Eastern Maori was one of the four original New Zealand parliamentary Māori electorates, from 1868 to 1996.
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The electorate includes the following population centres:
The electorate includes the following tribal areas:
Eastern Maori included Rotorua and the Bay of Plenty, and the Poverty Bay area down to Gisborne. Originally the electorate extended down the East Coast and included the Wairarapa, but in 1954 the boundaries of the Southern Maori electorate were extended to include much of the East Coast of the North Island up to Napier and Wairoa in Hawke's Bay.
The first Member of Parliament for Eastern Maori was Tareha te Moananui; he was the first Māori MP to speak in Parliament, and he retired in 1870.
James Carroll represented the electorate from 1887 to 1893, but in 1893 he changed to the Waiapu electorate and was replaced by Wi Pere who Carroll had defeated in 1887.
With MMP Eastern Maori was replaced by the Te Tai Rawhiti electorate in 1996. Peter Tapsell, who had represented Eastern Maori since 1981 was defeated when he stood in the new electorate.
The Eastern Maori electorate was represented by ten Members of Parliament:[1]
| Election | Winner | |
| 1868 Māori election | Tareha Te Moananui (Independent) | |
| 1871 election | Karaitiana Takamoana (Independent) | |
| 1876 election | ||
| 1879 by-election | Henare Tomoana (Independent) | |
| 1879 election | ||
| 1881 election | ||
| 1884 election | Wi Pere (Independent) | |
| 1887 election | James Carroll (Independent, then Liberal) | |
| 1890 election | ||
| 1893 election | Wi Pere (2nd period, Liberal) | |
| 1896 election | ||
| 1899 election | ||
| 1902 election | ||
| 1905 election | Apirana Ngata (Liberal, then National) | |
| 1908 election | ||
| 1911 election | ||
| 1914 election | ||
| 1919 election | ||
| 1922 election | ||
| 1925 election | ||
| 1928 election | ||
| 1931 election | ||
| 1935 election | ||
| 1938 election | ||
| 1943 election | Tiaki Omana (Labour) | |
| 1946 election | ||
| 1949 election | ||
| 1951 election | ||
| 1954 election | ||
| 1957 election | ||
| 1960 election | ||
| 1963 election | Puti Tipene Watene (Labour) | |
| 1966 election | ||
| 1967 by-election | Paraone Reweti (Labour) | |
| 1969 election | ||
| 1972 election | ||
| 1975 election | ||
| 1978 election | ||
| 1981 election | Peter Tapsell (Labour) | |
| 1984 election | ||
| 1987 election | ||
| 1990 election | ||
| 1993 election | ||