Panmure-Ōtāhuhu

Panmure-Ōtāhuhu is an electorate to the New Zealand House of Representatives in south-central Auckland. It was first contested at the 2020 election, and has been held by Jenny Salesa of the Labour Party since its inception.

It is located in south-central Auckland, along the thinnest section of the Auckland isthmus.^[1] The electorate consists of the mid-eastern part of the Manukau ward, and a long strip of suburbs along the west bank of the Tāmaki River.

Panmure-Ōtāhuhu was created in the 2019/20 redistribution, mostly from the former Manukau East, but now including a large portion of the eastern part of the Maungakiekie electorate.^[2]

Rapid population growth north of Auckland resulted in a domino effect through Auckland, and in becoming Panmure-Ōtāhuhu, Manukau East was moved northward, losing a triangular area around Puhinui to Manurewa and being extended north to Point England.^[3] Initially it was proposed to keep the name of Manukau East, but the name of Panmure-Ōtāhuhu was adopted after a public consultation period.^[4]

Manukau East was, since its creation in 1996, a safe Labour seat, held since 2014 by Jenny Salesa. When Salesa contested the new electorate in the 2020 election she won again, holding the seat for Labour.^[5]

Key   Labour

Members of Parliament elected from party lists in elections where that person also unsuccessfully contested the Panmure-Ōtāhuhu electorate. Unless otherwise stated, all MPs' terms began and ended at general elections.

Key   Green

2023 general election: Panmure-Ōtāhuhu[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 Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	Labour	Y Jenny Salesa		15,358	51.56	–21.94	16,024	52.15	–20.37
	National	Navtej Randhawa		7,388	24.80	+11.30	8,074	26.27	+13.72
	Green	Efeso Collins		4,312	14.47	+10.07	2,601	8.46	+4.40
	ACT	Antonia Modkova		1,238	4.15	–	1,100	3.58	+1.23
	Independent	Karl Mokaraka		387	1.29	–
	Independent	James Robb		235	0.78	–
	NZ First						1,001	3.26	+0.82
	Te Pāti Māori						410	1.33	+0.70
	Opportunities						369	1.20	+0.46
	Freedoms NZ						222	0.72	–
	NewZeal						187	0.60	+0.46
	Legalise Cannabis						133	0.43	0.00
	NZ Loyal						124	0.40	–
	Animal Justice						50	0.16	–
	New Conservatives						37	0.12	–1.09
	Women's Rights						33	0.10	–
	DemocracyNZ						20	0.06	–
	New Nation						13	0.04	–
	Leighton Baker Party						7	0.02	–
Informal votes				863			318
Total valid votes				29,781			30,723
	Labour hold		Majority	7,970	26.76	–33.24

2020 general election: Panmure-Ōtāhuhu[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 Jenny Salesa		22,818	73.50	—	22,929	72.52	—
	National	Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi		4,192	13.50	—	3,970	12.55	—
	Green	Mark Simiona		1,366	4.40	—	1,284	4.06	—
	New Conservative	Ted Johnston		648	2.08	—	383	1.21	—
	Advance NZ	Bryn Jones		324	1.04	—	259	0.81	—
	Outdoors	Phillip Bridge		210	0.67	—	33	0.10	—
	Communist League	Patrick Brown		81	0.26	—
	NZ First						772	2.44	—
	ACT						744	2.35	—
	Opportunities						234	0.74	—
	Māori Party						202	0.63	—
	Legalise Cannabis						136	0.43	—
	Vision NZ						87	0.27	—
	ONE						45	0.14	—
	TEA						37	0.11	—
	Sustainable NZ						9	0.02	—
	Heartland						4	0.01	—
	Social Credit						2	0.01	—
Informal votes				1,403			485
Total valid votes				31,042			31,615
	Labour win new seat		Majority	18,626	60.00