Christchurch Central

This article is about the Christchurch Central electorate. For the Christchurch central city suburb, see Christchurch Central City.

Christchurch Central
Single-member general constituency for the New Zealand House of Representatives
Christchurch
Formation1946
RegionCanterbury
CharacterUrban and suburban
Term3 years
Member for Christchurch Central

Duncan Webb
since 23 September 2017
PartyLabour
List MPsKahurangi Carter (Green)
Previous MPNicky Wagner (National)
Party vote distribution




Christchurch Central is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate in the South Island city of Christchurch. The electorate was established for the 1946 election and, until 2011 had always been won by the Labour Party. Since 2008, the incumbent was Brendon Burns but the election night results for the 2011 election resulted in a tie; the special vote results combined with a judicial recount revealed a 47-vote majority for Nicky Wagner, the National list MP based in the electorate. Wagner significantly increased her winning margin in the 2014 election after having declared the electorate "unwinnable" for National earlier in the year following a boundary review. At the 2017 election Wagner lost the seat to Labour's Duncan Webb, who retained it at the 2020 election.