Electoral history of Grant Robertson

This is a summary of the electoral history of Grant Robertson, Deputy Leader of the New Zealand Labour Party (2011–13), Minister of Finance (since 2017) and Member of Parliament for Wellington Central (2008–2023).

Parliamentary elections

2008 election

General election 2008: Wellington Central^[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 Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	Labour	Grant Robertson		17,046	42.18		14,244	34.57
	National	Stephen Franks		15,142	37.47		14,589	35.41
	Green	Sue Kedgley		5,971	14.78		8,494	20.62
	ACT	Heather Roy		922	2.28		1,628	3.95
	Legalise Cannabis	Michael Appleby		407	1.01		108	0.26
	United Future New Zealand	Vaughan Smith		226	0.56		412	1.00
	Workers Party	Don Franks		171	0.42		38	0.09
	Progressive	David Somerset		141	0.35		272	0.66
	Kiwi	Rebekah Clement		106	0.26		84	0.20
	Libertarianz	Bernard Darnton		75	0.19		48	0.12
	RAM	Grant Brookes		61	0.15		13	0.03
	Independent	Al Mansell		58	0.14	-
	RONZ	Justin Harnish		46	0.11		5	0.01
	Alliance	Richard Wallis		39	0.10		20	0.05
	NZ First						629	1.53
	Te Pāti Māori						351	0.85
	Bill and Ben						215	0.52
	Family Party						38	0.09
	Pacific						8	0.02
	Democrats						4	0.01
Informal votes				229			86
Total valid votes				40,411			41,200
	Labour hold		Majority	1,904

2011 election

General election 2011: Wellington 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 Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	Labour	Y Grant Robertson		18,836	49.15	+6.97	10,459	26.56	-8.01
	National	Paul Foster-Bell		12,460	32.51	-4.96	15,128	38.42	+3.01
	Green	James Shaw		5,225	13.63	-1.14	10,903	27.69	+7.08
	ACT	Stephen Whittington		412	1.07	-1.21	462	1.17	-2.78
	Legalise Cannabis	Michael Appleby		404	1.05	+0.05	161	0.41	+0.15
	NZ First	Ben Craven		279	0.73	+0.73	1,132	2.88	+1.35
	Pirate	Gynn Rickerby		277	0.72	+0.72
	Conservative Party of New Zealand	Paul Stipkovits		236	0.62	+0.62	270	0.69	+0.69
	Libertarianz	Reagan Cutting		69	0.18	-0.01	40	0.10	-0.01
	Alliance	Kelly Buchanan		52	0.14	+0.14	18	0.05	-0.003
	New Economics	Laurence Boomert		44	0.11	+0.11
	Independent	Puhi Karena		32	0.08	+0.08
	Te Pāti Māori						278	0.71	-0.15
	United Future New Zealand						256	0.65	-0.35
	Mana						250	0.63	+0.63
	Democrats						15	0.04	+0.03
Informal votes				411			153
Total valid votes				38,326			39,372
	Labour hold		Majority	6,376	16.64	+11.92

Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 48,316^[3]

2014 election

General election 2014: Wellington Central^[4]
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 Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	Labour	Y Grant Robertson		19,807	51.64	+2.49	9,306	23.78	−2.78
	National	Paul Foster-Bell		11,540	30.09	−2.42	14,689	37.54	−0.88
	Green	James Shaw		5,077	13.24	−0.39	11,545	29.50	+1.81
	NZ First	Hugh Barr		580	1.51	+0.78	1,399	3.58	+0.70
	Legalise Cannabis	Alistair Gregory		353	0.92	−0.13	127	0.32	−0.09
	Conservative Party of New Zealand	Brian Hooper		307	0.80	+0.18	590	1.51	+0.82
	Internet	Callum Valentine		217	0.57	+0.57
	Independent	Peter Robinson		90	0.23	+0.23
	Democrats	James Knuckey		57	0.15	+0.15	26	0.07	+0.03
	Independent	Puhi Karena		52	0.14	+0.06
	Internet Mana						578	1.48	+0.85^[a]
	Te Pāti Māori						300	0.77	+0.06
	ACT						274	0.70	−0.47
	United Future New Zealand						117	0.30	−0.35
	Civilian						49	0.13	+0.13
	Ban 1080						20	0.05	+0.05
	Focus						5	0.01	+0.01
	Independent Coalition						5	0.01	+0.01
Informal votes				273			101
Total valid votes				38,353			39,131
Turnout				39,232	84.14	+2.33
	Labour hold		Majority	8,267	21.56	+4.92

2017 election

2017 general election: Wellington Central^[5]
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 Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	Labour	Y Grant Robertson		20,873	49.26	−2.38	16,500	38.29	+14.51
	National	Nicola Willis		10,910	25.75	−4.34	13,156	30.53	−7.01
	Green	James Shaw		6,520	15.39	+2.15	9,198	21.34	−8.16
	Opportunities	Geoff Simmons		2,892	6.82	—	2,538	5.89	—
	NZ First	Andy Foster		797	1.88	+0.37	972	2.26	−1.32
	Independent	Gayaal Iddamalgoda		161	0.38	—
	ACT	Michael Warren		131	0.31	—	330	0.77	+0.07
	Independent	Peter Robinson		71	0.17	−0.11
	Independent	Bob Wessex		19	0.04	—
	Te Pāti Māori						225	0.52	−0.25
	Legalise Cannabis						55	0.13	−0.19
	Conservative Party of New Zealand						29	0.07	−1.44
	United Future New Zealand						28	0.06	−0.24
	Mana						14	0.03	−1.45^[b]
	Ban 1080						13	0.03	−0.02
	Outdoors						11	0.03	—
	People's Party						10	0.03	—
	Internet						9	0.02	−1.46^[c]
	Democrats						6	0.01	−0.06
Informal votes				194			72
Total valid votes				42,374			43,094
Turnout				43,166	86.56^[6]	+2.42
	Labour hold		Majority	9,963	23.51	+1.95

2020 election

2020 general election: Wellington Central^[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 Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	Labour	Y Grant Robertson		27,366	57.26	+8	20,876	43.4	+5.11
	National	Nicola Willis		8,488	17.76	−7.99	6,937	14.43	−16.1
	Green	James Shaw		8,381	17.54	+2.15	14,587	30.33	+8.99
	Opportunities	Abe Gray		1,031	2.16	−4.66	1,790	3.72	−2.17
	ACT	Brooke van Velden		865	1.81	+1.5	2,339	4.86	+4.09
	Legalise Cannabis	Michael George Appleby		401	0.84	—	132	0.27	+0.7
	Independent	Jesse Richardson		385	0.81
	New Conservative	Liam Richfield		401	0.45		204	0.42	+0.35
	Advance NZ	Rose Greally		108	0.23		103	0.21
	ONE	Gina Sunderland		84	0.18		56	0.12
	Outdoors	Bruce Robert		76	0.16		27	0.06	+0.03
	NZ First						537	1.11	-1.15
	Te Pāti Māori						255	0.53	-0.01
	Sustainable NZ						32	0.07
	Social Credit						18	0.04
	TEA						12	0.02
	Vision NZ						8	0.01
	Heartland						1	0.00
Informal votes				47,401			47,914
Total valid votes				47,787			48,090
Turnout				48,090	88.97^[8]	+2.41
	Labour hold		Majority	18,878	39.5	+15.99

Labour party leadership elections

2013 leadership election

Candidate	Caucus (40%)		Members (40%)		Unions (20%)	Total (%)
Candidate	Votes	%	Votes	%	Unions (20%)	Total (%)
David Cunliffe	11	32.35	3,243	60.14	70.77	51.15
Grant Robertson	16	47.06	1,440	26.71	17.30	32.97
Shane Jones	7	20.59	709	13.15	11.92	15.88
Total	34	100	5,392	100	100	100

Source:^[9]^[10]

2014 leadership election

Labour leadership election results^[11]
Section (% weighting)	Candidate	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3
Caucus (40%)	Little	15.63%	34.38%	43.75%
	Robertson	43.75%	43.75%	56.25%
	Parker	21.88%	21.88%	–
	Mahuta	18.75%	–	–
Party (40%)	Little	25.71%	34.11%	44.77%
	Robertson	38.25%	40.92%	55.23%
	Parker	22.41%	24.97%	–
	Mahuta	13.62%	–	–
Union affiliates (20%)	Little	64.12%	70.62%	75.66%
	Robertson	18.91%	20.20%	24.44%
	Parker	7.28%	9.18%	–
	Mahuta	9.70%	–	–
Final result	Little	29.36%	42.52%	50.52%
	Robertson	36.58%	37.91%	49.48%
	Parker	19.17%	20.58%	–
	Mahuta	14.89%	–	–

Notes

^ 2014 Internet Mana swing is relative to the votes for Mana in 2011; it shared a party list with Internet in the 2014 election.
^ 2017 Mana Party swing is relative to the votes for Internet-Mana in 2014; it shared a party list with the Internet Party in the 2014 election
^ 2017 Internet Party swing is relative to the votes for Internet-Mana in 2014; it shared a party list with Mana Party in the 2014 election

References

^ 2008 election results Archived 11 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Official Count Results -- Wellington Central". Electoral Commission. 10 December 2011. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
^ "Enrolment statistics". Electoral Commission. 26 November 2011. Archived from the original on 10 November 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2011.
^ "Official Count Results (2014) -- Wellington Central". Electoral Commission. 10 October 2014. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
^ "Official Count Results (2017) – Wellington Central". Electoral Commission. 7 October 2017.
^ "Party Votes and Turnout by Electorate". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
^ "Official Count Results (2020) – Wellington Central". Electoral Commission. 17 October 2020.
^ "Voter turnout statistics for the 2020 General Election | Elections".
^ "New Labour leader is David Cunliffe" (Press release). New Zealand Labour Party. Scoop. 15 September 2013. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
^ Rutherford, Hamish (26 September 2014). "Does Grant Robertson have the numbers?". Stuff.co.nz. Archived from the original on 5 December 2014. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
^ Trevett, Claire (18 November 2014). "'He has the vision to win the trust of New Zealanders' – Andrew Little elected Labour leader". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 20 November 2014.

[Internet_Mana-5] 2014 Internet Mana swing is relative to the votes for Mana in 2011; it shared a party list with Internet in the 2014 election.

[Mana_Party-7] 2017 Mana Party swing is relative to the votes for Internet-Mana in 2014; it shared a party list with the Internet Party in the 2014 election

[Internet_Party-8] 2017 Internet Party swing is relative to the votes for Internet-Mana in 2014; it shared a party list with Mana Party in the 2014 election

[1] 2008 election results Archived 11 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine

[Wellington_Central_2011_election_results-2] "Official Count Results -- Wellington Central". Electoral Commission. 10 December 2011. Retrieved 13 January 2017.

[enrolment-3] "Enrolment statistics". Electoral Commission. 26 November 2011. Archived from the original on 10 November 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2011.

[election2014-4] "Official Count Results (2014) -- Wellington Central". Electoral Commission. 10 October 2014. Retrieved 13 January 2017.

[election2017-6] "Official Count Results (2017) – Wellington Central". Electoral Commission. 7 October 2017.

[9] "Party Votes and Turnout by Electorate". Electoral Commission. Retrieved 14 June 2018.

[election2020-10] "Official Count Results (2020) – Wellington Central". Electoral Commission. 17 October 2020.

[11] "Voter turnout statistics for the 2020 General Election | Elections".

[12] "New Labour leader is David Cunliffe" (Press release). New Zealand Labour Party. Scoop. 15 September 2013. Retrieved 13 January 2017.

[rawnumbers-13] Rutherford, Hamish (26 September 2014). "Does Grant Robertson have the numbers?". Stuff.co.nz. Archived from the original on 5 December 2014. Retrieved 13 January 2017.

[14] Trevett, Claire (18 November 2014). "'He has the vision to win the trust of New Zealanders' – Andrew Little elected Labour leader". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 20 November 2014.

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