East Coast Bays
General electorate · Auckland · 2026 election, preliminary results
Erica Stanford (National) won East Coast Bays with 19,993 votes (65.0%), a majority of 13,819 over Brendan McEnroe (Labour). National won the party vote with 44.5%. Turnout was 59.6%.
Electorate vote
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | Vs party vote |
|---|
| Erica Stanford | National | 19,993 | 65.0% | +20.5 pts |
| Brendan McEnroe | Labour | 6,174 | 20.1% | +1.5 pts |
| Abe McKee | Green | 2,224 | 7.2% | −0.9 pts |
| Vaughan Taylor | NZ First | 1,117 | 3.6% | −4.6 pts |
| Samuel Mills | ACT | 1,086 | 3.5% | −10.5 pts |
| Allan Lind | NZ Loyal | 157 | 0.5% | +0.2 pts |
Party vote
| Party | Votes | Share | Nationally |
|---|
| National | 13,726 | 44.5% | 29.2% |
| Labour | 5,744 | 18.6% | 29.4% |
| ACT | 4,327 | 14.0% | 10.9% |
| NZ First | 2,547 | 8.3% | 9.8% |
| Green | 2,510 | 8.1% | 13.3% |
| Opportunity | 1,745 | 5.7% | 6.0% |
| NZ Loyal | 92 | 0.3% | 0.1% |
| Te Pāti Māori | 33 | 0.1% | 0.6% |
| Legalise Cannabis | 28 | 0.1% | 0.2% |
| Animal Justice | 26 | 0.1% | 0.1% |
Did you know?
- At the polling places inside today's boundaries, National's party vote fell 12.2 points since 2023 (8.9 points nationally). Opportunity's rose 4.0 points.
- Erica Stanford won 65.0% of the electorate vote, while National won 44.5% of the party vote here: a gap of 20.5 points, so many voters backed the candidate but gave their party vote elsewhere.
- National held on, but its candidate's lead at the same polling places shrank from 54.1 points in 2023 to 45.2 points.
- The biggest change at a single polling place: at Albany Community Hub, National's party vote fell 16.8 points since 2023.
- National's 3rd-highest party vote in the country: 44.5%.
- National topped the party vote at every one of the 22 polling places here.
31,004 votes cast from an estimated 52,020 enrolled. Preliminary election-night count; special votes are added in the official count. Source: Electoral Commission.
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