Maungakiekie (New Zealand electorate)

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 Priyanca Radhakrishnan of the Labour Party. The name is from Maungakiekie / One Tree Hill, a large and symbolically important hill at the western end of the seat; the name denotes the presence of kiekie vines on the hill.
The core of Maungakiekie is the suburbs of Auckland clustered around the Southern Motorway, and the most southern parts of Auckland City 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.
History.
Maungakiekie has existed in various forms since its creation ahead of the introduction of Mixed Member Proportional voting in the . It was created from merging most of with a large section of , both of them reasonably safe Labour seats. Its original incarnation included both Onehunga and Otahuhu, though for the nine years from , Onehunga was part of , and from 2008 onwards, Otahuhu formed the northernmost part of Manukau East. The same boundary changes that took Otahuhu out put Panmure in at the expense of . In 2020, the seat lost Panmure to and gained Royal Oak from .
Because of the area's seats' tendency to vote Labour, and because Labour suffered its worst result since World War II in 1996, with votes splintering off to both the Alliance and New Zealand First, Onehunga MP Richard Northey found himself ousted from Parliament in 1996 at the hands of then unknown National Party candidate Belinda Vernon. Vernon's own party suffered a dramatic reversal of fortune that started at the and her three-year term as MP for Maungakiekie ended in favour of Mark Gosche, who held the seat until , notching up a majority of around 6,500 in the intermediate elections.
Sam Lotu-liga captured the seat again for National in the large swing against Labour in 2008. On 13 December 2016, Lotu-liga announced that he was quitting politics, to take effect at the 2017 general election. The electorate was won by Denise Lee at the election, retaining the seat for the National Party.
Members of Parliament.
Unless otherwise stated, all MPs' terms began and ended at general elections.
Key
List MPs.
Members of Parliament elected from party lists in elections where that person also unsuccessfully contested the Maungakiekie electorate. Unless otherwise stated, all MPs terms began and ended at general elections.
Election results.
2011 election.
Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 46,637
2005 election.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2002 election.
 
 
 
1999 election.
 
 
 
 
 