Bay of Islands is a former New Zealand Parliamentary electorate. It existed during various periods between 1853 and 1993.
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The electorate is centred on the Bay of Islands in the Northland Region, and includes the following population centres: Kerikeri.
Hugh Carleton was elected to the seat in the first New Zealand Parliament in 1853. Although he was elected unopposed, he was the first MP elected and liked to be called Father of the House. He represented the seat until 1870, when he was defeated.[1]
The Bay of Islands electorate existed from 1853 to 1870, then from 1881 to 1946 (when it was replaced by the Hobson electorate), then from 1978 to 1993, after which it became the Far North electorate. In 1996 it became the Northland electorate.[1]
Members representing the electorate from 1881 to 1922 were Richard Hobbs 1881-1890 (retired), Robert Morrow Houston 1890-1908 (retired), Vernon Reed 1908-1915 (election declared void) and 1917-1922 (defeated), and William Stewart 1915-1917(resigned). In 1929, Harold Rushworth, a Country Party member, had his 1928 election declared void, but he won the subsequent by-election.[1]
Key
Independent Liberal Reform Country Party Labour National
| Election | Winner | |
|---|---|---|
| 1853 election | Hugh Carleton | |
| 1855 election | ||
| 1860–61 election | ||
| 1866 election | ||
| (Electorate abolished 1871–1881) | ||
| 1881 election | Richard Hobbs | |
| 1884 election | ||
| 1887 election | ||
| 1890 election | Robert Morrow Houston | |
| 1893 election | ||
| 1896 election | ||
| 1899 election | ||
| 1902 election | ||
| 1905 election | ||
| 1908 election | Vernon Reed | |
| 1911 election | ||
| 1914 election | ||
| 1915 by-election | William Stewart | |
| 1917 by-election | Vernon Reed | |
| 1919 election | ||
| 1922 election | Allen Bell | |
| 1925 election | ||
| 1928 election | Harold Rushworth | |
| 1929 by-election | ||
| 1931 election | ||
| 1935 election | ||
| 1938 election | Charles Boswell | |
| 1943 election | Sidney Walter Smith | |
| (Electorate abolished 1871 - 1881, see Hobson) | ||
| 1978 election | Neill Austin | |
| 1981 election | ||
| 1984 election | ||
| 1987 election | John Carter | |
| 1990 election | ||
| New Zealand General election, 1884[2] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Independent | Richard Hobbs | 355 | 56.08 | ||
| Independent | Gannon | 198 | 31.28 | ||
| Independent | McKenzie | 80 | 12.64 | ||
| Majority | 157 | 24.80 | |||
| Turnout | 633 | ||||