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This article is about the Christchurch Central electorate. For the Christchurch central city suburb, see Christchurch Central City.
Map showing extent of electorate for the 2008 and 2011 elections

Christchurch Central is a New Zealand Parliamentary electorate.

It is currently held by Brendon Burns[1] for the Labour Party. Burns was first elected in this seat in 2008.

Contents

Population Centres

Christchurch CBD, Addington, Shirley, Richmond, Hagley

History

The Christchurch Central electorate was created in 1946, and is a safe Labour seat; National has not won it in any form at any point in the last forty years, though a high turnout for the Alliance did see Tim Barnett's 1996 majority come in at under 1000. Brendon Burn's majority in the 2008 election was also just under 1000.

Members of Parliament for Christchurch Central

Unless otherwise stated, all MPs terms began and ended at general elections.

Name Party Elected Left Office Reason
Robert Macfarlane Labour 1946, 1949, 1951, 1954, 1957, 1960, 1963, 1966 1969 retired
Bruce Barclay Labour 1969, 1972, 1975, 1978 1979 died
Geoffrey Palmer Labour 1979 byelection, 1981, 1984, 1987 1990 retired
Lianne Dalziel Labour 1990, 1993 1996 list-only candidate
Tim Barnett Labour 1996, 1999, 2002, 2005 2008 retired
Brendon Burns Labour 2008 incumbent

List MPs from Christchurch Central

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

Name Party First Elected Left Office Contested Christchurch Central
Liz Gordon Alliance 1996 2002 1996, 1999, 2002
Nicky Wagner National 2005 Current MP 2002, 2005, 2008

Election results

2008 election

General Election 2008: Christchurch Central[2]

Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list.
A YesY or NoN denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Party Votes % ±%
Labour Brendon Burns 14,078 43.83 -8.74 12,999 39.36 -8.95
National Nicky Wagner 13,143 40.92 11.65 12,409 37.58 +7.07
Green Jan McLauchlan 2,708 8.43 +1.78 3,688 11.17 +1.47
Progressive Somnath Bagchi 598 1.86 -1.34 697 2.11 +0.25
Legalise Cannabis Michael Britnell 487 1.52 - 187 0.57 +0.20
ACT Toni Severin 482 1.50 +0.49 897 2.72 +1.66
Kiwi Andrew Beaven 353 1.10 - 218 0.66 -
Workers Party Byron Clark[3] 164 0.51 +0.24 33 0.10
Alliance Greg Kleis 103 0.32 - 41 0.12 +0.01
NZ First - 1,036 3.14 -0.90
United Future - 239 0.72 -2.32
Māori - 230 0.70 0.36
Bill and Ben - 187 0.57 -
Family Party - 87 0.26 -
Pacific - 31 0.09 -
Libertarianz - 21 0.06 +0.04
NZ Democrats - 16 0.05 +0.00
RONZ - 5 0.02 +0.00
RAM - 2 0.01 -
Informal votes 306 119
Total Valid votes 32,116 33,023
Labour hold Majority 935 2.91 -20.38

2005 election

Note: lines coloured beige denote the winner of the electorate vote. Lines coloured pink denote a candidate elected to Parliament from their party's list.

Party Candidate Votes % Party Votes %
Labour YesY Tim Barnett 17685 52.57 16652 48.31
National Nicky Wagner 9849 29.28 10515 30.51
Green Natalie Cutler-Welsh 2236 6.65 3342 9.70
NZ First Kevin Gardener 1022 3.04 1391 4.04
Progressive Megan Woods 1077 3.20 643 1.87
United John van Buren 761 2.26 1048 3.04
ACT Shirley Marshall 340 1.01 364 1.06
Destiny Anita Breach 338 1.01 144 0.42
Māori Party Darryl Gregory 188 0.56 116 0.34
Anti-Capitalist Byron Clark 90 0.27
Communist Annalucia Vermunt 53 0.16
ALCP - - - 125 0.36
Alliance - - - 40 0.12
Christian Heritage - - - 37 0.11
Democrats - - - 15 0.04
99 MP - - - 10 0.03
Libertarianz - - - 9 0.03
Direct Democracy - - - 7 0.02
Republic of NZ - - - 5 0.01
Family Rights PP - - - 4 0.01
One NZ - - - 2 0.01
informal votes 410 193
total valid votes 33,639 34,469
Labour hold Majority 7,836

sourced from electionresults.govt.nz

References

  1. ^ New Zealand Parliament - Brendon Burns MP
  2. ^ election result Christchurch Central
  3. ^ Byron Clark contested the seat in the 2005 election for the same party, which was then called the Anti-Capitalist Alliance.

External links

Electorates of New Zealand at the 2008 and 2011 general elections
North Island
South Island
Māori







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