Clutha-Southland

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Clutha-Southland is one of the 69 New Zealand electorates represented in the current Parliament of New Zealand.

1 Description
2 History
3 Election results
- 3.1 2005 election

[edit] Description

Clutha-Southland was promulgated as one of the original 65 MMP electorates, centered on Southland district and covering an area stretching from Fiordland across the far south of the South Island to the south-eastern Otago coast. Its largest population centres are Gore and Balcultha.

It is the successor to the old Wallace, Clutha and Awarua constituencies. Its boundaries have changed at every redistribution since it was created, as dwindling populations in both Clutha-Southland and in the neighbouring Invercargill electorate have forced both seats nothwards. Because of this, in its current incarnation, which will first be contested at the 2008 election, Clutha-Southland will include Queenstown.

[edit] History

Because of its largely rural nature, Clutha-Southland is one of the National Party's safest seats; it has only ever had one MP, that being former Leader of the Opposition (and the party's current deputy), Bill English, who was also the MP for Wallace from 1990-96.

[edit] Election results

[edit] 2005 election

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Party Votes	%
99 MP	-	-	-	13	0.04
ACT	John Cameron Fraser	579	1.91	579	1.90
Alliance	-	-	-	23	0.08
Christian Heritage	-	-	-	24	0.08
Democrats	-	-	-	26	0.09
Destiny	-	-	-	99	0.32
Direct Democracy	-	-	-	2	0.007
Family Rights PP	-	-	-	9	0.03
Green	Robert Guyton	808	2.67	719	2.36
Labour	David Talbot	6988	23.0	8705	28.56
Legalise Cannabis	-	-	-	79	0.26
Libertarianz	-	-	-	7	0.02
Māori Party	-	-	-	63	0.21
National	Y Bill English	20020	66.0	17334	56.86
NZ First	Dave Mackie	999	3.29	1386	4.55
One NZ	-	-	-	6	0.02
Progressive	-	-	-	230	0.75
Republic of NZ	-	-	-	3	0.01
United	Joy Leitze	795	2.24	1028	3.37
IND	David Webber	121	0.40	-	-
total valid votes		30327		30485
National hold	Majority	13,032