Roskill (New Zealand electorate)

Former electorate in Auckland, New Zealand

Roskill electorate boundaries between 1993 and 1996.

Roskill was a New Zealand parliamentary electorate, from 1919 to 1996. The electorate was represented by eight Members of Parliament.

Population centres

In the 1918 electoral redistribution, the North Island gained a further three electorates from the South Island due to faster population growth. Only two existing electorates were unaltered, five electorates were abolished, two former electorate were re-established, and three electorates, including Roskill, were created for the first time.

The electorate was in the western suburbs of Auckland, New Zealand.

History

The electorate was created in 1919, and existed continuously until 1996, the first mixed-member proportional representation (MMP) election, when it was included in the New Lynn electorate. The first representative was Vivian Potter, who represented the electorate for three terms for the Reform Party. In the 1928 election, Potter stood in the Eden electorate as an independent but was beaten by Arthur Stallworthy.

In the Roskill electorate, George Munns of the United Party won the 1928 election. He was defeated in 1931 by Arthur Shapton Richards. In 1935, Richards was challenged by the former representative Vivian Potter, but Potter came fourth out of the five candidates, with the incumbent winning the election. In the 1946 election, Richards successfully transferred to the Mount Albert electorate.

In 1999, the electorate was recreated as Mount Roskill, and was won by Phil Goff, who later became leader of the Labour Party.

Members of Parliament

The Roskill electorate was represented by eight Members of Parliament:

Key

Reform United Labour National

Election	Winner
1919 election		Vivian Potter
1922 election
1925 election
1928 election		George Munns
1931 election		Arthur Shapton Richards
1935 election
1938 election
1943 election
1946 election		Frank Langstone
1949 election		John Rae
1951 election
1954 election
1957 election		Arthur Faulkner
1960 election
1963 election
1966 election
1969 election
1972 election
1975 election
1978 election
1981 election		Phil Goff
1984 election
1987 election
1990 election		Gilbert Myles




1993 election		Phil Goff
(Electorate abolished 1996; see Owairaka)

Gilbert Myles' changes of allegiance, 1990–93

National Independent Liberal Alliance NZ First

Election results

1993 election

1993 general election: Roskill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Phil Goff	7,664	39.60	−1.97
	National	Allan Spence	5,459	28.21
	NZ First	Gilbert Myles	3,530	18.24	−26.48
	Alliance	Jenny-Kaye Potaka	2,260	11.67
	Christian Heritage	Rowan Dunbar	355	1.83
	McGillicuddy Serious	Julian Price	82	0.42
Majority			2,205	11.39
Turnout			19,350	84.90	+0.42
Registered electors			22,789

1990 election

1990 general election: Roskill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National	Gilbert Myles	9,132	44.72
	Labour	Phil Goff	8,488	41.57	−12.23
	Green	Ian Graham Douglas	1,287	6.30
	NewLabour	Ella Henry	952	4.66
	Democrats	Douglas McGee	185	0.90	−2.19
	Social Credit	John Ferdinand	153	0.74
	Independent	Walter Christie	111	0.54
	McGillicuddy Serious	Richard Alexander Foster	96	0.47
	Communist League	Anthony David Drumm	12	0.05
Majority			644	3.15
Turnout			20,416	85.32	−0.05
Registered electors			23,926

1987 election

1987 general election: Roskill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Phil Goff	10,487	54.27	+0.47
	National	Bob Foulkes	8,050	41.66
	Democrats	Douglas McGee	598	3.09
	NZ Party	Brian Murray	97	0.50
	Independent	Anthony Peter Devicich	91	0.47	+0.20
Majority			2,437	12.61	−7.89
Turnout			19,323	85.37	−3.04
Registered electors			22,633

1984 election

1984 general election: Roskill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Phil Goff	11,043	53.80	+6.20
	National	Chris Knowles	6,835	33.30
	NZ Party	Ben Matthews	2,217	10.80
	Social Credit	Edward James Lye	789	3.84
	Independent	Anthony Peter Devicich	57	0.27
	Values	Johan Ofman	34	0.16
Majority			4,208	20.50	+8.21
Turnout			20,525	88.41	+1.07
Registered electors			23,214

1981 election

1981 general election: Roskill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Phil Goff	9,778	47.60
	National	Cheryl Parsons	7,253	35.31
	Social Credit	Chris Lynch	3,508	17.07
Majority			2,525	12.29
Turnout			20,539	87.34	+18.23
Registered electors			23,515

1978 election

1978 general election: Roskill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Arthur Faulkner	9,584	48.19	+2.30
	National	John Banks	7,913	39.78
	Social Credit	David Howes	2,157	10.84
	Values	Steve Covacich	233	1.17
Majority			1,671	8.40	+5.47
Turnout			19,887	69.11	−16.24
Registered electors			28,774

1975 election

1975 general election: Roskill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Arthur Faulkner	8,276	45.89	−12.17
	National	John Priestley	7,746	42.95	+11.60
	Values	Geoff Hansen	1,037	5.75
	Social Credit	Brenda Delamore	955	5.29
	Socialist Unity	George Jackson	17	0.09
Majority			530	2.93	−23.76
Turnout			18,031	82.35	−6.83
Registered electors			21,893

1972 election

1972 general election: Roskill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Arthur Faulkner	9,653	58.06	+1.28
	National	John Priestley	5,214	31.35
	Social Credit	B P Glamuzina	923	5.55
	Values	Bruce McClintock	626	3.76
	New Democratic	Robert William Holden Howie	211	1.26	−5.81
Majority			4,439	26.69	+6.05
Turnout			16,627	89.18	−0.16
Registered electors			18,644

1969 election

1969 general election: Roskill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Arthur Faulkner	9,067	56.78	+2.24
	National	Anthony Wyvern Grey Cook	5,771	36.14	+3.26
	Social Credit	Robert William Holden Howie	1,130	7.07	−5.50
Majority			3,296	20.64	−1.02
Turnout			15,968	89.34	+4.31
Registered electors			17,873

1966 election

1966 general election: Roskill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Arthur Faulkner	9,624	54.54	−3.45
	National	Anthony Wyvern Grey Cook	5,802	32.88
	Social Credit	Robert William Holden Howie	2,218	12.57	+8.42
Majority			3,822	21.66	+3.82
Turnout			17,644	85.03	−5.74
Registered electors			20,748

1963 election

1963 general election: Roskill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Arthur Faulkner	9,207	51.09	+2.08
	National	Thomas Tucker	5,991	33.24
	Social Credit	Robert William Holden Howie	749	4.15
	Liberal	Lewis Rose	273	1.51
	Communist	Ralph Hegman	137	0.76
Majority			3,216	17.84	+9.16
Turnout			16,357	90.77	−1.87
Registered electors			18,020

1960 election

1960 general election: Roskill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Arthur Faulkner	8,414	53.17	−2.20
	National	Geoffrey Taylor	6,767	42.76
	Social Credit	Frank Langstone	575	3.63	+0.08
	Communist	Ella Ayo	68	0.42
Majority			1,374	8.68	−5.62
Turnout			15,824	92.64	−1.82
Registered electors			17,080

1957 election

1957 general election: Roskill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Arthur Faulkner	8,197	55.37
	National	John Rae	6,080	41.06	−12.03
	Social Credit	Frank Langstone	527	3.55
Majority			2,117	14.30
Turnout			14,804	94.46	+4.79
Registered electors			15,671

1954 election

1954 general election: Roskill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National	John Rae	7,455	53.09	+1.67
	Labour	Elizabeth Morris	5,803	41.32
	Social Credit	William Sayer	783	5.57
Majority			1,652	11.76	+8.92
Turnout			14,041	89.67	−0.74
Registered electors			15,658

1951 election

1951 general election: Roskill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National	John Rae	7,962	51.42	+0.32
	Labour	Pat Curran	7,522	48.58
Majority			440	2.84	−6.96
Turnout			15,484	90.41	−3.72
Registered electors			17,126

1949 election

1949 general election: Roskill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National	John Rae	7,372	51.10
	Labour	James Freeman	5,957	41.29
	Independent	Frank Langstone	1,097	7.61	−42.99
Majority			1,415	9.80
Turnout			14,426	94.13	−0.55
Registered electors			15,324

1946 election

1946 general election: Roskill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Frank Langstone	6,611	50.60
	National	Roy McElroy	6,456	49.40	+6.66
Majority			155	1.18
Turnout			13,067	94.68	+1.57
Registered electors			13,801

1943 election

1943 general election: Roskill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Arthur Shapton Richards	8,742	48.03	−8.98
	National	Roy McElroy	7,780	42.74
	Democratic Labour	Keith Hay	1,015	5.57
	Real Democracy	Charles Belton	249	1.36
	People's Movement	Hawtrey Warren Glynn	145	0.79
	Independent Labour	Stanley Hamilton	95	0.52
Informal votes			116	0.63	−0.10
Majority			962	5.28	−9.47
Turnout			18,199	93.11	−0.51
Registered electors			19,545

1938 election

1938 general election: Roskill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Arthur Shapton Richards	8,272	57.01	−2.27
	National	Arthur Sagar Bailey	6,431	44.32
Informal votes			106	0.73	−0.09
Majority			2,141	14.75	−12.57
Turnout			14,509	92.60	+1.97
Registered electors			15,667

1935 election

1935 general election: Roskill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Arthur Shapton Richards	8,728	59.28	+20.47
	Reform	Thomas Fleming	4,705	31.96
	Democrat	William Clarvis	698	4.74
	Independent	Vivian Potter	492	3.34
	Independent Liberal	William Frederick Jamieson	98	0.66
Informal votes			121	0.82	+0.71
Majority			4,023	27.32	+25.96
Turnout			14,721	90.63	+8.80
Registered electors			16,242

1931 election

1931 general election: Roskill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Arthur Shapton Richards	4,885	38.81
	Reform	William John Holdsworth	4,714	37.45
	United	George Munns	2,988	23.74	−22.25
Majority			171	1.36
Informal votes			14	0.11	−0.50
Turnout			12,601	81.83	−5.88
Registered electors			15,399

1928 election

1928 general election: Roskill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	United	George Munns	5,745	45.99
	Labour	Arthur Shapton Richards	3,401	27.23
	Reform	Ellen Melville	3,345	26.78
Majority			2,344	18.77
Informal votes			77	0.61	+0.02
Turnout			12,568	87.71	−2.98
Registered electors			14,329

1925 election

1925 general election: Roskill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Reform	Vivian Potter	7,301	55.44	+10.93
	Liberal	Alfred Hall-Skelton	4,388	33.32	+7.28
	Labour	John William Yarnall	1,399	10.62
Informal votes			79	0.59	−0.33
Majority			2,913	22.12	+3.66
Turnout			13,167	90.69	−1.43
Registered electors			14,518

1922 election

1922 general election: Roskill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Reform	Vivian Potter	4,838	44.51	−0.32
	Liberal	Alfred Hall-Skelton	2,831	26.04
	Independent	Ellen Melville	1,617	14.87
	Labour	Jim Purtell	1,481	13.62
Informal votes			101	0.92	−0.09
Majority			2,007	18.46	−1.33
Turnout			10,868	92.12	+6.94
Registered electors			11,797

1919 election

1919 general election: Roskill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Reform	Vivian Potter	4,200	44.83
	Independent Reform	James Gunson	2,346	25.04
	Labour	George Davis	1,998	21.33
	Independent Liberal	Frederick William Peddle	728	7.77
Informal votes			95	1.01
Majority			1,854	19.79
Turnout			9,367	85.18
Registered electors			10,996

Notes

McRobie 1989, pp. 75–80.
Wilson 1985, p. 227.
The General Election, 1928. Government Printer. 1929. p. 2. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
Wilson 1985, p. 222.
Wilson 1985, pp. 222, 230.
"Blomfield and Jaget Singh". The Evening Post. Vol. CXX, no. 136. 5 December 1935. p. 5. Retrieved 29 December 2013.
Wilson 1985, p. 230.
Wilson 1985, p. 271.
Part 1: Votes recorded at each polling place (Technical report). New Zealand Chief Electoral Office. 1993.
Part 1: Votes recorded at each polling place (Technical report). New Zealand Chief Electoral Office. 1990.
^ Norton 1988, pp. 338.
^ Norton 1988, pp. 337.
"The New Zealand Official Year-Book, 1951–52". Statistics New Zealand. Archived from the original on 23 June 2012. Retrieved 19 November 2012.
"The General Election, 1949". National Library. 1950. pp. 1–5, 8. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
"The General Election, 1946". National Library. 1947. pp. 1–11, 14. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
"Electoral". The New Zealand Herald. Vol. 80, no. 24713. 13 October 1943. p. 5. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
"The General Election, 1938". National Library. 1939. p. 5. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
The General Election, 1935. National Library. 1936. pp. 1–35. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
The General Election, 1931. Government Printer. 1932. p. 4. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
"Electoral". The New Zealand Herald. Vol. LXVIII, no. 21051. 9 December 1931. p. 18. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
Skinner, W. A. G. (1929). The General Election, 1928. Government Printer. p. 4. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
The General Election, 1925. Government Printer. 1926. p. 2. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
The General Election, 1922. Government Printer. 1923. p. 2. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
Hislop, J. (1921). The General Election, 1919. National Library. pp. 1–6. Retrieved 6 December 2014.

References

McRobie, Alan (1989). Electoral Atlas of New Zealand. Wellington: GP Books. ISBN 0-477-01384-8.
Wilson, James Oakley (1985) . New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.
Norton, Clifford (1988). New Zealand Parliamentary Election Results 1946–1987: Occasional Publications No 1, Department of Political Science. Wellington: Victoria University of Wellington. ISBN 0-475-11200-8.

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