Maungakiekie has existed in various forms since its creation ahead of the introduction of Mixed Member Proportional voting in the 1996 election.

It was created from merging most of Onehunga with a large section of Panmure, both of them reasonably safe Labour seats.

In 2020, the seat lost Panmure to Panmure-Ōtāhuhu and gained Royal Oak from Mount Roskill.

However, Labour suffered its worst result since World War II in 1996, with votes splintering off to both the Alliance and New Zealand First.

As a result, Northey found himself ousted from Parliament in 1996 at the hands of then unknown National Party candidate Belinda Vernon.

Vernon's own party suffered a dramatic reversal of fortune that started at the 1999 election and her three-year term as MP for Maungakiekie ended in favour of Mark Gosche, who held the seat until 2008, notching up a majority of around 6,500 in the intermediate elections.

[2] Sam Lotu-liga captured the seat again for National in the large swing against Labour in 2008.

On 13 December 2016, Lotu-liga announced that he was quitting politics, to take effect at the 2017 general election.

[3] The electorate was won by Denise Lee at the election, retaining the seat for the National Party.

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