How they voted on the alcohol purchase age
August 30th, 2012 at 11:59 pm by David FarrarThanks again to the very efficient Table Office in the Office of the Clerk for the voting details. I’ve combined the votes into the table below.
All 121 MPs voted, which is good. The first vote was 50 for 18, 38 for 20 and 33 for split age. Of the 33 for split age, 18 then voted for 18 and 15 voted for 20 making it 68 to 53.
The four categories of votes are below:
Voted 18
| Ardern, Jacinda |
| Ardern, Shane |
| Barry, Maggie |
| Bennett, David |
| Bennett, Paula |
| Browning, Steffan |
| Carter, David |
| Chauvel, Charles |
| Clendon, David |
| Curran, Clare |
| Dean, Jacqui |
| Delahunty, Catherine |
| Dunne, Peter |
| Dyson, Ruth |
| Faafoi, Kris |
| Fenton, Darien |
| Finlayson, Christopher |
| Genter, Julie Anne |
| Hague, Kevin |
| Henare, Tau |
| Hipkins, Chris |
| Horomia, Parekura |
| Hughes, Gareth |
| Huo, Raymond |
| Hutchison, Paul |
| Jones, Shane |
| Kaye, Nikki |
| King, Colin |
| Lee, Melissa |
| Logie, Jan |
| Mackey, Moana |
| Mallard, Trevor |
| Mathers, Mojo |
| McCully, Murray |
| McKelvie, Ian |
| Norman, Russel |
| O’Connor, Simon |
| Prasad, Rajen |
| Robertson, Grant |
| Roche, Denise |
| Ross, Jami-Lee |
| Sage, Eugenie |
| Smith, Lockwood |
| Tirikatene, Rino |
| Turei, Metiria |
| Walker, Holly |
| Wilkinson, Kate |
| Williamson, Maurice |
| Woodhouse, Michael |
| Woods, Megan |
Voted Split then 18
| Banks, John |
| Brownlee, Gerry |
| Cunliffe, David |
| Dalziel, Lianne |
| English, Bill |
| Goldsmith, Paul |
| Groser, Tim |
| Guy, Nathan |
| Joyce, Steven |
| Key, John |
| Lees-Galloway, Iain |
| Parker, David |
| Shearer, David |
| Smith, Nick |
| Tisch, Lindsay |
| Turia, Tariana |
| Twyford, Phil |
| Wagner, Nicky |
Voted Split then 20
| Adams, Amy |
| Borrows, Chester |
| Clark, David |
| Coleman, Jonathan |
| Collins, Judith |
| Goff, Phil |
| Goodhew, Jo |
| Heatley, Phil |
| Little, Andrew |
| McClay, Todd |
| O’Connor, Damien |
| Sharples, Pita |
| Street, Maryan |
| Tremain, Chris |
| Young, Jonathan |
Voted 20
| Auchinvole, Chris |
| Bakshi, Kanwaljit Singh |
| Blue, Jackie |
| Bridges, Simon |
| Calder, Cam |
| Cosgrove, Clayton |
| Flavell, Te Ururoa |
| Foss, Craig |
| Graham, Kennedy |
| Harawira, Hone |
| Hayes, John |
| Horan, Brendan |
| King, Annette |
| Lotu-Iiga, Peseta Sam |
| Macindoe, Tim |
| Mahuta, Nanaia |
| Martin, Tracey |
| Mitchell, Mark |
| Moroney, Sue |
| Ngaro, Alfred |
| O’Rourke, Denis |
| Parata, Hekia |
| Peters, Winston |
| Prosser, Richard |
| Robertson, Ross |
| Roy, Eric |
| Ryall, Tony |
| Sabin, Mike |
| Shanks, Katrina |
| Simpson, Scott |
| Sio, Su’a William |
| Stewart, Barbara |
| Taylor, Asenati |
| Tolley, Anne |
| Upston, Louise |
| Wall, Louisa |
| Williams, Andrew |
| Yang, Jian |
In a separate post I’ll do an analysis of the voting by demographics.
Related posts:
- The alcohol purchase age breakdowns
- National’s new Caucus
- Who entered when?
- Which MPs can not vote for themselves?
August 31st, 2012 at 6:16 am
The Greens all towing the party line I see. No individual thought allowed in that party.
Vote:August 31st, 2012 at 7:04 am
B B
Vote:Check Graham, Kennedy he voted 20/20 last time I looked at this office it said Green Party on it.
Not that I support the Green/ Watermelon Party nor 20/20 but it is important to see some people do have their own views and they express them.
August 31st, 2012 at 7:12 am
I think you’ll find that NZ First towed the Winston line – no plea for a referendum this time though, on something that will affect a hell of a lot more people than marriage equality.
Again, parties promoting referenda (when it suits them) seem to have an interesting position on democracy in parliament with conscience votes.
Good to see that Greens have in this case allowed an alternate position.
Vote:August 31st, 2012 at 7:16 am
John Banks turning into a rea liberal!!! Good on ya bansky
Vote:August 31st, 2012 at 7:19 am
stuarts-burgers
I stand corrected.
Thanks.
Vote:August 31st, 2012 at 7:22 am
To tamati’s point yesterday on tactical voting, hindsight is a wonderful thing, but if all those who had wanted change had voted together as a bloc, the split age would have won.
Likewise, without agreement, if those who wanted 20 had ‘read the writing on the wall’ and realized that 20 would never win (given that a number of split ages votes had publicly declared they would vote for 18 as a second preference) and had therefore voted for split age as first preference, by scarificng their preferred option, then the split age would have won.
In the end, you could say that the people who preferred a change over keep it 18 didn’t vote strategically at all (the numbers show they couldn’t have voted together to keep the two change options in the ballot, but they could have compromised on the only change option that could have won and all voted on that.)
Vote:August 31st, 2012 at 8:39 am
“Again, parties promoting referenda (when it suits them) seem to have an interesting position on democracy in parliament with conscience votes.”
Can you give an example of NZF opposing a referendum?
Vote:August 31st, 2012 at 9:11 am
Chuck, I was referring to a bit of an irony in Winston wanting the people to decide when he doesn’t seem to support letting NZF MPs deciding for themselves.
But maybe that’s not surprising when you hear him dissing the ability of MPs to decide on things in parliament, I presume that dissing applies to NZF MPs too.
Vote:August 31st, 2012 at 9:16 am
Winston Peters on MPs:
Um, what do MPs think they are going to parliament as representatives of the people for?
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