The electorate is currently held by Helen White and was recently represented by Jacinda Ardern, formerly Prime Minister of New Zealand, who was first elected in a 2017 by-election and stepped down from parliament on 15 April 2023.

[2] Warren Freer, who represented the electorate from 1947 to 1981, served as acting prime minister on three occasions.

[3] The 1941 New Zealand census had been postponed due to World War II, so the 1946 electoral redistribution had to take ten years of population growth and movements into account.

[4] Mount Albert covers a segment of the western Auckland isthmus, based around the suburb of Mount Albert and stretching from Kingsland on the eastern periphery of the central city down to Sandringham and extending as far as Avondale on the seat's western edge.

The name Mount Albert had been out of use for only three years – before Owairaka was drawn up ahead of the change to Mixed Member Proportional voting in 1996, the Mount Albert electorate had been part of the New Zealand electoral landscape for fifty years.

[5] The electorate is known for being contested by three later prime ministers, Robert Muldoon, Helen Clark and Jacinda Ardern.

[7] Muldoon (prime minister from 1975 to 1984) unsuccessfully sought the National Party nomination for the electorate in 1951.

[8] He gained the nomination to challenge Freer in the 1954 election, his first run for Parliament, but was unable to take the seat from the Labour Party,[8] like all other National candidates before or since.

Mount Albert's inner-suburb, working-class composition makes it one of Labour's safest seats.

He was re-elected as MP in the 2011 and 2014 general elections, before resigning in late 2016 to lead the United Nation's peacekeeping mission in South Sudan.

[11] Jacinda Ardern, who had previously stood in the Auckland Central electorate, won the February 2017 by-election.

Key National   Green Blue background denotes the winner of the electorate vote.

The following table shows the final results:[15] Notes: Blue background denotes the winner of the by-election.

Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list prior to the by-election.

Pink background denotes a candidate elected from their party list prior to the by-election.