Electoral history of Grant Robertson

This is a summary of the electoral history of Grant Robertson, Deputy Leader of the New Zealand Labour Party (2011–13), Minister of Finance (2017–) and Member of Parliament for Wellington Central (2008–).

Robertson speaking at the 2014 Aro Valley candidates meeting

Parliamentary elections

2008 election
General election 2008: Wellington Central[1]
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 % ±%
Labour Grant Robertson 17,046 42.18 14,244 34.57
National Stephen Franks 15,142 37.47 14,589 35.41
Green Sue Kedgley 5,971 14.78 8,494 20.62
ACT Heather Roy 922 2.28 1,628 3.95
Legalise Cannabis Michael Appleby 407 1.01 108 0.26
United Future Vaughan Smith 226 0.56 412 1.00
Workers Party Don Franks 171 0.42 38 0.09
Progressive David Somerset 141 0.35 272 0.66
Kiwi Rebekah Clement 106 0.26 84 0.20
Libertarianz Bernard Darnton 75 0.19 48 0.12
RAM Grant Brookes 61 0.15 13 0.03
Independent Al Mansell 58 0.14 -
RONZ Justin Harnish 46 0.11 5 0.01
Alliance Richard Wallis 39 0.10 20 0.05
NZ First   629 1.53
Māori   351 0.85
Bill and Ben   215 0.52
Family Party   38 0.09
Pacific   8 0.02
Democrats   4 0.01
Informal votes 229 86
Total Valid votes 40,411 41,200
Labour hold Majority 1,904

2011 election
General election 2011: Wellington Central[2]
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 % ±%
Labour Y Grant Robertson 18,836 49.15 +6.97 10,459 26.56 -8.01
National Paul Foster-Bell 12,460 32.51 -4.96 15,128 38.42 +3.01
Green James Shaw 5,225 13.63 -1.14 10,903 27.69 +7.08
ACT Stephen Whittington 412 1.07 -1.21 462 1.17 -2.78
Legalise Cannabis Michael Appleby 404 1.05 +0.05 161 0.41 +0.15
NZ First Ben Craven 279 0.73 +0.73 1,132 2.88 +1.35
Pirate Gynn Rickerby 277 0.72 +0.72
New Conservative Paul Stipkovits 236 0.62 +0.62 270 0.69 +0.69
Libertarianz Reagan Cutting 69 0.18 -0.01 40 0.10 -0.01
Alliance Kelly Buchanan 52 0.14 +0.14 18 0.05 -0.003
New Economics Laurence Boomert 44 0.11 +0.11
Independent Puhi Karena 32 0.08 +0.08
Māori   278 0.71 -0.15
United Future   256 0.65 -0.35
Mana   250 0.63 +0.63
Democrats   15 0.04 +0.03
Informal votes 411 153
Total Valid votes 38,326 39,372
Labour hold Majority 6,376 16.64 +11.92

Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 48,316[3]

2014 election
General election 2014: Wellington Central[4]
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 % ±%
Labour Y Grant Robertson 19,807 51.64 +2.49 9,306 23.78 −2.78
National Paul Foster-Bell 11,540 30.09 −2.42 14,689 37.54 −0.88
Green James Shaw 5,077 13.24 −0.39 11,545 29.50 +1.81
NZ First Hugh Barr 580 1.51 +0.78 1,399 3.58 +0.70
Legalise Cannabis Alistair Gregory 353 0.92 −0.13 127 0.32 −0.09
New Conservative Brian Hooper 307 0.80 +0.18 590 1.51 +0.82
Internet Callum Valentine 217 0.57 +0.57
Independent Peter Robinson 90 0.23 +0.23
Democrats James Knuckey 57 0.15 +0.15 26 0.07 +0.03
Independent Puhi Karena 52 0.14 +0.06
Internet Mana   578 1.48 +0.85[lower-alpha 1]
Māori   300 0.77 +0.06
ACT   274 0.70 −0.47
United Future   117 0.30 −0.35
Civilian   49 0.13 +0.13
Ban 1080   20 0.05 +0.05
Focus   5 0.01 +0.01
Independent Coalition   5 0.01 +0.01
Informal votes 273 101
Total Valid votes 38,353 39,131
Turnout 39,232 84.14 +2.33
Labour hold Majority 8,267 21.56 +4.92

2017 election
2017 general election: Wellington Central[5]
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 % ±%
Labour Y Grant Robertson 20,873 49.26 −2.38 16,500 38.29 +14.51
National Nicola Willis 10,910 25.75 −4.34 13,156 30.53 −7.01
Green James Shaw 6,520 15.39 +2.15 9,198 21.34 −8.16
Opportunities Geoff Simmons 2,892 6.82 — 2,538 5.89 —
NZ First Andy Foster 797 1.88 +0.37 972 2.26 −1.32
Independent Gayaal Iddamalgoda 161 0.38 —
ACT Michael Warren 131 0.31 — 330 0.77 +0.07
Independent Peter Robinson 71 0.17 −0.11
Independent Bob Wessex 19 0.04 —
Māori   225 0.52 −0.25
Legalise Cannabis   55 0.13 −0.19
New Conservative   29 0.07 −1.44
United Future   28 0.06 −0.24
Mana   14 0.03 −1.45[lower-alpha 2]
Ban 1080   13 0.03 −0.02
Outdoors   11 0.03 —
People's Party   10 0.03 —
Internet   9 0.02 −1.46[lower-alpha 3]
Democrats   6 0.01 −0.06
Informal votes 194 72
Total Valid votes 42,374 43,094
Turnout 43,166 86.56[6] +2.42
Labour hold Majority 9,963 23.51 +1.95

Labour party leadership elections

2013 leadership election
Candidate Caucus (40%) Members (40%) Unions (20%) Total (%)
Votes % Votes %
David Cunliffe 11 32.35 3,243 60.14 70.77 51.15
Grant Robertson 16 47.06 1,440 26.71 17.30 32.97
Shane Jones 7 20.59 709 13.15 11.92 15.88
Total 34 100 5,392 100 100 100

Source:[7][8]

2014 leadership election
Labour leadership election results[9]
Section
(% weighting)		 Candidate Round 1 Round 2 Round 3
Caucus
(40%)		 Little15.63%34.38%43.75%
Robertson43.75%43.75%56.25%
Parker21.88%21.88%–
Mahuta18.75%––
Party
(40%)		 Little25.71%34.11%44.77%
Robertson38.25%40.92%55.23%
Parker22.41%24.97%–
Mahuta13.62%––
Union affiliates
(20%)		 Little64.12%70.62%75.66%
Robertson18.91%20.20%24.44%
Parker7.28%9.18%–
Mahuta9.70%––
Final result Little29.36%42.52%50.52%
Robertson36.58%37.91%49.48%
Parker19.17%20.58%–
Mahuta14.89%––

Notes
  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.
  2. 2017 Mana Party swing is relative to the votes for Internet-Mana in 2014; it shared a party list with the Internet Party in the 2014 election
  3. 2017 Internet Party swing is relative to the votes for Internet-Mana in 2014; it shared a party list with Mana Party in the 2014 election

References
  1. 2008 election results Archived 11 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  2. "Official Count Results -- Wellington Central". Electoral Commission. 10 December 2011. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
  3. "Enrolment statistics". Electoral Commission. 26 November 2011. Archived from the original on 10 November 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2011.
  4. "Official Count Results (2014) -- Wellington Central". Electoral Commission. 10 October 2014. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
  5. "Official Count Results (2017) – Wellington Central". Electoral Commission. 7 October 2017.
  6. "Party Votes and Turnout by Electorate". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
  7. "New Labour leader is David Cunliffe" (Press release). New Zealand Labour Party. Scoop. 15 September 2013. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
  8. Rutherford, Hamish (26 September 2014). "Does Grant Robertson have the numbers?". Stuff.co.nz. Archived from the original on 29 September 2014. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
  9. Trevett, Claire (18 November 2014). "'He has the vision to win the trust of New Zealanders' – Andrew Little elected Labour leader". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
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