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Rodney is a New Zealand Parliamentary electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. The current MP for Rodney is Dr Lockwood Smith of the National Party.1 He has held this position since 1996.
Rodney covers an area of the northern Auckland region from Warkworth in the north, south through the Hibiscus Coast to Auckland's northern urban fringe. High population growth in north and west Auckland has lead to Rodney shrinking - Helensville and Kumeu were taken out in 1999, the next major town to be removed was Wellsford after the 2006 census.
Rodney was created ahead of the change to Mixed Member Proportional voting in 1996. Its original incarnation was coterminous with the district for which it is named - most of the old Albany seat minus its eponymous town, with a large section of Kaipara tacked onto the northern fringe. Both of these seats were held by National MPs - Lockwood Smith in Kaipara and then Deputy Prime Minister Don McKinnon in Albany. Smith won his party's nomination for what is a safe National seat and has not been seriously troubled for re-election since.
In an historical sense, the name can refer to a seat that covered a similar area and was first contested at the 1969 election, and last contested in 1978.
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Members of Parliament for Rodney
| Name | Party | Elected | Left Office | Reason |
| Peter Wilkinson | National | 1969, 1972, 1975 | 1978 | electorate abolished; contested Kaipara instead |
| Lockwood Smith | National | 1996, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2008 | incumbent | |
List MPs from Rodney
Members of Parliament elected from party lists in elections where that person also unsuccessfully contested the Rodney electorate. Unless otherwise stated, all MPs terms began and ended at general elections.
| Name | Party | First Elected | Left Office | Contested Rodney |
| Sue Bradford | Green | 1999 | Current MP | 1999, 2002 |
| Craig McNair | New Zealand First | 2002 | 2005 | 2002, 2005 |
Election results
2008 election
| General Election 2008: Rodney2 | |||||||||
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Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. |
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party Votes | % | ±% | ||
| National |  Lockwood Smith |
22,698 | 60.41 | - | 22,441 | 58.99 | |||
| Labour | Conor Roberts | 7,063 | 18.80 | - | 7,842 | 20.61 | |||
| Green | David Hay | 2,890 | 7.69 | - | 1,969 | 5.18 | |||
| ACT | Beryl Good | 1,760 | 4.68 | - | 2,496 | 6.56 | |||
| NZ First | Tracey Martin | 1,599 | 4.26 | - | 1,722 | 4.53 | |||
| Family Party | Karl Adams | 735 | 1.96 | - | 226 | 0.59 | |||
| Kiwi Party | Simonne Dyer | 581 | 1.55 | - | 327 | 0.86 | |||
| United Future | Kathleen Deal | 245 | 0.65 | - | 288 | 0.76 | |||
| Progressive | - | 197 | 0.52 | - | |||||
| Māori | - | 182 | 0.48 | - | |||||
| Bill and Ben | - | 150 | 0.39 | - | |||||
| ALCP | - | 136 | 0.36 | - | |||||
| Alliance | - | 24 | 0.06 | - | |||||
| Libertarianz | - | 11 | 0.03 | - | |||||
| NZ Democrats | - | 9 | 0.02 | - | |||||
| Workers Party | - | 8 | 0.02 | - | |||||
| Pacific | - | 5 | 0.01 | - | |||||
| RAM | - | 5 | 0.01 | - | |||||
| RONZ | - | 4 | 0.01 | - | |||||
| Informal votes | 226 | 107 | |||||||
| Total Valid votes | 37,571 | 38,042 | |||||||
| National hold | Majority | 15,635 | |||||||
2005 election
| General Election 2005: Rodney3 | |||||||||
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Notes: Green background denotes the winner of the electorate vote. Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list. |
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Party Votes | % | ±% | ||
| National | Lockwood Smith |
20,651 | 55.57 | +16.99 | 19,799 | 52.65 | |||
| Labour | Tony Dunlop | 9115 | 24.53 | -0.85 | 10,462 | 27.82 | |||
| NZ First | Craig McNair | 3496 | 9.41 | 3089 | 8.08 | ||||
| Green | Graham Evans | 1918 | 5.16 | 1631 | 4.34 | ||||
| United Future | Peter Mountan | 997 | 2.68 | 1162 | 3.09 | ||||
| ACT | Christopher Brown | 450 | 1.21 | 678 | 1.80 | ||||
| Progressive | Tony Sharrock | 332 | 0.89 | 319 | 0.85 | ||||
| Māori | Adell Dick | 166 | 0.45 | 107 | 0.28 | - | |||
| Direct Democracy | Colin Punter | 36 | 0.10 | 2 | 0.01 | ||||
| Destiny | - | 238 | 0.63 | ||||||
| ALCP | - | 58 | 0.15 | ||||||
| Christian Heritage | - | 36 | 0.10 | ||||||
| Alliance | - | 18 | 0.05 | ||||||
| NZ Democrats | - | 15 | 0.04 | ||||||
| Family Rights | - | 8 | 0.02 | ||||||
| Libertarianz | - | 7 | 0.02 | ||||||
| 99 MP | - | 6 | 0.02 | ||||||
| RONZ | - | 6 | 0.02 | ||||||
| One NZ | - | 3 | 0.01 | ||||||
| Informal votes | 353 | 145 | |||||||
| Total Valid votes | 37,161 | 37,605 | |||||||
| National hold | Majority | 11,536 | 31.04 | +16.84 | |||||
References
External links
- Electorate Profile Parliamentary Library
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