Английская Википедия:2016 Mount Roskill by-election
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox election A by-election was held in the Mount Roskill electorate on 3 December 2016. The seat was vacated following the resignation of Phil Goff after he was elected Mayor of Auckland.[1]
Background
At just under Шаблон:Convert Mount Roskill has the third-smallest land area among New Zealand's electorates. Following the 2014 boundary changes, it lost New Windsor to the Шаблон:NZ electorate link electorate, but gained areas around Three Kings and Sandringham and retained the communities of Mount Roskill, Lynfield, Wesley, and Hillsborough. About 39% of the usually resident population of Mount Roskill are from the Asian ethnic group – the second-highest percentage of any general electorate in 2013, and over three times the national average (11.8%). Just less than half of the people in the electorate in 2013 were born in New Zealand (49.1%) – the fifth-lowest share in New Zealand. The proportions of those affiliated with Islam (5.9%), and those affiliated with Hinduism (10.5%), are the highest and third-highest in the country respectively. Over two-thirds (67.9%) of people in Mount Roskill stated they had never smoked, the third-highest share among general electorates.[2]
At the 2014 election, Phil Goff (Labour) captured a majority (56.5%) of the 32,976 valid electorate votes cast for candidates in the Mount Roskill electorate. The National Party captured a plurality (42.1%, cf. 47.1% nationally) of the party votes in Mount Roskill, up 2.6 percentage points on its party vote share in 2011. The Labour Party received 35.6% of the party votes, the Green Party received 9.7%, and New Zealand First received 5.3%. No other party gained more than 5% of the party votes. Turnout (total votes cast as a proportion of enrolled electors) in 2014 was 75.0%.[2]
Candidates
| Party | Name | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Шаблон:Party color cell | Labour Party | Michael Wood | Michael Wood, a member of the Puketapapa Local Board, was announced as the Labour Party's candidate.[3] |
| Шаблон:Party color cell | National Party | Parmjeet Parmar | The National Party announced list MP and previous Mount Roskill candidate Parmjeet Parmar to contest the by-election. Parmar unsuccessfully ran against Goff in the 2014 New Zealand general election but was elected to Parliament on the party list.[4] |
| Шаблон:Party color cell | People's Party | Roshan Nauhria | The newly created People's Party announced they would field a candidate; Rohan Nauhria, the party's leader and co-founder.[3] |
| Шаблон:Party color cell | Democrats for Social Credit | Andrew Leitch | Andrew Leitch was announced as the Democrats for Social Credit candidate. He ran in the seat of New Lynn in the 2014 election, placing fifth with 0.39% of the vote.[5] |
| Шаблон:Party color cell | Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party | Brandon Stronge | The Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party stood Brandon Stronge as their candidate.[6] |
| Not A Party | Richard Goode | Richard Goode, of Not A Party (NAP), ran on a "post-democratic" ticket asking people not to vote for him. He had previously stood for the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party, and was its vice president.[7] | |
| Шаблон:Party color cell | Independent | Tua Schuster | |
The Green Party stated it would not field a candidate in the by-election. Co-leader Metiria Turei said the vote would be closely contested and that the Greens did not want to "play any role in National winning the seat".[1] ACT New Zealand also decided not to stand in the by-election, with leader David Seymour saying they wanted to give National the best possible chance of winning the seat.[8] New Zealand First leader Winston Peters said his party would also not stand a candidate in Mount Roskill. He said that while prospective candidates had come forward, the party intended to focus its resources on the general election in 2017.[9] Perennial candidate Adam Holland, a grandson of former Prime Minister Sidney Holland, announced his intention to run for the seat.[10] He earlier contested the Auckland Mayoralty, which was won by Goff, receiving 1,772 votes (0.45 percent).[11][12] Ultimately, Holland withdrew and did not stand.
Results
The by-election was won decisively by Labour's Michael Wood.[13]
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See also
- 2016 Auckland mayoral election
- 2017 Mount Albert by-election, on 25 February 2017
References
Шаблон:1996–present New Zealand by-elections
