Ōtaki (previously Otaki) is a New Zealand Parliamentary electorate, spanning part of the west 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 Kāpiti Coast, including the towns of Ōtaki and Waikanae, and part of Paraparaumu. The current MP for Ōtaki is Tim Costley of the New Zealand National Party. He has held this position since the 2023 election.
Ōtaki | |
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Single-member constituency for the New Zealand House of Representatives | |
![]() Location of Ōtakiwithin Manawatū-Whanganui and Wellington | |
Region | Manawatū-Whanganui and Wellington |
Current constituency | |
Current MP | Tim Costley |
Party | National |
History
editIn the 1892 electoral redistribution, population shift to the North Island required the transfer of one seat from the South Island to the north. The resulting ripple effect saw every electorate established in 1890 have its boundaries altered, and eight electorates were established for the first time, including Otaki.[1] Otaki was first contested in the 1893 election, and the first member for Otaki was James Wilson, who held the seat for one term until 1896. It was then won by Henry Augustus Field and then, after Henry's death, by his brother William Hughes Field. William Field, a Liberal-turn-independent-turn-Reform, held it for a total of 32 years, from 1900 to 1935. Field lost the electorate in 1911 to John Robertson of the Social Democratic Party (who had been nominated by the flax-workers union), but won it back in 1914.
The seat was abolished in 1972, and Allan McCready, who was the incumbent, instead stood for and won the Manawatu electorate.
Otaki was recreated ahead of the change to mixed-member proportional (MMP) voting in 1996, by combining two bellwether seats: the northern half of Kapiti with the entire Horowhenua seat. Since its recreation the boundaries have been left largely unaltered, though after the 2007 boundary review a macron was added to the name and it is now spelled Ōtaki. The first MP for Otaki since its recreation was Judy Keall, who won by less than a thousand votes in 1996 before a more decisive victory in 1999.[2] In 2002, her former electorate assistant Darren Hughes won the seat, becoming the youngest member of the 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.
Nathan Guy won Ōtaki for National at every election since 2008; at the 2017 election Guy won 50.3% of the vote compared with the second-place Rob McCann getting 35.4%. Guy announced he would be resigning at the 2020 election,[3] and National have selected Tim Costley as its replacement candidate.[4]
In the 2020 election, Terisa Ngobi returned the seat to Labour in a tight contest, winning 17,953 of the votes compared to Tim Costley's 16,683 votes based on preliminary results.[5][6]
Members of Parliament
editUnless otherwise stated, all MPs' terms began and ended at general elections.
Key
Independent Liberal Reform Labour Labour National
List MPs
editMembers of Parliament elected from party lists in elections where that person also unsuccessfully contested the electorate. Unless otherwise stated, all MPs' terms began and ended at general elections.
Election | Winner | |
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1996 election | Roger Sowry | |
1999 election | ||
2002 election | ||
2005 election | Nathan Guy | |
2008 election | Darren Hughes[a] |
Election results
edit2023 election
edit2023 general election: Otaki[7] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
National | Tim Costley | 22,145 | 50.23 | +8.96 | 16,520 | 37.08 | +10.65 | ||
Labour | Terisa Ngobi | 15,874 | 36.01 | -11.80 | 15,014 | 34.94 | -17.28 | ||
Green | Ali Muhammad | 2,946 | 6.68 | +2.01 | 4,703 | 10.56 | +4.15 | ||
ACT | Sean Rush | 1,327 | 3.01 | +1.00 | 3,306 | 7.42 | +0.28 | ||
New Zealand Loyal | Bryan Ten-Have | 1,078 | 2.45 | — | 637 | 1.43 | — | ||
Not A Party | Bob Wessex | 75 | 0.17 | — | |||||
NZ First | 3,437 | 7.72 | +5.07 | ||||||
Opportunities | 692 | 1.55 | +0.49 | ||||||
Te Pāti Māori | 510 | 1.14 | +0.83 | ||||||
NewZeal | 210 | 0.47 | +0.16 [b] | ||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 158 | 0.35 | +0.04 | ||||||
Freedoms NZ | 137 | 0.31 | — | ||||||
Animal Justice | 89 | 0.20 | — | ||||||
New Conservative | 52 | 0.12 | −1.26 | ||||||
DemocracyNZ | 48 | 0.11 | — | ||||||
Women's Rights | 34 | 0.08 | — | ||||||
Leighton Baker Party | 17 | 0.04 | — | ||||||
Informal votes | 640 | 270 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 44,085 | 44,549 | |||||||
National gain from Labour | Majority | 6,271 | 14.22 | +7.79 |
2020 election
edit2020 general election: Ōtaki[8] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
Labour | Terisa Ngobi | 21,867 | 47.81 | +12.44 | 24,023 | 52.22 | +17.28 | ||
National | Tim Costley | 18,879 | 41.27 | -9.04 | 12,159 | 26.43 | -19.59 | ||
Green | Bernard Long | 2,135 | 4.67 | -0.59 | 2,947 | 6.41 | +0.76 | ||
ACT | Wayne Desmond Grattan | 918 | 2.01 | +1.76 | 3,284 | 7.14 | +6.75 | ||
New Conservative | Martin Frauenstein | 496 | 1.08 | — | 633 | 1.38 | +1.22 | ||
Attica | Michael Kay | 241 | 0.53 | — | |||||
Social Credit | Amanda Vickers | 192 | 0.42 | — | 60 | 0.13 | +0.12 | ||
ONE | Pisa Seala | 163 | 0.36 | — | 144 | 0.31 | — | ||
NZ First | 1,218 | 2.65 | -5.55 | ||||||
Opportunities | 485 | 1.06 | -1.13 | ||||||
Advance NZ | 372 | 0.81 | — | ||||||
Māori Party | 141 | 0.31 | -0.06 | ||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 141 | 0.31 | +0.13 | ||||||
Outdoors | 41 | 0.09 | +0.05 | ||||||
Vision NZ | 30 | 0.07 | — | ||||||
Sustainable NZ | 21 | 0.05 | — | ||||||
TEA | 6 | 0.01 | — | ||||||
Heartland | 2 | 0.00 | — | ||||||
Informal votes | 850 | 300 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 45,741 | 46,007 | |||||||
Turnout | 46,007 | ||||||||
Labour gain from National | Majority | 2,988 | 6.43 | — |
2017 election
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
National | Nathan Guy | 20,725 | 50.31 | −4.49 | 19,187 | 46.02 | −2.69 | ||
Labour | Rob McCann | 14,569 | 35.37 | +0.90 | 15,014 | 34.94 | +10.29 | ||
Green | Sam Ferguson | 2,167 | 5.26 | −1.17 | 2,358 | 5.65 | −3.74 | ||
NZ First | Romuald Edward Rudzki | 1,680 | 4.07 | — | 3,421 | 8.20 | −1.69 | ||
Opportunities | Piri-Hira Tukapua | 1,051 | 2.55 | — | 910 | 2.18 | — | ||
Independent | Sam Jennings | 504 | 1.22 | — | |||||
ACT | Wayne Desmond Grattan | 105 | 0.25 | — | 163 | 0.39 | +0.10 | ||
Māori Party | 156 | 0.37 | −0.07 | ||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 79 | 0.18 | −0.18 | ||||||
Conservative | 69 | 0.16 | −4.22 | ||||||
Ban 1080 | 44 | 0.10 | −0.06 | ||||||
United Future | 25 | 0.05 | — | ||||||
People's Party | 24 | 0.05 | — | ||||||
Outdoors | 19 | 0.04 | — | ||||||
Mana | 9 | 0.02 | −0.62[c] | ||||||
Democrats | 7 | 0.01 | −0.04 | ||||||
Internet | 3 | 0.007 | −0.633[d] | ||||||
Informal votes | 386 | 198 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 41,187 | 41,686 | |||||||
National hold | Majority | 6,156 | 14.95 | -5.38 |
2014 election
edit2014 general election: Ōtaki[10] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
National | Nathan Guy | 20,980 | 54.80 | +3.23 | 18,854 | 48.71 | +1.92 | ||
Labour | Rob McCann | 13,198 | 34.47 | −3.01 | 9,543 | 24.65 | −4.94 | ||
Green | Maddy Drew | 2,462 | 6.43 | +1.72 | 3,635 | 9.39 | +0.21 | ||
Conservative | Anne Lovelock | 913 | 2.38 | +0.65 | 1,695 | 4.38 | +1.19 | ||
Independent | Amanda Vickers | 203 | 0.53 | +0.53 | |||||
Independent | Frederick Macdonald | 118 | 0.31 | +0.31 | |||||
NZ First | 3,827 | 9.89 | +1.77 | ||||||
Internet Mana | 249 | 0.64 | +0.43[e] | ||||||
Māori Party | 169 | 0.44 | −0.12 | ||||||
Legalise Cannabis | 138 | 0.36 | −0.07 | ||||||
ACT | 111 | 0.29 | −0.38 | ||||||
United Future | 74 | 0.19 | −0.52 | ||||||
Ban 1080 | 61 | 0.16 | +0.16 | ||||||
Democrats | 19 | 0.05 | +0.01 | ||||||
Independent Coalition | 19 | 0.05 | +0.05 | ||||||
Civilian | 12 | 0.03 | +0.03 | ||||||
Focus | 6 | 0.02 | +0.02 | ||||||
Informal votes | 412 | 298 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 38,286 | 38,710 | |||||||
Turnout | 38,710 | 82.49 | +3.23 | ||||||
National hold | Majority | 7,782 | 20.33 | +6.24 |
2011 election
edit2011 general election: Ōtaki[11] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
National | Nathan Guy | 19,151 | 51.57 | +2.90 | 17,609 | 46.79 | +2.02 | ||
Labour | Peter Foster | 13,920 | 37.48 | -7.70 | 11,137 | 29.59 | -7.36 | ||
Green | Michael Gilchrist | 1,750 | 4.71 | +2.06 | 3,612 | 9.60 | +3.96 | ||
NZ First | David Scott | 1,122 | 3.02 | +1.02 | 3,057 | 8.12 | +2.63 | ||
Conservative | John Stephen Ryersson | 644 | 1.73 | +1.73 | 1,202 | 3.19 | +3.19 | ||
Legalise Cannabis | Fred MacDonald | 253 | 0.68 | +0.68 | 162 | 0.43 | +0.14 | ||
ACT | Peter McCaffrey | 115 | 0.31 | -0.23 | 253 | 0.67 | -1.92 | ||
United Future | Diane Brown | 110 | 0.30 | -0.09 | 266 | 0.71 | -0.31 | ||
Independent | Philip Dean Taueki | 73 | 0.20 | +0.20 | |||||
Māori Party | 210 | 0.56 | -0.26 | ||||||
Mana | 80 | 0.21 | +0.21 | ||||||
Libertarianz | 19 | 0.05 | +0.02 | ||||||
Democrats | 15 | 0.04 | +0.01 | ||||||
Alliance | 11 | 0.03 | -0.04 | ||||||
Informal votes | 573 | 292 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 37,138 | 37,633 | |||||||
National hold | Majority | 5,231 | 14.09 | +10.60 |
Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 47,483[12]
2008 election
edit2008 general election: Ōtaki[13] | |||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
National | Nathan Guy | 18,885 | 48.67 | +3.91 | 17,534 | 44.77 | +3.10 | ||
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 Party | 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 | ||||||
Democrats | 10 | 0.03 | -0.02 | ||||||
Pacific | 9 | 0.02 | |||||||
Workers Party | 6 | 0.02 | |||||||
RONZ | 5 | 0.01 | ±0.00 | ||||||
RAM | 0 | 0.00 | |||||||
Informal votes | 186 | 111 | |||||||
Total valid votes | 38,802 | 39,162 | |||||||
National gain from Labour | Majority | 1,354 | 3.49 |
2005 election
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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 | 1,043 | 2.72 | 2,630 | 6.79 | ||||
Green | Nick Fisher | 1,022 | 2.66 | 1,761 | 4.55 | ||||
United Future | Diane Brown | 611 | 1.59 | 1,297 | 3.35 | ||||
Māori Party | 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 | |||||||
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 |
1999 election
editRefer to Candidates in the New Zealand general election 1999 by electorate#Otaki for a list of candidates.
1943 election
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Leonard Lowry | 5,151 | 46.56 | −9.76 | |
National | Bert Cooksley | 4,960 | 44.83 | ||
Democratic Labour | Robert James Barnett | 454 | 4.10 | ||
People's Movement | William Jonathan Crawford | 413 | 3.73 | ||
Informal votes | 84 | 0.75 | +0.41 | ||
Majority | 191 | 1.72 | −11.27 | ||
Turnout | 11,062 | 92.16 | −1.97 | ||
Registered electors | 12,003 |
1938 election
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Leonard Lowry | 5,926 | 56.32 | +6.35 | |
National | George Alexander Monk | 4,559 | 43.33 | +12.41 | |
Informal votes | 36 | 0.34 | |||
Majority | 1,367 | 12.99 | −6.06 | ||
Turnout | 10,521 | 94.13 | +10.87 | ||
Registered electors | 11,177 |
1935 election
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Leonard Lowry | 4,511 | 49.97 | ||
United/Reform | George Alexander Monk[18] | 2,791 | 30.92 | ||
Independent | Will Appleton[19] | 975 | 10.80 | ||
Democrat | Robert Westley Bothamley[20] | 750 | 8.31 | ||
Majority | 1,720 | 19.05 | +3.28 | ||
Turnout | 9,027 | 83.26 | −0.73 | ||
Registered electors | 10,842 |
1931 election
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Reform | William Hughes Field | 4,848 | 57.89 | ||
Labour | Jim Thorn | 3,527 | 42.11 | ||
Majority | 1,321 | 15.77 | |||
Informal votes | 92 | 1.09 | |||
Turnout | 8,467 | 83.99 | |||
Registered electors | 10,081 |
1928 election
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Reform | William Hughes Field | 3,407 | 44.54 | ||
United | Archibald Burnett Sievwright | 2,594 | 33.91 | ||
Labour | Harold Dyson | 1,400 | 18.30 | ||
Independent | James Purchase | 249 | 3.25 | ||
Majority | 813 | 10.63 | |||
Informal votes | 106 | 1.37 | |||
Turnout | 7,756 | 88.29 | |||
Registered electors | 8,785 |
1900 by-election
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | William Hughes Field | 1,755 | 52.44 | ||
Conservative | Charles Morison | 1,592 | 47.56 | +2.09 | |
Majority | 163 | 4.87 | −4.18 | ||
Turnout | 3,347 | 62.35 | −0.45 | ||
Registered electors | 5,368 |
Footnotes
edit- ^ Hughes resigned from Parliament on 1 April 2011.
- ^ Compared to ONE Party
- ^ 2017 Mana Party swing is relative to the votes for Internet-Mana in 2014; it shared a party list with the Internet Party in the 2014 election
- ^ 2017 Internet Party swing is relative to the votes for Internet-Mana in 2014; it shared a party list with Mana Party in the 2014 election
- ^ 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
edit- ^ McRobie 1989, pp. 59f.
- ^ Counsell, Gerard (31 October 2008). "Swing seats: All eyes on Otaki". One News. Retrieved 8 October 2014.
- ^ "National party reshuffle after Nathan Guy announces retirement from politics". Newshub. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
- ^ Walls, Jason (17 November 2019). "Former Air Force pilot Tim Costley has been selected to run in the National safe seat of Ōtaki". The New Zealand Herald. ISSN 1170-0777. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
- ^ "Ōtaki – Preliminary Count". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
- ^ Willis, Rosalie (19 October 2020). "Terisa Ngobi wins Ōtaki seat in election night thriller". The New Zealand Herald. Archived from the original on 28 October 2020. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
- ^ "Official Count Results – Otaki". New Zealand Electoral Commission. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
- ^ "Ōtaki – Official Result". Electoral Commission. 6 November 2020. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
- ^ "Official Count Results – Otaki". Wellington: New Zealand Electoral Commission. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
- ^ "Official Count Results – Ōtaki (2014)". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
- ^ "2011 election results".
- ^ "Enrolment statistics". Electoral Commission. 26 November 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2011.
- ^ "2008 Official Count Results – Ōtaki".
- ^ "2005 Official Count Results – Otaki".
- ^ "The General Election, 1943". National Library. 1944. p. 11. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
- ^ "The General Election, 1938". National Library. 1939. pp. 1–6. Retrieved 8 February 2012.
- ^ "How the votes were cast". The Evening Post. Vol. CXX, no. 130. 28 November 1935. p. 8. Retrieved 16 November 2013.
- ^ "Otaki Seat". The Evening Post. Vol. CXX, no. 55. 2 September 1935. p. 10. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
- ^ "Mr. Appleton's Candidature". The Evening Post. Vol. CXX, no. 97. 21 October 1935. p. 11. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
- ^ "Election Notices". The Evening Post. Vol. CXIX, no. 99. 29 April 1935. p. 2. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
- ^ The General Election, 1931. Government Printer. 1932. p. 4. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
- ^ Skinner, W. A. G. (1929). The General Election, 1928. Government Printer. p. 4. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
- ^ "The Otaki Seat". The New Zealand Herald. Vol. XXXVII, no. 11265. 8 January 1900. p. 5. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
Sources
edit- McRobie, Alan (1989). Electoral Atlas of New Zealand. Wellington: GP Books. ISBN 0-477-01384-8.
- Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.
External links
edit- Electorate Profile Parliamentary Library