Waikato (New Zealand electorate)
Waikato is an electorate in the New Zealand Parliament. A Waikato electorate was first created in 1871 and an electorate by this name has existed from 1871 to 1963, 1969 to 1996, and 2008 to the present, though exact borders have often changed.[1]
| Waikato | |
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| Single-member constituency New Zealand House of Representatives | |
 Location of Waikato within Waikato | |
| Area | Waikato |
| Settlements | Huntly, Matamata, Morrinsville |
| Current constituency | |
| Current MP | Tim van de Molen |
| Party | National |
| List MP | James McDowall (ACT) |
Election results
| 2020 general election: Waikato[2] | |||||||||
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| Notes: |
Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party votes | % | ±% | ||
| National |  Tim van de Molen |
20,877 | 51.97 | −10.21 | 15,562 | 37.72 | −20.97 | ||
| Labour | Kerrin Leoni | 15,661 | 38.98 | +15.92 | 16,288 | 39.48 | +15.30 | ||
| ACT | James McDowall | 2,084 | 5.19 | — | 4,340 | 10.52 | +9.88 | ||
| New Conservative | Caleb Ansell | 1,551 | 3.86 | — | 1,053 | 2.55 | +2.25 | ||
| Green | 1,454 | 3.52 | +0.47 | ||||||
| NZ First | 1,117 | 2.71 | −7.39 | ||||||
| Opportunities | 518 | 1.26 | −0.60 | ||||||
| Advance NZ | 373 | 0.90 | — | ||||||
| Legalise Cannabis | 173 | 0.42 | +0.07 | ||||||
| Māori Party | 145 | 0.35 | -0.08 | ||||||
| ONE | 87 | 0.21 | — | ||||||
| Vision NZ | 46 | 0.11 | — | ||||||
| Outdoors | 30 | 0.07 | −0.01 | ||||||
| Sustainable NZ | 20 | 0.05 | — | ||||||
| Social Credit | 19 | 0.05 | +0.01 | ||||||
| Heartland | 16 | 0.04 | — | ||||||
| TEA | 13 | 0.03 | — | ||||||
| Informal votes | 933 | 263 | |||||||
| Total Valid votes | 41,106 | 41,517 | |||||||
| National hold | Majority | 5,216 | 12.69 | −25.90 | |||||
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References
- "Boundary Review 2019/20 | Elections". elections.nz. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
- "Official Count Results — Waikato". Wellington: New Zealand Electoral Commission. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
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