Mount Roskill (New Zealand electorate)

Mount Roskill is a parliamentary electorate in Auckland, New Zealand, returning one Member of Parliament (MP) to the New Zealand House of Representatives. Phil Goff^[1] of the Labour Party held the seat from the 1999 election until he resigned from Parliament on 12 October 2016^[2] after contesting and being elected Mayor of Auckland on 8 October 2016 in the 2016 mayoral election. His resignation necessitated a byelection in this electorate which was won by Michael Wood.^[3]

Mount Roskill
Single-member constituency for the New Zealand House of Representatives
Location of Mount Roskill
Area	20.70 km2 (7.99 sq mi)
Current constituency
Current MP	Carlos Cheung
Party	National

Carlos Cheung of the New Zealand National Party currently holds the seat after defeating Wood in the 2023 New Zealand general election.

Mount Roskill is located on the western side of the Auckland isthmus, bordering the Manukau Harbour. It is anchored around the suburbs of Mount Roskill, Three Kings, Hillsborough and a large section of Balmoral. The 2008 election boundaries added in Lynfield and New Windsor at the expense of Onehunga, which returned to the Maungakiekie electorate after being cut out in 1999. The Mount Roskill electorate is working class and multi-ethnic, with a high Pacific Island and Asian population, and has the highest number of overseas-born residents of any New Zealand electorate, nearly 40 per cent (as of 2001).

History

The 1996 New Zealand census showed population growth in the north and west of Auckland, necessitating the redistribution of electorates for the 1999 election. The existing New Lynn seat was renamed Titirangi, with its boundaries shifted to fall in between Auckland and Waitakere cities. The eastern side of the New Lynn residential area was amalgamated with the population excess of Epsom, the southern half of Owairaka seat (which was itself renamed Mount Albert) and the western end of Maungakiekie to form a new seat. Named Mount Roskill, it was the first new seat drawn since the introduction of Mixed Member Proportional voting three years previous.^{[citation needed]} At the 2020 redistribution it gained New Windsor from New Lynn at the expense of Royal Oak, which moved to Maungakiekie.^[4]

So far there have been three MPs for Mount Roskill, two from the Labour Party, and one from the National Party. Labour's Phil Goff was the first representative, having previously held New Lynn, another electorate in Auckland, and Roskill, an electorate covering much of the same area as Mount Roskill. After Goff was elected Mayor of Auckland in October 2016, a by-election date was set for 3 December 2016.^[5] Labour candidate Michael Wood won the by-election with more than half the votes.^{[citation needed]}

Carlos Cheung won the seat for the first time for the National Party in the 2023 New Zealand general election, defeating former Minister and incumbent MP Michael Wood with a 22-point swing.^{[citation needed]}

Members of Parliament

Key

  Labour   National

Election	Winner
1999 election		Phil Goff
2002 election
2005 election
2008 election
2011 election
2014 election
2016 by-election		Michael Wood
2017 election
2020 election
2023 election		Carlos Cheung

List MPs

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

Key

  United Future   National   Green   NZ First

Election	Winner
2002 election		Bernie Ogilvy
2004		Kenneth Wang1
2005 election		Jackie Blue2
2008 election
2011 election
		Julie Anne Genter
2014 election		Mahesh Bindra
		Parmjeet Parmar
2016		Barry Coates3
2017 election		Parmjeet Parmar
2020 election		Golriz Ghahraman

¹Wang was elected from the party list in November 2004 following the expulsion of Donna Awatere Huata.
²Blue resigned from Parliament on 20 May 2013.
³Coates was elected from the party list in October 2016 following the resignation of Kevin Hague.

Election results

2023 election

2023 general election: Mount Roskill[6]
Notes:		Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	National	Carlos Cheung		15,659	43.30	+19.22	15,828	43.09	+18.86
	Labour	N Michael Wood		14,095	38.97	-21.39	10,959	29.83	-25.87
	Green	Suveen Sanis Walgampola		3,379	9.34	+3.42	4,422	12.04	+4.09
	ACT	Rahul Chopra		2,179	6.03	+2.44	2,227	6.06	+1.12
	NZ First						1,294	3.52	+1.63
	Opportunities						765	2.08	+0.79
	Te Pāti Māori						289	0.79	+0.43
	NewZeal						196	0.53
	NZ Loyal						131	0.37
	Legalise Cannabis						97	0.26	+0.09
	Freedoms NZ						93	0.25
	New Conservatives						67	0.18	-1.01
	Animal Justice Party						49	0.13
	Women's Rights						24	0.07
	DemocracyNZ						20	0.05
	New Nation						9	0.02
	Leighton Baker Party						4	0.01
Informal votes				856			256
Total valid votes				36,168			36,730
	National gain from Labour		Majority	1,564	4.33

2020 election

2020 general election: Mount Roskill[7]
Notes:		Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	Labour	Y Michael Wood		23,050	60.36	+6.01	21,436	55.70	+13.27
	National	Parmjeet Parmar		9,197	24.08	-10.63	9,328	24.23	-18.52
	Green	Golriz Ghahraman		2,261	5.92	+2.36	2,205	7.95	+1.77
	ACT	Chris Johnston		1,371	3.59	—	1,904	4.94	+4.36
	New Conservative	Alister Hood		610	1.59	+0.85	459	1.19	+0.94
	Advance NZ	Anil Sharma		257	0.67	—	198	0.51	—
	TEA	Vishal Choksi		254	0.66	—	163	0.42	—
	ONE	Charlene Roxanne Pehi		143	0.37	—	103	0.26	—
	Social Credit	Cliff Hall		87	0.22	—	18	0.04	—
	Voice of the People	Warwick Frederikson		45	0.11	—
	NZ First						731	1.89	-2.51
	Opportunities						499	1.29	-0.44
	Māori Party						142	0.36	-0.10
	Legalise Cannabis						68	0.17	—
	Vision NZ						19	0.04	—
	Sustainable NZ						18	0.04	—
	Outdoors						13	0.03	-0.01
	Heartland						3	0.01	—
Informal votes				912			321
Total valid votes				38,187			38,483
Turnout				38,749	76.51	+1.94
	Labour hold		Majority	13,853	36.37	+16.64

2017 election

2017 general election: Mount Roskill[8]
Notes:		Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	Labour	Y Michael Wood		19,094	54.35	-12.16	15,135	42.43	+6.98
	National	Parmjeet Parmar		12,196	34.71	+7.41	15,248	42.75	-0.88
	Green	Ricardo Menéndez March		1,254	3.56	—	2,205	6.18	-3.44
	NZ First	Mahesh Bindra		846	2.40	—	1,572	4.40	-0.89
	Opportunities	Clint Ulyatt		564	1.60	—	618	1.73	—
	Conservative	Kathryn Davie		263	0.74	—	90	0.25	-3.41
	Māori Party	John Kiria		245	0.69	—	167	0.46	+0.07
	Democrats	Andrew Leitch		56	0.15	-0.57	13	0.03	±0.00
	Independent	Bishrul Hafi Ameer Izadeen		35	0.09	—
	ACT						207	0.58	-1.21
	People's Party						80	0.22	—
	Legalise Cannabis						62	0.17	-0.05
	United Future						24	0.06	-0.14
	Outdoors						16	0.04	—
	Mana						9	0.02	—
	Ban 1080						4	0.01	-0.04
	Internet						4	0.01	—
Informal votes				575			213
Total valid votes				35,128			35,667
Turnout				35,667	74.57
	Labour hold		Majority	6,898	19.63

2016 by-election

The following table shows final by-election results:^[9]

2016 Mount Roskill by-election
Notes: Blue background denotes the winner of the by-election. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list prior to the by-election. Yellow background denotes the winner of the by-election, who was a list MP prior to the by-election. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Michael Wood	11,623	66.51	+10.69
	National	Parmjeet Parmar	4,771	27.30	-4.28
	People's Party	Roshan Nauhria	739	4.23	+4.23
	Democrats	Andrew Leitch	126	0.72	+0.72
	Legalise Cannabis	Brandon Stronge	84	0.48	+0.48
	Not A Party	Richard Goode	43	0.25	+0.25
	Independent	Tua Schuster	40	0.23	+0.23
Informal votes			50
Majority			6,852	39.20	+14.97
Turnout			17,476

2014 election

2014 general election: Mount Roskill[10]
Notes:		Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	Labour	Y Phil Goff		18,637	55.81	−1.34	12,086	35.45	−8.16
	National	Parmjeet Parmar		10,546	31.58	−2.36	14,275	41.87	+2.33
	Green	Barry Coates		1,682	5.04	+1.03	3,279	9.62	+2.35
	Conservative	Paul Davie		1,094	3.28	+1.52	1,240	3.64	+1.22
	NZ First	Mahesh Bindra		717	2.15	+0.66	1,805	5.29	+0.61
	Mana	John Minto		300	0.90	+0.90
	ACT						610	1.79	+0.71
	Internet Mana						304	0.89	+0.69[lower-alpha 1]
	Māori Party						132	0.39	+0.01
	Legalise Cannabis						74	0.22	−0.11
	United Future						69	0.20	−0.19
	Ban 1080						17	0.05	+0.05
	Democrats						10	0.03	±0.00
	Civilian						8	0.02	+0.02
	Focus						6	0.02	+0.02
	Independent Coalition						6	0.02	+0.02
Informal votes				416			176
Total valid votes				33,392			34,097
Turnout				34,097	73.69	+3.91
	Labour hold		Majority	8,091	24.23	+1.02

2011 election

2011 general election: Mount Roskill[11]
Notes:		Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	Labour	Y Phil Goff		17,906	57.15	+1.35	14,098	43.61	+0.97
	National	Jackie Blue		10,635	33.94	-2.62	12,781	39.54	-2.56
	Green	Julie Anne Genter		1,258	4.01	+0.76	2,351	7.27	+2.99
	Conservative	Feleti Key		550	1.76	+1.76	783	2.42	+2.42
	NZ First	Mahesh Bindra		468	1.49	+1.49	1,513	4.68	+1.88
	ACT	Pratima Nand		240	0.77	-1.39	350	1.08	-2.34
	Legalise Cannabis	Jasmin Hewlett		167	0.53	+0.53	108	0.33	+0.07
	United Future	Bryan Mockridge		77	0.25	-0.39	125	0.39	-0.48
	Communist League	Patrick Brown		32	0.10	+0.10
	Māori Party						124	0.38	-0.09
	Mana						65	0.20	+0.20
	Democrats						11	0.03	+0.01
	Libertarianz						11	0.03	+0.01
	Alliance						10	0.03	-0.04
Informal votes				766			389
Total valid votes				31,333			32,330
	Labour hold		Majority	7,271	23.21	+3.97

Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 46,332^[12]

2008 election

2008 general election: Mount Roskill[13]
Notes:		Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	Labour	Y Phil Goff		18,615	55.80	-4.14	14,533	42.64	-7.06
	National	Jackie Blue		12,197	36.56	+7.07	14,346	42.09	+7.32
	Green	Lisa Er		1,086	3.26	+3.26	1,459	4.28	+0.11
	ACT	Shawn Tan		718	2.15	-3.64	1,165	3.42	+0.94
	Kiwi	Joseph Rebello		310	0.93	+0.93	198	0.58	+0.58
	United Future	Neville Wilson		211	0.63	-2.02	296	0.87	-1.62
	Progressive	Suki Amirapu		155	0.46	-0.33	281	0.82	-0.36
	RAM	Daphne Lawless		67	0.20	+0.20	16	0.05	+0.05
	NZ First						955	2.80	-1.37
	Pacific						302	0.89	+0.89
	Māori Party						163	0.48	+0.12
	Family Party						119	0.35	+0.35
	Bill and Ben						104	0.31	+0.31
	Legalise Cannabis						90	0.26	+0.15
	Alliance						23	0.07	0.00
	Workers Party						12	0.04	+0.04
	Libertarianz						8	0.02	-0.03
	RONZ						8	0.02	0.00
	Democrats						7	0.02	0.00
Informal votes				362			188
Total valid votes				33,359			34,085
	Labour hold		Majority	6,418

2005 election

2005 general election: Mount Roskill[14]
Notes:		Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	Labour	Y Phil Goff		19,476	59.94		16,501	49.70
	National	Jackie Blue		9,581	29.49		11,543	34.77
	ACT	Kenneth Wang		1,882	5.79		825	2.48
	United Future	Richard Barter		860	2.65		826	2.49
	Destiny	Brian Ane		338	1.04		191	0.58
	Progressive	Suki Amirapu		257	0.79		391	1.18
	Direct Democracy	Barry Scott		98	0.30		18	0.05
	Green						1,383	4.17
	NZ First						1,173	3.53
	Māori Party						121	0.36
	Family Rights						64	0.19
	Christian Heritage						60	0.18
	Legalise Cannabis						36	0.11
	Alliance						22	0.07
	Libertarianz						18	0.05
	99 MP						9	0.03
	RONZ						7	0.02
	One NZ						5	0.02
Informal votes				439			193
Total valid votes				32,492			33,200
	Labour hold		Majority	9,895

2002 election

2002 general election: Mount Roskill
Notes:		Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	Labour	Y Phil Goff		18,702	64.40	+6.13	14,866	49.73	+3.98
	National	Brent Trewheela		4,987	17.17		5,126	17.15	-10.50
	ACT	Kenneth Wang		1,494	5.14		2,351	7.86	+1.17
	NZ First	Dawn Mullins		1,301	4.48		2,329	7.79	+4.49
	United Future	Bernie Ogilvy		1,253	4.31		2,162	7.23
	Christian Heritage	Ewen McQueen		582	2.00		425	1.42	-2.19
	Alliance	Brendon Lane		337	1.16		357	1.19	-5.11
	Progressive	Trevor Barnard		229	0.79		446	1.49
	Independent	Stephen Berry		157	0.54
	Green						1,577	5.28	+1.53
	ORNZ						121	0.40
	Legalise Cannabis						109	0.36	-0.12
	One NZ						12	0.04	+0.01
	Mana Māori						10	0.03	-0.04
	NMP						4	0.01	-0.01
Informal votes				354			124
Total valid votes				29,042			29,895
	Labour hold		Majority	13,715	47.23	+16.61

1999 election

1999 general election: Mount Roskill
Notes:		Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	Labour	Phil Goff		18,475	58.27		14,702	45.75
	National	Phil Raffills		8,768	27.65		8,884	27.65
	Alliance	Sarah Martin		1,190	3.75		2,024	6.30
	ACT	Max Whitehead		894	2.82		2,150	6.69
	Green	Chris Hay		890	2.81		1,205	3.75
	Christian Heritage	Barrie Paterson		677	2.14		1,159	3.61
	NZ First	Chris Comeskey		585	1.85		1,059	3.30
	United NZ	Yousuf Qureshi		155	0.49		209	0.65
	Natural Law	Linda Ellen Davy		71	0.22		57	0.18
	Christian Democrats						308	0.96
	Legalise Cannabis						155	0.48
	Libertarianz						73	0.23
	Animals First						47	0.15
	McGillicuddy Serious						31	0.10
	Mana Māori						24	0.07
	The People's Choice						11	0.03
	One NZ						10	0.03
	Mauri Pacific						8	0.02
	South Island						8	0.02
	NMP						5	0.02
	Republican						3	0.01
	Freedom Movement						1	0.00
Informal votes				790			362
Total valid votes				31,705			32,133
	Labour win new seat		Majority	9,707	30.62

Table footnotes

1. 2014 Internet Mana swing is relative to the votes for Mana in 2011; it shared a party list with Internet in the 2014 election.

References

1. New Zealand Parliament – Phil Goff MP
2. "Notice of vacancy in seat in House of Representatives". New Zealand Gazette. 13 October 2016. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
3. "Phil Goff elected Mayor of Auckland". The New Zealand Herald. 8 October 2016. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
4. "Report of the Representation Commission 2020" (PDF). 17 April 2020.
5. Demelza Leslie (11 October 2016). "Mt Roskill becomes National-Labour battleground". Radio NZ. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
6. "Mt Roskill - Official Result". Electoral Commission. 16 November 2023.
7. "Official Count Results (2020) – Mount Roskill". Electoral Commission. 6 November 2020.
8. "Official Count Results (2017) – Mount Roskill". Electoral Commission. 7 October 2017.
9. "Mt Roskill - Official Result". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
10. "Official Count Results – Mt Roskill (2014)". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
11. Mount Roskill results, 2011
12. "Enrolment statistics". Electoral Commission. 21 October 2011. Archived from the original on 10 November 2011. Retrieved 17 November 2011.
13. 2008 election results Archived 11 December 2008 at archive.today
14. "Official Count Results – Mt Roskill (2005)". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 3 September 2017.

External links

• Electorate profile, Parliamentary Library