Māngere (New Zealand electorate)

Māngere (spelled Mangere before 1997) is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate, returning one member of parliament to the Representatives of New Zealand. The current MP for Māngere is Lemauga Lydia Sosene of the Labour Party. She has held this electorate since 2023.^[2]

Māngere
Single-member general constituency for the New Zealand House of Representatives
Formation	1969
Region	Auckland
Character	Suburban
Term	3 years
Member for Māngere
Lemauga Lydia Sosene[1] since 14 October 2023
Party	Labour
Previous MP	William Sio (Labour)
Party vote distribution

Population centres

Through an amendment in the Electoral Act in 1965, the number of electorates in the South Island was fixed at 25, an increase of one since the 1962 electoral redistribution.^[3] It was accepted that through the more rapid population growth in the North Island, the number of its electorates would continue to increase, and to keep proportionality, three new electorates were allowed for in the 1967 electoral redistribution for the next election.^[4] In the North Island, five electorates were newly created (including Mangere) and one electorate was reconstituted while three electorates were abolished.^[5] In the South Island, three electorates were newly created and one electorate was reconstituted while three electorates were abolished.^[6] The overall effect of the required changes was highly disruptive to existing electorates, with all but three electorates having their boundaries altered.^[7] These changes came into effect with the 1969 election.^[4]

Māngere is based around the South Auckland suburbs of Māngere, Māngere Bridge, Favona and Māngere East. It has existed as an electorate since 1969; its boundaries were extended ahead of the introduction of mixed-member proportional (MMP) voting in 1996, swallowing up a section of the former Papatoetoe electorate.

In the 2007 boundary redistribution, Papatoetoe and Middlemore were transferred to the Manukau East electorate.^[8] The 2013/14 redistribution did not change the boundaries further.^[9]

History

Māngere, and all of South Auckland, forms the safest part of the Labour Party's core vote. Even during landslide elections in the National Party's favour, such as in 1975 and 1990, no Labour candidate for Māngere was seriously troubled.

Māngere was first represented by Colin Moyle of the Labour Party in 1969. Moyle represented the electorate until his resignation in 1977 over what became known as the 'Moyle Affair', and a subsequent by-election was won by a young barrister named David Lange, who would become Prime Minister after Labour's 1984 election victory. Lange retired in 1996 and the nomination was handed to Taito Phillip Field, at the time the MP for Otara. Field was returned with a high share of the vote in subsequent elections, but following his expulsion from the Labour caucus in 2007, his former party nominated former Manukau City deputy mayor William Sio in his place, who won the seat with a majority of over 7,000 votes in the 2008 election.^[10] In the 2011 and 2014 elections, Sio's majority was circa 15,000 votes.^[11][12]

Members of Parliament

Unless otherwise stated, all MPs terms began and started at general elections.

Key

  Labour   National   Independent

Election	Winner
1969 election		Colin Moyle
1972 election
1975 election
1977 by-election		David Lange
1978 election
1981 election
1984 election
1987 election
1990 election
1993 election
1996 election		Taito Phillip Field[a]
1999 election
2002 election
2005 election
2008 election		William Sio
2011 election
2014 election
2017 election
2020 election
2023 election		Lemauga Lydia Sosene

List MPs

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

Election	Winner
2005 election		Clem Simich
2013		Claudette Hauiti[b]
2019		Agnes Loheni[c]

Election results

2023 election

2023 general election: Māngere[13]
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	Lemauga Lydia Sosene		17,297	59.61	–14.35	18,042	60.72	–15.66
	National	Rosemary Bourke		5,585	19.24	+7.37	5,656	19.03	+10.04
	Green	Peter Sykes		2,700	9.30	+3.13	2,306	7.76	+3.83
	Te Pāti Māori	Hilda Peters		934	3.21	–	628	2.11	+1.23
	ACT	Pothen Joseph		670	2.30	–	624	2.10	+0.58
	Vision NZ	Fuiavailili Alailima		535	1.84	–
	Independent	Brooke Pao Stanley		502	1.73	–
	NZ First						973	3.27	+0.55
	Opportunities						272	0.91	+0.51
	Freedoms NZ						266	0.89	–
	NewZeal						244	0.82	+0.58
	Legalise Cannabis						120	0.40	0.00
	NZ Loyal						94	0.31	–
	New Conservatives						54	0.18	–1.52
	Animal Justice						41	0.13	–
	Women's Rights						26	0.08	–
	DemocracyNZ						17	0.05	–
	Leighton Baker Party						12	0.04	–
	New Nation						11	0.03	–
Informal votes				793			327
Total valid votes				29,016			29,713
	Labour hold		Majority	11,712	40.36	–21.73

2020 election

2020 general election: Māngere[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	%	±%
	Labour	Y William Sio		23,104	73.96	+5.27	24,167	76.38	+5.94
	National	Agnes Loheni		3,708	11.87	−3.49	2,846	8.99	−8.20
	Green	Peter Brian Sykes		1,930	6.17	+1.78	1,246	3.93	+1.24
	New Conservative	Fuiavailili Alailima		866	2.77	+2.08	540	1.70	+1.44
	Independent	Wayne Tetou Nooroa		166	0.53	—
	Climate First	Leslie Jones		57	0.18	—
	NZ First						862	2.72	−2.38
	ACT						483	1.52	+1.40
	Advance NZ						333	1.05	—
	Māori Party						280	0.88	−1.14
	Legalise Cannabis						128	0.40	+0.14
	Opportunities						127	0.40	−0.27
	Vision NZ						102	0.32	—
	ONE						79	0.24	—
	Sustainable NZ						12	0.03	—
	Social Credit						11	0.03	—
	Outdoors						9	0.02	+0.01
	TEA						9	0.02	—
	Heartland						3	0.01	—
Informal votes				1,255			400
Total valid votes				31,237			31,637
Turnout				31,908	68.35[15]
	Labour hold		Majority	19,396	62.09	+8.76

2017 election

2017 general election: Māngere[16]
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 William Sio		18,810	68.69	−2.40	19,931	70.44	+3.51
	National	Agnes Loheni		4,213	15.36	+0.41	4,864	17.19	+1.68
	Green	Elaine Dyett		1,203	4.39	−0.08	760	2.69	−1.24
	NZ First	Mataroa Paroro		1,097	4.01	—	1,447	5.10	−2.18
	Māori Party	Esther Tofilau-Tevaga		880	3.22	—	573	2.02	+1.57
	Mana Party	James Papali'i		330	1.21	−0.81	48	0.17	—
	Conservative	Kevin Stitt		189	0.69	—	73	0.26	−2.78
	Communist League	Felicity Coggan		48	0.18	—
	Opportunities						191	0.67	—
	Legalise Cannabis						74	0.26	−0.05
	People's Party						37	0.13	—
	ACT						35	0.12	−0.13
	United Future						10	0.04	−0.05
	Internet						6	0.02	—
	Ban 1080						3	0.01	−0.03
	Outdoors						3	0.01	—
	Democrats						2	0.01	−0.02
Informal votes				613			240
Total valid votes				27,363			28,297
	Labour hold		Majority	14,957	53.33	−2.82

2014 election

2014 general election: Māngere[17]
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 William Sio		18,908	71.09	−4.81	18,470	66.93	−4.89
	National	Misa Fia Turner		3,975	14.95	+2.35	4,281	15.51	+1.15
	Conservative	Edward Saafi		1,473	5.54	+3.10	839	3.04	+1.43
	Green	Muamua Sofi Strickson-Pua		1,190	4.47	+0.17	1,084	3.93	+0.08
	Mana	James Papali'i		536	2.02	+0.26
	NZ First						2,008	7.28	+1.42
	Internet Mana						324	1.17	+0.16[d]
	Māori Party						124	0.45	−0.09
	Legalise Cannabis						86	0.31	−0.07
	ACT						68	0.25	−0.06
	United Future						26	0.09	−0.11
	Ban 1080						10	0.04	+0.04
	Democrats						7	0.03	+0.03
	Independent Coalition						5	0.02	+0.02
	Focus						3	0.01	+0.01
	Civilian						3	0.01	+0.01
Informal votes				514			514
Total valid votes				26,596			27,597
Turnout				27,597	66.69	+3.44
	Labour hold		Majority	14,933	56.15	−7.15

2011 election

2011 general election: Māngere[11]
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 William Sio		18,177	75.90	+23.49	17,960	71.82	+10.22
	National	Claudette Hauiti[b]		3,018	12.60	-1.35	3,592	14.36	-2.07
	Green	Todd Ross		1,030	4.30	+2.06	962	3.85	+1.81
	NZ First	Olivia Ilalio		597	2.49	+2.49	1,466	5.86	+2.55
	Conservative	Fa'avae Gagamoe		584	2.44	+2.44	402	1.61	+1.61
	Mana	James Papali'i		422	1.76	+1.76	252	1.01	+1.01
	ACT	Casey Costello		121	0.51	-0.52	77	0.31	-0.81
	Māori Party						134	0.54	-0.43
	Legalise Cannabis						95	0.38	-0.003
	United Future						49	0.20	-0.67
	Alliance						14	0.06	+0.03
	Libertarianz						4	0.02	-0.01
	Democrats						0	0.00	-0.01
Informal votes				856			518
Total valid votes				23,949			25,007
	Labour hold		Majority	15,159	63.30	+33.78

Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 39,534^[18]

2008 election

2008 general election: Māngere[19]
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	William Sio		12,651	52.40		15,446	61.60
	Pacific	N Taito Phillip Field		5,525	22.89		2,683	10.70
	National	Mita Harris		3,368	13.95		4,120	16.43
	Family Party	Galumalemana Jerry Filipaina		999	4.14		297	1.18
	Green	Muamua Sofi Strickson-Pua		541	2.24		511	2.04
	United Future	Pulotu Selio Solomon		443	1.84		218	0.87
	ACT	Michael Tabachnik		247	1.02		280	1.12
	RAM	Roger Fowler		154	0.64		16	0.06
	Progressive	Tala Po'e		150	0.62		165	0.66
	Independent	Lemalu Talia Matatumua		63	0.26
	NZ First						830	3.31
	Māori Party						241	0.96
	Legalise Cannabis						96	0.38
	Bill and Ben						75	0.30
	Kiwi						65	0.26
	Workers Party						16	0.06
	Alliance						6	0.02
	Libertarianz						6	0.02
	Democrats						2	0.01
	RONZ						1	0.00
Informal votes				411			279
Total valid votes				24,141			25,074
	Labour hold		Majority	7,126	29.52

Note: lines coloured beige denote the winner of the electorate vote. Lines coloured pink denote a candidate elected to Parliament from their party list.

2005 election

2005 general election: Māngere[20]
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 Taito Phillip Field		19,633	70.64		20,900	72.89
	National	Clem Simich		3,613	13.00		3,894	13.58
	Destiny	Edward Saafi		892	3.21		445	1.55
	NZ First	Toa Greening		831	2.99		1,189	4.15
	Green	Mua Strickson-Pua		767	2.76		503	1.75
	United Future	Neville Wilson		573	2.06		467	1.63
	Māori Party	Solomon Matthews		522	1.88		330	1.15
	Progressive	Tala Po'e		341	1.23		429	1.50
	Family Rights	Susie Po'a Williams		305	1.10		184	0.64
	Alliance	Len Richards		204	0.73		48	0.17
	Direct Democracy	Paul Teio		56	0.20		7	0.02
	Independent	Mark Muller		56	0.20
	ACT						141	0.49
	Legalise Cannabis						59	0.21
	Christian Heritage						42	0.15
	One NZ						8	0.03
	Democrats						5	0.02
	Libertarianz						5	0.02
	99 MP						2	0.01
	RONZ						2	0.01
Informal votes				453			293
Total valid votes				27,793			28,674
	Labour hold		Majority	16,020

2002 election

2002 general election: Māngere[21]
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 Taito Phillip Field		17,995	73.15		17,586	70.28
	National	Sylvia Taylor		2,620	10.65		1,839	7.35
	Green	Steve Abel		874	3.55		806	3.22
	United Future	Bruce Settle		754	3.07		889	3.55
	Progressive	Rosie Brown		609	2.48		618	2.47
	ACT	Juanita Angell		467	1.90		573	2.26
	Christian Heritage	Steven Panapa		442	1.80		345	1.38
	Alliance	Len Richards		350	2.19		273	1.09
	NZ First						1,585	6.33
	Legalise Cannabis						164	0.66
	ORNZ						83	0.33
	Mana Māori						31	0.12
	One NZ						9	0.04
	NMP						3	0.01
Informal votes				488			218
Total valid votes				24,599			25,022
	Labour hold		Majority	15,375	62.50

1999 election

1999 general election: Māngere[22][23]
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 Taito Phillip Field		15,888	68.60	+12.66	15,881	67.32	+12.55
	National	Sylvia Taylor		2,841	12.27		2,863	12.14	-5.52
	Alliance	Finau Kolo		2,279	9.84		1,945	8.25	-0.66
	Christian Heritage	Steven Aotearoa Panapa		573	2.47		396	1.68
	NZ First	Jerry Nuia Hohepa		571	2.47		688	2.92	-7.21
	ACT	Adrian Jon Dixon		458	1.98		544	2.31	+0.26
	Independent	Kelvyn Glen Alp		389	1.68
	Natural Law	Grant Bilyard		89	0.38	0.00	66	0.28	+0.04
	Mana Wahine Te Ira Tangata	Te Aroha Wepiha Reo		71	0.31
	Green						603	2.56
	Legalise Cannabis						182	0.77	-0.61
	Christian Democrats						149	0.63
	Mauri Pacific						56	0.24
	United NZ						56	0.24	-0.20
	Libertarianz						52	0.22	+0.18
	Animals First						36	0.15	-0.03
	McGillicuddy Serious						22	0.09	-0.09
	Mana Māori						20	0.08	+0.03
	One NZ						10	0.04
	Freedom Movement						6	0.03
	Republican						5	0.02
	The People's Choice						5	0.02
	NMP						4	0.02
	South Island						1	0.00
Informal votes				947			516
Total valid votes				24,106			24,106
	Labour hold		Majority	13,047	56.33	+17.08

1996 election

1996 general election: Mangere[24][25][26]
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	Taito Phillip Field		13,277	55.94		13,118	54.77
	National	David Broome		3,960	16.68		4,230	17.66
	Alliance	Len Richards		3,190	13.44	-2.32	2,134	8.91
	NZ First	Thomas Moana		1,972	8.31		2,426	10.13
	Christian Coalition	James Ward		563	2.37		728	3.04
	ACT	Kevin Mathewson		409	1.72		492	2.05
	Advance New Zealand	Afamasaga Rasmussen		180	0.76		88	0.37
	United NZ	Francis Ifopo		94	0.40		105	0.44
	Natural Law	Grant Bilyard		90	0.38		57	0.24
	Legalise Cannabis						330	1.38
	Ethnic Minority Party						55	0.23
	Progressive Green						49	0.20
	McGillicuddy Serious						44	0.18
	Animals First						42	0.18
	Green Society						13	0.05
	Mana Māori						11	0.05
	Asia Pacific United						9	0.04
	Libertarianz						9	0.04
	Superannuitants & Youth						7	0.03
	Conservatives						5	0.02
	Te Tawharau						0	0.00
Informal votes				469			252
Total valid votes				23,735			23,952
	Labour hold		Majority	9,317	39.25

1993 election

1993 general election: Mangere^[27]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Lange	8,345	55.12	+4.02
	Alliance	Len Richards	2,387	15.76	+3.97
	NZ First	Bryan Archer	2,037	13.45	−8.92
	National	Hinu Te Hau	1,120	7.39
	Christian Heritage	Clark Nemeth	135	0.89
	Communist League	Karen Davis	84	0.55
	McGillicuddy Serious	Alister Webb	77	0.50
	Natural Law	Grant Bilyard	53	0.35
Majority			5,958	39.36	+10.63
Turnout			15,137	83.00	−3.27
Registered electors			18,237

1990 election

1990 general election: Mangere^[28]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Lange	7,184	51.10	−19.50
	National	Bryan Archer	3,145	22.37
	NewLabour	Len Richards	1,658	11.79
	Green	Brian Edwards	832	5.91
	Democrats	Ken Harris	148	1.05
	Independent	Joshua Deane	55	0.39
Majority			4,039	28.73	−19.54
Turnout			14,058	79.73	−1.62
Registered electors			17,631

1987 election

1987 general election: Mangere^[29]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Lange	8,804	70.60	−2.23
	National	Ron Jeffery	2,785	22.33
	Democrats	Ken Harris	724	5.80
	Mana Motuhake	K K Pene	156	1.25
Majority			6,019	48.27	−8.86
Turnout			12,469	81.35	−4.86
Registered electors			15,326

1984 election

1984 general election: Mangere^[30]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Lange	10,676	72.83	+10.58
	National	Peter Saunders	2,301	15.69
	NZ Party	John Meyer	1,096	7.47
	Social Credit	Terry John Brooks	584	3.98
Majority			8,375	57.13	+15.78
Turnout			14,657	86.21	+3.64
Registered electors			17,001

1981 election

1981 general election: Mangere^[30]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Lange	8,739	62.25	−3.98
	Social Credit	John Pettit	2,933	20.89
	National	David Perry	2,366	16.85
Majority			5,806	41.35	−4.21
Turnout			14,038	82.57	+18.65
Registered electors			17,001

1978 election

1978 general election: Mangere^[30]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Lange	9,104	66.23	+7.96
	National	Peter Saunders	2,841	20.67
	Social Credit	H J Meiklejohn	1,655	12.04
	Values	V A Strachan	144	1.04
Majority			6,263	45.56	+17.76
Turnout			13,744	63.92	−0.39
Registered electors			21,499

1977 by-election

1977 Mangere by-election^[30]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Lange	9,766	58.27
	National	Clem Simich	5,107	30.48
	Social Credit	Bill Owens	1,026	6.10	−0.07
	Values	Frank Grayson	789	4.71	−1.02
	Worker's Labour	Barry Moss	28	0.17
	Alpha	Paul Magoffin	18	0.11
	Independent Labour	Barry Shaw	17	0.10
	Socialist Action	Brigid Mulrennan	7	0.04
Majority			4,659	27.80
Turnout			16,758	64.31	−15.35
Registered electors			26,058
	Labour hold		Swing

1975 election

1975 general election: Mangere^[30]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Colin Moyle	8,332	48.64	−11.08
	National	Stanley Lawson	6,728	39.28	+6.33
	Social Credit	Bill Owens	1,057	6.17
	Values	Frank Grayson	983	5.73
	Socialist Unity	Ella Ayo	14	0.08
	Socialist	T A Gribble	14	0.08
Majority			1,604	9.36	−17.40
Turnout			17,128	79.66	−8.05
Registered electors			21,499

1972 election

1972 general election: Mangere^[30]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Colin Moyle	8,788	59.72	−2.59
	National	Stanley Lawson	4,849	32.95
	Social Credit	Gavin Logan	982	6.67
	New Democratic	P J Quinn	96	0.65
Majority			3,939	26.76	−3.91
Turnout			14,715	87.71	+1.75
Registered electors			16,775

1969 election

1969 general election: Mangere^[30]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Colin Moyle	9,321	62.31
	National	Neville Charles Slater	4,733	31.63
	Social Credit	Ernest Richard James	905	6.04
Majority			4,588	30.67
Turnout			14,959	85.96
Registered electors			17,401

Table footnotes

1. Field was expelled from the Labour caucus on 14 February 2007.
2. Hauiti entered Parliament on 8 May 2013 following Aaron Gilmore's resignation.
3. Loheni entered Parliament on 12 February 2019 following Chris Finlayson's resignation.
4. 2014 Internet Mana swing is relative to the votes for Mana in 2011; it shared a party list with Internet in the 2014 election.