Election Bench

New Zealand votes on Saturday 7 November.

Electorates

Mt Roskill

Uncertain

In our runs, ordinary polling error often hands this seat to another party.

2023 winner
National
2023 runner-up
Labour
2023 margin
5.3% of the top two candidates’ votes (1,564 votes)
Voters who’d need to switch to change the 2023 result
More than 2.6% (at least 783 voters)
2023 boundaries
Old
Assumed for 2026
LabourAssumed: changes hands
Assumed winner’s share of runs
65%
Roll
General

Poll sampling error plus a typical election-day polling miss: this share of runs is not a forecast of the election.

Winning majority by election

9,707199913,71520029,89520056,41820087,27120118,09120146,898201713,85320201,5642023LabourNational9.7k’9914k’029.9k’056.4k’087.3k’118.1k’146.9k’1714k’201.6k’23LabourNational

Candidates

CandidateParty
Yang QuACT
Priyanka DeoAnimal Justice Party Aotearoa New Zealand
Anjana IyerGreen
Michael Philip Woodwon here 2017, 2020 · runner-up here 2023Labour
Carlos CheungMP for Mt Roskill · won here 2023National
Jamie AttenboroughOpportunity

Seat record

Held since
National since 2023
Matched the country’s top party vote
3 of 3 elections, 2017–2023
Party vote vs the country
1.9 points per party on average, 2017–2023
Winning party: candidate vs party vote
National 6.5 points lower (2023, vs Labour)

By-elections before December 2022 are not shown.

Seat history
YearWon byMajorityParty vote
2023National1,564National
2020Labour13,853Labour
2017Labour6,898National
2014Labour8,091National
2011Labour7,271Labour
2008Labour6,418Labour
2005Labour9,895Labour
2002Labour13,715Labour
1999Labour9,707Labour