Electoral history of Jacinda Ardern

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Jacinda Ardern

Leader of the Labour Party

Leader of the Opposition

Prime Minister

General elections

This is a summary of the electoral history of Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand (2017–2023), Leader of the Labour Party (2017–2023), a List MP (2008–17) and MP for Mount Albert (2017–2023).

Parliamentary elections

2008 election

2008 general election: Waikato[1]
Notes:

Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list.
Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent.
A Green tickY or Red XN denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.

Party Candidate Votes % ±% Party votes % ±%
National Green tickY Lindsay Tisch 20,122 63.44 18,532 57.45
Labour Jacinda Ardern 7,272 22.93 7,280 22.57
Green Wendy Harper 1,484 4.68 1,271 3.94
NZ First Barbara Stewart 1,353 4.27 1,708 5.29
ACT Mark Davies 1,089 3.43 2,088 6.47
Kiwi James Ross 278 0.88 171 0.53
Democrats John Pemberton 122 0.38 40 0.12
United Future   285 0.88
Māori Party   235 0.73
Bill and Ben   195 0.60
Progressive   188 0.58
Legalise Cannabis   123 0.38
Family Party   87 0.27
Alliance   25 0.08
Libertarianz   15 0.05
Workers Party   8 0.02
Pacific   4 0.01
RAM   3 0.01
RONZ   1 0.003
Informal votes 245 107
Total valid votes 31,720 32,259
National win new seat Majority 12,850 40.51

2011 election

2011 general election: Auckland Central[2]
Notes:

Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list.
Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent.
A Green tickY or Red XN denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.

Party Candidate Votes % ±% Party votes % ±%
National Green tickY Nikki Kaye 15,038 45.39 +2.48 14,447 42.24 +2.15
Labour Jacinda Ardern 14,321 43.23 +4.69 8,590 25.11 –9.44
Green Denise Roche 2,903 8.76 –4.66 7,797 22.79 +7.33
NZ First Allen Davies 412 1.24 +1.24 1,403 4.10 +1.81
Conservative Stephen Greenfield 238 0.72 +0.72 280 0.82 +0.82
ACT David Seymour 149 0.45 –1.25 404 1.18 –2.95
Human Rights Anthony van den Heuval 68 0.21 +0.01
Māori Party   562 1.64 +0.71
Mana   237 0.69 +0.69
Democrats   202 0.59 +0.56
Legalise Cannabis   146 0.43 +0.14
United Future   75 0.22 –0.46
Libertarianz   53 0.15 +0.08
Alliance   10 0.03 –0.002
Informal votes 352 164
Total valid votes 33,129 34,206
National hold Majority 717 2.16 –2.21

2014 election

2014 general election: Auckland Central[3]
Notes:

Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list.
Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent.
A Green tickY or Red XN denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.

Party Candidate Votes % ±% Party votes % ±%
National Green tickY Nikki Kaye 12,494 45.84 +0.44 12,652 44.93 +2.70
Labour Jacinda Ardern 11,894 43.63 +0.41 6,101 21.67 –3.44
Green Denise Roche 2,080 7.63 –1.13 6,242 22.17 –0.63
Internet Miriam Pierard 270 0.99 +0.99
Conservative Regan Monahan 258 0.95 +0.23 486 1.73 +0.91
ACT Dasha Kovalenko 193 0.71 +0.26 329 1.17 –0.01
Climate Peter Whitmore 50 0.18 +0.18
Money Free Jordan Osmaston 19 0.07 +0.07
NZ First   1,459 5.18 +1.08
Internet Mana   553 1.96 +1.27[a]
Māori Party   158 0.56 –1.08
Legalise Cannabis   85 0.30 –0.12
United Future   53 0.19 –0.03
Civilian   17 0.06 +0.06
Ban 1080   10 0.04 +0.04
Independent Coalition   7 0.02 +0.02
Democrats   3 0.01 –0.58
Focus   2 0.01 +0.01
Informal votes 195 99
Total valid votes 27,453 28,256
Turnout 28,040 76.76[4] +1.47
National hold Majority 600 2.20 +0.04

2017 by-election

Main article: 2017 Mount Albert by-election

The following table shows the final results:[5]

2017 Mount Albert by-election

Notes: Blue background denotes the winner of the by-election.
Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list prior to the by-election.
Yellow background denotes the winner of the by-election, who was a list MP prior to the by-election.
A Green tickY or Red XN denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.

Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Jacinda Ardern 10,495 76.89
Green Julie Anne Genter 1,564 11.45
Opportunities Geoff Simmons 623 4.56
People's Party Vin Tomar 218 1.59
Socialist Aotearoa Joe Carolan 189 1.38
Independent Penny Bright 139 1.01
Legalise Cannabis Abe Gray 97 0.71
Independent Adam Amos 81 0.59
Independent Dale Arthur 54 0.39
Human Rights Party Anthony Van den Heuvel 34 0.24
Independent Peter Wakeman 30 0.21
Not A Party Simon Smythe 19 0.13
Communist League Patrick Brown 16 0.11
Informal votes 90 0.65
Total Valid votes 13,649 30.00
Labour hold Majority 8,931 65.43

2017 election

2017 general election: Mount Albert[6]
Notes:

Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list.
Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent.
A Green tickY or Red XN denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.

Party Candidate Votes % ±% Party votes % ±%
Labour Green tickY Jacinda Ardern 24,416 63.91 +5.74 16,742 43.19 +13.88
National Melissa Lee 9,152 23.95 −4.66 13,112 33.82 −5.56
Green Julie Anne Genter 2,438 6.38 −2.36 5,657 14.59 −7.09
Opportunities Dan Thurston 924 2.41 - 1,144 2.95 —
NZ First Andrew Littlejohn 724 1.89 — 1,329 3.42 −0.68
Conservative Jeff Johnson 117 0.30 −1.16 65 0.16 −1.79
Independent Bruce Stockman 66 0.17 —
Human Rights Party Anthony Van den Heuvel 28 0.07 −0.14
ACT   229 0.59 −0.47
Māori Party   175 0.45 −0.03
Legalise Cannabis   63 0.16 −0.09
People's Party   31 0.07 —
United Future   22 0.05 −0.10
Outdoors   17 0.04 —
Internet   12 0.04 —
Mana   8 0.02 —
Ban 1080   6 0.01 −0.02
Democrats   2 0.01 −0.01
Informal votes 334 146
Total valid votes 38,199 38,760
Turnout 38,760
Labour hold Majority 15,264 39.96 +10.40

2020 election

2020 general election: Mount Albert[7]
Notes:

Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.
Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list.
Yellow background denotes an electorate win by a list member, or other incumbent.
A Green tickY or Red XN denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.

Party Candidate Votes % ±% Party votes % ±%
Labour Green tickY Jacinda Ardern 29,238 70.72 +6.81 20,265 48.60 +5.41
National Melissa Lee 7,992 19.33 –4.62 7,769 18.63 –15.19
Green Luke Wijohn 2,299 5.56 −0.82 8,311 19.93 +5.34
Opportunities Cameron Lord 903 2.18 −0.23 1.048 2.51 –0.44
New Conservative Daniel Reurich 316 0.76 +0.46 241 0.58 +0.42
Human Rights Anthony Van den Heuvel 87 0.21 +0.14
ACT   2,485 5.96 +5.37
NZ First   760 1.82 –1.60
Māori Party   205 0.49 +0.04
Advance NZ   141 0.34 —
Legalise Cannabis   83 0.20 +0.04
TEA   41 0.10 —
ONE   34 0.08 —
Sustainable NZ   22 0.05 —
Outdoors   16 0.04 —
Vision New Zealand   11 0.02 —
Social Credit   4 0.009 –0.001
Heartland   3 0.007 –
Informal votes 507 258
Total valid votes 41,342 41,697
Labour hold Majority 21,246 51.39 +11.43

Notes

  1. ^ 2014 Internet Mana swing is relative to the votes for Mana in 2011; it shared a party list with Internet in the 2014 election.

References

  1. ^ "Official Count Results – Waikato". Wellington: New Zealand Electoral Commission. Retrieved 14 March 2012.
  2. ^ 2011 election results
  3. ^ "Official Count Results – Auckland Central". Electoral Commission. 4 October 2014. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  4. ^ "2014 General Election Voter Turnout Statistics – Auckland Central". Electoral Commission. 21 January 2016. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  5. ^ "Official Count Results – Mount Albert". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  6. ^ "Official Count Results (2017) – Mount Albert". Electoral Commission. 7 October 2017.
  7. ^ "Mt Albert - Official Result". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 11 March 2020.