Western Maori

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Western Maori was one of the four former New Zealand parliamentary Māori electorates, from 1868 to 1996.

Population centres

The electorate includes the following population centres:

(To be completed)

Tribal areas

The electorate includes the following tribal areas: Tainui, Taranaki

History

The Western Maori electorate extended from South Auckland and the Waikato to Taranaki and the Manawatu. The seat originally went to Wellington. With MMP it was replaced by the Te Tai Hauāuru electorate in 1996.

The first member of parliament for Western Maori from 1868 was Mete Paetahi.^[2] From the 1890s to the 1930s the seat was held by various Reform Party MPs. In 1935, Toko Ratana the eldest son of the founder of the Ratana Church won the seat and became the second Ratana MP; he became a Labour MP following the Labour-Ratana pact. From this point until the abolition of the seat prior to the 1996 election the seat was held by Labour MPs.

Candidates for the National Party (who usually came second) included Hoeroa Marumaru (1946, 1949 & 1951) and Pei Te Hurinui Jones (1957, 1960 and 1963; also earlier).

Members of Parliament

Western Maori was represented by 15 Members of Parliament:^[3]

Key

Independent Reform Ratana Labour

Election	Winner
1868 Māori election		Mete Paetahi
1871 election		Wiremu Parata
1876 election		Hoani Nahi
1879 election		Wiremu Te Wheoro
1881 election		Wiremu Te Wheoro
1884 election		Te Puke Te Ao
1886 by-election		Hoani Taipua
1887 election
1890 election
1893 election		Ropata Te Ao
1896 election		Henare Kaihau
1899 election
1902 election
1905 election
1908 election
1908 election
1911 election		Maui Pomare
1914 election
1919 election
1922 election
1925 election
1928 election
1930 by-election		Taite Te Tomo
1931 election		Taite Te Tomo
1935 election		Toko Ratana
1938 election
1943 election
1945 by-election		Matiu Ratana^{[nb 1]}
1946 election		Matiu Ratana^{[nb 1]}
1949 election		Iriaka Matiu Ratana
1951 election
1954 election
1957 election
1960 election
1963 election
1966 election
1969 election		Koro Wētere
1972 election
1975 election
1978 election
1981 election
1984 election
1987 election
1990 election
1993 election

Table footnotes:

↑ Matiu Ratana died on 7 October 1949, shortly before the 1949 election. His wife stood for election instead.

Election results

1896 election

General election, 1896: Western Maori^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Henare Kaihau	1,605	26.70
	Independent	Ropata Te Ao	874	14.54
		Te Keepa Te Rangihiwinui	854	14.20
		Ngarangi Kitiha	655	10.89
		John Ormsby	575	9.56
		Te Aohau Nikitini	431	7.17
		Pepene Eketone	351	5.84
		Wiremu Ngapaki	261	4.34
		Reha Aperahama	186	3.09
		Te Remana Nutana	158	2.63
		Wirihana Hunia	37	0.62
		Hohepa Horomona	8	0.13
Majority			731	12.16
Turnout			6,012^{[mb 1]}

Table footnotes:

↑ The source says 6,022, but the votes add up to 6,012. Whilst the source states the count was final, McRobie states the number of votes cast as 6,072.^[1]

See also

Notes

↑ McRobie 1989, p. 133.
↑ Wilson 1985, p. 225.
↑ Wilson 1985, p. 276.
↑ "Untitled". Poverty Bay Herald XXIV (7816). 4 January 1897. p. 2. Retrieved 16 January 2014.

References

McRobie, Alan (1989). Electoral Atlas of New Zealand. Wellington: GP Books. ISBN 0-477-01384-8.
Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.

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