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class="vector-toc-link" href="#1987_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.12</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">3.13</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">3.14</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">3.15</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">3.16</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">3.17</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">3.18</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">3.19</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">3.20</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">3.21</span> <span>1960 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1960_election-sublist" 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class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.31</span> <span>1928 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1928_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">3.32</span> <span>1893 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1893_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1890_election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1890_election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.33</span> <span>1890 election</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1890_election-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1869_by-election" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1869_by-election"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.34</span> 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style="font-weight: bold;">Single-member constituency<br />for the <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_House_of_Representatives" title="New Zealand House of Representatives">New Zealand House of Representatives</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:New_Plymouth_electorate,_2014.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Outline map" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/New_Plymouth_electorate%2C_2014.svg/120px-New_Plymouth_electorate%2C_2014.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="144" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/New_Plymouth_electorate%2C_2014.svg/180px-New_Plymouth_electorate%2C_2014.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/New_Plymouth_electorate%2C_2014.svg/240px-New_Plymouth_electorate%2C_2014.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="666" data-file-height="800" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Location of New Plymouth within <a 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Party">National</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>New Plymouth</b> is a New Zealand parliamentary <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_electorates" title="New Zealand electorates">electorate</a>. It was first created for the <a href="/wiki/1st_New_Zealand_Parliament" title="1st New Zealand Parliament">1st New Zealand Parliament</a> in 1853 and has existed since, with one 32-year interruption. The electorate was initially called <b>Town of New Plymouth</b>. </p><p>The electorate is currently held by <a href="/wiki/David_MacLeod" title="David MacLeod">David MacLeod</a> for National. He defeated Labour’s <a href="/wiki/Glen_Bennett" title="Glen Bennett">Glen Bennett</a> in the <a href="/wiki/2023_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2023 New Zealand general election">2023 general election</a> by 6,991 votes. </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=New_Plymouth_(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>In the 1927 electoral redistribution, the <a href="/wiki/North_Island" title="North Island">North Island</a> gained a further electorate from the <a href="/wiki/South_Island" title="South Island">South Island</a> due to faster population growth. Five electorates were abolished, two former electorates, including New Plymouth, were re-established, and three electorates were created for the first time.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcRobie198983–88_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcRobie198983–88-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The electorate includes the following population centres: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/New_Plymouth" title="New Plymouth">New Plymouth</a> (57,600)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waitara,_New_Zealand" title="Waitara, New Zealand">Waitara</a> (6,312)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C5%8Cpunake" title="Ōpunake">Ōpunake</a> (1,440)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C5%8Cakura" title="Ōakura">Ōakura</a> (1,380)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C5%8Ckato" title="Ōkato">Ōkato</a> (561)</li></ul> <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=New_Plymouth_(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 originally the <b>Town of New Plymouth</b> from 1853 to 1879. The name of the electorate was changed to <b>New Plymouth</b> from 1879 to 1896. The electorate was abolished in 1896, and was reconstituted under the same name in 1928.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield1950161_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield1950161-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Samuel" title="Oliver Samuel">Oliver Samuel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Edward_Smith_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="Edward Smith (New Zealand politician)">Edward Smith</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Kelly_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="Thomas Kelly (New Zealand politician)">Thomas Kelly</a> (incumbent) and <a href="/wiki/Charles_Brown_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="Charles Brown (New Zealand politician)">Charles Brown</a> contested the electorate in the <a href="/wiki/1884_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1884 New Zealand general election">1884 election</a>; Samuel won the contest.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-General_Election,_1884_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-General_Election,_1884-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The electorate has changed between National and Labour several times, and has been represented by two Christian ministers: Rev <a href="/wiki/Fred_Frost" title="Fred Frost">Fred Frost</a> and then Rev <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Aderman" title="Ernest Aderman">Ernest Aderman</a>. New Plymouth is generally seen as a <a href="/wiki/Marginal_seat" title="Marginal seat">marginal seat</a>. </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=New_Plymouth_(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>Unless otherwise stated, all MPs terms began and ended at a general election. </p><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:#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:#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:#D82A20"> </span> <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a></span> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <td width="100"><b>Election</b> </td> <td width="175" colspan="2"><b>Winner</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1853_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1853 New Zealand general election">1853 election</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#DCDCDC; color:inherit; width:5px;"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Francis_Gledhill" title="Francis Gledhill">Francis Gledhill</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1855_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1855 New Zealand general election">1855 election</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#DCDCDC; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/William_Richmond_(politician)" title="William Richmond (politician)">William Richmond</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1860%E2%80%931861_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1860–1861 New Zealand general election">1860 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="font-size:x-small;"><i><a href="/wiki/1862_Town_of_New_Plymouth_by-election" title="1862 Town of New Plymouth by-election">1862 by-election</a></i></span> </td> <td style="background-color:#DCDCDC; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Isaac_Newton_Watt" title="Isaac Newton Watt">Isaac Newton Watt</a><sup id="cite_ref-NZETC_Watt_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NZETC_Watt-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="font-size:x-small;"><i><a href="/wiki/1863_Town_of_New_Plymouth_by-election" title="1863 Town of New Plymouth by-election">1863 by-election</a></i></span> </td> <td style="background-color:#DCDCDC; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Henry_Hanson_Turton" title="Henry Hanson Turton">Henry Hanson Turton</a><sup id="cite_ref-NZETC_Turton_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NZETC_Turton-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="font-size:x-small;"><i><a href="/wiki/1864_Town_of_New_Plymouth_by-election" title="1864 Town of New Plymouth by-election">1864 by-election</a></i></span> </td> <td style="background-color:#DCDCDC; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Charles_Brown_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="Charles Brown (New Zealand politician)">Charles Brown</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="font-size:x-small;"><i><a href="/wiki/1865_Town_of_New_Plymouth_by-election" title="1865 Town of New Plymouth by-election">1865 by-election</a></i></span> </td> <td style="background-color:#DCDCDC; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Henry_Sewell" title="Henry Sewell">Henry Sewell</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1866_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1866 New Zealand general election">1866 election</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#DCDCDC; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Richardson_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="John Richardson (New Zealand politician)">John Richardson</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="font-size:x-small;"><i><a href="/wiki/1867_Town_of_New_Plymouth_by-election" title="1867 Town of New Plymouth by-election">1867 by-election</a></i></span> </td> <td style="background-color:#DCDCDC; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Harry_Atkinson" title="Harry Atkinson">Harry Atkinson</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span style="font-size:x-small;"><i><a href="/wiki/1869_Town_of_New_Plymouth_by-election" title="1869 Town of New Plymouth by-election">1869 by-election</a></i></span> </td> <td rowspan="5" style="background-color:#DCDCDC; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td rowspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Kelly_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="Thomas Kelly (New Zealand politician)">Thomas Kelly</a><sup id="cite_ref-NZETC_Kelly_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NZETC_Kelly-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1871_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1871 New Zealand general election">1871 election</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></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1879_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1879 New Zealand general election">1879 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1881_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1881 New Zealand general election">1881 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1884_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1884 New Zealand general election">1884 election</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#DCDCDC; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Samuel" title="Oliver Samuel">Oliver Samuel</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1887_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1887 New Zealand general election">1887 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1890_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1890 New Zealand general election">1890 election</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#FFDF00; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Edward_Smith_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="Edward Smith (New Zealand politician)">Edward Smith</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 colspan="3" align="center"><small>(Electorate abolished 1896–1928, see <a href="/wiki/Taranaki_(New_Zealand_electorate)" title="Taranaki (New Zealand electorate)">Taranaki</a>)</small> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1928_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1928 New Zealand general election">1928 election</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="border-bottom:solid 0 grey; background:#BBFFFF"> </td> <td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Sydney_George_Smith" title="Sydney George Smith">Sydney George Smith</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1931_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1931 New Zealand general election">1931 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2" height="36"><a href="/wiki/1935_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1935 New Zealand general election">1935 election</a> </td> <td style="border-top:solid 0 grey; background:#BBFFFF"> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#00529F; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1938_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1938 New Zealand general election">1938 election</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#D82A20; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Fred_Frost" title="Fred Frost">Fred Frost</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1943_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1943 New Zealand general election">1943 election</a> </td> <td rowspan="8" style="background-color:#00529F; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td rowspan="8"><a href="/wiki/Ernest_Aderman" title="Ernest Aderman">Ernest Aderman</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1946_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1946 New Zealand general election">1946 election</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> <td rowspan="3" style="background-color:#D82A20; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Ron_Barclay" title="Ron Barclay">Ron Barclay</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1969_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1969 New Zealand general election">1969 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1972_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1972 New Zealand general election">1972 election</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" style="background-color:#00529F; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Tony_Friedlander" title="Tony Friedlander">Tony Friedlander</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 style="background-color:#D82A20; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Harry_Duynhoven" title="Harry Duynhoven">Harry Duynhoven</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/1990_New_Zealand_general_election" title="1990 New Zealand general election">1990 election</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#00529F; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/John_Armstrong_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="John Armstrong (New Zealand politician)">John Armstrong</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="5" style="background-color:#D82A20; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td rowspan="5">Harry Duynhoven </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></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2008_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2008 New Zealand general election">2008 election</a> </td> <td rowspan="4" style="background-color:#00529F; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Young_(politician)" title="Jonathan Young (politician)">Jonathan Young</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></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 style="background-color:#D82A20; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Glen_Bennett" title="Glen Bennett">Glen Bennett</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2023_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2023 New Zealand general election">2023 election</a> </td> <td style="background-color:#00529F; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/David_MacLeod" title="David MacLeod">David MacLeod</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=New_Plymouth_(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 New Plymouth 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 style="background-color:#00529F; color:inherit; width:5px;"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Roger_Maxwell_(politician)" title="Roger Maxwell (politician)">Roger Maxwell</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2011_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2011 New Zealand general election">2011 election</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="background-color:#D82A20; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Little_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="Andrew Little (New Zealand politician)">Andrew Little</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/2014_New_Zealand_general_election" title="2014 New Zealand general election">2014 election</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2024 </td> <td style="background-color:#D82A20; color:inherit; width:0.3em;"> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Glen_Bennett" title="Glen Bennett">Glen Bennett</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=New_Plymouth_(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=New_Plymouth_(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>: New Plymouth </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/David_MacLeod" title="David MacLeod">David MacLeod</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">22,483 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">52.31 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+10.58 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18,208 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">42.01 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+12.02 </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"><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/Glen_Bennett" title="Glen Bennett">Glen Bennett</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15,492 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">36.04 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-11.46 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,442 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">24.09 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-24.03 </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">Bruce McGechan </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,956 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.55 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.60 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,388 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10.13 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.19 </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">Warren Willetts </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,738 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.04 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">— </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">942 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.17 </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" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Animal_Justice_Party_Aotearoa_New_Zealand" title="Animal Justice Party Aotearoa New Zealand">Animal Justice</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Hamish Watkins </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">562 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.31 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">— </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">88 </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: #4646b2; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Nation_Party" title="New Nation Party">New Nation</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Greg Robinson </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">252 </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">117 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.27 </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"><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">3,674 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">8.48 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+3.89 </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">3,134 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">7.23 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+4.98 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#09B598; 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">848 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1.96 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+1.38 </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">617 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1.42 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.95 </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">202 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.47 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.28 </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">180 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.42 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.23 </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">149 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.34 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">— </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">54 </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:#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">0.12 </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">8 </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:#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">24 </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> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: left; margin-right: 0.5em">Informal votes </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">499 </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">42,983 </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">43,335 </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">43,335 </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" 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;">6,991 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">16.26 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+10.49 </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=New_Plymouth_(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>: New Plymouth<sup id="cite_ref-2020election_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2020election-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<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"><a href="/wiki/Glen_Bennett" title="Glen Bennett">Glen Bennett</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">21,030 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">47.50 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+14.91 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">21,394 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">48.12 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+14.04 </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"><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/Jonathan_Young_(politician)" title="Jonathan Young (politician)">Jonathan Young</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18,475 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">41.73 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-10.28 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13,336 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">29.99 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-18.62 </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">Murray Chong </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,347 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.04 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">— </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">765 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.72 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.32 </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">Ada Xiao </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">864 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.95 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.86 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,534 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.94 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+7.39 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #09B598; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/The_Opportunities_Party" title="The Opportunities Party">Opportunities</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Dan Thurston Crow </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">745 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.68 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">— </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">787 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.77 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-0.95 </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">Rowena Wood </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">601 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.35 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">— </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">567 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.27 </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">Rusty Kane </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">325 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.73 </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: #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">Kath Lauderdale </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">115 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.25 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">— </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">53 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.11 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.10 </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">2,044 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">4.59 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.08 </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">1,001 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">2.25 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">-5.49 </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">258 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.58 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.18 </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">212 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.47 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">-0.15 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#F9D11A; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/ONE_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="ONE Party">ONE</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">85 </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:#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">40 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.08 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.02 </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">35 </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:#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">0.04 </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">10 </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:#5A276C; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Tea_Party_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="Tea Party New Zealand">TEA</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">0.02 </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">769 </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">306 </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">44,271 </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">44,455 </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">44,455 </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: #D82A20"> </th> <td colspan="2" style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party" title="New Zealand Labour Party">Labour</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>Majority</b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,555 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">5.77 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </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=New_Plymouth_(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>: New Plymouth<sup id="cite_ref-2017_New_Plymouth_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2017_New_Plymouth-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<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/Jonathan_Young_(politician)" title="Jonathan Young (politician)">Jonathan Young</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20,711 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">52.01 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−5.74 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">19,517 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">48.63 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−7.05 </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">Corie Haddock </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12,978 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">32.59 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.03 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13,662 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">34.04 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+12.90 </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">Murray Chong </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,041 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.63 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">— </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,107 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.74 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.26 </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">Stuart Jeanne Bramhall </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,070 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.19 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.23 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,798 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.47 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−3.50 </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">Anneka Carlson </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">434 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.09 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.54 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">222 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.55 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.09 </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 Lawrence </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">148 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.37 </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:#09B598; 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">1,093 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">2.72 </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"><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">250 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.62 </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">163 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.40 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−0.18 </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">65 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.16 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−3.03 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#F5621E; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Ban_1080" class="mw-redirect" title="Ban 1080">Ban 1080</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">39 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.09 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−0.06 </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">36 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.08 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−0.10 </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">26 </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">16 </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:#339966; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Democrats_for_Social_Credit" class="mw-redirect" title="Democrats for Social Credit">Democrats</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">0.01 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−0.06 </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">8 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.01 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−0.69 </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">7 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.01 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−0.69 </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">434 </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">118 </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">39,816 </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">40,135 </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">40,365 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">80.68<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.63 </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;">7,733 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">19.42 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">−6.76 </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=New_Plymouth_(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>: New Plymouth<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> </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/Jonathan_Young_(politician)" title="Jonathan Young (politician)">Jonathan Young</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">21,566 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">57.75 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+4.14 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20,969 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">55.65 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.39 </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/Andrew_Little_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="Andrew Little (New Zealand politician)">Andrew Little</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11,788 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">31.56 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−8.85 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,947 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">21.10 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−4.72 </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">Sarah Roberts </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,025 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.42 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.56 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,005 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.97 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.68 </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">Jamie Dombroski </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">701 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.88 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.55 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">218 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.58 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.06 </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">Angela Storr </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">633 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.69 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.69 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,201 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.19 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.22 </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"><a href="/wiki/Laser_Kiwi_flag#Lucy_Gray" title="Laser Kiwi flag">Lucy Gray</a> (stood as James Gray) </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">205 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.55 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.55 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">172 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.46 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.56 </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">3,395 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">9.00 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+2.70 </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" class="mw-redirect" title="Internet Party and MANA Movement">Internet Mana</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">263 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.70 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.49<sup id="cite_ref-Internet_Mana_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Internet_Mana-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </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">199 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.53 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−0.08 </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">66 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.18 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">−0.27 </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">57 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.15 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.15 </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">57 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.15 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.15 </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">28 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.07 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.01 </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">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 class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#2690C4; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Focus_NZ" title="Focus NZ">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">429 </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">128 </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">37,347 </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">37,681 </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">37,681 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">77.51 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.06 </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;">9,778 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">26.18 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+13.28 </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=New_Plymouth_(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>: New Plymouth<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<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/Jonathan_Young_(politician)" title="Jonathan Young (politician)">Jonathan Young</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17,644 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">53.31 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+5.13 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">18,073 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">53.26 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.79 </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/Andrew_Little_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="Andrew Little (New Zealand politician)">Andrew Little</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13,374 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">40.41 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-7.47 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,761 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">25.82 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-5.60 </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">Geoff Steedman </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,277 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.86 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+3.86 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,276 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9.65 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+3.23 </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">Jamie Dombroski </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">439 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.33 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.33 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">178 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.52 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.05 </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">Rusty Kane </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">361 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.09 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-1.11 </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">2,137 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">6.30 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+2.25 </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">667 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1.97 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+1.97 </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">347 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1.02 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">-2.16 </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">207 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.61 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">-0.14 </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">154 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.45 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">-0.20 </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">72 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.21 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.21 </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">30 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.09 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.01 </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">19 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.06 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">-0.07 </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">11 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.03 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">-0.06 </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">808 </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">235 </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">33,095 </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">33,932 </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;">4,270 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">12.90 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+12.60 </td> <td colspan="3"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p><b>Electorate</b> (as at 26 November 2011): 44,973<sup id="cite_ref-enrolment_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-enrolment-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<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=New_Plymouth_(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>: New Plymouth<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<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/Jonathan_Young_(politician)" title="Jonathan Young (politician)">Jonathan Young</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">16,539 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">48.18 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17,512 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">50.47 </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"><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/Harry_Duynhoven" title="Harry Duynhoven">Harry Duynhoven</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">16,434 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">47.88 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10,901 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">31.42 </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">Rusty Kane </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">756 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.20 </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" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/ACT_New_Zealand" title="ACT New Zealand">ACT</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Chris Albers </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">455 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.33 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,106 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.19 </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" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Libertarianz" title="Libertarianz">Libertarianz</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Mike Webber </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">141 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.41 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </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"> </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">2,230 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">6.43 </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">1,404 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">4.05 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </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">301 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.87 </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"><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">260 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.75 </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">232 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.67 </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"><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">227 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.65 </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">166 </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:#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">141 </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">78 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.22 </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"><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">43 </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:#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">31 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.09 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </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">23 </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:#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">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:#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">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:#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">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> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: left; margin-right: 0.5em">Informal votes </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">349 </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">175 </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">34,325 </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">34,699 </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;">105 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.31 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </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=New_Plymouth_(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>: New Plymouth<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<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/Harry_Duynhoven" title="Harry Duynhoven">Harry Duynhoven</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">17,512 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">53.20 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12,542 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">37.64 </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="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party" title="New Zealand National Party">National</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Moira Irving </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12,073 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">36.67 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14,836 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">44.53 </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">Sarah Brown </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,165 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.54 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,816 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.45 </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" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Destiny_New_Zealand" title="Destiny New Zealand">Destiny</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Keren Roberts </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">555 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.69 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">244 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.73 </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">Matt Collier </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">539 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.64 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">791 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.37 </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">Tony Ruakere </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">312 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.95 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">148 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.44 </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">Kerry O'Connor </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">301 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.91 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">394 </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: #DCDCDC"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Rusty Kane </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">252 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.77 </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: #339966; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Democratic_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="New Zealand Democratic Party">Democrats</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Kevin Smith </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">121 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.37 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">52 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.18 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.16 </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">2,036 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">6.11 </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">249 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.75 </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">86 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.26 </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_Party_of_New_Zealand" title="Christian Heritage Party of New Zealand">Christian Heritage</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">36 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.11 </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">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:#F28317; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Direct_Democracy_Party_of_New_Zealand" title="Direct Democracy Party of New Zealand">Direct Democracy</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">15 </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:#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">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:#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">12 </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:#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">12 </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:#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">7 </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> <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">126 </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">32,919 </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">33,319 </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;">5,439 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </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=New_Plymouth_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=13" 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>: New Plymouth </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/Harry_Duynhoven" title="Harry Duynhoven">Harry Duynhoven</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">22,118 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">68.48 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+6.81 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13,612 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">41.98 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+12.80 </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">Len Jury </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,026 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">21.75 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,487 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">29.26 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-6.90 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #800080; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Future_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="Future New Zealand">Christian Democrats</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Tom Smithers </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,048 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.24 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">606 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.87 </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">Bonnie Johnstone </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">870 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.69 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,425 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.48 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-2.26 </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">Moira Irving </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">595 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.84 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,804 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.56 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.13 </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">Mae Neuman </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">515 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.59 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,201 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.70 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">-8.17 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color: #84C6C6; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Choice_Party" title="People's Choice Party">The People's Choice</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Rusty Kane </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">80 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.25 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">48 </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: #964B00; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Mana_Wahine_Te_Ira_Tangata" title="Mana Wahine Te Ira Tangata">Mana Wahine Te Ira Tangata</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Shona Eriksen </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">25 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.08 </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: #003153; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Mauri_Pacific" title="Mauri Pacific">Mauri Pacific</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Sharon Faloon </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">21 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.07 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </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:#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">1,734 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">5.35 </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_Party_of_New_Zealand" title="Christian Heritage Party of New Zealand">Christian Heritage</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">678 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">2.09 </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">426 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1.31 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">-0.60 </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">126 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.39 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">-0.27 </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">104 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.32 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">+0.29 </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">67 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.21 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">-0.02 </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">45 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.14 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">-0.14 </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">0.04 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <th style="color:inherit;background-color:#ffe4e1; width: 5px;"> </th> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/Natural_Law_Party" title="Natural Law Party">Natural Law</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">12 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.04 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">-0.10 </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">7 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.02 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">-0.04 </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">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:#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">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:#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">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:#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">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> <td colspan="4" style="text-align: left; margin-right: 0.5em">Informal votes </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">464 </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">340 </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">32,298 </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">32,422 </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;">15,092 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">46.73 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+12.45 </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=New_Plymouth_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=14" 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>: New Plymouth<sup id="cite_ref-New_Plymouth,_1996_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-New_Plymouth,_1996-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1996_successful_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1996_successful-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1996_unsuccessful_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1996_unsuccessful-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<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/Harry_Duynhoven" title="Harry Duynhoven">Harry Duynhoven</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">20,746 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">61.67 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+12.70 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,833 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">29.18 </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/Roger_Maxwell_(politician)" title="Roger Maxwell (politician)">Roger Maxwell</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,213 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">27.39 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12,185 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">36.16 </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">Harry Slaats </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,771 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.26 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,999 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11.87 </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">Sue Gaffy </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,277 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.80 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,282 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9.74 </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">Tony Huston </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">391 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.16 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,492 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.43 </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" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Progressive_Green_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Progressive Green Party (New Zealand)">Progressive Green</a> </td> <td colspan="2" class="fn">Paul O'Neill </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">181 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.54 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">100 </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: #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">Bruce Sowry </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">-0.16 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">48 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.14 </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">1,619 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">4.80 </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">642 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">1.91 </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"><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">223 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.66 </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/McGillicuddy_Serious_Party" title="McGillicuddy Serious Party">McGillicuddy Serious</a> </td> <td colspan="5">  </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">93 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.28 </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">77 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.23 </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">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:#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">20 </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:#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">19 </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:#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">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:#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">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: #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">8 </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: #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">7 </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: #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: #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">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">205 </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">151 </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">33,642 </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">33,696 </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;">11,533 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">34.28 </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=New_Plymouth_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=15" 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>: New Plymouth<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<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/Harry_Duynhoven" title="Harry Duynhoven">Harry Duynhoven</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>10,481 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>48.97 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+8.56 </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_Armstrong_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="John Armstrong (New Zealand politician)">John Armstrong</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,355 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">34.37 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−14.44 </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">Heather Smith </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,182 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10.19 </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">Lindsay Calvert </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,087 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.07 </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 Starrenburgh </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">217 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.01 </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">Bruce Sowry </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">77 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.35 </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">3,126 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">14.60 </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">21,399 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">85.31 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.78 </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">25,082 </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=New_Plymouth_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=16" 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>: New Plymouth<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<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_Armstrong_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="John Armstrong (New Zealand politician)">John Armstrong</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>9,883 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>48.81 </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/Harry_Duynhoven" title="Harry Duynhoven">Harry Duynhoven</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,182 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">40.41 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−9.11 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="background-color: #098137; width: 5px;"> </td> <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 class="fn">Leon Roborgh </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,425 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.03 </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">P Mepham </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">476 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.35 </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">Harry Alchin-Smith </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">179 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.88 </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: #FFC0CB; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/McGillicuddy_Serious_Party" title="McGillicuddy Serious Party">McGillicuddy Serious</a> </td> <td class="fn">M B Johnston </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">100 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.49 </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">1,701 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8.40 </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">20,245 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">86.09 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−3.60 </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">23,515 </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=New_Plymouth_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=17" 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>: New Plymouth<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorton1988290_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorton1988290-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<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/Harry_Duynhoven" title="Harry Duynhoven">Harry Duynhoven</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>10,320 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>49.52 </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/Tony_Friedlander" title="Tony Friedlander">Tony Friedlander</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,883 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">47.43 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.74 </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">K D Steele </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">413 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.98 </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: #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">Bruce McCready </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">131 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.62 </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">G A McDonald </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">89 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.42 </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">337 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.61 </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">20,836 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">89.69 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−3.08 </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">23,229 </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=New_Plymouth_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=18" 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>: New Plymouth<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorton1988290_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorton1988290-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<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/Tony_Friedlander" title="Tony Friedlander">Tony Friedlander</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>9,900 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>44.99 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−1.49 </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/Ida_Gaskin" title="Ida Gaskin">Ida Gaskin</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9,631 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">43.77 </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: #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">Lloyd Horn </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,656 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.52 </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">George McPeak </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">645 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.93 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−10.37 </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"><a href="/wiki/Janet_McVeagh" title="Janet McVeagh">Janet Roborgh</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">154 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.69 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.59 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;"> </td> <td class="org"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Republican_Party_(1967)" title="New Zealand Republican Party (1967)">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn">M J K Petrie </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">17 </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> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">Majority </th> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">269 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.22 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−6.32 </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">22,003 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">92.77 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.83 </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">23,717 </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=New_Plymouth_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=19" 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>: New Plymouth<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorton1988290_22-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorton1988290-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<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/Tony_Friedlander" title="Tony Friedlander">Tony Friedlander</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>9,649 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>46.48 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+3.87 </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">Dennis Duggan </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,082 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">38.93 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−3.13 </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">George McPeak </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,762 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13.30 </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"><a href="/wiki/Janet_McVeagh" title="Janet McVeagh">Janet Roborgh</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">266 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.28 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−1.06 </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">1,567 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.54 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+6.99 </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">20,759 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">90.94 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+16.23 </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">22,827 </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=New_Plymouth_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=20" 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>: New Plymouth<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorton1988290_22-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorton1988290-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<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/Tony_Friedlander" title="Tony Friedlander">Tony Friedlander</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>8,650 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>42.61 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−6.80 </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">Dennis Duggan </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,538 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">42.06 </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">R A Kirk </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2,634 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12.97 </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"><a href="/wiki/Janet_McVeagh" title="Janet McVeagh">Janet Roborgh</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">476 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.34 </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">112 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.55 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−8.70 </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">20,298 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">74.71 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−12.29 </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">27,167 </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=New_Plymouth_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=21" 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>: New Plymouth<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorton1988290_22-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorton1988290-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<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/Tony_Friedlander" title="Tony Friedlander">Tony Friedlander</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>10,330 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>49.41 </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/Ron_Barclay" title="Ron Barclay">Ron Barclay</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,395 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">40.15 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−10.48 </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">A J Swanney </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,381 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6.60 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+ </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">Edith Green </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">798 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.81 </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">1,935 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9.25 </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">20,904 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">87.00 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−5.13 </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">24,027 </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=New_Plymouth_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=22" 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>: New Plymouth<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorton1988290_22-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorton1988290-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<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/Ron_Barclay" title="Ron Barclay">Ron Barclay</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>9,429 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>50.63 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+0.22 </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">Terry Boon </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,133 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">43.67 </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">A J Swanney </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">715 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.83 </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">W P Neilson </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">280 </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">D V Hannah </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">49 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em">0.26 </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">M A Pinkney </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">16 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.08 </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">1,296 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6.95 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+1.44 </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">18,622 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">92.13 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.22 </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">20,212 </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=New_Plymouth_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=23" 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>: New Plymouth<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorton1988289_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorton1988289-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<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/Ron_Barclay" title="Ron Barclay">Ron Barclay</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>9,149 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>50.41 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+5.93 </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">Brian Clark </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,149 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">44.90 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.85 </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">Stuart Dickson </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">763 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.20 </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: #B9F58B; width: 5px;"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><a href="/wiki/Country_Party_(New_Zealand)" title="Country Party (New Zealand)">Country Party</a> </td> <td class="fn">Clifford Stanley Emeny </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">85 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.46 </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">1,000 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.51 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+5.09 </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">18,146 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">92.35 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+3.57 </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">19,649 </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=New_Plymouth_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=24" 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>: New Plymouth<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorton1988289_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorton1988289-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<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/Ron_Barclay" title="Ron Barclay">Ron Barclay</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>8,073 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>44.48 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−4.09 </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">Brian Clark </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,995 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">44.05 </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">T G Mullins </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,129 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6.22 </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">78 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.42 </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">18,146 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">95.92 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−4.21 </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">18,916 </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=New_Plymouth_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=25" 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>: New Plymouth<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorton1988289_23-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorton1988289-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<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/Ernest_Aderman" title="Ernest Aderman">Ernest Aderman</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>8,535 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>51.42 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−0.36 </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/Ron_Barclay" title="Ron Barclay">Ron Barclay</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">8,061 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">48.57 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+6.46 </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">474 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.85 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−6.82 </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">16,596 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">91.71 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.05 </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">18,095 </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <ul><li>Social Credit candidate Kenneth "Ken" George Joseph Lattimer failed to lodge his name in time to contest the election.</li></ul> <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=New_Plymouth_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=26" 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>: New Plymouth<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorton1988289_23-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorton1988289-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<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/Ernest_Aderman" title="Ernest Aderman">Ernest Aderman</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>9,063 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>51.78 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+1.87 </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"><a href="/wiki/Ron_Barclay" title="Ron Barclay">Ron Barclay</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,370 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">42.11 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−3.89 </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">Ken Lattimer </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,068 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6.10 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.02 </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">1,693 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">9.67 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+5.76 </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">17,501 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">91.66 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.56 </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">19,092 </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=New_Plymouth_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=27" 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>: New Plymouth<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorton1988289_23-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorton1988289-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<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/Ernest_Aderman" title="Ernest Aderman">Ernest Aderman</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>8,386 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>49.91 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−0.29 </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/Ron_Barclay" title="Ron Barclay">Ron Barclay</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,729 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">46.00 </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">Ken Lattimer </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">686 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.08 </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">657 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3.91 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−3.69 </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">16,801 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">94.22 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.55 </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">17,831 </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=New_Plymouth_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=28" 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>: New Plymouth<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTENorton1988289_23-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENorton1988289-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<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/Ernest_Aderman" title="Ernest Aderman">Ernest Aderman</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>7,780 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>50.20 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−7.43 </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">Clarence Robert Parker </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,602 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">42.60 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.24 </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">C A Lattimer </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,114 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.18 </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">1,178 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7.60 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−7.66 </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">15,496 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">93.67 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.67 </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">16,542 </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=New_Plymouth_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=29" 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>: New Plymouth<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<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/Ernest_Aderman" title="Ernest Aderman">Ernest Aderman</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>8,816 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>57.63 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+2.57 </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">Clarence Robert Parker </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,481 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">42.36 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−2.57 </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">2,335 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15.26 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+5.14 </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">15,297 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">93.00 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−3.11 </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">16,448 </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=New_Plymouth_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=30" 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>: New Plymouth<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<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/Ernest_Aderman" title="Ernest Aderman">Ernest Aderman</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>8,250 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>55.06 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+3.66 </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">Clarence Robert Parker </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,733 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">44.93 </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">1,517 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10.12 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+7.32 </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">14,983 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">96.11 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.29 </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">15,589 </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=New_Plymouth_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=31" 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>: New Plymouth<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<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/Ernest_Aderman" title="Ernest Aderman">Ernest Aderman</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>7,426 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>51.40 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+5.17 </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">George Nimmo </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">7,021 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">48.59 </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">405 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.80 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+2.40 </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">14,447 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">96.40 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−0.08 </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">14,985 </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=New_Plymouth_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=32" 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>: New Plymouth<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<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/Ernest_Aderman" title="Ernest Aderman">Ernest Aderman</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>6,608 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>46.23 </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/Fred_Frost" title="Fred Frost">Fred Frost</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,550 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">45.83 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−7.22 </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">Havelock Victor McCready </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">689 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4.82 </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">Leonard Arthur Jury </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">299 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.09 </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;">145 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1.01 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">−0.49 </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">58 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">0.40 </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">14,291 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">96.32 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.36 </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">14,836 </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=New_Plymouth_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=33" 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>: New Plymouth<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<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/Fred_Frost" title="Fred Frost">Fred Frost</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>6,958 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>53.05 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+13.52 </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/Sydney_George_Smith" title="Sydney George Smith">Sydney George Smith</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6,089 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">46.43 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+0.10 </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#F6F6F6"> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Informal votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;">69 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.52 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">−0.87 </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">869 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6.62 </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">13,116 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">95.96 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+3.91 </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">13,668 </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=New_Plymouth_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=34" 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>: New Plymouth<sup id="cite_ref-1935_election_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1935_election-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<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/Sydney_George_Smith" title="Sydney George Smith">Sydney George Smith</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>5,662 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>46.33 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>−19.70 </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/Fred_Frost" title="Fred Frost">Fred Frost</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,831 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">39.53 </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: #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/Elsie_Andrews" title="Elsie Andrews">Elsie Andrews</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">786 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6.43 </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: #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">H Cave </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">676 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.53 </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: #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"><a href="/wiki/William_Sheat" title="William Sheat">William Sheat</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">264 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">2.16 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−31.81 </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#F6F6F6"> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Informal votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;">170 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1.39 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">±0.00 </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">831 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">6.80 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−25.25 </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">12,219 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">92.05 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+5.34 </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">13,273 </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=New_Plymouth_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=35" 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>: New Plymouth<sup id="cite_ref-1931_election_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1931_election-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<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/Sydney_George_Smith" title="Sydney George Smith">Sydney George Smith</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>7,152 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>66.03 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+15.23 </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_Sheat" title="William Sheat">William Sheat</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">3,680 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">33.97 </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;">153 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1.39 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">+0.78 </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">3,472 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">32.05 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+18.69 </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">10,985 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">86.71 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">−4.86 </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">12,668 </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=New_Plymouth_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=36" 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>: New Plymouth<sup id="cite_ref-1928_election_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1928_election-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<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/Sydney_George_Smith" title="Sydney George Smith">Sydney George Smith</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>5,577 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>50.79 </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/Charles_Bellringer" title="Charles Bellringer">Charles Bellringer</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">4,110 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">37.43 </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">W G Simpson </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,293 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">11.78 </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">1,467 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">13.36 </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;">68 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.62 </td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </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">11,048 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">91.57 </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">12,065 </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=New_Plymouth_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=37" 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>: New Plymouth<sup id="cite_ref-1893_election_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1893_election-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1893_affiliation_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1893_affiliation-33"><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:#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/Edward_Smith_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="Edward Smith (New Zealand politician)">Edward Smith</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>1,782 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>55.07 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>+15.21 </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/Robert_Trimble_(politician)" title="Robert Trimble (politician)">Robert Trimble</a><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1,291 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">39.89 </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">Richard Price<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">163 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">5.04 </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">491 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15.17 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+13.47 </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">3,236 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">78.73 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">+16.60 </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">4,110 </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=New_Plymouth_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=38" 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>: New Plymouth<sup id="cite_ref-General_Election,_1890_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-General_Election,_1890-36"><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:#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/Edward_Smith_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="Edward Smith (New Zealand politician)">Edward Smith</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>539 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>39.86 </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">John Elliot </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">516 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">38.16 </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">R C Hughes </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">297 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">21.96 </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">23 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">1.70 </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">1,352 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">62.13 </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">2,176 </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="1869_by-election">1869 by-election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=New_Plymouth_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: 1869 by-election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1869_Town_of_New_Plymouth_by-election" title="1869 Town of New Plymouth by-election">1869 Town of New Plymouth by-election</a><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><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="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/Thomas_Kelly_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="Thomas Kelly (New Zealand politician)">Thomas Kelly</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">57 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">48.72 </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"><a href="/wiki/Frederic_Carrington" title="Frederic Carrington">Frederic Carrington</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">45 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">38.46 </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">James Thomas Upjohn </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">15 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">12.82 </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">12 </td> <td style="text-align: right; margin-right: 0.5em">10.26 </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">117 </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=New_Plymouth_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=40" 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-Internet_Mana-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Internet_Mana_12-0">^</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> </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=New_Plymouth_(New_Zealand_electorate)&action=edit&section=41" 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-FOOTNOTEMcRobie198983–88-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcRobie198983–88_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMcRobie1989">McRobie 1989</a>, pp. 83–88.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEScholefield1950161-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScholefield1950161_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFScholefield1950">Scholefield 1950</a>, p. 161.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</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 news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=TH18840715.2.10">"The General Elections"</a>. <i>Taranaki Herald</i>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">3 January</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+General+Election%2C+1949&rft.pages=1-5%2C+8&rft.pub=National+Library&rft.date=1950&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fatojs.natlib.govt.nz%2Fcgi-bin%2Fatojs%3Fa%3Dd%26d%3DAJHR1950-I.2.3.2.43&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANew+Plymouth+%28New+Zealand+electorate%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs?a=d&cl=search&d=AJHR1947-I.2.4.2.38">"The General Election, 1946"</a>. <a href="/wiki/National_Library_of_New_Zealand" title="National Library of New Zealand">National Library</a>. 1947. pp. 1–11, 14<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Wellington: GP Books. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-477-01384-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-477-01384-8"><bdi>0-477-01384-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Electoral+Atlas+of+New+Zealand&rft.place=Wellington&rft.pub=GP+Books&rft.date=1989&rft.isbn=0-477-01384-8&rft.aulast=McRobie&rft.aufirst=Alan&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANew+Plymouth+%28New+Zealand+electorate%29" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFNorton1988" class="citation book cs1">Norton, Clifford (1988). <i>New Zealand Parliamentary Election Results 1946-1987: Occasional Publications No 1, Department of Political Science</i>. Wellington: Victoria University of Wellington. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-475-11200-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-475-11200-8"><bdi>0-475-11200-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=New+Zealand+Parliamentary+Election+Results+1946-1987%3A+Occasional+Publications+No+1%2C+Department+of+Political+Science&rft.place=Wellington&rft.pub=Victoria+University+of+Wellington&rft.date=1988&rft.isbn=0-475-11200-8&rft.aulast=Norton&rft.aufirst=Clifford&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANew+Plymouth+%28New+Zealand+electorate%29" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFScholefield1950" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Guy_Scholefield" title="Guy Scholefield">Scholefield, Guy</a> (1950) [First published in 1913]. <i>New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1949</i> (3rd ed.). 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