Mangere

Māngere is a New Zealand Parliamentary electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. The current MP for Māngere is Su'a William Sio, elected for the Labour Party. He has held this seat since 2008. Māngere (styled as Mangere before 1997) is based around the South Auckland suburbs of Mangere, Mangere Bridge, Favona and Mangere East. It has existed as a seat since 1969; its boundaries were extended ahead of the introduction of Mixed Member Proportional voting in 1996, swallowing up a section of the former Papatoetoe seat. Māngere, and all of South Auckland forms the safest part of the Labour Party's core vote. Even during landslide elections in the National Party's favour, such as in 1975 and...