East Coast Bays
Single-member general constituency for theNew ZealandHouse of Representatives
Formation	1972, 2002
Region	Auckland
Character	Suburban
Term	3 years
Member for East Coast Bays
Erica Stanford[1] since23 September 2017
Party	National
Previous MP	Murray McCully (National)
Party vote distribution

East Coast Bays is a New Zealand parliamentaryelectorate. It was first formed in 1972 and has existed apart from a break lasting two parliamentary terms. The electorate has been held byErica Stanford of theNational Party since the2017 general election.

Since the1969 election, the number of electorates in theSouth Island was fixed at 25, with continued faster population growth in theNorth Island leading to an increase in the number of general electorates. There were 84 electorates for the 1969 election,^[2] and the 1972 electoral redistribution saw three additional general seats created for the North Island, bringing the total number of electorates to 87.^[3] Together with increased urbanisation inChristchurch andNelson, the changes proved very disruptive to existing electorates.^[3] In the South Island, three electorates were abolished, and three electorates were newly created.^[4] In the North Island, five electorates were abolished, two electorates were recreated, and six electorates were newly created (including East Coast Bays).^[5]

The electorate is based around the north-eastern suburbs ofNorth Shore City in northAuckland with theOkura River making part of the northern boundary. The electorate includes the communities ofŌkura,Long Bay,Torbay,Waiake,Northcross,Browns Bay,Fairview Heights,Pinehill,Oteha,Albany,Rothesay Bay andMurrays Bay.^[6] The electorate crossesState Highway One at its southern end, which includes a section ofGlenfield. In the 2025 boundary review, the electorate lost the population centres directly north of theUpper Harbour Motorway includingSchnapper Rock,Rosedale andWindsor Park, while gaining the communities north ofLucas Creek includingLucas Heights andPāremoremo fromWhangaparāoa.^[7]

East Coast Bays was an electorate in the New Zealand Parliament between1972 and1996, before being abolished to make way for theAlbany electorate at the change toMixed Member Proportional (MMP) voting. High population growth in North Auckland lead to the electorate's western fringe being removed in 2002, and with it the eponymous suburb ofAlbany, thus recreating East Coast Bays ahead of the2002 election.

Although now a safe electorate for National, it was held for seven years bySocial Credit MPGary Knapp, from the1980 by-election when he defeated future National party leaderDon Brash. In the1981,1984 and 1987 general elections,Labour came third, with Knapp defeating Brash in 1981 andMurray McCully in 1984.

But in1987 the declining fortunes of theDemocratic Party (as Social Credit renamed itself), led to Knapp being defeated byMurray McCully, who held the electorate forNational until 2017.

In December 2016, McCully announced that he would not stand for parliament in the2017 general election,^[8] and the seat of East Coast Bays was won byErica Stanford, retaining it for the National Party.

Key

  National  Social Credit  Democrats  United Future  Green

¹ Resigned when appointedAmbassador to the United States

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

²Bradford resigned from Parliament on 30 October 2009.

2023 general election: East Coast Bays[9]
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. AY orN denotes status of anyincumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	National	YErica Stanford		27,687	71.52	+17.81	22,508	57.59	+19.40
	Labour	Naisi Chen		7,334	18.94	-11.77	5,716	14.62	-25.43
	ACT	Michael McCook		1,584	4.09	+0.42	3,774	9.65	+0.88
	NewZeal	Paul Adams		890	2.29		409	1.04	+0.94
	NZ Loyal	Bill Dyet		710	1.83		386	0.98
	Green						3,462	8.85	+2.72
	NZ First						1,532	3.92	+2.21
	Opportunities						646	1.65	+0.51
	Te Pāti Māori						137	0.35	+0.18
	Legalise Cannabis						109	0.27	+0.05
	Animal Justice						62	0.15
	New Conservative						58	0.14	-1.64
	Freedoms NZ						51	0.13
	DemocracyNZ						34	0.08
	Women's Rights						32	0.08
	New Nation						24	0.06
	Leighton Baker Party						7	0.01
Informal votes				505			136
Total valid votes				38,710			39,079
	Nationalhold		Majority	20,353	52.57	+29.57

2020 general election: East Coast Bays[10]
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. AY orN denotes status of anyincumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	National	YErica Stanford		20,466	53.71	−11.82	14,658	38.19	−24.59
	Labour	Monina Hernandez		11,702	30.71	+12.14	15,372	40.05	+16.85
	Green	Dan Jones		2,370	6.22	−0.43	2,353	6.13	+1.39
	ACT	Michael McCook		1,397	3.67	+2.55	3,365	8.77	+7.77
	New Conservative	Matthew Webster		927	2.43	—	683	1.78	+1.51
	TEA	Susanna Kruger		275	0.72	—	161	0.42	—
	Outdoors	Marius Koekemoer		172	0.45	—	32	0.08	+0.04
	NZ First						657	1.71	−3.67
	Opportunities						436	1.14	−0.78
	Advance NZ						237	0.62	—
	Legalise Cannabis						83	0.22	+0.05
	Māori Party						65	0.17	+0.01
	ONE						37	0.10	—
	Sustainable NZ						29	0.08	—
	Social Credit						13	0.03	+0.01
	Vision New Zealand						11	0.03	—
	Heartland						3	0.01	—
Informal votes				793			188
Total valid votes				38,102			38,383
Turnout				38,539[11]	79.12	+2.45
	Nationalhold		Majority	8,764	23.00	−23.96

2014 general election: East Coast Bays[13][14]
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. AY orN denotes status of anyincumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	National	YMurray McCully		19,951	61.92	-3.06	20,895	63.38	+0.52
	Conservative	Colin Craig		4,923	15.27	+10.3	2,210	6.7	+2.96
	Labour	Greg Milner-White		3,915	12.15	-7.73	4,005	12.15	-5.05
	Green	Teresa Moore		3,206	9.95	+1.23	2,712	8.23	+0.17
	Ban 1080	Tricia Cheel		229	0.71	+0.71	47	0.14	+0.14
	NZ First						1,964	5.96	+1.02
	ACT						580	1.76	+0.18
	Internet Mana						222	0.67	+0.67
	Māori Party						125	0.38	-0.01
	Legalise Cannabis						95	0.29	-0.18
	United Future						69	0.21	-0.22
	Civilian						64	0.06	+0.06
	Democrats						17	0.05	+0.02
	Independent Coalition						4	0.01	+0.01
	Focus						3	0.01	+0.01
Informal votes				327			73
Total valid votes				32,557			33,041
	Nationalhold		Majority	15,034	46.65	+1.55

2011 general election: East Coast Bays[15]
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. AY orN denotes status of anyincumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	National	YMurray McCully		21,094	64.98	+6.90	21,079	62.86	+1.45
	Labour	Viv Goldsmith		6,453	19.88	+2.07	5,769	17.20	-4.44
	Green	Brett Stansfield		2,832	8.72	+2.20	2,704	8.72	+2.20
	Conservative	Simonne Dyer		1,614	4.97	+4.97	1,254	3.74	+3.74
	ACT	Toby Hutton		467	1.44	-2.15	530	1.58	-4.08
	NZ First						1,657	4.94	+2.11
	Legalise Cannabis						156	0.47	+0.19
	United Future						145	0.43	-0.31
	Māori Party						130	0.39	-0.01
	Mana						64	0.19	+0.19
	Libertarianz						24	0.07	+0.001
	Alliance						14	0.04	+0.002
	Democrats						9	0.03	-0.01
Informal votes				902			160
Total valid votes				32,460			33,535
	Nationalhold		Majority	14,641	45.10	+4.82

Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 47,305^[16]

2008 general election: East Coast Bays[17]
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. AY orN denotes status of anyincumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	National	YMurray McCully		20,151	58.09	+11.06	21,681	61.40	+9.13
	Labour	Viv Goldsmith		6,177	17.81	-9.31	7,642	21.64	-10.13
	Family Party	Paul Adams[note 1]		3,570	10.29	-5.58	505	1.43
	Green	Sue Bradford		2,263	6.52	+3.01	1,439	4.08	+0.59
	ACT	Tim Kronfeld		1,246	3.59	+2.12	2,000	5.66	+3.09
	NZ First	Dail Jones		730	2.10	-0.47	1,001	2.83	-1.94
	No Commercial Airport at Whenuapai	Toby Hutton		283	0.82
	United Future	Ian McInnes		215	0.62	-0.49	263	0.74	-1.65
	Libertarianz	Elah Zamora		56	0.16		25	0.07	+0.03
	Progressive						214	0.61	-0.30
	Bill and Ben						149	0.42
	Māori Party						141	0.40	+0.14
	Legalise Cannabis						98	0.28	+0.08
	Kiwi						90	0.25
	Alliance						14	0.04	-0.00
	Pacific						14	0.04
	Democrats						13	0.04	-0.00
	Workers Party						8	0.02
	RONZ						7	0.02	+0.00
	RAM						5	0.01
Informal votes				281			91
Total valid votes				34,691			35,309
	Nationalhold		Majority	13,974	40.28	+20.38

2005 general election: East Coast Bays[18]
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. AY orN denotes status of anyincumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	National	YMurray McCully		17,213	47.02	+7.93	19,437	52.27	+27.44
	Labour	Hamish McCracken		9,927	27.12	-7.03	11,813	31.77	-2.04
	Independent	Paul Adams		5,809	15.87
	Green	Jeanette Elley		1,287	3.52	-1.92	1,297	3.49	-8.48
	NZ First	Anne Martin		942	2.57		1,775	4.77	-5.20
	ACT	Andrew Stone		537	1.47	-4.95	956	2.39	-2.80
	United Future	Steven Dromgool		405	1.11	-8.14	890	2.39	-7.23
	Progressive	Fiona Beazley		253	0.69	-0.95	338	0.91	-0.36
	Māori Party	Rahuia Kapa		119	0.33		95	0.26
	Democrats	Patrick Fahey		73	0.20		14	0.04
	Destiny	John Steemson		39	0.11		370	1.00
	Legalise Cannabis						74	0.20	-0.19
	Christian Heritage						44	0.12	-0.93
	Direct Democracy						28	0.08
	Alliance						15	0.04	-0.86
	Libertarianz						14	0.04
	RONZ						7	0.02
	99 MP						6	0.02
	Family Rights						6	0.02
	One NZ						5	0.01	-0.23
Informal votes				324			100
Total valid votes				36,604			37,184
	Nationalhold		Majority	7,286	19.90	+14.96

2002 general election: East Coast Bays[19]
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. AY orN denotes status of anyincumbent, win or lose respectively.
Party		Candidate		Votes	%	±%	Party votes	%	±%
	National	YMurray McCully		12,134	39.09		7,876	24.83
	Labour	Hamish McCracken		10,600	34.15		10,722	33.81
	United Future	Paul Adams		2,872	9.25		3,052	9.62
	ACT	Julie Pepper		1,993	6.42		1,646	5.19
	Green	Jeanette Elley		1,688	5.44		3,796	11.97
	One NZ	Alan McCulloch		528	1.70		75	0.24
	Progressive	Jill Henry		508	1.64		403	1.27
	Christian Heritage	Ian Cummings		399	1.29		334	1.05
	Alliance	Fiona McLaren		316	1.02		287	0.90
	NZ First						3,163	9.97
	ORNZ						227	0.72
	Legalise Cannabis						123	0.39
	NMP						6	0.02
	Mana Māori						4	0.01
Informal votes				392			75
Total valid votes				31,038			31,714
	Nationalwin new seat		Majority	1,534	4.94

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