Electoral history of Helen Clark

This is a summary of the electoral history of Helen Clark, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1999–2008), Leader of the Labour Party (1993–2008) and Member of Parliament for Mount Albert (1981–2008).

Local-body elections

1974 election

1974 election: Auckland Regional Authority, Auckland city ward^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Citizens & Ratepayers	John Allsopp-Smith	17,644	55.78	+0.12
	Citizens & Ratepayers	Tom Pearce	17,419	55.07	−5.94
	Independent	Sir Dove-Myer Robinson	17,258	54.56	−6.53
	Citizens & Ratepayers	Ian McKinnon	15,290	48.34	−5.91
	Citizens & Ratepayers	Bill Barrett	14,583	46.10	−7.72
	Labour	Helen Clark	12,050	38.10
	Citizens & Ratepayers	Bob Johnson	11,963	37.82
	Labour	Alex Dreaver	11,791	37.28	−11.15
	Labour	Richard Northey	10,808	34.17	−1.78
	Labour	BJ Kirkwood	10,063	31.81
	Values	Reg Clough	7,413	23.43
	Labour	Peter Neilson	7,392	23.37
	Values	Brian Jessup	4,458	14.09
Turnout			31,627	34.44	+2.22
Registered electors			91,807

1977 election

1977 election: Auckland Regional Authority, Auckland city and Waiheke Island ward^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Citizens & Ratepayers	Lindo Ferguson	20,359	57.78
	Independent	Sir Dove-Myer Robinson	19,719	55.96	+1.40
	Citizens & Ratepayers	Mel Tronson	19,415	55.10
	Labour	Jim Anderton	17,846	50.64	−1.41
	Citizens & Ratepayers	Jolyon Firth	17,466	49.57
	Citizens & Ratepayers	Ian McKinnon	15,465	43.89	−4.45
	Citizens & Ratepayers	Bill Barrett	14,655	41.59	−4.51
	Labour	Helen Clark	13,345	37.87	−0.23
	Labour	Richard Northey	10,832	30.74	−3.43
	Labour	John Clarke	9,438	26.78
	Labour	H R Green	9,212	26.14
	Values	Jeanette Fitzsimons	6,966	19.77
	Socialist Unity	Les Bravery	1,452	4.12
Turnout			35,234	34.10	−0.34
Registered electors			103,321

Parliamentary elections

1975 election

1975 general election: Piako^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	National	Jack Luxton	10,248	59.9	+4.5
	Labour	Helen Clark	4,074	23.8
	Social Credit	Alex Mikkelson	2,322	13.6	−1.8
	Values	Sally Ruth Child	460	2.7
Majority			6,174	36.1	+6.7
Turnout			20,538	83.5

1981 election

1981 general election: Mount Albert^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Helen Clark	10,027	51.32
	National	Warren Moyes	6,120	31.32
	Social Credit	Harold Dance	3,391	17.35	+5.84
Majority			3,907	19.99
Turnout			19,538	86.34	+2.00
Registered electors			22,627

1984 election

1984 general election: Mount Albert^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Helen Clark	12,231	56.74	+5.42
	National	Rod Cavanagh	6,024	27.94
	NZ Party	Michelle Gonsalves	2,390	11.08
	Social Credit	Douglas McGee	908	4.21
Majority			6,207	28.79	+8.80
Turnout			21,553	89.82	+3.48
Registered electors			23,995

1987 election

1987 general election: Mount Albert^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Helen Clark	11,326	62.25	+5.51
	National	Rob Wheeler	5,989	32.91
	Democrats	Gillian Dance	861	4.73
	Independent	Malcolm Moses	17	0.09
Majority			5,537	30.43	+1.64
Turnout			18,193	84.02	−5.80
Registered electors			21,653

1990 election

1990 general election: Mount Albert^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Helen Clark	7,914	43.48	−18.77
	National	Larry Belshaw	6,684	36.72
	Green	Harry Parke	1,774	9.74
	NewLabour	Jennie Walker	1,418	7.79
	McGillicuddy Serious	Adrian Holroyd	151	0.82
	Social Credit	Richard Povall	133	0.73
	Democrats	Syd Leach	127	0.69
Majority			1,230	6.75	−23.68
Turnout			18,201	82.19	−1.83
Registered electors			22,143

1993 election

1993 general election: Mount Albert^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Helen Clark	9,546	49.41	+5.93
	National	Vanessa Brown	4,890	25.31
	Alliance	Doug McGee	2,873	14.87
	NZ First	Elizabeth Anderson	1,370	7.09
	Christian Heritage	Jens Meder	259	1.34
	McGillicuddy Serious	KT Julian	195	1.00
	Workers Rights	Ivan Sowry	97	0.50
	Natural Law	Stewart Sanson	62	0.32
	Defence Movement	Anthony Van Den Heuvel	25	0.12
Majority			4,656	24.10	+17.35
Turnout			19,317	83.45	+1.26
Registered electors			23,146

1996 election

1996 general election: Owairaka^[7]^[8]^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Helen Clark	16,686	51.20	+1.79
	National	Phil Raffills	10,706	32.85
	NZ First	Jason Keiller	2,297	7.05
	Alliance	Keith Locke	1,775	5.45
	ACT	Andrew Couper	768	2.36
	McGillicuddy Serious	Julia Johnson	217	0.67
	Natural Law	Martin Davy	90	0.28
	Advance New Zealand	Eric Chuah	50	0.15
Majority			5,980	18.35	−5.75
Turnout			32,589

1999 election

1999 general election: Mount Albert
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Helen Clark	18,982	64.37	+13.17
	National	Noelene Buckland	5,874	19.92
	Alliance	Jill Ovens	1,139	3.86
	ACT	Daniel King	1,062	3.60
	Green	Mike Johnson	1,032	3.50
	Christian Heritage	Diane Taylor	658	2.23
	NZ First	Seini Mafi	403	1.37
	McGillicuddy Serious	Kerry Hoole	193	0.65
	United NZ	Hassan Hosseini	124	0.42
	Republican	Jane Hotere	23	0.08
Majority			13,108	44.45	+26.10
Turnout			29,490

2002 election

2002 general election: Mount Albert^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Helen Clark	19,514	68.49	+4.12
	National	Raewyn Bhana	3,490	12.24
	ACT	Bruce Williams	1,550	5.44
	Green	Jon Carapiet	1,537	5.39
	United Future New Zealand	Hassan Hosseini	726	2.54	+2.1
	Christian Heritage	Pauline Cooper	426	1.49
	Alliance	Jill Ovens	334	1.17	−2.7
	Progressive	Gillian Dance	299	1.04
	Legalise Cannabis	Daphna Whitmore	116	0.40
	Independent	Rick Stevenson	52	0.18
Majority			16,024	56.24	+11.79
Turnout			28,491

2005 election

2005 general election: Mount Albert^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Helen Clark	20,918	66.55	−1.94
	National	Ravi Musuku	6,169	19.63
	Green	Jon Carapiet	1,485	4.72
	NZ First	Julian Batchelor	746	2.37
	ACT	David Seymour	746	2.37
	United Future New Zealand	Tony Gordon	529	1.68
	Progressive	Jenny Wilson	407	1.29
	Destiny	Anne Williamson	337	1.07
	Independent	Jim Bagnall	83	0.26
	Anti-Capitalist Alliance	Daphna Whitmore	79	0.25	−0.15
	Independent	Anthony Ravlich	47	0.15
	Direct Democracy	Howard Ponga	30	0.10
	Independent	Erik Taylor	29	0.09
Majority			14,749	46.40	−9.84
Turnout			31,747

2008 election

2008 general election: Mount Albert^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Helen Clark	20,157	59.29	−7.26
	National	Ravi Musuku	9,806	28.84	+9.21
	Green	Jon Carapiet	2,019	5.94	+1.22
	ACT	Kathleen McCabe	1,392	4.09
	Kiwi	Christian Dawson	249	0.73
	Pacific	Milo Siilata	234	0.69
	Independent	Anthony van den Heuvel	87	0.26
	RONZ	Dave Llewell	53	0.16
Majority			10,351	29.30	−17.10
Turnout			33,997

Leadership elections

1989 deputy-leadership election

Candidate		Votes	%
	Helen Clark	29	53.71
	Roger Douglas	25	46.29
Majority		4	7.40
Turnout		54	—

1993 leadership election

Candidate		Votes	%
	Helen Clark	26	57.77
	Mike Moore	19	42.23
Majority		7	15.55
Turnout		45	—

United Nations elections

United Nations Secretary-General selection, 2016

United Nations Secretary-General selection straw poll results
Candidate	21 July^[13]^[14]			5 August^[15]^[16]			29 August^[17]^[18]			9 September^[19]^[20]			26 September^[20]^[21]			5 October^[22]^[23]			Final Vote^[24]
Candidate	E	D	N	E	D	N	E	D	N	E	D	N	E	D	N	E	D	N	Final Vote^[24]
Irina Bokova	9	4	2	7	7	1	7	5	3	7	5	3	6	7	2	7 (3P)	7 (2P)	1	Withdrawn
Helen Clark	8	5	2	6	8	1	6	8	1	6	7	2	6	9	0	6 (1P)	8 (3P)	1 (1P)	Withdrawn
Christiana Figueres	5	5	5	5	8	2	2	12	1	5	10	0	Withdrawn^[25]
Kristalina Georgieva	Not yet nominated															5 (2P)	8 (2P)	2 (1P)	Withdrawn
Natalia Gherman	4	4	7	3	10	2	2	12	1	3	11	1	3	11	1	3 (1P)	11 (3P)	1 (1P)	Withdrawn
António Guterres	12	0	3	11	2	2	11	3	1	12	2	1	12	2	1	13 (4P)	0	2 (1P)	Acclaimed
Vuk Jeremić	9	5	1	8	4	3	7	5	3	9	4	2	8	6	1	7 (2P)	6 (3P)	2	Withdrawn
Srgjan Kerim	9	5	1	6	7	2	6	7	2	8	7	0	6	9	0	5 (2P)	9 (3P)	1	Withdrawn
Miroslav Lajčák	7	3	5	2	6	7	9	5	1	10	4	1	8	7	0	7 (2P)	6 (2P)	2 (1P)	Withdrawn
Igor Lukšić	3	7	5	2	9	4	Withdrawn^[26]
Susana Malcorra	7	4	4	8	6	1	7	7	1	7	7	1	7	7	1	5 (2P)	7 (1P)	3 (2P)	Withdrawn
Vesna Pusić	2	11	2	Withdrawn^[27]
Danilo Türk	11	2	2	7	5	3	5	6	4	7	6	2	7	7	1	5 (1P)	8 (4P)	2	Withdrawn

	Candidate received at least one "encouraged" from a veto-wielding P5 member
	Candidate received at least one "discouraged" from a veto-wielding P5 member

Notes

^ "Committee heads lose ARA places". Auckland Star. 14 October 1974. p. 9.
^ "Successes in ARA". The New Zealand Herald. 10 October 1977. p. 2.
^ Norton 1988, p. 319.
^ ^a ^b ^c Norton 1988, p. 281.
^ Part 1: Votes recorded at each polling place (Technical report). New Zealand Chief Electoral Office. 1990.
^ Part 1: Votes recorded at each polling place (Technical report). New Zealand Chief Electoral Office. 1993.
^ "Electorate Candidate and Party Votes Recorded at Each Polling Place – Owairaka, 1996" (PDF). Retrieved 9 July 2013.
^ "Part III – Party Lists of Successful Registered Parties" (PDF). Electoral Commission. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 February 2013. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
^ "Part III – Party Lists of unsuccessful Registered Parties" (PDF). Electoral Commission. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 February 2013. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
^ 2002 election results
^ 2005 election results Archived 31 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine
^ 2008 election results Archived 11 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine
^ Orestes, Benjamin [@boreskes] (21 July 2016). "SOURCE: #NEXTSG straw poll: 1)Guterres 2) Turk 3) Bokova 4) Jeremic/Kerim 5)Clark 6)Lajčák 7)Malcorra 8)Figueres9)Gherman10)Luksic 11)Pusic" (Tweet). Retrieved 21 July 2016 – via Twitter.
^ Lee, Matthew Russell (21 July 2016). "On Next SG Straw Poll, Results & Questions of Dual Nationalities, Exclusive". Inner City Press. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
^ Abi Saab, Nabil [@NabilAbiSaab] (5 August 2016). "1/2 Results of 2nd round of voting on next #UNSG: (Yes, No, no opinion) Guterres 11,2,2 Jeremic 8,4,3 Malcorra 8,6,1 Turk 7,5,3 Clark 6,8,1" (Tweet). Retrieved 5 August 2016 – via Twitter.
^ Abi Saab, Nabil [@NabilAbiSaab] (5 August 2016). "2/2 Figueres 5,8,2 Kerim 6, 7, 2 Luksic 2,9,4 Bokova 7,7,1 Gherman 3,10,2 Lajcak 2,6,7" (Tweet). Retrieved 5 August 2016 – via Twitter.
^ World Federation of United Nations Associations [@WFUNA] (29 August 2016). "As part of our commitment to Transparency and Accountability, here are full results of the 3rd #NextSG Straw Poll:" (Tweet). Retrieved 29 August 2016 – via Twitter.
^ Bryce-Pease, Sherwin (29 August 2016). "Results of latest straw poll to select next #UNSG". SABC News. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
^ World Federation of United Nations Associations [@WFUNA] (9 September 2016). "As part of our continued push for #Transparency at the #UN Full #NextSG 4th Straw Poll Results:" (Tweet). Retrieved 9 September 2016 – via Twitter.
^ ^a ^b "Who will lead the United Nations". Reuters. 9 September 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
^ World Federation of United Nations Associations [@WFUNA] (26 September 2016). "WFUNA presents the results of 5th #NextSG Straw Poll" (Tweet). Retrieved 26 September 2016 – via Twitter.
^ World Federation of United Nations Associations [@WFUNA] (5 October 2016). "Full results of the sixth and final #NextSG strawpoll. Formal result tomorrow. (P5 voting intentions excluded)" (Tweet). Retrieved 5 October 2016 – via Twitter.
^ Sengupta, Somini (5 October 2016). "Security Council Backs António Guterres to Be Next U.N. Secretary General". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
^ Foroohar, Kambiz (5 October 2016). "Portugal's Guterres Wins Unanimous Backing to Lead the UN". Bloomberg News. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
^ "Figueres ends UN Secretary General bid". News.com.au. 13 September 2016. Archived from the original on 16 September 2016. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
^ "Montenegro's Luksic drops out of race to be next UN chief". Associated Press. 23 August 2016. Archived from the original on 27 September 2016. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
^ "Vesna Pusić Withdraws as Candidate for UN Secretary General". Total Croatia News. 4 August 2016.

References

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.
Edwards, Brian (2001). Helen: Portrait of A Prime Minister. Auckland: Exisle Publishing. ISBN 0-908988-20-6.