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Gisborne (New Zealand Electorate)
Gisborne is a former New Zealand parliamentary electorate. It existed from 1908 to 1996, and it was represented by 12 Members of Parliament. Population centres In the 1907 electoral redistribution, a major change that had to be allowed for was a reduction of the tolerance to ±750 to those electorates where the country quota applied. The North Island had once again a higher population growth than the South Island, and three seats were transferred from south to north. In the resulting boundary distribution, every existing electorate was affected, and three electorates were established for the first time, including the Taumarunui electorate. These changes took effect with the . The city of Gisborne was located within the electorate. In the initial area covered by the electorate, the city was located near the electorate's northern border, and it went as far south as just short of Bay View. Wairoa was thus also located within the initial area. In the 1911 electoral redistribution, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Electorates
An electorate or electoral district ( mi, rohe pōti) is a geographical constituency used for electing a member () to the New Zealand Parliament. The size of electorates is determined such that all electorates have approximately the same population. Before 1996, all MPs were directly chosen for office by the voters of an electorate. In New Zealand's electoral system, 72 of the usually 120 seats in Parliament are filled by electorate members, with the remainder being filled from party lists in order to achieve proportional representation among parties. The 72 electorates are made up from 65 general and seven Māori electorates. The number of electorates increases periodically in line with national population growth; the number was increased from 71 to 72 starting at the 2020 general election. Terminology The Electoral Act 1993 refers to electorates as "electoral districts". Electorates are informally referred to as "seats", but technically the term '' seat'' refers to an electe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 New Zealand General Election
The 1931 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the New Zealand Parliament's 24th New Zealand Parliament, 24th term. It resulted in the United–Reform Coalition, newly formed coalition between the United Party (New Zealand), United Party and the Reform Party (New Zealand), Reform Party remaining in office as the United–Reform coalition Government of New Zealand, United–Reform Coalition Government, although the opposition New Zealand Labour Party, Labour Party made some minor gains despite tallying more votes than any other single party. Background In the 1928 New Zealand general election, 1928 election, the Reform Party (New Zealand), Reform Party won 28 seats to the United Party (New Zealand), United Party's 27 seats. Shortly after the election the Reform Party lost a vote of no-confidence and the United Party managed to form a government, the United Government of New Zealand, United Government, with the support of the New Zealand Labour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Mackey
Janet Elsdon Mackey (née Craig; born 14 June 1953) is a New Zealand politician. She was a Member of the New Zealand Parliament for the Labour Party from 1993 until 2005. Early life and family Mackey was born in Auckland on 14 June 1953, the daughter of Elsdon Walter Grant Craig and Zeta Harriet Craig (née Brown). Her father is a Scottish-New Zealander, and the nephew of Elsdon Best, and her mother is from Northern Ireland. Mackey was educated at Auckland Girls' Grammar School from 1966 to 1969, and went on to study at the University of Auckland, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in English. Previously married, Mackey has three children, including Moana Mackey, who has also served as a Labour MP. Parliamentary career She was first elected to Parliament in the 1993 election, winning the seat of Gisborne. In the 1996 election, she won the newly created seat of Mahia, and in the 1999 and 2002 elections, she won the seat of East Coast. In 2003, she was joined in Parl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayne Kimber
Wayne Allan Kimber (1949 – 22 May 2004) was a New Zealand politician of the New Zealand National Party, National Party. He was born in Auckland in 1949. Professional career Kimber was a town planner by profession and worked for Gisborne, New Zealand, Gisborne City Council. His research led to the establishment of the Greater East Cape Tourism Council, which was renamed to Eastland Tourism Council and then Tourism Eastland. He went to Waipawa in 1997, where he had an executive role with Central Hawke's Bay District, Central Hawke's Bay District Council, including its acting chief executive. He moved to Taranaki and was Chief Executive of the Stratford, New Zealand, Stratford District Council from 2001 to 2004. Political career Kimber was a Gisborne city councillor from 1986 to 1989. He had a leading role during Cyclone Bola. He represented the electorate of Gisborne (New Zealand electorate), Gisborne in Parliament from 1990 to 1993, when he was defeated by Janet Mackey. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Wallbank
Allan Robert Wallbank (born 1937) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party. Biography Early life and career Wallbank was born in Ngāruawāhia in 1937. In his youth he was a provincial representative rugby player. He worked at the Public Trust Office for three years until he entered farming in the King Country. He owned a dairy and pig farm for seven years and later a meat and wool farm for fourteen years. He was a branch chairman and district vice-president of the Young Farmers' Club. For two years he was a Aerial topdressing representative. He was a prominent member of Federated Farmers, being a branch chairman, member of the Auckland area executive and national vice-president. By 1984 his farm was 1,400 acres in size and was running a thoroughbred unit. He was a member of the New Zealand Asthma Foundation and president of the Gisborne Asthma Society. Political career He had been both secretary and president of the Labour Electorate Committee and was the campaig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Bell (politician)
Robert Linfield Bell (23 August 1929 – 16 November 2011) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party. He had a farming background and represented the Gisborne electorate in Parliament from 1975 until his defeat in 1984. Early life Bell was born in Blenheim in 1929. His father was Alex Linfield Bell. He received his education at Christchurch Boys' High School, Horowhenua College, and Feilding Agricultural High School. He graduated from Lincoln College in 1951 with a diploma in valuation and farm management. In 1954, he married Anne Wilkinson, the daughter of John Arthur Wilkinson, and they were to have two daughters and one son. Professional life and community involvement He was a farm appraiser for six years, followed by seven years as the Gisborne–East Coast representative of London Wood Brokers (NZ) Ltd. For ten years after that, he was a farm management consultant and valuer. Bell was a director of Gisborne Holdings Ltd. Bell was a counsellor for the Gisborne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trevor Davey
Trevor Davey (5 July 1926 – 13 February 2012) was a Member of Parliament from Gisborne in the North Island of New Zealand who represented the Labour Party. Biography Davey was born in Didsbury, Lancashire, England, in 1926, the son of H. W. Davey. He received his education at Chorlton High School. Davey was a member of the 6th Airborne Division from 1946 to 1948. He married Mavis Birch Baxter in Manchester in 1949, the daughter of H. A. Baxter. They had one son. He was the managing director of Queen's Hall, Leeds between 1956 and 1966. Davey emigrated to New Zealand with his wife and son in 1966. Davey served on the Gisborne City Council from 1971 to 1974 where he was a member of the council's works, library, town planning and airport committees. He represented the Gisborne electorate in the New Zealand House of Representatives from , when he beat the incumbent, Esme Tombleson, the first woman who had represented Gisborne in Parliament. At the next election in , he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esme Tombleson
Esme Irene Tombleson (née Lawson, 1 August 1917 – 30 July 2010) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party. An Australian child prodigy who recited Shakespeare, she had a career in theatre and ballet. During the war, her sharp mind and strong memory was recognised, and she became a civil servant. She came to New Zealand through marriage, and lived on rural land near Gisborne. She represented the electorate in Parliament for 12 years, and was prominent as a campaigner for multiple sclerosis. Early life She was born in Sydney in 1917 and educated there. She received her education at the Sydney Church of England Girls Grammar School in Darlinghurst, the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and the Imperial School of Ballet in London. She was taken around Australia as a child prodigy by her mother, reciting Shakespeare. She was involved in various ballet, opera and theatre companies. During World War II she served in the Women's Auxiliary Signalling Corps in Sydney, wher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Dudfield
Harry Dudfield (12 May 1912 – 19 July 1987) was a New Zealand politician of the New Zealand National Party, National Party. Biography Dudfield was born in Gisborne, New Zealand, Gisborne in 1912. He worked for A. and T. Burt until World War II, when he became a soldier and served in the Middle East, Italy and the Pacific. After the war, he worked for the Department of Health, first in Auckland and then in Tokomaru Bay. As a New Zealand Army Captain with Kayforce, he led an advance party to the Korean War, but was withdrawn to contest the snap election for the electorate. He won the Gisborne electorate from New Zealand Labour Party, Labour's Reginald Keeling in the 1951 election, but lost to Keeling in the next election in 1954 New Zealand general election, 1954. He told Parliament in 1952 that he doubted Communist claims that United Nations forces were using germ warfare in Korea. In 1953, Dudfield was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal. After his time in Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reginald Keeling
Reginald Alfred Keeling (15 January 1904 – 7 August 1991) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party. Biography Early life and career Keeling was born in 1904 in Fulham to Alfred J. Keeling. He was educated at Fulham Central School. Upon leaving school he joined Maypole Margarine Works as a cadet in the accounting department. After obtaining his articles he emigrated to New Zealand in 1928 to join Waitemata Electric Power Board as accountant. In 1932 he was appointed manager of Morris Hedstrom Tonga. He was a social activist and an active member of the Labor Party in both England and New Zealand upon returning to New Zealand in 1936, he moved from accounting to social work with the newly formed Child Welfare Division of the Education Department. He was promoted to District Child Welfare Officer for the East Coast based in Gisborne. He remained in that post until entering Parliament in 1949. An avid sportsman, he was a football referee for twenty years, played sen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Coleman (New Zealand Politician)
David William Coleman (1881 – 13 March 1951) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party. Biography Early life He was born in London in 1881, and lived as a child and young man in Queensland. He worked as a carpenter and later as a furniture salesman. He joined the local debating society and maintained an interest in the vocation for the rest of his life. In 1902, aged 21, he emigrated to New Zealand and first lived in Wellington, before moving to Gisborne where he established his own retail business. In 1904 he married Julia Jane Bigwood and had two children. Political career Coleman became secretary of the Poverty Bay Labourers' Union and then became secretary of the Gisborne branch of the Social Democratic Party (SDP). Coleman supported the merger of the SDP into the New Zealand Labour Party and was on the Labour Party's first national executive, serving on it and the Gisborne LRC for twenty-one years. He was Mayor of Gisborne for two separate spells, from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Labour Party
The New Zealand Labour Party ( mi, Rōpū Reipa o Aotearoa), or simply Labour (), is a centre-left political party in New Zealand. The party's platform programme describes its founding principle as democratic socialism, while observers describe Labour as social-democratic and pragmatic in practice. The party participates in the international Progressive Alliance. It is one of two major political parties in New Zealand, alongside its traditional rival, the National Party. The New Zealand Labour Party formed in 1916 out of various socialist parties and trade unions. It is the country's oldest political party still in existence. Alongside the National Party, Labour has alternated in leading governments of New Zealand since the 1930s. , there have been six periods of Labour government under ten Labour prime ministers. The party has traditionally been supported by working class, urban, Māori, Pasifika, immigrant and trade unionist New Zealanders, and has had strongholds in i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
