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class="vector-toc-link" href="#1990_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.12</span> <span>1990 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1990_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1987_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1987_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.13</span> <span>1987 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1987_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1984_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1984_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.14</span> <span>1984 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1984_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1981_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1981_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.15</span> <span>1981 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1981_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1978_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1978_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.16</span> <span>1978 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1978_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1975_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1975_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.17</span> <span>1975 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1975_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1972_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1972_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.18</span> <span>1972 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1972_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1969_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1969_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.19</span> <span>1969 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1969_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1966_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1966_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.20</span> <span>1966 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1966_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1963_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1963_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.21</span> <span>1963 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1963_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1960_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1960_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.22</span> <span>1960 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1960_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1957_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1957_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.23</span> <span>1957 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1957_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1954_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1954_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.24</span> <span>1954 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1954_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1951_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1951_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.25</span> <span>1951 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1951_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1949_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1949_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.26</span> <span>1949 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1949_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1946_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1946_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.27</span> <span>1946 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1946_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1943_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1943_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.28</span> <span>1943 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1943_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1938_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1938_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.29</span> <span>1938 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1938_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1935_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1935_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.30</span> <span>1935 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1935_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1931_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1931_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.31</span> <span>1931 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1931_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1930_by-election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1930_by-election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.32</span> <span>1930 by-election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1930_by-election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1928_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1928_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.33</span> <span>1928 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1928_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1925_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1925_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.34</span> <span>1925 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1925_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1899_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1899_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.35</span> <span>1899 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1899_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1896_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1896_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.36</span> <span>1896 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1896_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1893_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1893_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.37</span> <span>1893 election</span> </div> 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colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:SIMMONDS,_Penny_-_Invercargill_(cropped).png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/SIMMONDS%2C_Penny_-_Invercargill_%28cropped%29.png/150px-SIMMONDS%2C_Penny_-_Invercargill_%28cropped%29.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="194" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/SIMMONDS%2C_Penny_-_Invercargill_%28cropped%29.png/225px-SIMMONDS%2C_Penny_-_Invercargill_%28cropped%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/SIMMONDS%2C_Penny_-_Invercargill_%28cropped%29.png/300px-SIMMONDS%2C_Penny_-_Invercargill_%28cropped%29.png 2x" data-file-width="518" data-file-height="670" /></a></span><br /><b><a href="/wiki/Penny_Simmonds" title="Penny Simmonds">Penny Simmonds</a> </b><br />since <a href="/wiki/2023_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2023 New Zealand general election">14 October 2023</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Previous MP</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sarah_Dowie" title="Sarah Dowie">Sarah Dowie</a> (<a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a>)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below"><b>Party vote distribution</b> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1050355024">.mw-parser-output .stackedbar{border:1px solid grey;height:10px;width:100%;line-height:0;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .StackedBarTemplate>div:first-child{font-size:14px;width:100%;text-align:center;display:flex}.mw-parser-output .StackedBarTemplate>div:first-child>div>span{padding:0.15em}.mw-parser-output .StackedBarTemplate_lean>div:first-child>div{transform:translateX(1em)rotate(200deg)}.mw-parser-output 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</td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Invercargill</b> is an electorate of the <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Parliament" title="New Zealand Parliament">New Zealand Parliament</a> that has existed since 1866. Since the <a href="/wiki/2020_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2020 New Zealand general election">2020 election</a>, the electorate's representative is <a href="/wiki/Penny_Simmonds" title="Penny Simmonds">Penny Simmonds</a> of the <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National Party</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Population_centres">Population centres</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Population centres"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The electorate covers <a href="/wiki/Invercargill" title="Invercargill">Invercargill</a> city and the surrounding rural area, including <a href="/wiki/Stewart_Island_/_Rakiura" class="mw-redirect" title="Stewart Island / Rakiura">Stewart Island / Rakiura</a>. In 1996 a boundary redistribution resulted in the abolition of the <a href="/wiki/Awarua_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Awarua (New Zealand electorate)">Awarua electorate</a> and merged with Invercargill following re-drawing of boundaries due to the introduction of mixed-member proportional voting (<a href="/wiki/Mixed-member_proportional_representation" title="Mixed-member proportional representation">MMP</a>). Minor but steady population decline in the Southland region has generally resulted in Invercargill expanding northwards. The 2013 redistribution, however, has left Invercargill unchanged.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 2020 redistribution added a large area around <a href="/wiki/Clifden" title="Clifden">Clifden</a> and Tuatapere.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The electorate was established in 1866 when it separated from the <a href="/wiki/Wallace_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Wallace (New Zealand electorate)">Wallace electorate</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield1950159_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield1950159-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first representative was <a href="/wiki/William_Wood_(New_Zealand_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="William Wood (New Zealand politician)">William Wood</a>, who won the <a href="/wiki/1866_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1866 New Zealand general election">1866 election</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield1950149_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield1950149-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Wood retired at the end of the parliamentary term in 1870. <a href="/wiki/William_Henderson_Calder" title="William Henderson Calder">William Henderson Calder</a> succeeded Wood in the <a href="/wiki/1871_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1871 New Zealand general election">1871 election</a> and he resigned in March 1873.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield195099_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield195099-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The resulting <a href="/wiki/1873_Invercargill_by-election" title="1873 Invercargill by-election">1873 by-election</a> was won by <a href="/wiki/John_Cuthbertson_(politician)" title="John Cuthbertson (politician)">John Cuthbertson</a>, who served until the end of the parliamentary term in 1875.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield1950102_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield1950102-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Cuthbertson was defeated by <a href="/wiki/George_Lumsden" title="George Lumsden">George Lumsden</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1875%E2%80%931876_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1875–1876 New Zealand general election">1875 election</a>. Lumsden resigned in June 1878,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield1950120_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield1950120-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which caused the <a href="/wiki/1878_Invercargill_by-election" title="1878 Invercargill by-election">1878 by-election</a>. <a href="/wiki/Henry_Feldwick" title="Henry Feldwick">Henry Feldwick</a> was the successful candidate and he commenced his first of three terms for the electorate.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield1950105_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield1950105-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the <a href="/wiki/1879_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1879 New Zealand general election">1879 election</a>, Feldwick was defeated by <a href="/wiki/James_Walker_Bain" title="James Walker Bain">James Walker Bain</a>, who retired at the end of the parliamentary term in 1881.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield195094_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield195094-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the <a href="/wiki/1881_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1881 New Zealand general election">1881 election</a>, Feldwick was again the successful candidate,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield1950105_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield1950105-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> only to be defeated again at the <a href="/wiki/1884_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1884 New Zealand general election">1884 election</a>, on that occasion by <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Hatch" title="Joseph Hatch">Joseph Hatch</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield1950112_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield1950112-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the <a href="/wiki/1887_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1887 New Zealand general election">1887 election</a>, Feldwick defeated Hatch and commenced his third and final term for the Invercargill electorate, serving until the end of the parliamentary term in 1890.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield1950105_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield1950105-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/James_Whyte_Kelly" title="James Whyte Kelly">James Whyte Kelly</a> defeated Feldwick in the <a href="/wiki/1890_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1890 New Zealand general election">1890 election</a>. Kelly became a member of the <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Liberal_Party" title="New Zealand Liberal Party">Liberal Party</a> and served for three parliamentary terms,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield1950105_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield1950105-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but broke away from the Liberal Party and became an <a href="/wiki/Independent_Liberal" title="Independent Liberal">Independent Liberal</a> in 1895.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For the <a href="/wiki/1899_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1899 New Zealand general election">1899 election</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Josiah_Hanan" title="Josiah Hanan">Josiah Hanan</a> of the Liberal Party challenged Kelly, with Hanan being successful.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hanan served the electorate until 1925, when he retired.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield1950111_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield1950111-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/1925_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1925 New Zealand general election">1925 election</a> was narrowly won by the former Prime Minister Sir <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Ward" title="Joseph Ward">Joseph Ward</a> standing for the Liberal Party, who beat <a href="/wiki/James_Hargest" title="James Hargest">James Hargest</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Reform_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Reform Party (New Zealand)">Reform Party</a> with 4957 votes to 4798; a third contender, Patrick Hickey, stood for the <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour Party</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1925_election_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1925_election-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Until 1919, Ward had for many years represented Awarua.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield1950146_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield1950146-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ward, a former leader of the Liberal Party, contested the election under the "Liberal" label, despite the fact that the remnants of the Liberal Party were now calling themselves by different names.<sup id="cite_ref-DNZB_Ward_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNZB_Ward-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1928, Ward helped form the <a href="/wiki/United_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="United Party (New Zealand)">United Party</a><sup id="cite_ref-DNZB_Ward_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNZB_Ward-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and won the <a href="/wiki/1928_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1928 New Zealand general election">1928 election</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield1950146_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield1950146-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He died on 8 July 1930,<sup id="cite_ref-DNZB_Ward_16-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNZB_Ward-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which caused the <a href="/wiki/1930_Invercargill_by-election" title="1930 Invercargill by-election">1930 by-election</a> won by his son <a href="/wiki/Vincent_Ward_(politician)" title="Vincent Ward (politician)">Vincent Ward</a>, who retired at the end of the parliamentary term in 1931.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield1950146_15-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield1950146-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Vincent Ward was succeeded by <a href="/wiki/James_Hargest" title="James Hargest">James Hargest</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1931_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1931 New Zealand general election">1931 election</a>. At the end of the parliamentary term in 1935, Hargest successfully contested the Awarua electorate.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield1950146_15-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield1950146-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was succeeded in the Invercargill electorate by <a href="/wiki/William_Denham" title="William Denham">William Denham</a> of the Labour Party, who held the electorate for three terms from 1935<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield1950103_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield1950103-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> until his defeat in the <a href="/wiki/1946_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1946 New Zealand general election">1946 election</a> by <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Hanan" title="Ralph Hanan">Ralph Hanan</a> of the <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National Party</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield1950111_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield1950111-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hanan was re-elected seven times and died in office on 24 July 1969; the need to hold a by-election before the <a href="/wiki/1969_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1969 New Zealand general election">general election</a> on 29 November was avoided by a special act, the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nzlii.org/nz/legis/hist_act/bpa19691969n35326/">By-election Postponement Act 1969</a>. </p><p>The successful candidate in the 1969 general election was <a href="/wiki/John_Chewings" title="John Chewings">John Chewings</a>, who was defeated at the end of the parliamentary term at the <a href="/wiki/1972_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1972 New Zealand general election">1972 election</a> by Labour's <a href="/wiki/J._B._Munro" title="J. B. Munro">J. B. Munro</a>. At the next <a href="/wiki/1975_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1975 New Zealand general election">election in 1975</a>, Munro was in turn beaten by National's <a href="/wiki/Norman_Jones_(politician)" title="Norman Jones (politician)">Norman Jones</a>. Jones retired at the end of his fourth term in August 1987 and died shortly thereafter on 19 November.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Jones was succeeded by National's <a href="/wiki/Rob_Munro_(politician)" title="Rob Munro (politician)">Rob Munro</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1987_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1987 New Zealand general election">1987 election</a>. Munro served two parliamentary terms before being beaten by Labour's <a href="/wiki/Mark_Peck" title="Mark Peck">Mark Peck</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1993_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1993 New Zealand general election">1993 election</a>. Peck retired after four parliamentary terms in 2005 and was succeeded by National's <a href="/wiki/Eric_Roy_(politician)" title="Eric Roy (politician)">Eric Roy</a> in the <a href="/wiki/2005_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2005 New Zealand general election">2005 election</a>. Roy retired after three parliamentary terms and was succeeded in <a href="/wiki/2014_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2014 New Zealand general election">2014</a> by <a href="/wiki/Sarah_Dowie" title="Sarah Dowie">Sarah Dowie</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Members_of_Parliament">Members of Parliament</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Members of Parliament"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>Key</b> </p><p><span class="legend nowrap" style="page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column"><span class="legend-color" style="display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;border:1px solid black;background-color:#DCDCDC"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a></span> <span class="legend nowrap" style="page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column"><span class="legend-color" style="display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;border:1px solid black;background-color:#FFDF00"> </span> <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Liberal_Party" title="New Zealand Liberal Party">Liberal</a></span> <span class="legend nowrap" style="page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column"><span class="legend-color" style="display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;border:1px solid black;background-color:#FFA500"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Liberal%E2%80%93Labour_(New_Zealand)" title="Liberal–Labour (New Zealand)">Liberal–Labour</a></span> </p><p><span class="legend nowrap" style="page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column"><span class="legend-color" style="display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;border:1px solid black;background-color:#BBFFFF"> </span> <a href="/wiki/United_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="United Party (New Zealand)">United</a></span> <span class="legend nowrap" style="page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column"><span class="legend-color" style="display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;border:1px solid black;background-color:#D82A20"> </span> <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a></span> <span class="legend nowrap" style="page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column"><span class="legend-color" style="display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;border:1px solid black;background-color:#00529F"> </span> <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a></span> <span class="legend nowrap" style="page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column"><span class="legend-color" style="display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;border:1px solid black;background-color:#000000"> </span> <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_First" title="New Zealand First">NZ First</a></span> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th width="100">Election </th> <th width="175" colspan="2">Winner </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1866_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1866 New Zealand general election">1866 election</a> </td> <td width="5" bgcolor="#DCDCDC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/William_Wood_(New_Zealand_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="William Wood (New Zealand politician)">William Wood</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1871_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1871 New Zealand general election">1871 election</a> </td> <td bgcolor="#DCDCDC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/William_Henderson_Calder" title="William Henderson Calder">William Henderson Calder</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="font-size:x-small;"><i><a href="/wiki/1873_Invercargill_by-election" title="1873 Invercargill by-election">1873 by-election</a></i></span> </td> <td bgcolor="#DCDCDC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Cuthbertson_(politician)" title="John Cuthbertson (politician)">John Cuthbertson</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1875%E2%80%931876_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1875–1876 New Zealand general election">1875 election</a> </td> <td bgcolor="#DCDCDC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/George_Lumsden" title="George Lumsden">George Lumsden</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="font-size:x-small;"><i><a href="/wiki/1878_Invercargill_by-election" title="1878 Invercargill by-election">1878 by-election</a></i></span> </td> <td bgcolor="#DCDCDC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Henry_Feldwick" title="Henry Feldwick">Henry Feldwick</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1879_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1879 New Zealand general election">1879 election</a> </td> <td bgcolor="#DCDCDC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/James_Walker_Bain" title="James Walker Bain">James Walker Bain</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1881_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1881 New Zealand general election">1881 election</a> </td> <td bgcolor="#DCDCDC"> </td> <td>Henry Feldwick (2nd time) </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1884_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1884 New Zealand general election">1884 election</a> </td> <td bgcolor="#DCDCDC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Hatch" title="Joseph Hatch">Joseph Hatch</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1887_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1887 New Zealand general election">1887 election</a> </td> <td bgcolor="#DCDCDC"> </td> <td>Henry Feldwick (3rd time) </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1890_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1890 New Zealand general election">1890 election</a> </td> <td rowspan="3" bgcolor="#FFA500"> </td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/James_Whyte_Kelly" title="James Whyte Kelly">James Whyte Kelly</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1893_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1893 New Zealand general election">1893 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1896_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1896 New Zealand general election">1896 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1899_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1899 New Zealand general election">1899 election</a> </td> <td rowspan="8" bgcolor="#FFDF00"> </td> <td rowspan="8"><a href="/wiki/Josiah_Hanan" title="Josiah Hanan">Josiah Hanan</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1902_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1902 New Zealand general election">1902 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1905_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1905 New Zealand general election">1905 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1908_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1908 New Zealand general election">1908 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1911_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1911 New Zealand general election">1911 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1914_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1914 New Zealand general election">1914 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1919_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1919 New Zealand general election">1919 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1922_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1922 New Zealand general election">1922 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1925_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1925 New Zealand general election">1925 election</a> </td> <td bgcolor="#FFDF00"> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Ward" title="Joseph Ward">Joseph Ward</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1928_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1928 New Zealand general election">1928 election</a> </td> <td bgcolor="#BBFFFF"> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="font-size:x-small;"><i><a href="/wiki/1930_Invercargill_by-election" title="1930 Invercargill by-election">1930 by-election</a></i></span> </td> <td bgcolor="#BBFFFF"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Vincent_Ward_(politician)" title="Vincent Ward (politician)">Vincent Ward</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1931_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1931 New Zealand general election">1931 election</a> </td> <td bgcolor="#DCDCDC"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/James_Hargest" title="James Hargest">James Hargest</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1935_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1935 New Zealand general election">1935 election</a> </td> <td rowspan="3" bgcolor="#D82A20"> </td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/William_Denham" title="William Denham">William Denham</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1938_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1938 New Zealand general election">1938 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1943_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1943 New Zealand general election">1943 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1946_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1946 New Zealand general election">1946 election</a> </td> <td rowspan="8" bgcolor="#00529F"> </td> <td rowspan="8"><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Hanan" title="Ralph Hanan">Ralph Hanan</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1949_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1949 New Zealand general election">1949 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1951_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1951 New Zealand general election">1951 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1954_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1954 New Zealand general election">1954 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1957_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1957 New Zealand general election">1957 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1960_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1960 New Zealand general election">1960 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1963_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1963 New Zealand general election">1963 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1966_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1966 New Zealand general election">1966 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1969_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1969 New Zealand general election">1969 election</a> </td> <td bgcolor="#00529F"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Chewings" title="John Chewings">John Chewings</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1972_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1972 New Zealand general election">1972 election</a> </td> <td bgcolor="#D82A20"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/J._B._Munro" title="J. B. Munro">J. B. Munro</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1975_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1975 New Zealand general election">1975 election</a> </td> <td rowspan="4" bgcolor="#00529F"> </td> <td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Norman_Jones_(politician)" title="Norman Jones (politician)">Norman Jones</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1978_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1978 New Zealand general election">1978 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1981_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1981 New Zealand general election">1981 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1984_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1984 New Zealand general election">1984 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1987_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1987 New Zealand general election">1987 election</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" bgcolor="#00529F"> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Rob_Munro_(politician)" title="Rob Munro (politician)">Rob Munro</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1990_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1990 New Zealand general election">1990 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1993_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1993 New Zealand general election">1993 election</a> </td> <td rowspan="4" bgcolor="#D82A20"> </td> <td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Mark_Peck" title="Mark Peck">Mark Peck</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1996_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1996 New Zealand general election">1996 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1999_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1999 New Zealand general election">1999 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2002_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2002 New Zealand general election">2002 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2005_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2005 New Zealand general election">2005 election</a> </td> <td rowspan="3" bgcolor="#00529F"> </td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Eric_Roy_(politician)" title="Eric Roy (politician)">Eric Roy</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2008_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2008 New Zealand general election">2008 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2011_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2011 New Zealand general election">2011 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2014_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2014 New Zealand general election">2014 election</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" bgcolor="#00529F"> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Sarah_Dowie" title="Sarah Dowie">Sarah Dowie</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2017_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2017 New Zealand general election">2017 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2020_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2020 New Zealand general election">2020 election</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" bgcolor="#00529F"> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Penny_Simmonds" title="Penny Simmonds">Penny Simmonds</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2023_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2023 New Zealand general election">2023 election</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="List_MPs">List MPs</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: List MPs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Members of Parliament elected from party lists in elections where that person also unsuccessfully contested the Invercargill electorate. Unless otherwise stated, all MPs terms began and ended at general elections. </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th width="100">Election </th> <th width="175" colspan="2">Winner </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1996_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1996 New Zealand general election">1996 election</a> </td> <td width="5" rowspan="2" bgcolor="#00529F"> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Eric_Roy_(politician)" title="Eric Roy (politician)">Eric Roy</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1999_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1999 New Zealand general election">1999 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2015 </td> <td bgcolor="#000000"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ria_Bond" title="Ria Bond">Ria Bond</a><sup id="cite_ref-Bond_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bond-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2017_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2017 New Zealand general election">2017 election</a> </td> <td rowspan="3" bgcolor="#D82A20"> </td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Liz_Craig" title="Liz Craig">Liz Craig</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2020_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2020 New Zealand general election">2020 election</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Election_results">Election results</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Election results"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2023_election">2023 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 2023 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="10"><a href="/wiki/2023_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2023 New Zealand general election">2023 general election</a>: Invercargill<sup id="cite_ref-2023election_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2023election-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr style="font-size: 85%;"> <th colspan="2" style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;">Notes: </th> <th colspan="8" style="text-align:left;"> <p><span style="background-color:#CFF">Blue background</span> denotes the winner of the electorate vote. <br /><span style="background-color:#FDD">Pink background</span> denotes a candidate elected from their party list. <br /><span style="background-color:#F7E98E">Yellow background</span> denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. <br />A <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span> or <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/13px-Red_x.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/20px-Red_x.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/26px-Red_x.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display: none;">N</span> denotes status of any <a href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">incumbent</a>, win or lose respectively. </p> </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2" style="width: 150px">Party </th> <th colspan="2" style="width: 160px">Candidate </th> <th style="width: 70px">Votes </th> <th style="width: 40px">% </th> <th style="width: 55px">±% </th> <th style="width: 70px">Party votes </th> <th style="width: 40px">% </th> <th style="width: 55px">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #00529F; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="background-color:#CFF"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn" style="background-color:#CFF"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span> <a href="/wiki/Penny_Simmonds" title="Penny Simmonds">Penny Simmonds</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20,819 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">55.61 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+10.95 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">16,027 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">42.48 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+12.74 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #D82A20; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Liz_Craig" title="Liz Craig">Liz Craig</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,945 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">29.23 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">–14.87 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,589 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">25.42 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">–22.31 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #FDE401; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/ACT_New_Zealand" title="ACT New Zealand">ACT</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Ian Scott Donaldson </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,990 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.31 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">— </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,967 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10.51 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.99 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #FDB813; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Loyal" title="New Zealand Loyal">NZ Loyal</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">David Kowalewski </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,760 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.70 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">— </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,099 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.91 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">— </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #33CC33; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Aotearoa_Legalise_Cannabis_Party" title="Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party">Legalise Cannabis</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Kevin Patrick O'Connell </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,072 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.86 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">— </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">235 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.62 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.07 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #095B7E; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Vision_NZ" title="Vision NZ">Vision NZ</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Judith Terril </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">307 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.82 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">— </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#000000; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_First" title="New Zealand First">NZ First</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">2,778 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">7.36 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+4.34 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#098137; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand" title="Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand">Green</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">2,332 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">6.18 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+2.74 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#32DAC3; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/The_Opportunities_Party" title="The Opportunities Party">Opportunities</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">482 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1.72 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.65 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#B2001A; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Te_P%C4%81ti_M%C4%81ori" title="Te Pāti Māori">Te Pāti Māori</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">278 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.73 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.54 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#28CEDC; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/NewZeal" title="NewZeal">NewZeal</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">212 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.56 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.17 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#95278A; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Freedoms_New_Zealand" title="Freedoms New Zealand">Freedoms NZ</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">137 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.36 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">— </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#5C558C; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Animal_Justice_Party_Aotearoa_New_Zealand" title="Animal Justice Party Aotearoa New Zealand">Animal Justice</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">68 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.18 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">— </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#00AEEF; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/New_Conservatives_Party" title="New Conservatives Party">New Conservatives</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">54 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.14 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">–2.00 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#30B6C1; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/DemocracyNZ" title="DemocracyNZ">DemocracyNZ</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">48 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.12 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">— </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#9c27b0; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Women%27s_Rights_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Women's Rights Party">Women's Rights</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">38 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.10 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">— </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#26A805; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Leighton_Baker_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Leighton Baker Party">Leighton Baker Party</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">32 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.08 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">— </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#4646b2; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/New_Nation_Party" title="New Nation Party">New Nation</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">29 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.07 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">— </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: left; margin-right: 0.5em">Informal votes </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">540 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">315 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: left; margin-right: 0.5em"><b>Total valid votes</b> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">37,433 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">37,720 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #00529F"> </th> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>Majority</b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">9,874 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">26.37 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+26.93 </td> <td colspan="3"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2020_election">2020 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 2020 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="10"><a href="/wiki/2020_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2020 New Zealand general election">2020 general election</a>: Invercargill<sup id="cite_ref-2020election_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2020election-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr style="font-size: 85%;"> <th colspan="2" style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;">Notes: </th> <th colspan="8" style="text-align:left;"> <p><span style="background-color:#CFF">Blue background</span> denotes the winner of the electorate vote. <br /><span style="background-color:#FDD">Pink background</span> denotes a candidate elected from their party list. <br /><span style="background-color:#F7E98E">Yellow background</span> denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. <br />A <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span> or <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/13px-Red_x.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/20px-Red_x.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/26px-Red_x.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display: none;">N</span> denotes status of any <a href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">incumbent</a>, win or lose respectively. </p> </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2" style="width: 150px">Party </th> <th colspan="2" style="width: 160px">Candidate </th> <th style="width: 70px">Votes </th> <th style="width: 40px">% </th> <th style="width: 55px">±% </th> <th style="width: 70px">Party votes </th> <th style="width: 40px">% </th> <th style="width: 55px">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #00529F; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="background-color:#CFF"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn" style="background-color:#CFF"><a href="/wiki/Penny_Simmonds" title="Penny Simmonds">Penny Simmonds</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17,929 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">44.66 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−6.39 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11,996 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">29.74 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−18.65 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #D82A20; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="background-color:#FDD"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn" style="background-color:#FDD"><a href="/wiki/Liz_Craig" title="Liz Craig">Liz Craig</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17,705 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">44.10 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+8.79 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">19,252 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">47.73 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+11.91 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #098137; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand" title="Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand">Green</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Rochelle Francis </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,137 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.83 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.75 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,386 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.44 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.2 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #00AEEF; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Conservative_Party_(New_Zealand)" class="mw-redirect" title="New Conservative Party (New Zealand)">New Conservative</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Joshua Honiss </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">757 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.88 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">— </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">862 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.14 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">–1.92 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #000000; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_First" title="New Zealand First">NZ First</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Joshua Gunn </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">735 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.83 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">–7.23 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,218 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.02 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−5.70 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #1987D1; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Advance_New_Zealand" title="Advance New Zealand">Advance NZ</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Kurt Rohloff </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">417 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.04 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">— </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">406 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.01 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">— </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #F9D11A; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/ONE_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="ONE Party">ONE</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Jackie West </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">237 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.59 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">— </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">158 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.39 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">— </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #CBE800; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Social_Credit_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Social Credit Party (New Zealand)">Social Credit</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Winsome Aroha </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">206 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.51 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">— </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">81 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.20 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.08 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #DCDCDC"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Basil Walker </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">187 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.46 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">— </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #DCDCDC"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Zy Haden </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">102 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.25 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">— </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#FDE401; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/ACT_New_Zealand" title="ACT New Zealand">ACT</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">3,846 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">9.52 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+9.27 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#32DAC3; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/The_Opportunities_Party" title="The Opportunities Party">Opportunities</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">433 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1.07 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">–1.04 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#33CC33; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Aotearoa_Legalise_Cannabis_Party" title="Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party">Legalise Cannabis</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">220 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.55 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.16 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#B2001A; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ori_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Māori Party">Māori Party</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">76 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.19 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−0.01 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#008000; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Outdoors_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="New Zealand Outdoors Party">Outdoors</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">44 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.11 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.06 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#008080; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Sustainable_New_Zealand_Party" title="Sustainable New Zealand Party">Sustainable NZ</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">20 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.05 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">— </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#5A276C; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_TEA_Party" title="New Zealand TEA Party">TEA</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">16 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.04 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">— </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#185533; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Heartland_New_Zealand_Party" title="Heartland New Zealand Party">Heartland</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">8 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.019 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">— </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#095B7E; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Vision_NZ" title="Vision NZ">Vision NZ</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">8 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.019 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">— </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: left; margin-right: 0.5em">Informal votes </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">735 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">308 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: left; margin-right: 0.5em"><b>Total valid votes</b> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">35,462 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">35,990 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><b><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a></b> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">40,338 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #00529F"> </th> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>Majority</b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">224 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.56 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">−15.17 </td> <td colspan="3"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2017_election">2017 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: 2017 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="10"><a href="/wiki/2017_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2017 New Zealand general election">2017 general election</a>: Invercargill<sup id="cite_ref-2017election_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2017election-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr style="font-size: 85%;"> <th colspan="2" style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;">Notes: </th> <th colspan="8" style="text-align:left;"> <p><span style="background-color:#CFF">Blue background</span> denotes the winner of the electorate vote. <br /><span style="background-color:#FDD">Pink background</span> denotes a candidate elected from their party list. <br /><span style="background-color:#F7E98E">Yellow background</span> denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. <br />A <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span> or <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/13px-Red_x.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/20px-Red_x.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/26px-Red_x.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display: none;">N</span> denotes status of any <a href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">incumbent</a>, win or lose respectively. </p> </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2" style="width: 150px">Party </th> <th colspan="2" style="width: 160px">Candidate </th> <th style="width: 70px">Votes </th> <th style="width: 40px">% </th> <th style="width: 55px">±% </th> <th style="width: 70px">Party votes </th> <th style="width: 40px">% </th> <th style="width: 55px">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #00529F; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="background-color:#CFF"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn" style="background-color:#CFF"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span> <a href="/wiki/Sarah_Dowie" title="Sarah Dowie">Sarah Dowie</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18,102 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">51.05 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.43 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17,414 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">48.39 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.87 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #D82A20; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="background-color:#FDD"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn" style="background-color:#FDD"><a href="/wiki/Liz_Craig" title="Liz Craig">Liz Craig</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12,523 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">35.31 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+5.81 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12,891 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">35.82 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+10.86 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #000000; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_First" title="New Zealand First">NZ First</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Ria_Bond" title="Ria Bond">Ria Bond</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,214 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9.06 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.64 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,139 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8.72 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.39 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #098137; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand" title="Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand">Green</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Rochelle Surendran </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,623 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.58 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.75 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,166 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.24 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−4.29 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#32DAC3; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/The_Opportunities_Party" title="The Opportunities Party">Opportunities</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">760 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">2.11 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">— </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#33CC33; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Aotearoa_Legalise_Cannabis_Party" title="Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party">Legalise Cannabis</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">141 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.39 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−0.26 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#F5621E; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Ban_1080_Party" title="Ban 1080 Party">Ban 1080</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">103 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.29 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−0.21 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#FDE401; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/ACT_New_Zealand" title="ACT New Zealand">ACT</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">95 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.26 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−0.07 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#00AEEF; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(New_Zealand)" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservative Party (New Zealand)">Conservative</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">79 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.22 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−3.45 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#B2001A; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ori_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Māori Party">Māori Party</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">73 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.20 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−0.12 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#339966; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Democratic_Party_for_Social_Credit" class="mw-redirect" title="New Zealand Democratic Party for Social Credit">Democrats</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">43 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.12 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−0.16 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#501557; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/United_Future" title="United Future">United Future</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">27 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.08 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−0.12 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#008000; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Outdoors_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="New Zealand Outdoors Party">Outdoors</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">23 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.06 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">— </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#22316C; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_People%27s_Party" title="New Zealand People's Party">People's Party</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">21 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.06 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">— </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#662C92; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Internet_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Internet Party (New Zealand)">Internet</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">9 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.03 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−0.58<sup id="cite_ref-Internet_Party_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Internet_Party-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#7C0808; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Mana_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Mana Party">Mana Party</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">6 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.02 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−0.59<sup id="cite_ref-Mana_Party_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mana_Party-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: left; margin-right: 0.5em">Informal votes </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">445 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">163 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: left; margin-right: 0.5em"><b>Total valid votes</b> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">35,462 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">35,990 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><b><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a></b> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">36,153 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #00529F"> </th> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>Majority</b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">5,579 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">15.73 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">−6.25 </td> <td colspan="3"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2014_election">2014 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: 2014 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="10"><a href="/wiki/2014_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2014 New Zealand general election">2014 general election</a>: Invercargill<sup id="cite_ref-2014election_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2014election-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr style="font-size: 85%;"> <th colspan="2" style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;">Notes: </th> <th colspan="8" style="text-align:left;"> <p><span style="background-color:#CFF">Blue background</span> denotes the winner of the electorate vote. <br /><span style="background-color:#FDD">Pink background</span> denotes a candidate elected from their party list. <br /><span style="background-color:#F7E98E">Yellow background</span> denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. <br />A <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span> or <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/13px-Red_x.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/20px-Red_x.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/26px-Red_x.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display: none;">N</span> denotes status of any <a href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">incumbent</a>, win or lose respectively. </p> </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2" style="width: 150px">Party </th> <th colspan="2" style="width: 160px">Candidate </th> <th style="width: 70px">Votes </th> <th style="width: 40px">% </th> <th style="width: 55px">±% </th> <th style="width: 70px">Party votes </th> <th style="width: 40px">% </th> <th style="width: 55px">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #00529F; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="background-color:#CFF"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn" style="background-color:#CFF"><a href="/wiki/Sarah_Dowie" title="Sarah Dowie">Sarah Dowie</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17,526 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">51.48 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−3.10 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">16,880 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">49.26 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.62 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #D82A20; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Lesley_Soper" title="Lesley Soper">Lesley Soper</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,044 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">29.50 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−5.29 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,553 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">24.96 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−3.77 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #000000; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_First" title="New Zealand First">NZ First</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Ria_Bond" title="Ria Bond">Ria Bond</a><sup id="cite_ref-Bond_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bond-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,526 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.42 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+7.42 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,806 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11.11 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+4.27 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #098137; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand" title="Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand">Green</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">David Kennedy </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,497 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.33 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.36 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,581 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.53 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.89 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #00AEEF; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(New_Zealand)" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservative Party (New Zealand)">Conservative</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Laura Storr </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">719 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.11 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.11 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,256 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.67 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.68 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #339966; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Democratic_Party_for_Social_Credit" class="mw-redirect" title="New Zealand Democratic Party for Social Credit">Democrats</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Stephnie_de_Ruyter" title="Stephnie de Ruyter">Stephnie de Ruyter</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">333 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.98 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.67 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">95 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.28 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.12 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#33CC33; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Aotearoa_Legalise_Cannabis_Party" title="Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party">Legalise Cannabis</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">224 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.65 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−0.14 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#7F0000; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Internet_Party_and_Mana_Movement" title="Internet Party and Mana Movement">Internet Mana</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">210 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.61 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.42<sup id="cite_ref-Internet_Mana_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Internet_Mana-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>d<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#F5621E; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Ban_1080_Party" title="Ban 1080 Party">Ban 1080</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">173 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.50 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−0.32 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#FDE401; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/ACT_New_Zealand" title="ACT New Zealand">ACT</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">113 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.33 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−0.90 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#B2001A; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ori_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Māori Party">Māori Party</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">110 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.32 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−0.18 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#501557; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/United_Future" title="United Future">United Future</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">68 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.20 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−0.62 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#444444; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/The_Civilian_Party" title="The Civilian Party">Civilian</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">23 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.07 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.07 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#349E9F; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/NZ_Independent_Coalition" title="NZ Independent Coalition">Independent Coalition</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">11 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.03 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.03 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#2690C4; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Focus_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="Focus New Zealand">Focus</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">10 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.03 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.03 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: left; margin-right: 0.5em">Informal votes </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">400 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">153 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: left; margin-right: 0.5em"><b>Total valid votes</b> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">34,045 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">34,266 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"><b><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a></b> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">34,292 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">76.48 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+4.60 </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #00529F"> </th> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>Majority</b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">7,482 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">21.98 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+2.19 </td> <td colspan="3"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2011_election">2011 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: 2011 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="10"><a href="/wiki/2011_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2011 New Zealand general election">2011 general election</a>: Invercargill<sup id="cite_ref-Invercargill_2011_election_results_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Invercargill_2011_election_results-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr style="font-size: 85%;"> <th colspan="2" style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;">Notes: </th> <th colspan="8" style="text-align:left;"> <p><span style="background-color:#CFF">Blue background</span> denotes the winner of the electorate vote. <br /><span style="background-color:#FDD">Pink background</span> denotes a candidate elected from their party list. <br /><span style="background-color:#F7E98E">Yellow background</span> denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. <br />A <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span> or <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/13px-Red_x.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/20px-Red_x.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/26px-Red_x.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display: none;">N</span> denotes status of any <a href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">incumbent</a>, win or lose respectively. </p> </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2" style="width: 150px">Party </th> <th colspan="2" style="width: 160px">Candidate </th> <th style="width: 70px">Votes </th> <th style="width: 40px">% </th> <th style="width: 55px">±% </th> <th style="width: 70px">Party votes </th> <th style="width: 40px">% </th> <th style="width: 55px">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #00529F; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="background-color:#CFF"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn" style="background-color:#CFF"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span> <a href="/wiki/Eric_Roy_(politician)" title="Eric Roy (politician)">Eric Roy</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17,275 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">54.58 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-1.39 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">16,140 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">49.88 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.35 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #D82A20; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Lesley_Soper" title="Lesley Soper">Lesley Soper</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11,012 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">34.79 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-1.96 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,296 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">28.73 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-8.15 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #098137; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand" title="Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand">Green</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">David Kennedy </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,433 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.69 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.73 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,723 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8.42 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+4.16 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #339966; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Democratic_Party_for_Social_Credit" class="mw-redirect" title="New Zealand Democratic Party for Social Credit">Democrats</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Stephnie_de_Ruyter" title="Stephnie de Ruyter">Stephnie de Ruyter</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">521 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.65 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.65 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">129 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.40 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.22 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #FDE401; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/ACT_New_Zealand" title="ACT New Zealand">ACT</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Ian Carline </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">276 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.87 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-0.33 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">397 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.23 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-1.47 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #09296B; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Libertarianz" title="Libertarianz">Libertarianz</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Shane Pleasance </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">133 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.42 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.04 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">34 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.11 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.05 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#000000; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_First" title="New Zealand First">NZ First</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">2,213 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">6.84 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+3.44 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#00AEEF; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(New_Zealand)" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservative Party (New Zealand)">Conservative</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">643 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1.99 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+1.99 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#501557; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/United_Future" title="United Future">United Future</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">264 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.82 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">-0.09 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#33CC33; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Aotearoa_Legalise_Cannabis_Party" title="Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party">Legalise Cannabis</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">257 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.79 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.28 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#B2001A; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ori_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Māori Party">Māori Party</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">162 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.50 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">-0.08 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#770808; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Mana_Party_(New_Zealand)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mana Party (New Zealand)">Mana</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">63 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.19 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.19 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#33CC66; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Alliance_(New_Zealand_political_party)" title="Alliance (New Zealand political party)">Alliance</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">34 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.11 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">-0.05 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: left; margin-right: 0.5em">Informal votes </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">863 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">324 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: left; margin-right: 0.5em"><b>Total valid votes</b> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">31,650 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">32,355 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #00529F"> </th> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>Majority</b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">6,263 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">19.79 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.58 </td> <td colspan="3"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p><b>Electorate</b> (as at 26 November 2011): 45,014<sup id="cite_ref-enrolment_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-enrolment-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2008_election">2008 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: 2008 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="10"><a href="/wiki/2008_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2008 New Zealand general election">2008 general election</a>: Invercargill<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr style="font-size: 85%;"> <th colspan="2" style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;">Notes: </th> <th colspan="8" style="text-align:left;"> <p><span style="background-color:#CFF">Blue background</span> denotes the winner of the electorate vote. <br /><span style="background-color:#FDD">Pink background</span> denotes a candidate elected from their party list. <br /><span style="background-color:#F7E98E">Yellow background</span> denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. <br />A <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span> or <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/13px-Red_x.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/20px-Red_x.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/26px-Red_x.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display: none;">N</span> denotes status of any <a href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">incumbent</a>, win or lose respectively. </p> </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2" style="width: 150px">Party </th> <th colspan="2" style="width: 160px">Candidate </th> <th style="width: 70px">Votes </th> <th style="width: 40px">% </th> <th style="width: 55px">±% </th> <th style="width: 70px">Party votes </th> <th style="width: 40px">% </th> <th style="width: 55px">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #00529F; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="background-color:#CFF"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn" style="background-color:#CFF"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span> <a href="/wiki/Eric_Roy_(politician)" title="Eric Roy (politician)">Eric Roy</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">19,414 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">55.97 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+6.46 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">16,663 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">47.54 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+8.05 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #D82A20; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Lesley_Soper" title="Lesley Soper">Lesley Soper</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12,750 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">36.76 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-6.22 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12,927 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">36.88 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-8.30 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #098137; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand" title="Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand">Green</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Craig Carson </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,718 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.95 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.07 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,492 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.26 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.18 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #FDE401; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/ACT_New_Zealand" title="ACT New Zealand">ACT</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Ian Carline </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">416 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.20 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.06 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">947 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.70 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.55 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #501557; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/United_Future" title="United Future">United Future</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Maureen Smith </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">258 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.74 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-0.70 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">319 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.91 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-2.31 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #09296B; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Libertarianz" title="Libertarianz">Libertarianz</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Shane Pleasance </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">131 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.38 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">– </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">21 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.06 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.03 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#000000; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_First" title="New Zealand First">NZ First</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1,192 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">3.40 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">-1.41 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#186E23; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Bill_and_Ben_Party" title="Bill and Ben Party">Bill and Ben</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">413 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1.18 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">– </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#9E9E9E; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Progressive_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="New Zealand Progressive Party">Progressive</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">292 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.83 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">-0.39 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#B2001A; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ori_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Māori Party">Māori Party</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">205 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.58 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.25 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#33CC33; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Aotearoa_Legalise_Cannabis_Party" title="Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party">Legalise Cannabis</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">179 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.51 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.21 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFEB33; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/The_Family_Party" title="The Family Party">Family Party</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">145 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.41 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">– </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#363096; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/The_Kiwi_Party" title="The Kiwi Party">Kiwi</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">105 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.30 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">– </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#339966; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Democratic_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="New Zealand Democratic Party">Democrats</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">61 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.17 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">-0.02 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#33CC66; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Alliance_(New_Zealand_political_party)" title="Alliance (New Zealand political party)">Alliance</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">54 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.15 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.08 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#531E8A; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Pacific_Party" title="New Zealand Pacific Party">Pacific</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">18 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.05 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">– </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#FF0066; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Workers_Party_of_New_Zealand" title="Workers Party of New Zealand">Workers Party</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">14 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.04 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">– </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#84C6C6; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/The_Republic_of_New_Zealand_Party" title="The Republic of New Zealand Party">RONZ</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">4 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.01 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">-0.00 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#467CFA; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Residents_Action_Movement" title="Residents Action Movement">RAM</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.00 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">– </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: left; margin-right: 0.5em">Informal votes </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">338 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">143 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: left; margin-right: 0.5em"><b>Total valid votes</b> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">34,687 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">35,052 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #00529F"> </th> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>Majority</b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">6,664 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">19.21 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+12.69 </td> <td colspan="3"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2005_election">2005 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: 2005 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="10"><a href="/wiki/2005_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2005 New Zealand general election">2005 general election</a>: Invercargill<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr style="font-size: 85%;"> <th colspan="2" style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;">Notes: </th> <th colspan="8" style="text-align:left;"> <p><span style="background-color:#CFF">Blue background</span> denotes the winner of the electorate vote. <br /><span style="background-color:#FDD">Pink background</span> denotes a candidate elected from their party list. <br /><span style="background-color:#F7E98E">Yellow background</span> denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. <br />A <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span> or <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/13px-Red_x.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/20px-Red_x.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/26px-Red_x.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display: none;">N</span> denotes status of any <a href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">incumbent</a>, win or lose respectively. </p> </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2" style="width: 150px">Party </th> <th colspan="2" style="width: 160px">Candidate </th> <th style="width: 70px">Votes </th> <th style="width: 40px">% </th> <th style="width: 55px">±% </th> <th style="width: 70px">Party votes </th> <th style="width: 40px">% </th> <th style="width: 55px">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #00529F; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="background-color:#CFF"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn" style="background-color:#CFF"><a href="/wiki/Eric_Roy_(politician)" title="Eric Roy (politician)">Eric Roy</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15,570 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">49.51 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12,559 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">39.49 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #D82A20; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Wayne Harpur </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13,518 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">42.98 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14,369 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">45.18 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #098137; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand" title="Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand">Green</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Craig Carson </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">906 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.88 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">980 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.08 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #501557; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/United_Future" title="United Future">United Future</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Ralph Kennard </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">453 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,024 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.22 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #FDE401; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/ACT_New_Zealand" title="ACT New Zealand">ACT</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Ian Beker </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">358 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.14 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">365 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.15 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #9E9E9E; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Progressive_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="New Zealand Progressive Party">Progressive</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Heka Taefu </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">231 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.73 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">388 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.22 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #339966; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Democrats_for_Social_Credit" class="mw-redirect" title="Democrats for Social Credit">Democrats</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Bruce Stirling </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">187 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.59 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">63 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.20 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #B2001A; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ori_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Māori Party">Māori Party</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Gina Haremate-Crawford </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">163 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.52 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">106 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.33 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #F28317; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Direct_Democracy_Party_of_New_Zealand" title="Direct Democracy Party of New Zealand">Direct Democracy</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Craig Guy </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">65 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.21 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.03 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#000000; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_First" title="New Zealand First">NZ First</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1,530 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">4.81 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFFF00; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Destiny_New_Zealand" title="Destiny New Zealand">Destiny</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">188 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.59 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#33CC33; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Aotearoa_Legalise_Cannabis_Party" title="Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party">Legalise Cannabis</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">96 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.30 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#878FB8; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Christian_Heritage_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian Heritage New Zealand">Christian Heritage</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">56 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.19 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#33CC66; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Alliance_(New_Zealand_political_party)" title="Alliance (New Zealand political party)">Alliance</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">22 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.07 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#800080; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/One_New_Zealand_Party" title="One New Zealand Party">One NZ</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">13 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.04 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#65FFF0; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Family_Rights_Protection_Party" title="New Zealand Family Rights Protection Party">Family Rights</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">11 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.03 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#09296B; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Libertarianz" title="Libertarianz">Libertarianz</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">10 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.03 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFC0CB; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/99_MP_Party" title="99 MP Party">99 MP</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">9 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.03 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#84C6C6; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/The_Republic_of_New_Zealand_Party" title="The Republic of New Zealand Party">RONZ</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">5 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.02 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: left; margin-right: 0.5em">Informal votes </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">316 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">111 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: left; margin-right: 0.5em"><b>Total valid votes</b> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">31,451 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">31,805 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #00529F"> </th> <td colspan="2" style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>Majority</b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,052 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">6.52 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td colspan="3"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2002_election">2002 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: 2002 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="10"><a href="/wiki/2002_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2002 New Zealand general election">2002 general election</a>: Invercargill </th></tr> <tr style="font-size: 85%;"> <th colspan="2" style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;">Notes: </th> <th colspan="8" style="text-align:left;"> <p><span style="background-color:#CFF">Blue background</span> denotes the winner of the electorate vote. <br /><span style="background-color:#FDD">Pink background</span> denotes a candidate elected from their party list. <br /><span style="background-color:#F7E98E">Yellow background</span> denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. <br />A <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span> or <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/13px-Red_x.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/20px-Red_x.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/26px-Red_x.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display: none;">N</span> denotes status of any <a href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">incumbent</a>, win or lose respectively. </p> </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2" style="width: 150px">Party </th> <th colspan="2" style="width: 160px">Candidate </th> <th style="width: 70px">Votes </th> <th style="width: 40px">% </th> <th style="width: 55px">±% </th> <th style="width: 70px">Party votes </th> <th style="width: 40px">% </th> <th style="width: 55px">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #D82A20; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="background-color:#CFF"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn" style="background-color:#CFF"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span> <a href="/wiki/Mark_Peck" title="Mark Peck">Mark Peck</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14,548 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">48.77 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-8.31 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14,089 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">46.73 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.80 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #00529F; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Eric_Roy_(politician)" title="Eric Roy (politician)">Eric Roy</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11,756 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">39.41 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+7.71 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,021 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">26.60 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-3.32 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #9E9E9E; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Jim_Anderton%27s_Progressive_Party" title="Jim Anderton's Progressive Party">Progressive</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Stephnie_de_Ruyter" title="Stephnie de Ruyter">Stephnie de Ruyter</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,006 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.37 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-1.61<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>e<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">760 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.52 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #098137; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand" title="Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand">Green</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Craig Carson </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">963 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.23 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.04 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,298 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.30 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.22 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #501557; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/United_Future" title="United Future">United Future</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Vince Smith </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">806 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.70 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,851 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6.14 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #FDE401; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/ACT_New_Zealand" title="ACT New Zealand">ACT</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Peter Phiskie </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">313 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.05 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,073 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.56 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.23 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #878FB8; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Christian_Heritage_Party_of_New_Zealand" title="Christian Heritage Party of New Zealand">Christian Heritage</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Mervyn Lemuel Clayton </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">235 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.79 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">301 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.00 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-1.63 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #33CC66; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Alliance_(New_Zealand_political_party)" title="Alliance (New Zealand political party)">Alliance</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Anna McMartin </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">202 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.68 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">241 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.80 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-9.11 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#000000; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_First" title="New Zealand First">NZ First</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1,838 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">6.10 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+3.33 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#666666; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Outdoor_Recreation_New_Zealand" title="Outdoor Recreation New Zealand">ORNZ</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">444 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1.47 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#33CC33; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Aotearoa_Legalise_Cannabis_Party" title="Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party">Legalise Cannabis</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">219 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.73 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">-0.45 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#800080; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/One_New_Zealand_Party" title="One New Zealand Party">One NZ</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">14 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.05 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.01 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#964B00; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Mana_M%C4%81ori_Movement" title="Mana Māori Movement">Mana Māori</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">2 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.01 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">-0.02 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFFFC0; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/NMP_(political_party)" title="NMP (political party)">NMP</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.00 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.00 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: left; margin-right: 0.5em">Informal votes </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">296 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">108 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: left; margin-right: 0.5em"><b>Total valid votes</b> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">29,829 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">30,152 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #D82A20"> </th> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>Majority</b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,792 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">9.36 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">-16.02 </td> <td colspan="3"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1999_election">1999 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: 1999 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="10"><a href="/wiki/1999_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1999 New Zealand general election">1999 general election</a>: Invercargill </th></tr> <tr style="font-size: 85%;"> <th colspan="2" style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;">Notes: </th> <th colspan="8" style="text-align:left;"> <p><span style="background-color:#CFF">Blue background</span> denotes the winner of the electorate vote. <br /><span style="background-color:#FDD">Pink background</span> denotes a candidate elected from their party list. <br /><span style="background-color:#F7E98E">Yellow background</span> denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. <br />A <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span> or <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/13px-Red_x.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/20px-Red_x.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/26px-Red_x.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display: none;">N</span> denotes status of any <a href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">incumbent</a>, win or lose respectively. </p> </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2" style="width: 150px">Party </th> <th colspan="2" style="width: 160px">Candidate </th> <th style="width: 70px">Votes </th> <th style="width: 40px">% </th> <th style="width: 55px">±% </th> <th style="width: 70px">Party votes </th> <th style="width: 40px">% </th> <th style="width: 55px">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #D82A20; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="background-color:#CFF"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn" style="background-color:#CFF"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span> <a href="/wiki/Mark_Peck" title="Mark Peck">Mark Peck</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17,970 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">57.08 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+8.25 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14,196 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">44.93 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+11.69 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #00529F; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="background-color:#FDD"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn" style="background-color:#FDD"><a href="/wiki/Eric_Roy_(politician)" title="Eric Roy (politician)">Eric Roy</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,980 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">31.70 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-3.69 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,453 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">29.92 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-4.34 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #33CC66; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Alliance_(New_Zealand_political_party)" title="Alliance (New Zealand political party)">Alliance</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Stephnie_de_Ruyter" title="Stephnie de Ruyter">Stephnie de Ruyter</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,567 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.98 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,132 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9.91 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.15 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #098137; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Green_Party_of_Aotearoa_New_Zealand" title="Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand">Green</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Craig William Carson </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">689 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.19 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">974 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.08 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #878FB8; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Christian_Heritage_Party_of_New_Zealand" title="Christian Heritage Party of New Zealand">Christian Heritage</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Russell Zwies </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">536 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.70 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">832 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.63 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #000000; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_First" title="New Zealand First">NZ First</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Allan Wise </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">488 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.55 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">875 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.77 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-9.12 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #FDE401; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/ACT_New_Zealand" title="ACT New Zealand">ACT</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Matt McInnes </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">251 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.80 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,051 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.33 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.41 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#33CC33; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Aotearoa_Legalise_Cannabis_Party" title="Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party">Legalise Cannabis</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">372 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1.18 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">-0.47 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#800080; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Future_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="Future New Zealand">Christian Democrats</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">245 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.78 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#009900; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/NZ_South_Island_Party" title="NZ South Island Party">South Island</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">157 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.50 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#09296B; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Libertarianz" title="Libertarianz">Libertarianz</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">92 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.29 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.26 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#663377; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/United_New_Zealand" title="United New Zealand">United NZ</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">86 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.27 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">-0.21 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFFF00; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Animals_First" title="Animals First">Animals First</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">44 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.14 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">-0.01 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFC0CB; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/McGillicuddy_Serious_Party" title="McGillicuddy Serious Party">McGillicuddy Serious</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">44 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.14 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">-0.19 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#333366; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Natural_Law_Party_of_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="Natural Law Party of New Zealand">Natural Law</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">13 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.04 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">-0.12 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#800080; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/One_New_Zealand_Party" title="One New Zealand Party">One NZ</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">13 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.04 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#964B00; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Mana_M%C4%81ori_Movement" title="Mana Māori Movement">Mana Māori</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">8 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.03 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.02 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#84C6C6; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Choice_Party" title="People's Choice Party">The People's Choice</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">5 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.02 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#003153; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Mauri_Pacific" title="Mauri Pacific">Mauri Pacific</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">2 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.01 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#A52A2A; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Freedom_Movement_(New_Zealand)" title="Freedom Movement (New Zealand)">Freedom Movement</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.00 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFFFC0; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/NMP_(political_party)" title="NMP (political party)">NMP</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.00 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#FF0000; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Republican_Party_(1995)" title="New Zealand Republican Party (1995)">Republican</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.00 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: left; margin-right: 0.5em">Informal votes </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">431 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">317 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: left; margin-right: 0.5em"><b>Total valid votes</b> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">31,481 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">31,595 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #D82A20"> </th> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>Majority</b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">7,991 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">25.38 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+11.94 </td> <td colspan="3"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1996_election">1996 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: 1996 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="10"><a href="/wiki/1996_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1996 New Zealand general election">1996 general election</a>: Invercargill<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1996_successful_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1996_successful-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1996_unsuccessful_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1996_unsuccessful-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr style="font-size: 85%;"> <th colspan="2" style="text-align:right;vertical-align:top;">Notes: </th> <th colspan="8" style="text-align:left;"> <p><span style="background-color:#CFF">Blue background</span> denotes the winner of the electorate vote. <br /><span style="background-color:#FDD">Pink background</span> denotes a candidate elected from their party list. <br /><span style="background-color:#F7E98E">Yellow background</span> denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent. <br />A <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span> or <span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/13px-Red_x.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/20px-Red_x.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/26px-Red_x.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display: none;">N</span> denotes status of any <a href="/wiki/Incumbent" title="Incumbent">incumbent</a>, win or lose respectively. </p> </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2" style="width: 150px">Party </th> <th colspan="2" style="width: 160px">Candidate </th> <th style="width: 70px">Votes </th> <th style="width: 40px">% </th> <th style="width: 55px">±% </th> <th style="width: 70px">Party votes </th> <th style="width: 40px">% </th> <th style="width: 55px">±% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #D82A20; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="background-color:#CFF"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn" style="background-color:#CFF"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span> <a href="/wiki/Mark_Peck" title="Mark Peck">Mark Peck</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15,383 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">48.83 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,502 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">33.24 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #00529F; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="background-color:#FDD"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn" style="background-color:#FDD"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/13px-Red_x.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/20px-Red_x.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/26px-Red_x.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display: none;">N</span> <a href="/wiki/Eric_Roy_(politician)" title="Eric Roy (politician)">Eric Roy</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11,148 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">35.39 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,825 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">34.26 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #000000; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_First" title="New Zealand First">NZ First</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Owen Horton </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,302 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.31 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,757 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11.89 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #33CC66; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Alliance_(New_Zealand_political_party)" title="Alliance (New Zealand political party)">Alliance</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Bruce Stirling </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,536 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.88 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,083 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9.76 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #FDE401; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/ACT_New_Zealand" title="ACT New Zealand">ACT</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Louis Crimp </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">441 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.40 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">921 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.92 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #DCDCDC"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Philip Jones </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">294 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.93 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #FFC0CB; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/McGillicuddy_Serious_Party" title="McGillicuddy Serious Party">McGillicuddy Serious</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Anthony Hobbs </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">200 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.63 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">105 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.33 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #663377; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/United_New_Zealand" title="United New Zealand">United NZ</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Stuart Jordan </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">111 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.35 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">153 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.48 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #333366; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Natural_Law_Party_of_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="Natural Law Party of New Zealand">Natural Law</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Jacque Hughes </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">87 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.28 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">49 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.16 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#878FB8; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Christian_Coalition_(New_Zealand)" title="Christian Coalition (New Zealand)">Christian Coalition</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1,495 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">4.73 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#33CC33; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Aotearoa_Legalise_Cannabis_Party" title="Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party">Legalise Cannabis</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">521 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1.65 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#339999; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Progressive_Green_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Progressive Green Party (New Zealand)">Progressive Green</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">60 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.19 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFFF00; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Animals_First" title="Animals First">Animals First</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">47 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.15 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#74B249; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Green_Society" title="Green Society">Green Society</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">26 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.08 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#0D0DFC; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Conservative_Party" title="New Zealand Conservative Party">Conservatives</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">14 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.04 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#787878; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Superannuitants_and_Youth_Action" class="mw-redirect" title="Superannuitants and Youth Action">Superannuitants & Youth</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">11 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.03 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#09296B; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Libertarianz" title="Libertarianz">Libertarianz</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">8 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.03 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #ADC; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Advance_New_Zealand_(1995)" title="Advance New Zealand (1995)">Advance New Zealand</a> </td> <td colspan="5"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.02 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#964B00; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Mana_M%C4%81ori_Movement" title="Mana Māori Movement">Mana Māori</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">4 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.01 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #C96; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Te_Tawharau" title="Te Tawharau">Te Tawharau</a> </td> <td colspan="5"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.01 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #3F9; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Asia_Pacific_United_Party" title="Asia Pacific United Party">Asia Pacific United</a> </td> <td colspan="5"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.01 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #F93; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Ethnic_Minority_Party_of_New_Zealand" title="Ethnic Minority Party of New Zealand">Ethnic Minority Party</a> </td> <td colspan="5"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.00 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: left; margin-right: 0.5em">Informal votes </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">207 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">115 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: left; margin-right: 0.5em"><b>Total valid votes</b> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">31,502 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">31,594 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #D82A20"> </th> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> <b>hold</b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>Majority</b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">4,235 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">13.44 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td colspan="3"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1993_election">1993 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: 1993 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1993_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1993 New Zealand general election">1993 general election</a>: Invercargill<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#D82A20; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Mark_Peck" title="Mark Peck">Mark Peck</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>8,477 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>43.66 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #00529F; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Rob_Munro_(politician)" title="Rob Munro (politician)">Rob Munro</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,303 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">37.61 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−9.05 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #33CC66; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Alliance_(New_Zealand_political_party)" title="Alliance (New Zealand political party)">Alliance</a> </td> <td class="fn">Cecily Treweek </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,250 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11.58 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+8.72 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Philip Jones </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">702 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.61 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #000000; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_First" title="New Zealand First">NZ First</a> </td> <td class="fn">K Kawe </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">393 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.02 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #878FB8; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Christian_Heritage_Party_of_New_Zealand" title="Christian Heritage Party of New Zealand">Christian Heritage</a> </td> <td class="fn">H Macann </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">242 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.24 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #333366; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Natural_Law_Party_of_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="Natural Law Party of New Zealand">Natural Law</a> </td> <td class="fn">Rhonda-Lisa Comins </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">48 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.24 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,174 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6.04 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">19,415 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">84.29 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.02 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">23,033 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1990_election">1990 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: 1990 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1990_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1990 New Zealand general election">1990 general election</a>: Invercargill<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#00529F; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Rob_Munro_(politician)" title="Rob Munro (politician)">Rob Munro</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>10,727 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>46.66 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−2.06 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #D82A20; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Barry Rait </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,590 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">28.66 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FF4040; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/NewLabour_Party_(New_Zealand)" class="mw-redirect" title="NewLabour Party (New Zealand)">NewLabour</a> </td> <td class="fn">J Moore </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">746 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.24 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #339966; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Democrats_for_Social_Credit" class="mw-redirect" title="Democrats for Social Credit">Democrats</a> </td> <td class="fn">Cecily Treweek </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">659 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.86 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−5.82 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #CBE800; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Social_Credit-NZ" title="Social Credit-NZ">Social Credit</a> </td> <td class="fn">H M Thompson </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">334 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.45 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#33CC33;"> </td> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Aotearoa_Legalise_Cannabis_Party" title="Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party">Legalise Marijuana</a> </td> <td class="fn">K Dreaver </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">319 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1.38 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,137 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17.99 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+15.34 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">19,375 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">84.27 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−6.17 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">22,989 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1987_election">1987 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: 1987 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1987_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1987 New Zealand general election">1987 general election</a>: Invercargill<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorton1988254_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorton1988254-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#00529F; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Rob_Munro_(politician)" title="Rob Munro (politician)">Rob Munro</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>10,115 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>48.72 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #D82A20; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Dougal Soper </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,563 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">46.06 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+5.29 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #339966; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Democrats_for_Social_Credit" class="mw-redirect" title="Democrats for Social Credit">Democrats</a> </td> <td class="fn">Cecily Treweek </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,803 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8.68 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">552 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.65 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20,761 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">90.44 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−3.36 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">22,955 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1984_election">1984 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: 1984 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1984_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1984 New Zealand general election">1984 general election</a>: Invercargill<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorton1988254_38-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorton1988254-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#00529F; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Norman_Jones_(politician)" title="Norman Jones (politician)">Norman Jones</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>9,805 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>46.89 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+1.26 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #D82A20; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Dougal Soper </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,526 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">40.77 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.91 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #43A2FF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Party" title="New Zealand Party">NZ Party</a> </td> <td class="fn">Maurice Coughlan </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,721 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8.23 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #CBE800; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Social_Credit_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Social Credit Party (New Zealand)">Social Credit</a> </td> <td class="fn">Joe Radich </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">801 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.83 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−12.67 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">G J Gilbert </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">56 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.26 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,279 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6.11 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.65 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20,909 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">93.80 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.58 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">22,291 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1981_election">1981 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: 1981 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1981_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1981 New Zealand general election">1981 general election</a>: Invercargill<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorton1988254_38-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorton1988254-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#00529F; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Norman_Jones_(politician)" title="Norman Jones (politician)">Norman Jones</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>9,350 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>45.63 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−2.33 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #D82A20; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Dougal Soper </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,758 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">37.86 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #CBE800; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Social_Credit_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Social Credit Party (New Zealand)">Social Credit</a> </td> <td class="fn">Joe Radich </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,382 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">16.50 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.71 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,592 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.76 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+6.49 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20,490 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">91.22 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+16.45 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">22,460 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1978_election">1978 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: 1978 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1978_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1978 New Zealand general election">1978 general election</a>: Invercargill<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorton1988254_38-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorton1988254-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#00529F; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Norman_Jones_(politician)" title="Norman Jones (politician)">Norman Jones</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>8,666 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>43.30 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−9.28 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #D82A20; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Aubrey_Begg" title="Aubrey Begg">Aubrey Begg</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,410 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">42.02 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #CBE800; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Social_Credit_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Social Credit Party (New Zealand)">Social Credit</a> </td> <td class="fn">Joe Radich </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,760 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13.79 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #4BB805; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Values_Party" title="Values Party">Values</a> </td> <td class="fn">R J Thomson </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">175 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.87 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">256 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.27 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−12.44 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20,011 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">74.77 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−11.06 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">26,762 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1975_election">1975 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: 1975 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1975_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1975 New Zealand general election">1975 general election</a>: Invercargill<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorton1988254_38-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorton1988254-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#00529F; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Norman_Jones_(politician)" title="Norman Jones (politician)">Norman Jones</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>9,713 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>52.58 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #D82A20; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/J._B._Munro" title="J. B. Munro">J. B. Munro</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,180 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">38.87 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−9.81 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #CBE800; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Social_Credit_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Social Credit Party (New Zealand)">Social Credit</a> </td> <td class="fn">N G Green </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,045 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.65 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #4BB805; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Values_Party" title="Values Party">Values</a> </td> <td class="fn">Malcolm Blair </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">533 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.88 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,533 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13.71 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18,471 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">85.83 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−6.33 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">21,518 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1972_election">1972 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: 1972 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1972_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1972 New Zealand general election">1972 general election</a>: Invercargill<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorton1988254_38-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorton1988254-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#D82A20; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/J._B._Munro" title="J. B. Munro">J. B. Munro</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>8,125 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>48.68 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #00529F; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/John_Chewings" title="John Chewings">John Chewings</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,360 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">44.09 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−3.74 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #CBE800; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Social_Credit_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Social Credit Party (New Zealand)">Social Credit</a> </td> <td class="fn">M L Patterson </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">855 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.12 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFBBBB; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_Labour" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent Labour">Independent Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">W F Manson </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">251 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.50 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FDBB30;"> </td> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Reform_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Liberal Reform Party (New Zealand)">Liberal Reform</a> </td> <td class="fn">H W I Le Page </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">60 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.35 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #B8860B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Democratic_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="New Democratic Party (New Zealand)">New Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn">J Murphy </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">39 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.23 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">765 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.58 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">16,690 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">92.16 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+3.77 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">18,108 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1969_election">1969 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: 1969 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1969_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1969 New Zealand general election">1969 general election</a>: Invercargill<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorton1988253_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorton1988253-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#00529F; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/John_Chewings" title="John Chewings">John Chewings</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>7,699 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>47.83 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #D82A20; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Trevor Young </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,668 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">41.42 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #CBE800; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Social_Credit_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Social Credit Party (New Zealand)">Social Credit</a> </td> <td class="fn">D L Steele </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,728 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10.73 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+6.15 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,031 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6.40 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">16,095 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">88.39 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.78 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">18,209 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1966_election">1966 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: 1966 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1966_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1966 New Zealand general election">1966 general election</a>: Invercargill<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorton1988253_39-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorton1988253-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#00529F; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Hanan" title="Ralph Hanan">Ralph Hanan</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>7,626 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>49.30 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−0.87 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #D82A20; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Noel Valentine </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,230 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">33.81 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #CBE800; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Social_Credit_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Social Credit Party (New Zealand)">Social Credit</a> </td> <td class="fn">D L Steele </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,611 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">16.88 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+11.69 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,396 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15.49 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+3.18 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15,467 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">85.61 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−4.40 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">18,066 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1963_election">1963 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: 1963 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1963_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1963 New Zealand general election">1963 general election</a>: Invercargill<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorton1988253_39-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorton1988253-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#00529F; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Hanan" title="Ralph Hanan">Ralph Hanan</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>7,879 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>50.17 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−4.18 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #D82A20; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Oliver James Henderson </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,945 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">37.85 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−3.62 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFD700; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Liberal_Party_(1962)" title="New Zealand Liberal Party (1962)">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn">Ronald MacGregor Hutton-Potts </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,064 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6.77 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #CBE800; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Social_Credit_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Social Credit Party (New Zealand)">Social Credit</a> </td> <td class="fn">D L Steele </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">815 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.19 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.02 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,934 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12.31 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.56 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15,703 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">90.01 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.74 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">17,445 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1960_election">1960 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: 1960 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1960_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1960 New Zealand general election">1960 general election</a>: Invercargill<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorton1988253_39-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorton1988253-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#00529F; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Hanan" title="Ralph Hanan">Ralph Hanan</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>8,128 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>54.35 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+4.34 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #D82A20; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">Oliver James Henderson </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,202 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">41.47 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #CBE800; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Social_Credit_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Social Credit Party (New Zealand)">Social Credit</a> </td> <td class="fn">D L Steele </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">624 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.17 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,926 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12.87 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+8.39 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14,954 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">89.27 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−3.75 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">16,751 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1957_election">1957 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: 1957 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1957_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1957 New Zealand general election">1957 general election</a>: Invercargill<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorton1988253_39-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorton1988253-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#00529F; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Hanan" title="Ralph Hanan">Ralph Hanan</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>7,577 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>50.01 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+6.25 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #D82A20; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Francis_Doyle" title="Thomas Francis Doyle">Thomas Francis Doyle</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,898 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">45.53 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #CBE800; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Social_Credit_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Social Credit Party (New Zealand)">Social Credit</a> </td> <td class="fn">Leslie G. Russell </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">673 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.44 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−14.87 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">679 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.48 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.37 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15,148 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">93.02 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.65 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">16,284 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1954_election">1954 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: 1954 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1954_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1954 New Zealand general election">1954 general election</a>: Invercargill<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorton1988253_39-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorton1988253-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#00529F; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Hanan" title="Ralph Hanan">Ralph Hanan</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>6,020 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>43.76 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−13.66 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #D82A20; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/William_Denham" title="William Denham">William Denham</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,077 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">36.91 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #CBE800; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Social_Credit_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Social Credit Party (New Zealand)">Social Credit</a> </td> <td class="fn">Leslie G. Russell </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,657 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">19.31 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">943 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6.85 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−8.00 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13,754 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">90.37 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.69 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">15,218 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1951_election">1951 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: 1951 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1951_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1951 New Zealand general election">1951 General election</a>: Invercargill<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorton1988253_39-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorton1988253-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#00529F; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Hanan" title="Ralph Hanan">Ralph Hanan</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>8,208 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>57.42 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+3.47 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #D82A20; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">F G Spurdle </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,085 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">42.57 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,123 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14.85 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+6.94 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14,293 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">89.68 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−5.27 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">15,937 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1949_election">1949 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: 1949 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1949_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1949 New Zealand general election">1949 general election</a>: Invercargill<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#00529F; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Hanan" title="Ralph Hanan">Ralph Hanan</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>7,897 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>53.95 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+3.18 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #D82A20; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/William_Denham" title="William Denham">William Denham</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,738 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">46.04 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−3.18 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,159 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.91 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+6.36 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14,635 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">94.95 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.86 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">15,412 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1946_election">1946 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: 1946 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1946_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1946 New Zealand general election">1946 general election</a>: Invercargill<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#00529F; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Hanan" title="Ralph Hanan">Ralph Hanan</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>7,315 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>50.77 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #D82A20; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/William_Denham" title="William Denham">William Denham</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,091 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">49.22 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.12 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">224 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.55 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14,406 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">94.09 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−3.34 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">15,310 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1943_election">1943 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: 1943 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1943_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1943 New Zealand general election">1943 general election</a>: Invercargill<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#D82A20; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/William_Denham" title="William Denham">William Denham</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>7,442 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>51.34 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−5.42 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #00529F; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td class="fn">William Bell </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,435 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">44.40 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFA500; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Labour_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Democratic Labour Party (New Zealand)">Democratic Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn">L. Assheton Harbord </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">523 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.60 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#F6F6F6"> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Informal votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;">113 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.77 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+0.40 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,007 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6.94 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−8.17 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14,493 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">97.43 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.47 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">14,874 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1938_election">1938 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: 1938 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1938_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1938 New Zealand general election">1938 general election</a>: Invercargill<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#D82A20; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/William_Denham" title="William Denham">William Denham</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>8,094 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>56.76 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+26.21 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #00529F; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Fred_Hall-Jones" title="Fred Hall-Jones">Fred Hall-Jones</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5,938 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">41.64 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">George Edward Thompson Dorman </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">174 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.22 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#F6F6F6"> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Informal votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;">54 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.37 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">−0.29 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,156 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15.11 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+12.54 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14,260 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">95.96 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.28 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">14,860 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1935_election">1935 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: 1935 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1935_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1935 New Zealand general election">1935 general election</a>: Invercargill<sup id="cite_ref-1935_election_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1935_election-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#D82A20; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/William_Denham" title="William Denham">William Denham</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>4,241 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>31.55 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+4.98 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #00AEEF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Democrat_Party_(1934)" title="New Zealand Democrat Party (1934)">Democrat</a> </td> <td class="fn">Gordon Reed </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,895 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">28.98 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #00BB00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Reform_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Reform Party (New Zealand)">Reform</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/John_Miller_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="John Miller (New Zealand politician)">John Miller</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,708 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20.15 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFFFAA; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_Liberal" title="Independent Liberal">Independent Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn">William McChesney </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,595 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">19.30 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−15.30 </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#F6F6F6"> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Informal votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;">90 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.66 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.35 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">346 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.57 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13,439 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">94.68 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+7.16 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">14,194 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1931_election">1931 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: 1931 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1931_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1931 New Zealand general election">1931 general election</a>: Invercargill<sup id="cite_ref-1931_election_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1931_election-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#DCDCDC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/James_Hargest" title="James Hargest">James Hargest</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>4,652 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>38.84 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−8.25 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #BBFFFF; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/United_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="United Party (New Zealand)">United</a> </td> <td class="fn">William McChesney </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,144 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">34.60 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #D82A20; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/William_Denham" title="William Denham">William Denham</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,182 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">26.57 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">508 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.24 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.58 </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#F6F6F6"> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Informal votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;">37 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.31 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+0.05 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12,015 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">87.52 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+8.02 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">13,729 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1930_by-election">1930 by-election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: 1930 by-election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1930_Invercargill_by-election" title="1930 Invercargill by-election">1930 Invercargill by-election</a><sup id="cite_ref-1930_by-election_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1930_by-election-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#BBFFFF; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/United_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="United Party (New Zealand)">United</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Vincent_Ward_(politician)" title="Vincent Ward (politician)">Vincent Ward</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>5,194 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>52.91 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #00BB00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Reform_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Reform Party (New Zealand)">Reform</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/James_Hargest" title="James Hargest">James Hargest</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,623 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">47.09 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">571 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.82 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#F6F6F6"> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Informal votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;">25 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.25 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">−0.51 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,842 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">79.50 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−13.62 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">12,380 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1928_election">1928 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: 1928 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1928_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1928 New Zealand general election">1928 general election</a>: Invercargill<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1928_election_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1928_election-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#BBFFFF; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/United_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="United Party (New Zealand)">United</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Ward" title="Joseph Ward">Joseph Ward</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>7,309 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>63.89 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+16.98 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #00BB00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Reform_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Reform Party (New Zealand)">Reform</a> </td> <td class="fn">Morell Macalister </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,131 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">36.11 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,178 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">27.78 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+26.27 </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#F6F6F6"> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Informal votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;">88 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.76 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+0.25 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11,528 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">93.12 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.61 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">12,380 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1925_election">1925 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: 1925 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1925_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1925 New Zealand general election">1925 general election</a>: Invercargill<sup id="cite_ref-1925_election_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1925_election-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFDF00; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Liberal_Party" title="New Zealand Liberal Party">Liberal</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Ward" title="Joseph Ward">Joseph Ward</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>4,957 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>46.91 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #00BB00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Reform_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Reform Party (New Zealand)">Reform</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/James_Hargest" title="James Hargest">James Hargest</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,798 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">45.41 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #D82A20; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Pat_Hickey_(politician)" title="Pat Hickey (politician)">Pat Hickey</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">811 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.68 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">159 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.50 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−9.22 </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#F6F6F6"> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Informal votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;">55 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.52 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">−0.34 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,621 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">93.73 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+3.44 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">11,332 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1899_election">1899 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: 1899 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1899_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1899 New Zealand general election">1899 general election</a>: Invercargill<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFDF00; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Liberal_Party" title="New Zealand Liberal Party">Liberal</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Josiah_Hanan" title="Josiah Hanan">Josiah Hanan</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>2,451 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>52.82 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFA500; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Liberal%E2%80%93Labour_(New_Zealand)" title="Liberal–Labour (New Zealand)">Liberal–Labour</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/James_Whyte_Kelly" title="James Whyte Kelly">James Whyte Kelly</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,189 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">47.18 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.07 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">262 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.65 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−7.08 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,640 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">79.94 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.02 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">5,804 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1896_election">1896 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: 1896 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1896_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1896 New Zealand general election">1896 general election</a>: Invercargill<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFA500; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Liberal%E2%80%93Labour_(New_Zealand)" title="Liberal–Labour (New Zealand)">Liberal–Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/James_Whyte_Kelly" title="James Whyte Kelly">James Whyte Kelly</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>2,237 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>49.25 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−17.98 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFDF00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Liberal_Party" title="New Zealand Liberal Party">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Sinclair_(New_Zealand_mayor)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Sinclair (New Zealand mayor) (page does not exist)">John Sinclair</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,659 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">36.53 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #9999CC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_(New_Zealand)" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservative (New Zealand)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/William_Benjamin_Scandrett" title="William Benjamin Scandrett">William Benjamin Scandrett</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">646 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14.22 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">578 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12.73 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−21.74 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,542 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">78.92 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.71 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">5,755 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1893_election">1893 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: 1893 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1893_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1893 New Zealand general election">1893 general election</a>: Invercargill<sup id="cite_ref-1893_election_results_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1893_election_results-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1893_affiliation_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1893_affiliation-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFA500; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Liberal%E2%80%93Labour_(New_Zealand)" title="Liberal–Labour (New Zealand)">Liberal–Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/James_Whyte_Kelly" title="James Whyte Kelly">James Whyte Kelly</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>2,423 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>67.23 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+25.48 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Hatch" title="Joseph Hatch">Joseph Hatch</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,181 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">32.77 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,242 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">34.46 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+26.61 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,604 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">78.21 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+4.48 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">4,608 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1890_election">1890 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=43" title="Edit section: 1890 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1890_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1890 New Zealand general election">1890 general election</a>: Invercargill<sup id="cite_ref-General_Election,_1890_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-General_Election,_1890-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFA500; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Liberal%E2%80%93Labour_(New_Zealand)" title="Liberal–Labour (New Zealand)">Liberal–Labour</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/James_Whyte_Kelly" title="James Whyte Kelly">James Whyte Kelly</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>633 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>41.75 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #9999CC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_(New_Zealand)" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservative (New Zealand)">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/James_Walker_Bain" title="James Walker Bain">James Walker Bain</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">517 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">34.10 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #FFDF00; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Liberal_Party" title="New Zealand Liberal Party">Liberal</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Henry_Feldwick" title="Henry Feldwick">Henry Feldwick</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">366 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">24.15 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">116 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.65 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,516 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">73.73 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_registration" title="Voter registration">Registered electors</a> </th> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">2,056 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1878_by-election">1878 by-election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=44" title="Edit section: 1878 by-election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1878_Invercargill_by-election" title="1878 Invercargill by-election">1878 Invercargill by-election</a><sup id="cite_ref-elec_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-elec-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#DCDCDC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Henry_Feldwick" title="Henry Feldwick">Henry Feldwick</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>230 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>51.22 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+51.22 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/James_Walker_Bain" title="James Walker Bain">James Walker Bain</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">219 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">48.78 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+48.78 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.45 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">449 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1875_election">1875 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=45" title="Edit section: 1875 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1875%E2%80%931876_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1875–1876 New Zealand general election">1875 general election</a>: Invercargill<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#DCDCDC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/George_Lumsden" title="George Lumsden">George Lumsden</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>180 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>53.10 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+53.10 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/John_Cuthbertson_(politician)" title="John Cuthbertson (politician)">John Cuthbertson</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">159 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">46.90 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−5.58 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">21 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6.19 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">339 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1873_by-election">1873 by-election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=46" title="Edit section: 1873 by-election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1873_Invercargill_by-election" title="1873 Invercargill by-election">1873 Invercargill by-election</a><sup id="cite_ref-pp_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pp-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#DCDCDC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/John_Cuthbertson_(politician)" title="John Cuthbertson (politician)">John Cuthbertson</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>159 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>52.48 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/William_Wood_(New_Zealand_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="William Wood (New Zealand politician)">William Wood</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">144 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">47.52 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.95 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">303 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1871_election">1871 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=47" title="Edit section: 1871 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1871_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1871 New Zealand general election">1871 general election</a>: Invercargill<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#DCDCDC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/William_Henderson_Calder" title="William Henderson Calder">William Henderson Calder</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>142 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>61.21 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+61.21 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/George_Lumsden" title="George Lumsden">George Lumsden</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">90 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">38.79 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+38.79 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">52 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">22.41 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">232 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1866_election">1866 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=48" title="Edit section: 1866 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1866_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1866 New Zealand general election">1866 general election</a>: Invercargill<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 130px">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#DCDCDC; width:5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/William_Wood_(New_Zealand_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="William Wood (New Zealand politician)">William Wood</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>75 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>50.67 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b> </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Theophilus_Heale" title="Theophilus Heale">Theophilus Heale</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">73 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">49.32 </td> <td style="color: #2C2C2C; vertical-align: middle; font-size: smaller; text-align: center;" class="table-na"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.35 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em" scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">Turnout</a> </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">148 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Table_footnotes">Table footnotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=49" title="Edit section: Table footnotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Bond-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Bond_20-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bond_20-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Bond entered parliament as a list MP on 28 April 2015 after <a href="/wiki/Winston_Peters" title="Winston Peters">Winston Peters</a> won the <a href="/wiki/2015_Northland_by-election" title="2015 Northland by-election">2015 Northland by-election</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Internet_Party-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Internet_Party_24-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">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</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Mana_Party-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Mana_Party_25-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">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</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Internet_Mana-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Internet_Mana_27-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">2014 Internet Mana swing is relative to the votes for <a href="/wiki/Mana_Party_(New_Zealand)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mana Party (New Zealand)">Mana</a> in 2011; it shared a party list with <a href="/wiki/Internet_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Internet Party (New Zealand)">Internet</a> in the 2014 election.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Percentage change calculated as a candidate for the Alliance Party in the 1999 election</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Invercargill_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=50" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141006075102/http://www.elections.org.nz/sites/default/files/bulk-upload/documents/report_of_the_representation_commission_2014.pdf"><i>Report of the Representation Commission 2014</i></a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. 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Electoral Commission. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.electionresults.govt.nz/electionresults_1996/pdf/3.3%20Party%20Lists%20of%20Successful%20Registered%20Parties.pdf">the original</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> on 8 February 2013<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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