Roskill (New Zealand electorate)

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.^[1]

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.^[2] In the 1928 election, Potter stood in the Eden electorate as an independent but was beaten by Arthur Stallworthy.^[3]

In the Roskill electorate, George Munns of the United Party won the 1928 election.^[4] He was defeated in 1931 by Arthur Shapton Richards.^[5] 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.^[6] In the 1946 election, Richards successfully transferred to the Mount Albert electorate.^[7]

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:^[8]

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 (1992) Alliance NZ First

Election results

1931 election

General election, 1931: Roskill^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Arthur Shapton Richards	4,885	38.81
	Reform	William John Holdsworth^[10]	4,714	37.45
	United	George Munns	2,988	23.74
Majority			171	1.36
Informal votes			14	0.11
Turnout			12,601	81.83
Registered electors			15,399

1919 election

General election, 1919: Roskill^[11]
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	F W 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. CXX (136). 5 December 1935. p. 5. Retrieved 29 December 2013.
↑ Wilson 1985, p. 230.
↑ Wilson 1985, p. 271.
↑ The General Election, 1931. Government Printer. 1932. p. 4. Retrieved 2 November 2014.
↑ "Electoral". The New Zealand Herald. LXVIII (21051). 9 December 1931. p. 18. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
↑ 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) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.

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