Hauraki-Waikato is a New Zealand parliamentary

Māori electorate Māori or Maori can refer to: Relating to the Māori people * Māori people of New Zealand, or members of that group * Māori language, the language of the Māori people of New Zealand * Māori culture * Cook Islanders, the Māori people of the Co ...

first established for the . It largely replaced the electorate. Nanaia Mahuta of the Labour Party, formerly the MP for Tainui, became MP for Hauraki-Waikato in the 2008 general election and was re-elected in , , and .

Population centres

The electorate includes the following population centres: Within the

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, Pukekohe, Waiuku,

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, Ramarama, Bombay,

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. Within the Waikato region:

Meremere Meremere is a small town in the northern Waikato region in the North Island of New Zealand. It is located on the east bank of the Waikato River, 50 kilometres north of Hamilton and 63 km south of Auckland. Meremere was the site of fighting ...

, Huntly, Whitianga, Whangamatā, Thames, Paeroa, Waihi,

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, Ngāruawāhia, Morrinsville, Matamata, Cambridge, Te Awamutu,

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, Kawhia. In the 2007 boundary redistribution, the Tainui electorate was reduced in size by transferring the tribal area of Ngāti Maniapoto to the Te Tai Hauāuru electorate, and in the process, the electorate was renamed as Hauraki-Waikato. The electorate saw no boundary adjustment in the 2013/14 redistribution. In 2020, following the relatively higher population growth in the Hauraki-Waikato electorate than that of Tāmaki Makaurau, Hauraki-Waikato's northern boundary was contracted to east of Manurewa. Following an objection raised by the Labour Party which emphasised Waiheke Island's ferry connections to Auckland, the island was moved to Tāmaki Makaurau.

Tribal areas

The electorate includes the following tribal areas: Ngāi Tai,

Ngāti Huia Ngāti Huia is a ''hapū'' (subtribe) of the Ngāti Raukawa ''iwi'' (Māori tribe) of New Zealand. The leading chief of Ngāti Huia and Ngāti Raukawa in the 1820s to 1840s was Te Whatanui, who led part of Ngāti Raukawa from their traditional lan ...

Ngāti Mahuta Ngāti Mahuta is a sub-tribe (or hapū) of the Waikato tribe (or iwi) of Māori in the North Island of New Zealand. The territory (rohe) of Ngāti Mahuta is the Kawhia and Huntly areas of the Waikato region. History Ngāti Mahuta is descended f ...

, Ngāti Maru,

Ngāti Paoa Iwi () are the largest social units in New Zealand Māori society. In Māori roughly means "people" or "nation", and is often translated as "tribe", or "a confederation of tribes". The word is both singular and plural in the Māori language, an ...

, Ngāti Raukawa,

Ngāti Tamaterā Ngāti Tamaterā is a Māori '' iwi'' (tribe) of the Hauraki region of New Zealand, descended from Tamaterā, the second son of Marutūāhu. It is a major tribe within the Marutūāhu confederation and its leaders have been prominent in Hauraki ...

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, Waikato-Tainui, Ngāti Porou ki Hauraki

History

The electorate was originally proposed by

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as "Pare Hauraki-Pare Waikato" to even out the numbers on the voting roll in Tainui and Te Tai Hauauru. Labour's Nanaia Mahuta won the against Angeline Greensill of the Māori Party. In the , Mahuta defeated Greensill with a greatly increased margin of 35.5% of the candidate vote. Mahuta won the with another decisive majority.

Members of Parliament

Key

Election results

2020 election

2017 election

2014 election

2011 election

Electorate (as at 26 November 2011): 33,215

2008 election

Notes

References

{{electorates of New Zealand Māori electorates Politics of Waikato 2008 establishments in New Zealand