Te_Tai_Hauāuru

Te Tai Hauāuru

Te Tai Hauāuru

Māori electorate in New Zealand

Te Tai Hauāuru (lit. 'The West Coast') is a New Zealand parliamentary Māori electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives, that was first formed for the 1996 election. The electorate was represented by Tariana Turia from 2002 to 2014, first for the Labour Party and then for the Māori Party. Turia retired and was succeeded in 2014 by Labour's Adrian Rurawhe who retained the seat in 2017 and again in 2020.

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Population centres

Te Kūiti statue
Tawa Main street

Te Tai Hauāuru was created ahead of the first MMP election in 1996. Te Tai Hauāuru covers the western North Island, starting in the South Waikato before heading south through the King Country towns of Te Kūiti and Taumarunui to include all of the Taranaki region and all towns in the Manawatū-Whanganui region west of the Manawatū Gorge. Its southern terminus is in Wellington at Tawa. The main population centres are Tokoroa, New Plymouth, Whanganui, Palmerston North and Porirua. It is also home of the politically influential Rātana movement.

In the 2007 boundary redistribution, the area covered by the Ngāti Maniapoto tribe was transferred from the Tainui electorate to Te Tai Hauāuru.[1] The boundaries were not further altered in the 2013/14 redistribution.[2]

History

The seat includes the Ngāti Tama, Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Maru (Taranaki), Te Āti Awa, Taranaki, Ngā Ruahine, Ngāti Ruanui, Ngā Rauru, Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi, Ngāti Apa, Ngāti Hauiti, Ngāti Raukawa ki te Tonga, Ngāti Kauwhata, Rangitāne, Muaūpoko, Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Maniapoto and Ngāti Huia tribal areas (rohe).[3]

Te Tai Hauāuru was first used at the 1996 election and contained all area from South Auckland to just south of Te Kūiti. It was the growth of the Māori population leading to the creation first of Tāmaki Makaurau in 1999 and Tainui in 2002 that has pulled Ta Tai Hauāuru so far south that the only remaining part of the 1996 seat is its name.

Te Tai Hauāuru was won by New Zealand First candidate Tuku Morgan in its first contest, in what would be a clean sweep by New Zealand First of the five Māori seats that year. Discontent with New Zealand First's behaviour in government led to a reconciliation between Māori voters and the Labour Party, albeit briefly; the introduction of the Seabed and Foreshore bill to Parliament by the ruling Labour Party lead to a schism between the party and a significant section of its Māori voter base, including the MP for Te Tai Hauāuru, Tariana Turia. Turia resigned her seat to re-contest the seat in a 2004 by-election as the leader of the new Māori Party. She won 92.7 percent of the vote in a contest that Labour refused to participate in. In 2005, Turia was re-elected with nearly double the votes of her Labour rival, Errol Mason. In common with most of the Māori seats, Labour took a majority of the party vote. The results in 2008 were similar. Turia confirmed in November 2013 that she would retire at the 2014 election.[4] She was succeeded by Adrian Rurawhe of the Labour Party, who defeated Chris McKenzie of the Māori Party.[5]

The electorate became important for the Māori party again in 2020, as it was broadly considered the party's best chance at winning an electorate and returning to parliament. However, a poll released a few weeks before the election suggested that Labour's incumbent had a substantial lead over the Māori Party candidate, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer.[6]

Members of Parliament

Key

  NZ First   Mauri Pacific   Labour   Te Pāti Māori

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List MPs

Members of Parliament elected from party lists in elections where that person also unsuccessfully contested the Te Tai Hauāuru electorate. Unless otherwise stated, all MPs terms began and ended at general elections.

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Election results

2023 election

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2020 election

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2017 election

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2014 election

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2011 election

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Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 32,617[12]

2008 election

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2005 election

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2004 by-election

The following table shows the final results of the by-election:[15]

More information 2004 Te Tai Hauauru by-election, 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. Yellow background denotes the winner of the by-election, who was a list MP prior to the by-election. A Y or N denotes status of any incumbent, win or lose respectively. ...

a Includes 37 informal votes but does not include any disallowed special votes.

2002 election

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1999 election

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Notes

  1. 2014 Internet Mana swing is relative to the votes for Mana in 2011; it shared a party list with Internet in the 2014 election.

References

  1. [1]
    Report of the Representation Commission 2007 (PDF). Representation Commission. 14 September 2007. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-477-10414-2. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
  2. [2]
    Report of the Representation Commission 2014 (PDF). Representation Commission. 4 April 2014. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-477-10414-2. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
  3. [3]
    Te Puni Kōkiri – In Your Region – Te Tai Hauāuru
  4. [4]
    Small, Vernon (5 November 2013). "Tariana Turia set to go". Stuff. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
  5. [5]
    Ihaka, James (22 September 2014). "Election 2014: Rurawhe has big shoes to fill". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
  6. [6]
    "Election 2020: Poll of Te Tai Hauāuru brings bad news for Māori Party". Stuff. 28 September 2020. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  7. [7]
    "Te Tai Hauāuru - Official Result". Retrieved 27 November 2023.
  8. [8]
    "Official Count Results -- Te Tai Hauauru". Wellington. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  9. [9]
    "Official Count Results -- Te Tai Hauauru". Wellington: New Zealand Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  10. [10]
    2014 election results
  11. [11]
    2011 election results
  12. [12]
    "Enrolment statistics". Electoral Commission. 26 November 2011. Retrieved 28 November 2011.
  13. [13]
    2008 election results
  14. [14]
    2005 election results
  15. [15]
    "By-Election Results -- Te Tai Hauauru". Chief Electoral Office. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
  16. [16]
    2002 election results
  17. [17]
    "Candidate vote details – Te Tai Hauāuru 1999". October 2005.
  18. [18]
    "Votes for registered parties by electorate, 1999". October 2005.

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