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BoggleŌtaki (New Zealand electorate)
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Ōtaki shown as part of the west coast of the North Island
Ōtaki (previously Otaki) is a New Zealand Parliamentary electorate, spanning part of the coast of the lower North Island. The bulk of its population comes from the Horowhenua district, but it also takes in part of the northern Kapiti Coast, including the towns of Otaki and Waikanae, and part of Paraparaumu. The current MP for Ōtaki is Nathan Guy of the National Party. He has held this position since 2008 election.
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History
Late 19th and early 20th centuries
Otaki was created in the late 1800s, and the first member for Otaki was James Glenny Wilson for 1893–1896. For most of the early 1900s the seat was won by William Hughes Field, a Liberal-turn-independent-turn-Reform. He lost it to John Robertson of the Social Democratic Party (who had been nominated by the flax-workers union) in 1911, but won it back in 1914.
The seat was abolished in 1972, and Allan McCready transferred to the Manawatu electorate.
Post-MMP
Otaki was created ahead of the change to Mixed Member Proportional voting in 1996, by combining two bellwether seats: the northern half of Kapiti with the entire Horowhenua seat. Since its inception the boundaries have been left largely unaltered, though after the 2007 boundary review a macron was added to the name, and it is now spelt Ōtaki. The first MP for Otaki was Judy Keall, who won by less than a thousand votes in 1996 before a more decisive victory in 1999. In 2002, her former electorate assistant Darren Hughes won the seat, becoming the youngest member of the New Zealand House of Representatives. His 2002 majority was slashed to just 382 at the 2005 election by former Horowhenua District councillor Nathan Guy. In a 2008 rematch, Guy tipped out Hughes by 1,354 votes; Hughes returned to Parliament off the Labour Party list.
Members of Parliament for Ōtaki
Unless otherwise stated, all MPs' terms began and ended at general elections.
| Name | Party | Elected | Left Office | Reason |
| James Glenny Wilson | Independent | 1893 | 1896 | retired |
| Henry Augustus Field | Liberal | 1896, 1899 | 1902 | died |
| William Hughes Field | Liberal | 1902, 1905 | 1908 | became an independent |
| Independent then Reform | 1908 | 1911 | defeated | |
| John Robertson | Independent (Social Democrat) | 1911 | 1914 | defeated |
| William Hughes Field | Reform | 1914, 1919, 1922, 1925, 1928, 1931 | 1935 | retired |
| Leonard Lowry | National | 1935, 1938, 1943 | 1946 | retired |
| James Joseph Maher | National | 1946, 1949, 1951, 1954, 1957 | 1960 | retired |
| Allan McCready | National | 1960, 1963, 1966, 1969 | 1972 | elected for Manawatu |
| Judy Keall | Labour | 1996, 1999 | 2002 | retired |
| Darren Hughes | Labour | 2002, 2005 | 2008 | defeated |
| Nathan Guy | National | 2008 | incumbent | |
List MPs from Ōtaki
Members of Parliament elected from party lists in elections where that person also unsuccessfully contested the Ōtaki electorate. Unless otherwise stated, all MPs' terms began and ended at general elections.
| Name | Party | First Elected | Left Office | Contested Ōtaki |
| Roger Sowry | National | 1990 | 2005 | 1996, 1999, 2002 |
| Nathan Guy | National | 2005 | 2008 | 2005 (lost) 2008 (won) |
| Darren Hughes | Labour | 2008 | current MP | 2002 (won) 2005 (won) 2008 (lost) |
Election results
2008 election
| General Election 2008: Ōtaki[1] | |||||||||
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Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. | |||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party Votes | % | ±% | ||
| National | Nathan Guy | 18,885 | 48.67 | +3.91 | 17,534 | 44.77 | +3.1 | ||
| Labour | Darren Hughes | 17,531 | 45.18 | -0.58 | 14,472 | 36.95 | +4.72 | ||
| Green | Jim Kebbell | 1,029 | 2.65 | - | 2,207 | 5.64 | 1.09 | ||
| NZ First | David John Scott | 778 | 2.01 | - | 2,153 | 5.50 | -1.29 | ||
| Progressive | Josie Pagani | 221 | 0.57 | - | 453 | 1.16 | -0.43 | ||
| ACT | Peter McCaffrey | 210 | 0.54 | - | 1,014 | 2.59 | +1.60 | ||
| United Future | Diane Brown | 148 | 0.38 | -1.25 | 397 | 1.01 | -2.34 | ||
| Māori | 321 | 0.82 | +0.08 | ||||||
| Bill and Ben | 177 | 0.45 | |||||||
| Kiwi | 165 | 0.42 | |||||||
| Legalise Cannabis | 115 | 0.29 | +0.06 | ||||||
| Family Party | 84 | 0.21 | |||||||
| Alliance | 28 | 0.07 | -0.13 | ||||||
| Libertarianz | 12 | 0.03 | +0.01 | ||||||
| NZ Democrats | 10 | 0.03 | -0.02 | ||||||
| Pacific | 9 | 0.02 | |||||||
| Workers Party | 6 | 0.02 | |||||||
| RONZ | 5 | 0.01 | ±0 | ||||||
| RAM | 0 | 0.00 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 186 | 111 | |||||||
| Total Valid votes | 38,802 | 39,273 | |||||||
| National gain from Labour | Majority | 1,354 | |||||||
2005 election
| General Election 2005: Otaki[2] | |||||||||
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Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. | |||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party Votes | % | ±% | ||
| Labour | Darren Hughes | 17,556 | 45.76 | -7.27% | 16,131 | 41.67 | |||
| National | Nathan Guy | 17,174 | 44.76 | +13.79% | 15,174 | 39.20 | |||
| NZ First | Chris Perry | 1043 | 2.72 | 2630 | 6.79 | ||||
| Green | Nick Fisher | 1022 | 2.66 | 1761 | 4.55 | ||||
| United Future | Diane Brown | 611 | 1.59 | 1297 | 3.35 | ||||
| Māori | Richard Orzecki | 353 | 0.92 | 286 | 0.74 | ||||
| Progressive | Russell Franklin | 303 | 0.79 | 614 | 1.59 | ||||
| ACT | Simon Ewing-Jarvie | 163 | 0.42 | 383 | 0.99 | ||||
| Alliance | Margaret Jeune | 97 | 0.25 | 78 | 0.20 | ||||
| Direct Democracy | Robert Atack | 47 | 0.12 | 7 | 0.02 | ||||
| Destiny | 154 | 0.40 | |||||||
| Legalise Cannabis | 88 | 0.23 | |||||||
| Family Rights | 54 | 0.14 | |||||||
| Christian Heritage | 37 | 0.10 | |||||||
| NZ Democrats | 21 | 0.05 | |||||||
| 99 MP | 14 | 0.04 | |||||||
| One NZ | 14 | 0.04 | |||||||
| Libertarianz | 9 | 0.02 | |||||||
| RONZ | 5 | 0.01 | |||||||
| Informal votes | 242 | 134 | |||||||
| Total Valid votes | 38,369 | 38,707 | |||||||
| Labour hold | Majority | 382 | 1.00 | -21.07 | |||||
References
External links
- Electorate Profile Parliamentary Library
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