Maungakiekie (New Zealand electorate)
Electoral district in Auckland, New Zealand / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Maungakiekie is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. The current MP for Maungakiekie is Greg Fleming of the National Party. The electorate's name comes from Maungakiekie / One Tree Hill, a large and symbolically important hill at the western end of the seat.
Maungakiekie | |
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Single-member constituency for the New Zealand House of Representatives | |
Region | Auckland |
Current constituency | |
Current MP | Greg Fleming |
Party | National |
List MP | Priyanca Radhakrishnan (Labour) |
The core of Maungakiekie is the suburbs of Auckland clustered around the Southern Motorway, and the most southern parts of the Auckland isthmus facing the Manukau Harbour. As at 2008, these include Penrose, Panmure, Onehunga and Royal Oak. In character, the seat is a minority-majority seat, with a large Māori, Pacific Island and Asian population. It is also quite a young seat, with 46.8 percent of the seat's residents under the age of thirty.