Northern Maori was one of

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four original parliamentary

Māori electorates In New Zealand politics, Māori electorates, colloquially known as the Māori seats, are a special category of electorate that give reserved positions to representatives of Māori in the New Zealand Parliament. Every area in New Zealand is ...

established in 1868, along with

Eastern Maori Eastern Maori was one of New Zealand's four original parliamentary Māori electorates established in 1868, along with Northern Maori, Western Maori and Southern Maori. In 1996, with the introduction of MMP, the Maori electorates were updated, an ...

Western Maori Western Maori was one of New Zealand's four original parliamentary Māori electorates established in 1868, along with Northern Maori, Eastern Maori and Southern Maori. In 1996, with the introduction of MMP, the Maori electorates were updated, ...

and

Southern Maori Southern Maori was one of New Zealand's four original parliamentary Māori electorates established in 1868, along with Eastern Maori, Western Maori and Eastern Maori. In 1996, with the introduction of MMP, the Maori electorates were updated, an ...

. In 1996, with the introduction of MMP, the Maori electorates were updated, and Northern Maori was replaced with the

Te Tai Tokerau Te Tai Tokerau () is a New Zealand parliamentary Māori electorate that was created out of the Northern Maori electorate ahead of the first Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) election in 1996. It was held first by Tau Henare representing New Ze ...

electorate.

Population centres

The electorate included the following population centres:

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, Whangarei.

Tribal areas

The electorate included the following tribal areas:

History

The Northern Maori electorate boundary was in South Auckland. It extended from

City north to Northland, and had only minor boundary changes from 1868 to 1996. The first member of parliament for Northern Maori from

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was Frederick Nene Russell; he retired in 1870. The second member of parliament from 1871 to 1875 and in 1887 was Wi Katene. In the there was some doubt about the validity of the election result, and a law was passed to confirm the result in Northern Maori and two other electorates. The electorate was held by

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from

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. Paraire Karaka Paikea died in 1943, and was replaced by his son

Tapihana Paraire Paikea Tapihana Paraire "Dobbie" Paikea (26 January 1920 – 7 January 1963), also known as Dobson, was a New Zealand politician and Ratana Wiktionary:morehu, morehu who won the Northern Maori electorate for Labour in 1943. He was a Māori people, Mā ...

. In 1979,

Matiu Rata Matiu Waitai Rata (26 March 1934 – 25 July 1997) was a Māori politician who was a member of the New Zealand Parliament for the Labour Party from 1963 to 1980, and a cabinet minister from 1972 to 1975. In 1979 he resigned from the Labour Pa ...

resigned from the Labour Party as a protest against Labour policies. In 1980 he resigned from Parliament, but came second in the subsequent by-election. The by-election was won by the Labour candidate, Bruce Gregory.

Tau Henare Raymond Tau Henare (born 29 September 1960) is a former New Zealand Māori parliamentarian. In representing three different political parties in parliament—New Zealand First, Mauri Pacific and the National Party—Henare served as a Member o ...

won the electorate from Gregory for

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in 1993; a foretaste of the success of Henare and the other New Zealand First candidates (known as the ''

Tight Five The Tight Five was a nickname given to the five Māori MPs elected to the New Zealand Parliament in 1996 from the centrist/populist New Zealand First party. Formation New Zealand First had been founded in 1993 by Winston Peters, a former N ...

'') in the Māori electorates in 1996. In 1996 with MMP, the Northern Maori electorate was replaced by

, and won by Henare.

is a great-grandson of

Taurekareka Henare Taurekareka "Tau" Henare (1878 – 12 January 1940) was a Māori member of the New Zealand Parliament from 1914 to 1938, sitting for the Reform Party for most of that time, until it merged with the United Party to form the National Party in 1 ...

who had held the electorate for the Reform Party from 1914 to 1938.

Members of Parliament

The Northern Maori electorate was represented by 15

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: Key

Election results

Note that the affiliation of many early candidates is not known.

1980 by-election

1963 by-election

1943 election

There were nine candidates in 1943, with the election won by

over Eru Moka Pou.

1931 election

1909 by-election

1901 by-election

1899 election

1891 by-election

1896 election

Table footnotes:

1890 election

Notes

References

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