Heretaunga (New Zealand electorate)

Heretaunga is a former New Zealand parliamentary electorate, in the city of Upper Hutt, that existed from 1954 until 1996.

Heretaunga electorate boundaries between 1993 and 1996.

Population centres

The First Labour Government was defeated in the 1949 election and the incoming National Government changed the Electoral Act, with the electoral quota once again based on total population as opposed to qualified electors, and the tolerance was increased to 7.5% of the electoral quota. There was no adjustments in the number of electorates between the South and North Islands, but the law changes resulted in boundary adjustments to almost every electorate through the 1952 electoral redistribution; only five electorates were unaltered.[1] Five electorates were reconstituted and the Heretaunga electorate was newly created, and a corresponding six electorates were abolished; all of these in the North Island.[2] These changes took effect with the 1954 election.[3]

The Heretaunga electorate was urban and was based on Heretaunga, a suburb of Upper Hutt in the northern Hutt Valley. Other places included Haywards and Birchville.[4]

History

The electorate originated in 1954, and lasted to 1996, when with the introduction of MMP it was replaced by Rimutaka.

In the 1951 election, Upper Hutt had belonged to the Otaki electorate, and the National Party's incumbent Member of Parliament, Jimmy Maher had defeated the Labour' Party's candidate, Phil Holloway. In the 1954 election, Upper Hutt belonged to the newly-formed Heretaunga electorate, and Holloway stood against National's Allan McCready (Maher's son-in-law) and won decisively.[5]

Up to 1990 when Peter McCardle won the seat for National, the Labour Party held Heretaunga. In 1993, McCardle narrowly held the seat against a challenge from Labour candidate Heather Simpson (who went on to become Helen Clark's Chief of Staff, known as H2 – Clark was H1[6]). Subsequently, McCardle left the National Party in 1996 and joined New Zealand First.

Members of Parliament

Key

  Labour   National   NZ First

Election Winner
1954 election Phil Holloway
1957 election
1960 election Ron Bailey
1963 election
1966 election
1969 election
1972 election
1975 election
1978 election
1981 election Bill Jeffries
1984 election
1987 election
1990 election Peter McCardle
1993 election
(Electorate abolished in 1996; see Rimutaka)

Election results

1993 election
1993 general election: Heretaunga[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
National Peter McCardle 7,981 41.15 -2.53
Labour Heather Simpson 7,149 36.86
Alliance Brendan Tracey 2,663 13.73
NZ First Gary Logan 772 3.98
Christian Heritage Geoff Hounsell 616 3.17
McGillicuddy Serious Rick Sahar 137 0.70
Defence Movement Hilda Mendoza 32 0.16
Independent Michael Avanti 43 0.22
Majority 832 4.29 -1.66
Turnout 19,393 86.27 -0.01
Registered electors 22,477

1990 election
1990 general election: Heretaunga[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
National Peter McCardle 8,234 43.68
Labour Bill Jeffries 7,112 37.73 -16.82
Green S Miller 1,194 6.33
NewLabour Kevin Boyd 1,000 5.30
Christian Heritage John Allen 927 4.91 -35.76
Independent S Cochrane 218 1.15
Democrats Bill Henderson 164 0.87 -3.90
Majority 1,122 5.95
Turnout 18,849 86.28 -1.07
Registered electors 21,844

1987 election
1987 general election: Heretaunga[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Bill Jeffries 10,037 54.55 +2.32
National John Allen 7,483 40.67
Democrats Bill Henderson 878 4.77 +1.70
Majority 2,554 13.88 -9.45
Turnout 18,398 87.35 -6.04
Registered electors 21,060

1984 election
1984 general election: Heretaunga[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Bill Jeffries 10,155 52.23 +4.55
National Anna MacFarlane 5,618 28.89
NZ Party Derek Spence 3,072 15.80
Social Credit Bill Henderson 597 3.07
Majority 4,537 23.33 +11.33
Turnout 19,442 93.39 +2.19
Registered electors 20,818

1981 election
1981 general election: Heretaunga[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Bill Jeffries 8,872 47.68
National Ronald Palmer 6,639 35.68
Social Credit Jim Ross 3,094 16.62
Majority 2,233 12.00
Turnout 18,605 91.20 -15.62
Registered electors 20,400

1978 election
1978 general election: Heretaunga[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ron Bailey 9,086 49.82 +4.47
National John Ward 6,342 34.77
Social Credit Shane Kelly 2,110 11.56
Values Mary Harpham 699 3.83
Majority 2,744 15.04 -13.22
Turnout 18,237 75.58 -11.06
Registered electors 24,129

1975 election
1975 general election: Heretaunga[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ron Bailey 8,330 45.35 -9.68
National Julie Cameron 7,994 43.52
Social Credit John Fowlds 1,129 6.14 +2.01
Values Max Overton 913 4.97
Majority 336 1.82 -17.87
Turnout 18,366 86.64 -3.99
Registered electors 21,198

1972 election
1972 general election: Heretaunga[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ron Bailey 8,281 55.03 +4.16
National John Schnellenberg 5,317 35.33
Values Susan Northcote-Bade 698 4.63
Social Credit John Fowlds 622 4.13
New Democratic G W Healy 129 0.85
Majority 2,964 19.69 +10.70
Turnout 15,047 90.63 -0.46
Registered electors 16,602

1969 election
1969 general election: Heretaunga[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ron Bailey 7,773 50.87 -0.31
National Ralph Miller 6,398 41.87
Social Credit Barry Charles Ritzema 930 6.08 -6.52
Independent Grace Mary Martin 178 1.16
Majority 1,375 8.99 -6.81
Turnout 15,279 90.17 -2.04
Registered electors 16,943

1966 election
1966 general election: Heretaunga[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ron Bailey 8,572 51.18 -2.17
National Ian Ross 5,925 35.38
Social Credit Barry Charles Ritzema 2,111 12.60
Democratic Raymond Logan Burgess 138 0.82
Majority 2,647 15.80 +1.89
Turnout 16,746 88.13 -2.50
Registered electors 19,000

1963 election
1963 general election: Heretaunga[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ron Bailey 8,186 53.35 -0.62
National Bob Kimmins 6,051 39.43
Social Credit Ting Lousich 1,106 7.20
Majority 2,135 13.91 -2.91
Turnout 15,343 90.63 -0.29
Registered electors 16,929

1960 election
1960 general election: Heretaunga[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ron Bailey 8,265 53.97
National Vere Edward Hampson-Tindale 5,689 37.14
Social Credit Anthony R. Wall 1,360 8.88
Majority 2,576 16.82
Turnout 15,314 90.92 -3.31
Registered electors 16,842

1957 election
1957 general election: Heretaunga[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Phil Holloway 9,382 64.88 +1.58
National Allan McCready 4,265 29.49 -0.40
Social Credit Robert Leslie Allan 812 5.61
Majority 5,117 35.38 +1.97
Turnout 14,459 94.23 +1.97
Registered electors 15,343

1954 election
1954 general election: Heretaunga[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Phil Holloway 9,583 63.30
National Allan McCready 4,525 29.89
Social Credit Christopher Walter Tait 1,029 6.79
Majority 5,058 33.41
Turnout 15,137 92.26
Registered electors 16,406

Notes
  1. McRobie 1989, pp. 99f.
  2. McRobie 1989, pp. 95–100.
  3. McRobie 1989, p. 99.
  4. McRobie 1989, p. 98.
  5. "Large Majority for Labour". Upper Hutt Leader. Vol. XI, no. 48. 18 November 1954. p. 2. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
  6. Young, Audrey (29 January 2017). "Helen and Heather's great political partnership could be entering the twilight zone". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 9 September 2017. Simpson then became director of policy and research for the parliamentary Labour Party before her elevation to chief of staff when she became Clark's 'enforcer' in the various political crises and scandals that arose as well as policy overseer. [...] She earned the nickname H2, as the second-most powerful woman in New Zealand, next to Helen Clark, H1.
  7. Part 1: Votes recorded at each polling place (Technical report). New Zealand Chief Electoral Office. 1993.
  8. Part 1: Votes recorded at each polling place (Technical report). New Zealand Chief Electoral Office. 1990. pp. 41–2.
  9. Norton 1988, p. 245.
  10. Norton 1988, p. 244.

References
  • 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.
  • Norton, Clifford (1988). New Zealand Parliamentary Election Results 1946–1987: Occasional Publications No 1, Department of Political Science. Wellington: Victoria University of Wellington. ISBN 0-475-11200-8.
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