Mount Roskill (electorate)
Mount Roskill is a parliamentary electorate in Auckland, New Zealand, returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. Phil Goff of the Labour Party held the seat from the until he resigned from Parliament on 12 October 2016 after contesting and being elected Mayor of Auckland on 8 October 2016 in the 2016 mayoral election. His resignation necessitated a byelection in this electorate which was won by Michael Wood.
Carlos Cheung of the New Zealand National Party currently holds the seat after defeating Wood in the 2023 New Zealand general election.
Population centres
Mount Roskill is located on the western side of the Auckland isthmus, bordering the Manukau Harbour. It is anchored around the suburbs of Mount Roskill, Three Kings, Hillsborough, Waikōwhai, and a large section of Balmoral. The boundaries added in Lynfield and New Windsor at the expense of Onehunga, which returned to the electorate after being cut out in 1999. At the 2020 redistribution it gained New Windsor from at the expense of Royal Oak, which moved to. In the 2025 boundary review, the electorate would gain the suburb of Blockhouse Bay from while transferring Balmoral, Sandringham and Wesley to.The Mount Roskill electorate is working class and multi-ethnic, with a high Pacific Island and Asian population compared to the national average. 52.8% of the population were born overseas - fourth highest percentage in the country, and 48.6% are of Asian ethnicity - the highest percentage in the country. The electorate also contains the highest proportion of New Zealanders that are practitioners of Hinduism and Islam, as of 2021.
History
The 1996 New Zealand census showed population growth in the north and west of Auckland, necessitating the redistribution of electorates for the. The existing seat was renamed, with its boundaries shifted to fall in between Auckland and Waitakere cities. The eastern side of the New Lynn residential area was amalgamated with the population excess of, the southern half of seat and the western end of to form a new seat. Named Mount Roskill, it was the first new seat drawn since the introduction of Mixed Member Proportional voting three years previous.So far there have been three MPs for Mount Roskill, two from the Labour Party, and one from the National Party. Labour's Phil Goff was the first representative, having previously held New Lynn, another electorate in Auckland, and, an electorate covering much of the same area as Mount Roskill.
After Goff was elected Mayor of Auckland in October 2016, a by-election date was set for 3 December 2016. Labour candidate Michael Wood won the by-election with more than half the votes.
Carlos Cheung won the seat for the first time for the National Party in the 2023 New Zealand general election, defeating former Minister and incumbent MP Michael Wood with a 22-point swing.
Members of Parliament
'''Key'''List MPs
Members of Parliament elected from party lists in elections where that person also unsuccessfully contested the Mount Roskill electorate. Unless otherwise stated, all MPs terms began and ended at general elections.Key
1Wang was elected from the party list in November 2004 following the expulsion of Donna Awatere Huata.
2Blue resigned from Parliament on 20 May 2013.
3Coates was elected from the party list in October 2016 following the resignation of Kevin Hague.