Northcote

Northcote is a New Zealand Parliamentary electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. The current MP for Northcote is Jonathan Coleman of the National Party. He has held this position since 2005. Northcote is based around the suburbs of North Shore City at the northern end of the Auckland Harbour Bridge. Besides the eponymous Northcote, there is Birkenhead, Birkdale and the southern end of Glenfield. It was created ahead of the change to Mixed Member Proportional voting in 1996 by merging the seat of Birkenhead with most of the old Glenfield electorate; its boundaries have remained largely unchanged since. Northcote continues the electoral habits of its predecessor seats; Birkenhead was a...