Electoral history of Phil Goff

This is a summary of the electoral history of Phil Goff, Mayor of Auckland (2016–present), Leader of the Labour Party (2008–2011). He was a Member of Parliament for three electorates during his career: Roskill, New Lynn and Mount Roskill.

Parliamentary elections

1981 election

1981 general election: Roskill[1]
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

1984 election

1984 general election: Roskill[1]
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

1987 election

1987 general election: Roskill[1]
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

1990 election

1990 general election: Roskill[2]
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

1993 election

1993 general election: Roskill[3]
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

1996 election

1996 general election: New Lynn[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Phil Goff 15,392 50.29
National Richard Gardner 8,254 26.97
Alliance Cliff Robinson 3,554 11.61 −18.34
NZ First Dawn Mullins 2,616 8.55 +0.34
Progressive Green Mark Darin 301 0.98
McGillicuddy Serious Richard Foster 203 0.66
United NZ John Hubscher 128 0.42
Advance NZ James Prescott 91 0.30
Natural Law Les McGrath 68 0.12
Informal votes 317 1.03
Majority 7,138 23.32
Turnout 30,607

1999 election

1999 general election: Mount Roskill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Phil Goff 18,475 58.27
National Phil Raffills 8,768 8,768
Alliance Sarah Martin 1,190 3.75
ACT Max Whitehead 894 2.82
Green Chris Hay 890 2.81
Christian Heritage Barrie Paterson 677 2.14
NZ First Chris Comeskey 585 1.85
United NZ Yousuf Qureshi 155 0.49
Natural Law Linda Ellen Davy 71 0.22
Informal votes 790 2.49
Majority 9,707 30.62
Turnout 31,705

2002 election

2002 general election: Mount Roskill[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Phil Goff 18,702 64.40 +6.13
National Brent Trewheela 4,987 17.17
ACT Kenneth Wang 1,494 5.14
NZ First Dawn Mullins 1,301 4.48
United Future Bernie Ogilvy 1,253 4.31
Christian Heritage Ewen McQueen 582 2.00
Alliance Brendon Lane 337 1.16
Progressive Trevor Barnard 229 0.79
Independent Stephen Berry 157 0.54
Informal votes 354 1.21 −1.28
Majority 13,715 47.23 +16.61
Turnout 29,042

2005 election

2005 general election: Mount Roskill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Phil Goff 19,476 59.94 −4.46
National Jackie Blue 9,581 29.49
ACT Kenneth Wang 1,882 5.79 +0.65
United Future Richard Barter 860 2.65
Destiny Brian Ane 338 1.04
Progressive Suki Amirapu 257 0.79
Direct Democracy Barry Scott 98 0.30
Informal votes 439 1.35 +0.14
Majority 9,895 30.45
Turnout 32,492

2008 election

2008 general election: Mount Roskill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Phil Goff 18,615 55.80 −4.14
National Jackie Blue 12,197 36.56 +7.07
Green Lisa Er 1,086 3.26
ACT Shawn Tan 718 2.15
Kiwi Joseph Rebello 310 0.93
United Future Neville Wilson 211 0.63
Progressive Suki Amirapu 155 0.46 −0.33
RAM Daphne Lawless 67 0.20
Informal votes 362 1.08 −0.27
Majority 6,418 19.23
Turnout 33,359

2011 election

2011 general election: Mount Roskill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Phil Goff 17,906 57.15 +1.35
National Jackie Blue 10,635 33.94 −2.62
Green Julie Anne Genter 1,258 4.01 +0.76
Conservative Feleti Key 550 1.76
NZ First Mahesh Bindra 468 1.49
ACT Pratima Nand 240 0.77
Legalise Cannabis Jasmin Hewlett 167 0.53
United Future Bryan Mockridge 77 0.25
Communist League Patrick Brown 32 0.10
Informal votes 766 2.44 +1.36
Majority 7,271 23.21 +3.97
Turnout 31,333

2014 election

2014 general election: Mount Roskill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Phil Goff 18,637 55.81 −1.34
National Parmjeet Parmar 10,546 31.58
Green Barry Coates 1,682 5.04
Conservative Paul Davie 1,094 3.28
NZ First Mahesh Bindra 717 2.15 +0.66
Mana John Minto 300 0.90
Informal votes 416 1.24 −1.20
Majority 8,091 24.23 +1.02
Turnout 33,392

Local elections

2016 Auckland mayoral election

2016 Auckland mayoral election[6][7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Phil Goff 187,622 47.29
Independent Victoria Crone 111,731 28.16
Independent Chlöe Swarbrick 29,098 7.33
Independent John Palino 22,387 5.64 −26.03
Independent Mark Thomas 9,573 2.41
Independent Penny Bright 7,022 1.77 −1.64
Independent David Hay 2,845 0.72
Greater Auckland Tyrone Raumati 2,387 0.60
Christians Against Abortion Phil O'Connor 2,095 0.53 −0.35
STOP Tricia Cheel 2,024 0.51 +0.14
Communist League Patrick Brown 1,826 0.46 +0.21
Independent Mario Alupis 1,800 0.45
Legalise Cannabis Adam John Holland 1,772 0.45
Independent Susanna Kruger 1,670 0.42 −0.21
Independent Wayne Young 1,629 0.41 −0.62
Independent Aileen Austin 1,577 0.40
Independent Binh Thanh Nguyen 979 0.25
Independent Stan Martin 836 0.21
Independent Alezix Heneti 599 0.15
Majority 75,891 19.13
Informal votes 1,427 0.37 −0.09
Turnout 390,899 37.89 +3.17
Registered electors 1,031,667

2019 Auckland mayoral election

2019 Auckland mayoral election[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Phil Goff 180,146 48.97 +1.68
Independent John Tamihere 80,903 21.99
Independent Craig Lord 29,577 8.04
Independent John Hong 16,211 4.40
Independent Ted Johnston 15,637 4.25
Independent Peter Vaughan 6,214 1.68
Independent Michael Coote 5,611 1.52
STOP Trashing Our Planet Tricia Cheel 4,116 1.11 +0.60
Christians Against Abortion Phil O'Connor 3,984 1.08 +0.55
Independent Genevieve Forde 2,923 0.79
Justice For Families Susanna Kruger 2,894 0.78 +0.36
Independent Tom Sainsbury 2,853 0.77
Old Skool Glen Snelgar 2,608 0.70
The Hemp Foundation Tadhg Stopford 2,445 0.66
Independent Jannaha Henry 2,417 0.65
LiftNZ David Feist 2,301 0.62
Independent Brendan Maddern 1,446 0.39
Virtual Homeless Community Wayne Young 1,412 0.38 −0.03
Communist League Annalucia Vermunt 1,055 0.28
Independent Thanh Binh Nguyen 954 0.25 ±0.00
Independent Alezix Heneti 514 0.13 −0.02
Informal votes 1,575 0.42 +0.05
Majority 99,243 26.98 +7.85
Turnout 367,796
Registered electors

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Norton 1988, pp. 338.
  2. ^ Part 1: Votes recorded at each polling place (Technical report). New Zealand Chief Electoral Office. 1990.
  3. ^ Part 1: Votes recorded at each polling place (Technical report). New Zealand Chief Electoral Office. 1993.
  4. ^ "Electorate Candidate and Party Votes Recorded at Each Polling Place – New Lynn, 1996" (PDF). Retrieved 20 July 2013.
  5. ^ "Official Count Results – Mt Roskill (2002)". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 February 2019.
  6. ^ Confirmedlocalelectionresults2016 (PDF), Auckland Council, archived from the original (PDF) on 19 October 2016
  7. ^ "Voting Document Returns – 2016 Elections" (PDF). Auckland Council. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  8. ^ "2019 local elections final results – Mayor, local board members, ward councillors" (PDF). Auckland Council. 18 October 2019. Retrieved 19 October 2019.

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.