Tainui was a New Zealand parliamentary Māori electorate that existed between 2002 and 2008. It replaced the Hauraki electorate and absorbed a significant...
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Tainui is a tribal waka confederation of New Zealand Māori iwi. The Tainui confederation comprises four principal related Māori iwi of the central North...
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An electorate or electoral district (Māori: rohe pōti) is a geographic constituency used for electing a member (MP) to the New Zealand Parliament. The...
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abovementioned confederation Tainui (canoe), a Māori waka (migration canoe) Tainui, New Zealand, a suburb of Dunedin Tainui (New Zealand electorate), a former parliamentary...
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Hauraki-Waikato (redirect from Hauraki-Waikato (New Zealand electorate))
Hauraki-Waikato is a New Zealand parliamentary Māori electorate first established for the 2008 election. It largely replaced the Tainui electorate. Nanaia Mahuta...
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Ihaia Tainui (died 19 October 1885) was a Māori member of the New Zealand parliament. He was the son of Wereta Tainui and grandson of Tuhuru Kokare, both...
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This page lists candidates in New Zealand's 2005 general election, grouping them by the electorate that they contested. See also candidates by party and...
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contested the Hauraki electorate. "Kia Ora". Hauraki Iwi. Retrieved 12 September 2014. "Electorate Profile Tainui". New Zealand Parliamentary Library...
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Christchurch was a parliamentary electorate in Christchurch, New Zealand. It existed three times. Originally it was the Town of Christchurch from 1853...
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Tuku Morgan (category New Zealand MPs for Māori electorates)
to Tainui". NZ Herald. Retrieved 9 February 2024. Stokes, Jon (4 February 2006). "Protester's flame still burns, if less brightly". The New Zealand Herald...
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Māori history and falls within the rohe (tribal area) of Waikato-Tainui of the Tainui waka confederation. Ngāti Mahuta and Ngāti Whawhakia are the subtribes...
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In New Zealand politics, Māori electorates, colloquially known as the Māori seats (Māori: Ngā tūru Māori), are a special category of electorate that give...
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Tāmaki Makaurau (redirect from Tāmaki Makaurau (New Zealand electorate))
Māori name for Auckland) is a New Zealand parliamentary Māori electorate returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives. It...
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by-election for the Southern Maori electorate. Ballara, Angela; Tau, Te Maire. "Wereta Tainui Pitama". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture...
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Ponsonby was a parliamentary electorate in Auckland, New Zealand from 1887 to 1890 and from 1946 to 1963. The Ponsonby electorate was represented by two Members...
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The 2002 New Zealand general election was held on 27 July 2002 to determine the composition of the 47th New Zealand Parliament. It saw the reelection of...
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The Mahia electorate was created in 1996 for the first MMP election. Located on the East Cape, it existed for one term only. The 1996 election was notable...
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Mongonui was a parliamentary electorate in the Far North District in the Northland region of New Zealand, from 1861 to 1870. It was represented by three...
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Aoraki was a New Zealand parliamentary electorate that existed for four parliamentary terms from 1996 to 2008. It was held by Jim Sutton of the Labour...
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Angeline Greensill (category Tainui people)
Ngahina Greensill (born 1948) is a New Zealand Māori political rights campaigner, academic and leader. Greensill is of Tainui, Ngāti Porou, and Ngāti Paniora...
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Eden, a former New Zealand parliamentary electorate, lay in the general area of the suburb of Mount Eden in the city of Auckland. The 1870 electoral redistribution...
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was a parliamentary electorate in the Southland region of New Zealand, from 1871 to 1881, and then from 1887 to 1890. The electorate was formed for the...
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Te Tai Hauāuru (redirect from Te Tai Hauāuru (New Zealand electorate))
(lit. 'The West Coast') is a New Zealand parliamentary Māori electorate, returning one Member of Parliament to the New Zealand House of Representatives,...
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Chalmers, originally Port Chalmers, was a parliamentary electorate in the Otago Region of New Zealand, from 1866 to 1938 with a break from 1896 to 1902. It...
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Waikaremoana is a former New Zealand Parliamentary electorate, from 1984 to 1996. During the four terms of the electorate's existence, it was held by National's...
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Electorates in New Zealand were initially created for election to the first parliament in 1853. Since then there have been numerous changes, perhaps the...
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government comprising the National Party, ACT Party and New Zealand First that has governed New Zealand since November 2023. The government is headed by Christopher...
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Miramar was a New Zealand parliamentary electorate in the south-eastern suburbs of Wellington. It was created in 1946, replacing Wellington East, and was...
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Waipawa was a parliamentary electorate in the Hawke's Bay Region of New Zealand, from 1881 to 1946. The previous electoral redistribution was undertaken...
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Totara was a parliamentary electorate in the West Coast of New Zealand from 1871 to 1881. It was represented by two Members of Parliament The 1870 electoral...
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