Mount Albert (New Zealand electorate)
Mount Albert | |
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![]() New Zealand House of Representatives | |
![]() Location of Mount Albert within Auckland | |
Member(s) | |
MP | Helen White |
Party | Labour |
List MP(s) | Melissa Lee (National) |
Geography | |
Region(s) | Auckland |
History | |
Created | 1946 |
Mount Albert (abbreviated as Mt Albert) is a parliamentary electorate that represents the suburb of Mount Albert in Auckland, New Zealand. It has elected only Labour Party MPs since it was first created at the 1946 election.
The incumbent MP is Jacinda Ardern, currently serving as Prime Minister of New Zealand, who was first elected in a 2017 by-election.[1]
The electorate was represented by David Shearer from 13 June 2009 to 31 December 2016; it was represented by Helen Clark from the 1981 general election until her resignation from Parliament on 17 April 2009.
Election results
[change | change source]2023 general election: Mount Albert[2] | |||||||||
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Notes: |
A blue background means the winner of the electorate vote.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
Labour | Helen White | 13,238 | 33.73 | -47.01 | 10,336 | 25.99 | -22.61 | ||
National | Melissa Lee | 13,218 | 33.68 | +14.35 | 12,705 | 31.94 | +13.31 | ||
Green | Ricardo Menéndez March | 9,302 | 23.70 | +18.14 | 10,030 | 25.22 | +5.29 | ||
ACT | Ollie Murphy | 1,483 | 3.78 | 2,681 | 6.74 | +0.78 | |||
Opportunities | Ciara Swords | 1,319 | 3.36 | 1,474 | 3.71 | +1.53 | |||
Independent | Tesi Naufahu | 155 | 0.40 | ||||||
Human Rights Party | Anthony Van den Heuvel | 103 | 0.26 | +0.05 | |||||
NZ First | 1,220 | 3.07 | +1.25 | ||||||
Māori Party | 640 | 1.61 | +1.12 | ||||||
New Zealand Loyal | 146 | 0.37 | |||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 115 | 0.29 | +0.09 | ||||||
NewZeal | 83 | 0.21 | +0.21 | ||||||
Freedoms New Zealand | 60 | 0.15 | |||||||
Animal Justice Party Aotearoa New Zealand | 51 | 0.13 | |||||||
Women's Rights Party | 39 | 0.10 | |||||||
New Conservatives Party | 30 | 0.08 | -0.50 | ||||||
DemocracyNZ | 21 | 0.05 | |||||||
New Nation Party | 9 | 0.02 | |||||||
Leighton Baker Party | 6 | 0.02 | |||||||
Informal votes | 429 | 121 | |||||||
Total Valid votes | 39,247 | 39,767 | |||||||
Labour hold | Majority | 20 | 0.05 | -51.34 |
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Jacinda Ardern wins landslide victory Mt Albert by-election". The New Zealand Herald. 25 February 2017. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
- ↑ "Mt Albert - Official Result (2023)". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 8 November 2023.