List of New Zealand electorates explained

Electorates in New Zealand were initially created for election to the first parliament in 1853. Since then there have been numerous changes, perhaps the largest being in 1996 for the introduction of MMP.

General electorates

Became
Akaroa18531893Merged into Ellesmere.
Albany19782002East Coast Bays, with part merging into Helensville.
Aorakidata-sort-value="14.5" Canterbury and Otago19962008Rangitata and Waitaki
Arch Hill19461954
Ashburton18811993
Ashley18661902Hurunui
Auckland18531905Auckland Central, Auckland East, and Auckland West
Auckland Central1887
Auckland East18611946
Auckland North18811890
Auckland Suburbs19281946
Auckland West18611946
Avon18611996
Awarua18811996
Banks Peninsula1996
Bay of Islands18531996Far North
Bay of Plenty1893
Birkenhead19691996Northcote
Botany2008
Brooklyn19461954Island Bay
Bruce18611922
Bullerdata-sort-value="12.4" West Coast and Tasman18711972Split into West Coast and Tasman
Caversham18661908
Chalmers (Port Chalmers)18661938Dunedin Central, Dunedin North and Oamaru
Cheviot18581890
Christchurch (Town of Christchurch, then City of Christchurch)18531905
Christchurch Central1946
Christchurch Country18531860
Christchurch East1871
Christchurch North18811996Waimakiriri
Christchurch South18811946
Christchurch West18711875
City of Dunedin (originally Town of Dunedin)18531905Dunedin Central, Dunedin North and Dunedin South
Clevedon19872008
Clive18611881
Clutha18661996
Clutha-Southlanddata-sort-value="15.5" Southland and Otago19962020Southland
Coleridge18661887
Collingwood18611881
Coromandel1881
Courtenay19021908
Dunedin2020
Dunedin Central18811984Dunedin West
Dunedin Country18531860
Dunedin East18811890
Dunedin North19052020Dunedin
Dunedin South18812020Taieri
Dunedin Suburbs18901893
Dunedin and Suburbs North18631866
Dunedin and Suburbs South18621866
Dunedin West18811996Dunedin South
Dunstan18711890
East Capedata-sort-value="4.5" Gisborne and Bay of Plenty19781993Eastern Bay of Plenty
East Coastdata-sort-value="4.5" Gisborne and Bay of Plenty1871
East Coast Baysdata-sort-value="1.9" 1972
Eastern Bay of Plenty19931996
Eastern Hutt19781996
Eden18711996Epsom
Egmont18711978Waitotara
Ellesmere18611928
Epsom1996
Far North19931996Northland
Fendalton19461996
Foxtondata-sort-value="8.5" Manawatū-Whanganui and Wellington18811890
Franklin18611996
Franklin North18811890
Franklin South18811890
Geraldine18751911
Gisborne19081996Mahia
Glenfield19841996
Gladstone18661890
Grey18901919
Grey and Bell18531881
Grey Lynn19021978
Greymouth18811890
Grey Valley18711881Greymouth and Inangahua
Halswell18901893
Hamilton19221969
Hamilton East1972
Hamilton West1969
Hampden18611870Wakatipu and ?
Hastings19461996
Haurakidata-sort-value="2.5" Auckland and Waikato19281996Coromandel
Hawera18961908
Hawke18581860
Hawkes Bay18811996Tukituki
Heathcote18611893
Helensville19782020Kaipara ki Mahurangi
Henderson19691996Waipareira
Heretaunga19541996Remutaka (spelled as Rimutaka until 2020)
Hobson19461996Whangarei (existing) and Northland (new)
Hokitika18711890
Hokonui18811890
Horowhenua19781996
Howick19931996Manukau East
Hunua19782020Papakura and Port Waikato
Hurunui19021963Rangiora
Hutt18531978
Hutt South1996
Ilam1996
Inangahua18811896Absorbed into Buller
Invercargill1866
Island Bay19461996Rongotai and Wellington Central
Kaiapoi18611946
Kaikōuradata-sort-value="11.5" Marlborough and Canterbury1996
Kaimaidata-sort-value="3.5" Waikato and Bay of Plenty19781996Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, and Coromandel
Kaipara19021996
Kaipara ki Mahurangidata-sort-value="1.9" 2020
Kapiti19721996
Karapiro19962002
Karori19461978Ohariu
Kelston2014
King Country19721996
Kumara18811890
Lincoln18811890
Linwood18871890
Lyttelton18531996Banks Peninsula
Mahiadata-sort-value="5.1" Gisborne, Hawke's Bay and Bay of Plenty19961999East Coast
Mana1996
Manawatu18711996
Māngeredata-sort-value="2.1" 1969
Manuherikia18661870
Manukau18811978
Manukau East19962020Panmure-Ōtāhuhu
Manurewadata-sort-value="2.1" 1963
Maramarua and ?19871993
Marlborough19381996
Marsden18581972Whangarei
Masterton18871946Wairarapa
Matakana19931996Coromandel
Matamata19781996
Mataura18661946
Maungakiekie1996
Mid-Canterbury19281946
Miramar19461996
Moeraki18811887
Mongonui18611870
Mongonui and Bay of Islands18711881
Mornington19461963
Motueka18601946
Motueka and Massacre Bay18531860Motueka and Collingwood
Mount Albert1946
Mount Herbert18661870Akaroa
Mount Ida18711908
Mount Roskill1999
Mount Victoria19461954
Napier1861
Nelsondata-sort-value="10.5" Nelson and Tasman1853
New Lynn1963
New Plymouth1853
Newton18611893
Newtown19021908Wellington South
North Shoredata-sort-value="1.9" 1946
Northcotedata-sort-value="1.9" 1996
Northern Division18531870
Northland1996
Oamaru18661978Waitaki
Ōhāriu1978
Ohariu-Belmont19962008Ōhāriu (then Ōhariu)
data-sort-value="3.5" Waikato and Bay of Plenty18961928Thames and Waikato
Omata18531870
Onehunga18611996Maungakiekie
Onslow19461996Ohariu-Belmont
Oroua19021938
Otago19782008Waitaki
Otago Central19111978Otago
Otahuhu19381984Panmure
Ōtakidata-sort-value="8.6" Wellington and Manawatū-Whanganui1893
Otara19841996Mangere
Owairaka19961999Mount Roskill and Mount Albert
Pahiatuadata-sort-value="8.5" Manawatū-Whanganui and Wellington18961996
Pakuranga1963
Palmerston North (formerly Palmerston)1890
Panmure19841996Maungakiekie
Panmure-Ōtāhuhu (formerly Manukau East)data-sort-value="2.1" 2020
Papakuradata-sort-value="2.1" 1978
Papanui19691984Christchurch North
Papatoetoe19781996Manukau East
Pareora18931896
Parnell18611954
Patea18931963Waimarino
Pencarrow19781996Hutt South
Peninsula18811893
Pensioner Settlements18531870
Petone19461978Pencarrow and Western Hutt
Piako19462008
Picton18611887
Ponsonby18871963Grey Lynn
Porirua18601996
Port Hills20082020Banks Peninsula
Port Waikatodata-sort-value="2.5" Auckland and Waikato1996
Raglandata-sort-value="2.5" Auckland and Waikato18601996Port Waikato
Rakaia19722008
Rangiora19631996Waimakariri
19781984Raglan and Franklin
Rangitata1887
Rangitīkei1861
Remuera19381996Epsom
Remutaka (formerly Rimutaka)1996
Riccarton18931978
Riverton18661881
Rodney18712020Whangaparāoa
Rongotai1996
Roskill19191996Owairaka
Roslyn18661890
Rotorua1919
Ruahine19721978Rangitikei
St Albans18811996Christchurch Central
St Kilda19461996Dunedin South
Selwyn1866
Southlanddata-sort-value="15.5" Southland and Otago2020
South Canterbury19691978Ashburton and Waitaki
Southern Division18531860Franklin and Raglan
Stanmore18811887
Stratford19081978
Suburbs of Auckland18531860
data-sort-value="Nelson, Suburbs of" Suburbs of Nelson1861
Sydenham18811996Wigram
Taieri1866
Takaninidata-sort-value="2.1" 2020
Tāmaki1946
Taranakidata-sort-value="7.5" Taranaki and Manawatū-Whanganui18811996Taranaki-King Country
Taranaki-King Countrydata-sort-value="6.9" Taranaki and Waikato1996
Tarawera and ?19781996Rotorua
Tasmandata-sort-value="10.5" Tasman and Marlborough19721996West Coast-Tasman
Taumarunui19081919
Taupō1963
Tauranga1881
Te Aro18811890City of Wellington
Te Aroha18901893
Te Atatū1978
Temuka19111946Ashburton and Waimate
Tukituki1996
Thames18711946
Thorndon18811890
Timaru18611996Aoraki
Titirangi19872002New Lynn
Tongariro and ?19841996Taupo
Totara18711881Hokitika
Tuapeka18711911Otago Central
Upper Harbourdata-sort-value="1.9" 2014
Waiapudata-sort-value="5.1" Gisborne, Hawke's Bay (and Bay of Plenty?)18931908Bay of Plenty and Gisborne
Waihemo18871902
Waikaia18711890
WaikaremoanaHawke's Bay ? Bay of Plenty ? Waikato ?19841996Taupo
Waikato1871
Waikouaiti18661908
Waimakariri1996
WaimarinoManawatū-Whanganui and ?19111972Rangitikei and King Country
Waimate18811957Timaru
Waimea18531887
Waimea-Pictondata-sort-value="11.5" Marlborough and Nelson18871893
Waimea-Soundsdata-sort-value="11.5" Marlborough and Nelson18931896
18761996
Waipareira19961999Te Atatū
Waipawa18811946Hawkes Bay
Wairarapadata-sort-value="8.1" Wellington, Manawatū-Whanganui and Hawke's Bay1859*
Wairarapa and Hawke's Baydata-sort-value="8.6" Wellington and Hawke's Bay18531859County of Hawke and Wairarapa
Wairarapa North and ?18811887Masterton
Wairarapa South18811887Wairarapa
Wairau18531938Marlborough
Waitakere19462014Kelston
Waitakidata-sort-value="14.5" Otago and Canterbury1871
Waitemata18711978Helensville
WaitomoWaikato and 19191972King Country
Waitotara18811996
Wakanui18811887
Wakatipu18711928Central Otago
Wallace18581996Clutha-Southland electorate
Wanganui and Rangitikeidata-sort-value="7.5" Taranaki and Manawatū-Whanganui18531960 and
Wellington18531905
1905
Wellington Country18531881
Wellington East18871946Miramar
Wellington-Karori19931996Wellington Central
Wellington North19051946
Wellington South18811946Island Bay
Wellington South and Suburbs18871890
Wellington Suburbs18931946Onslow
Wellington Suburbs and Country19111919Wellington Suburbs and Otaki
Wellington West19381946Karori
West Auckland19841993Henderson
West Coast19721996West Coast-Tasman
West Coast-Tasmandata-sort-value="12.5" West Coast and Tasman1996
Western Hutt19691996Hutt South and Ohariu-Belmont
Westland18661972West Coast and Tasman
Westland North18681870Grey Valley, Buller and Waimea
Westland South18681870
Whanganui (formerly Wanganui)data-sort-value="7.5" Manawatū-Whanganui and Taranaki1860
Whangaparāoadata-sort-value="1.9" 2020
Whangārei (formerly Whangarei)1972
Wigram1969
Woodville18871890
Yaldhurst19781996Ilam

Māori electorates

The first four Māori electorates were established for special elections in 1868, during the term of the fourth parliament. These four seats remained until the country's change to a mixed-member proportional system in 1996, when a large number of general electorate seats were changed as well.

Replaced with
Northern Maoridata-sort-value="1.5" Northland and Auckland18681996Te Tai Tokerau
Eastern Maoridata-sort-value="4.5" Waikato, Bay of Plenty and Gisborne18681996Te Tai Rawhiti and Te Puku O Te Whenua
Western Maoridata-sort-value="7" Taranaki, Manawatū-Whanganui18681996Te Tai Hauāuru and Te Puku O Te Whenua
Southern Maoridata-sort-value="14" South Island and Stewart Island18681996Te Tai Tonga and Te Puku O Te Whenua
Haurakidata-sort-value="2.5" Auckland and Waikato19992002Tāmaki Makaurau and Tainui
Tainuidata-sort-value="3.5" Auckland and Waikato20022008Hauraki-Waikato
Te Puku O Te Whenuadata-sort-value="7.5" Lower North Island19961999Ikaroa-Rāwhiti
Te Tai Rawhitidata-sort-value="8" Bay of Plenty, Gisborne and Waikato19961999Waiariki and Ikaroa-Rāwhiti

Mining electorates

The gold mining electorates were created to represent the significant mining populations of the West Coast and Otago in the 1860s.

!Electorate name!Area!Established!Abolished
Gold Field Townsdata-sort-value="4.5" Queenstown, Arrowtown, Cromwell, Clyde, Alexandra, Dunstan Creek, Roxburgh, Hamiltons, Lawrence and Havelock18651870
Gold Fieldsdata-sort-value="4.5" Various gold mining areas across standard electorates in the province of Otago during the Otago gold rush18621870
Westland Boroughsdata-sort-value="1.5" Greymouth and Hokitika boroughs18671870

References

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