Electoral history of James Shaw

This is a summary of the electoral history of James Shaw

James Shaw

Parliamentary elections

2011 election
General election, 2011: 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 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
New Conservative 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
Māori   278 0.71 -0.15
United Future   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[2]

2014 election
General election, 2014: Wellington Central[3]
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
New Conservative 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[lower-alpha 1]
Māori   300 0.77 +0.06
ACT   274 0.70 −0.47
United Future   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
General election, 2017: 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 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 —
Māori   225 0.52 -0.25
Legalise Cannabis   55 0.13 -0.19
New Conservative   29 0.07 -1.44
United Future   28 0.06 -0.24
Mana   14 0.03 -1.45[lower-alpha 2]
Ban 1080   13 0.03 -0.02
Outdoors   11 0.03 —
People's Party   10 0.03 —
Internet   9 0.02[lower-alpha 3] -1.46
Democrats   6 0.01 -0.06
Informal votes 194 72
Total Valid votes 42,374 43,094
Turnout 43,166
Labour hold Majority 9,963 23.51 +1.95

Local elections

1992 Wellington local elections
Western Ward[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Val Bedingfield 5,008 61.50 -5.81
Citizens' Bryan Weyburne 3,343 41.05
Citizens' Andy Foster 2,910 35.74
Green Sheila Ahern 2,637 32.38
Citizens' Alfie Des Tombe 2,320 28.49
Capital Action Colin Robertson 1,997 24.52
Green James Shaw 1,820 22.35
Labour Frank Mackinnon 1,788 21.96
Green Alexander Ewing 1,553 19.07
Capital Action Ashley Lewis 1,050 12.89
Informal votes 380 4.66 +2.78
Registered electors 16,103

Leadership elections

2015 leadership election
NameVotes[6]Percentage
James Shaw6954.33
Kevin Hague5644.09
Gareth Hughes10.78
Vernon Tava10.78

Notes
  1. 2014 Internet Mana swing is relative to the votes for Mana in 2011; it shared a party list with Internet in the 2014 election.
  2. 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
  3. 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
  1. "Official Count Results – Wellington Central". Electoral Commission. 10 December 2011.
  2. "Enrolment statistics". Electoral Commission. 26 November 2011. Archived from the original on 10 November 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2011.
  3. "Official Count Results (2014) – Wellington Central". Electoral Commission. 10 October 2014.
  4. "Official Count Results (2017) – Wellington Central". Electoral Commission. 7 October 2017.
  5. Bly, Ross (1992). City of Wellington: Local Body Elections, 1992 (Report). Wellington City Council.
  6. "James Shaw elected new Green Party male Co-leader | Scoop News".
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