Botany (New Zealand electorate)

Botany is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. It was contested for the first time at the 2008 general election, and won by Pansy Wong for the National Party. Following Wong's resignation in late 2010, a by-election returned Jami-Lee Ross, who was confirmed by the voters in the 2011 general election. Ross left the National Party in October 2018 and became an independent.

Botany electorate boundaries used since the 2014 election

Background

The Representation Commission established the electoral district of Botany after the 2006 New Zealand census due to high population growth in and around Auckland. The new electorate resulted from several sweeping changes to the electoral landscape of South Auckland:

Demographics

Demographically, Botany is older than the rest of New Zealand, with over half of its population aged over 30; It has three times as many Chinese New Zealanders than the national average (33.5 versus 9.2%), and nearly twice as many Pacific Islanders (13 to 7%), which makes Botany a minority-majority electorate. Botany has the highest number of people born overseas of any New Zealand electorate (49% in 2006), the most Buddhists in a New Zealand electorate and the highest number of one-family homes. The average income in the electorate is high, with over half of the electorate's residents earning over $50,000 a year.

A 2005 academic survey assessing the voting behaviour of Asian New Zealanders[1] showed a strong preference for the Labour Party, with a sizeable proportion prepared to vote for the National Party (47 to 40); it also showed that among Asian New Zealanders, the most important issues were the economy and law and order. This was demonstrated by a large anti-crime march (a crowd of 15,000 was estimated, with a significant number of these being Asian New Zealanders) was held in Auckland (on the streets of Botany) in July 2008 amidst claims of increasing violent crime in New Zealand targeted against its Asian population.[2] The march's organiser Peter Low used his website to clarify his position, calling for harsher sentencing, victims' rights and zero "criminal rights".[3]

History

Botany was first created for the 2008 general election, and won by Pansy Wong for the National Party.

Both National and the ACT party stood Chinese New Zealanders as their candidates in 2008; Pansy Wong and Kenneth Wang, respectively. Labour chose Koro Tawa, an Auckland University lecturer. Raymond Huo, a Chinese-speaking lawyer, was initially mooted for the Labour nomination, but eventually chose to stand as a list-only candidate.[4][5]

On 14 December 2010 it was announced that a by-election was to be held on 5 March 2011 due to the resignation of incumbent MP Pansy Wong.[6] The electorate was won by Jami-Lee Ross from the New Zealand National Party.

In October 2018, Jami-Lee Ross resigned from the National Party and accused party leader Simon Bridges of breaching electoral law. Ross announced his intention to resign from parliament and run as an independent in the resulting by-election,[7] however he later decided against resigning. Christopher Luxon won the National Party selection in November 2019.[8]

On 15 September 2020 Ross announced he was no longer intending to contest the electorate, but will instead contest the upcoming election as a list only candidate for his newly formed party, Advance NZ.[9] Luxon won the seat at the 2020 election as Ross was ejected from Parliament.

Members of Parliament

Key

  National     Independent  

Election Winner
2008 election Pansy Wong
2011 by-election Jami-Lee Ross
2011 election
2014 election
2017 election
2020 election Christopher Luxon

List MPs

Members of Parliament elected from party lists in elections where that person also unsuccessfully contested the Botany electorate. Unless otherwise stated, all MPs' terms began and ended at general elections.

Key

  Labour     ACT  

Election Winner
2020 election Naisi Chen
Damien Smith

Election results

2020 election
2020 general election: Botany[10]
Notes:

Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list.
Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent.
A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.

Party Candidate Votes % ±% Party votes % ±%
National Christopher Luxon 16,661 53.23 −8.38 12,089 38.64 −22.99
Labour Naisi Chen 11,890 38.00 +13.38 14,312 45.74 +13.38
ACT Damien Smith 1029 3.28 +2.33 2,236 7.14 +6.19
New Conservative Dieuwe De Boer 482 1.54 +1.54 433 1.38 +0.04
Sustainable NZ Peter Fleming 233 0.83 +0.10 19 0.06 +0.06
Green   942 3.01 +0.72
NZ First   467 1.49 −4.09
Opportunities   188 0.60 −0.22
TEA   108 0.34 +0.34
Advance NZ   105 0.33 +0.21
ONE   62 0.19 +0.19
Māori   46 0.14 −0.41
Legalise Cannabis   36 0.11 −0.05
Vision NZ   19 0.06 +0.06
Outdoors   12 0.04 ±0.00
Heartland   5 0.02 +0.02
Social Credit   3 0.01 ±0.00
Informal votes 945 200
Total Valid votes 31,269 31,286
Turnout 38,060[11] 74.02 +1.39
National hold Majority 4,771 15.24 −21.77

2017 election
2017 general election: Botany[12]
Notes:

Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list.
Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent.
A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.

Party Candidate Votes % ±% Party votes % ±%
National Y Jami-Lee Ross 21,378 61.63 −2.21 21,428 60.83 +1.41
Labour Tofik Mamedov 8,539 24.62 +1.72 10,279 29.18 +6.99
Green Julie Zhu 2,103 6.06 — 841 2.39 −1.95
Māori Wetex Kang 1,165 3.36 — 195 0.55 +0.34
United Future Damian Light 500 1.44 — 33 0.09 −0.06
ACT Sam Singh 330 0.95 — 209 0.59 −1.81
NZ First   1,612 4.58 −0.84
Opportunities   288 0.82 —
Conservative   91 0.26 −4.25
Legalise Cannabis   54 1.53 +1.26
People's Party   44 0.12 —
Outdoors   14 0.04 —
Mana   12 0.03 —
Internet   9 0.02 —
Ban 1080   6 0.02 −0.02
Democrats   2 0.01 —
Informal votes 673 110
Total Valid votes 34,688 35,227
Turnout 35,658 72.63[13] +0.78
National hold Majority 12,839 37.01 −3.93

2014 election
2014 general election: Botany[14]
Notes:

Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list.
Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent.
A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.

Party Candidate Votes % ±% Party votes % ±%
National Y Jami-Lee Ross 21,044 63.84 −0.19 20,016 59.42 −1.71
Labour Tofik Mamedov 7,549 22.90 −2.45 7,473 22.19 −1.59
Conservative Paul Young 3,053 9.26 +1.57 1,519 4.51 +1.83
Independent David McCormick 668 2.03 +2.03
NZ First   1,825 5.42 +1.02
Green   1,461 4.34 −0.06
ACT   808 2.40 +0.75
Internet Mana   204 0.61 +0.36[lower-alpha 1]
Legalise Cannabis   90 0.27 −0.02
Māori   71 0.21 −0.08
United Future   49 0.15 −0.17
Ban 1080   12 0.04 +0.04
Independent Coalition   9 0.03 +0.03
Civilian   8 0.02 +0.02
Focus   6 0.02 +0.02
Democrats   5 0.01 −0.01
Informal votes 648 128
Total Valid votes 32,962 33,684
Turnout 33,812 71.00 +3.25
National hold Majority 13,495 40.94 +2.26

2011 election
2011 general election: Botany[15]
Notes:

Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list.
Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent.
A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.

Party Candidate Votes % ±% Party votes % ±%
National Y Jami-Lee Ross 17,780 64.03 +7.81 17,749 61.13 -0.11
Labour Chao-Fu Wu 7,039 25.35 +4.29 7,111 24.49 -0.69
Conservative Paul Young 2,135 7.69 +7.69 777 2.68 +2.68
ACT Lyn Murphy 631 2.27 -12.98 478 1.65 -3.19
United Future Ram Parkash 185 0.67 -0.72 94 0.32 -0.37
NZ First   1,278 4.40 +2.26
Green   1,277 4.40 +2.01
Legalise Cannabis   85 0.29 +0.10
Māori   84 0.29 -0.02
Mana   72 0.25 +0.25
Libertarianz   13 0.04 +0.01
Alliance   9 0.03 +0.01
Democrats   7 0.02 +0.02
Informal votes 1,069 238
Total Valid votes 27,770 29,034
National hold Majority 10,741 38.68 +3.52

Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 43,204[16]

2011 by-election

Official results of the 5 March by-election.[17]

2011 Botany by-election

Notes: Blue background denotes the winner of the by-election.
Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list prior to the by-election.
Yellow background denotes the winner of the by-election, who was a list MP prior to the by-election.
A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.

Party Candidate Votes % ±%
National Jami-Lee Ross 8,352 54.25 -1.97
Labour Michael Wood 4,380 28.45 +7.39
New Citizen Paul Young 1,626 10.56
ACT Lyn Murphy 687 4.46 -10.80
Independent Penny Bright 128 0.83
Legalise Cannabis Leo Biggs 61 0.40
Independent Wayne Young 54 0.35
Join Australia Robin Caithness 45 0.29
Pirate Hussain Al-saady 32 0.21
Independent Robert Goh 31 0.20
Informal votes 25 0.16
Total Valid votes 15,396 35.84
National hold Majority 3,972 25.76 -9.40

2008 election
2008 general election: Botany[18]
Notes:

Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list.
Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent.
A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.

Party Candidate Votes % ±% Party votes % ±%
National Pansy Wong 17,382 56.22 19,355 61.25
Labour Koro Tawa 6,510 21.06 7,958 25.18
ACT Kenneth Wang 4,717 15.26 1,528 4.84
Green Peter Cooper 1,226 3.97 756 2.39
United Future Judy Carter 428 1.38 220 0.70
Progressive Racheal Cheam 304 0.98 217 0.69
Kiwi Simon Kan 212 0.69 125 0.40
Independent Raj Subramanian 140 0.45
NZ First   678 2.15
Pacific   295 0.93
Family Party   166 0.53
Bill and Ben   98 0.31
Māori   98 0.31
Legalise Cannabis   62 0.20
Workers Party   13 0.04
Libertarianz   10 0.03
Alliance   8 0.03
RONZ   7 0.02
RAM   6 0.02
Democrats   2 0.01
Informal votes 386 131
Total Valid votes 30,919 31,602
National win new seat Majority 10,872 35.16


Table footnotes
  1. 2014 Internet Mana swing is relative to the votes for Mana in 2011; it shared a party list with Internet in the 2014 election.

References
  1. "Asian Vote". New Zealand Listener. 2004-08-20.
  2. "Huge turnout for anti-crime march". TVNZ News. 2004-07-05.
  3. "ASIAN ANTI-CRIME GROUP (AAG) TRUST NEW ZEALAND". Asian Anti-Crime Group Trust. 2004-08-05. Archived from the original on 2008-09-05.
  4. Tan, Lincoln (20 June 2008). "Botany a hot Asian battleground". The New Zealand Herald.
  5. Blockley, Louise (22 August 2008). "Raymond Huo on Labour list". Te Waha Nui. Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2008-11-03.
  6. Cheng, Derek (14 December 2010). "Pansy Wong resigns as MP". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 21 September 2011.
  7. Morning Report (17 October 2018). "Jami-Lee Ross vows to fight for Botany seat". RNZ.
  8. Wilson, Simon (5 November 2019). "National selects Christopher Luxon as its new candidate for Botany". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
  9. Kirkness, Luke (15 September 2020). "Election 2020: Advance NZ's Jami-Lee Ross abandons attempt to retain Botany seat". The New Zealand Herald. Archived from the original on 19 September 2020.
  10. "Official Count Results – Botany". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  11. "Party Votes and Turnout by Electorate (2020)". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  12. New Zealand Electoral Commission. "Botany - Official Result". Electionresults.govt.nz. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
  13. "Party Votes and Turnout by Electorate". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  14. Electoral Commission (21 January 2016). "Official Count Results – Botany". Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  15. "Botany results, 2011".
  16. "Enrolment statistics". Electoral Commission. 21 October 2011. Archived from the original on 10 November 2011. Retrieved 28 October 2011.
  17. "By-Election Results -- Botany". electionresults.govt.nz. 2011. Archived from the original on 8 March 2011. Retrieved 6 March 2011.
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