Heretaunga (New Zealand electorate)
Heretaunga is a former New Zealand parliamentary electorate, in the city of Upper Hutt.
Population centres
The electorate was urban, and was based on Heretaunga a suburb of Upper Hutt in the northern Hutt Valley.
History
The electorate was created in 1954, and lasted to 1996, with the introduction of MMP.
In the 1951 election, Upper Hutt had belonged to the Otaki electorate, and Labour's Phil Holloway had been defeated by National's incumbent, James Joseph Maher. In the 1954 election, Upper Hutt belonged to the newly formed Heretaunga electorate, and Holloway stood against National's Allan McCready. Holloway's win was decisive.[1]
Up to 1990 when it was won by Peter McCardle for National, Heretaunga had been held by Labour. In 1993, McCardle held the seat against a challenge from Labour candidate Heather Simpson (who went on to be Helen Clark's Chief of Staff, known as H2 - Clark was H1). Then McCardle left National and joined New Zealand First.
Members of Parliament
Key
Election results
1954 election
| General election, 1954: Heretaunga[1] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Phil Holloway | 8,911 | 63.78 | ||
| National | Allan McCready | 4,105 | 29.38 | ||
| Social Credit | Tait | 955 | 6.84 | ||
| Majority | 4,806 | 34.40 | |||
| Informal votes | 128 | 0.91 | |||
| Turnout | 14,099 | 94.01 | |||
| Registered electors | 14,997 | ||||
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Large Majority for Labour". Upper Hutt Leader XI (48). 18 November 1954. p. 2. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
- Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.