise to become the Deputy Speaker. Revell was caught up in a scandal for misuse of official letterhead and was defeated by Labour's

Ann Hartley Margaret Ann Hartley (born 1942) is a former New Zealand member of parliament, a former mayor of North Shore City, and a member of the Labour Party. Early years Hartley was born in 1942 in the town of Warkworth. Before entering politics, s ...

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. Hartley herself was ousted by the seat's former representative, Jonathan Coleman, when National consolidated the centre-right vote in . In the Coleman was re-elected in Northcote with a majority of 9,360 votes. He was again successful in the , winning by a majority of 9,379 votes. He had a slightly increased majority in the and was re-elected in the . On 22 March 2018, Coleman announced he would resign within weeks, triggering the

2018 Northcote by-election The 2018 Northcote by-election was a New Zealand by-election that was held in on 9 June 2018. The seat became vacant on 15 April 2018, following the resignation of then-Member for Northcote Jonathan Coleman, a member of the New Zealand Nati ...

Members for Northcote

Key

List members

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

Election results

2020 election

2018 by-election

2017 election

2014 election

2011 election

Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 45,675

2008 election

2005 election

2002 election

1999 election

1996 election

Table footnotes

References

External links

Northcote electorate profile
New Zealand Parliament {{electorates of New Zealand New Zealand electorates in the Auckland Region Politics of the Auckland Region 1996 establishments in New Zealand